Now the Republican Senate Is Into Open Sabotage

It has become necessary for me to clarify my position in ISIS because some of the opinions I have stated on line may come across as confusing or just confused.  For instance I said that due to the poor “trust factor” in the US granting military aid to people, that perhaps we better hold off unless we should make things worse.  I would repeat the line from the latest posting of “We made you and we can just as easily break you”.  We make ourselves out to be like God, almost drunk on our own power.  Of course this whole line of God or a possessive parent of “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out” is highly egotistical coming from either God or such a parent.  A five word question comes to mind- particularly addressing God.  “What would be the point?” and this question has resonated around like an echo chamber in my mind.  At first when I first heard about all these fantastic capturing of key Iraqi cities I thought “Well it’s a flash in the pan and it can’t last”.  Then I thought “Well perhaps it’s old generals from the Bath party of Saddam, so maybe they’re not so bad”.   And I heard these stories about ISIS is on the internet and has a whole lot of funding from rich people.  Again I thought, “How bad can an organization be that seeks popularity via the internet?”  Then I heard Sean Hannity and other righties saying “Obama’s bombing efforts have been to no avail.  ISIS has only gotten stronger”.  I didn’t know what to think.  But now we know that not only do the Kurds hate ISIS but also all of the Shiites, and vast numbers of Sunnis are opposed to ISIS.  Now we hear that ISIS wants to wipe out remnents of all prior civilizations.  Not even seventy years of Bolshivism in the Soviet Block did that.  When you get an outfit that cedes all power in itself rather than scripture, like a Jim Jones cult, you’re dealing with something very dangerous.   The Koran plainly states that he who sheds the blood of an innocent person, shall be culpable of that man’s blood.   But ISIS is what Thom and others have said about it.  It’s a death cult and little more than that.

Well now the Republicans have come right out with it.   47 Republican senators have send an “open letter” to the Iranian government telling Iran NOT to go along with the deal with the United States “because we have a constitutional system here”.  And they need to be made aware that a future Presidential administration could nullify the treaty.  This act borders in treason in my opinion in an area where it’s improper to venture.  Johnson talked to Everett Dirkson in the fall of 1968 about Nixon reaching out to South Viet Nam and saying “Wait, and I’ll give you a better deal”.  Of course we don’t know that they ever got that “Better Deal” from Nixon.  Hartman also read from a Christian Science Monitor from just 2013 with recent information in it about the workings of the Iranian government in September of 1980 when the majority of thought in Iran was that occupying the US embassy was misguided and wrong.   Adolph Hitler is quoted by FDR is ‘Never put out a small falsehood.  Make it a whopper and keep repeating it over and over again.  If the Bill Casey sabotage story is a falsehood then it needs to be ruthlessly exposed.  But if it’s true, we need to know that, too.

There is a news poll out now which states that FOX news is the most trusted news network in America and I guess 33% or something here is considered good ratings.  But CNN is the second most trusted news network at 22% or something.  NBC and CBS and such are down at around ten percent.  A clear majority of Republicans trust FOX news.  I say all this because of the blatency of the story above- - - where now you can openly sabotage negotiations between the President and a Foreign Power, is something which formerly would be done in the most hushed of whispers which would never see the light of day in the Press, such as the Bill Casey thing with Iran.  But the courts have gone further with that story several years saying that FOX news or any local news outlet has an inherent right to lie, and to compel their employees to lie.  And if those employees of a news outlet refuse to go along with the lie their superiors are foisting on them, then said employees deserve to be fired.  And Thom Hartman agrees with the Court ruling- and I guess this state was Florida.  It was an issue with Monsanto and beef growth hormones being safe or not.   Society has reached the point of institutionalized moral depravity.

Sigma Alpha Epselon - - - has been decommissioned at the University of Oklahoma because the frat members were singing a racist song.  Unfortunately as the moral climate in this country worstens, we’re going to be seeing this sort of thing more and more.  The Ku Klux Klan has been sending flyers at random to people’s homes, both White and Black, in the cities of Selma and Montgomery “Just to remind the people of these communities that the KKK is still around, and feel free to join them at any time”.   So I guess this is Free Speech and not illegal.  It’s still distasteful.  This shooting thing in Madison, Wisconsin - - doesn’t appear to be as serious to me as others.  It’s not clear that the victim was entirely innocent.  And also Wisconsin has laws which guarantee a more prompt impartial investigation of the act.   At a federal level there is a chance that a law will be passed which forbids the enforcement of laws with the sole purpose of raising revenue.  To me this is a moral gray area.  Ask me later.

I wanted to speak briefly here about these "Once Upon a Time" stories.  They always seem to feature women with the most evil, vindictive roles, who say "I've suffered pain in my life and my avowed goal is to make sure my enemies suffer equal or greater pain".  That's a pretty pathetic way to live.  Then you have Regina, I believe, in one episode offered to meet "the man of her dreams" by her fairy godmother or something.  And for some reason Regina balks at this oppertunity, as though Evil were so much more fulfilling.  The thing is that Christian leaders love to judge.  One could just as easily put the shoe on the other foot if you had a female, who was less than confident about herself, thinking that "God has the perfect man for me" and if it didn't look like it was going to work out, these Christian leaders would say to her "Well you were presumptuous.  How dare you use your own emotional desires and foist them on God and think somehow God will do your bidding?"  In general - - - I would say "It's safer to assume that God will never intervene in your life".  But at the same time you don't want to be judged in the next life by "That one chance- - the long shot with the limb in the way - - that you didn't take, because it was too risky, that now you learn that "You should have trusted God on".   On the other hand Neil of KFI states that prayer is like orgasms to a prostitute.  If you aren't faking it- - then you've got major emotional problems.   (I read that in a book somewhere)  And plan your life accordingly.  But then if you actually did this other Christian leaders would flag your conduct and say "You should be living in the expectation of a Faith miracle, or else you're not truly living by Faith".  So they give it to you going and coming.   The problem with character among Christians (and I didn't listen to any of Neil of KFI's show) is that Christians these days are judged not "integrity" or "character" or by what they give others, but rather- by what God has given them, and therewith come their "bragging rights".