The Pernicious Nature of Sexual Harrassment

 Norman Goldman is discussing sexual harassment and they are replaying the Male Chauvinist Pig Greatest Hits – woman who have been sexually harassed or assaulted.    The question is how long a lie can continue to exist and the truth being obscured.  With this sexual harassment and “Me, too” stuff the lie of men being “perfect gentlemen” has persisted throughout the decades.  Gloria Alred is a primary spokesman for women’s rights and has reminded us that this is how it was in is for women for a long time.  Women can’t get a job or advancement unless they “put out”.  The police either look the other way or the issues are drowned in legal red tape.   My guess is that “liars aren’t always caught”.  The Truth is not only a short but often long-term casualty of some unspoken conspiracy to suppress it.  Tomorrow is when the Kennedy assassination stuff is going to all be released, but we haven’t heard anything in the news about it today.  I haven’t heard that the event has been canceled. 

You know if Donald Trump really does have trouble sleeping at night as suggested in the John Lennon song, maybe we could make a Dickens carol out of it and have the President visited by three ghosts, John Mc Cain,  the Tennessee senator, and Jeff Flake or whoever who said he wasn’t running for senate again next year.  But you know basic sociopaths don’t have a conscience and I’m sure the most evil people among us sleep very well at night.  “You live with straights who tell you you was king”.   “You must have learned something all those years” - - - of doing the apprentice on TV.  He was relatively sane when he was doing that show and Donald had my respect.  We know that he’s a Johnny come lately to the conservative cause.  Someone “turned” him.  But what did people like Sheldon Addelson and Shawn Hannity “turn him” with?  Was it Jesus?  Did they convince him that somehow Jesus wouldn’t love him unless he became a Born Again Conservative?  These people on the right who “primary” everybody- - and win- -seem to have a great pull and mystique that snares a lot of ordinary people.  But as HJartman and others have said- - these people were never completely normal but always hat that “proclivity” or bent in the back of their brain, a dark place just waiting to be activated.  I can’t truly have a good feeling about “Christianity” till it gets shed of people like Donald Trump and Ted Bundy and others with “Criminal brains”. 

Both Jeff Flake and Bob Corker voted with the banks in that big senate vote last night.  This is a financial rights repeal where you have to go to forced arbitration if they slip it in one of these long contracts that you're forced to sign.  Apparently the vote was fifty fifty and Vice President Mike Pence had to break the tie so the thing would pass.   President Obama had issued an executive order allowing the common consumer to file class action suits against the Banks which screw them over, credit wise.  I had always thought naturally consumers had grounds for a class action suit, but I have learned that there are any number of cases where consumers are barred from class action suits.  If I were President this is one thing I’d fix fast.  There is a lot of screwing over and it all goes back to Ronald Reagan getting rid of the interest deduction on credit card interest in 1986.   The question is what Trump will do to screw the average worker to make up the over a trillion dollar deficit this massive tax cut will cause?  

WILD RUSES AND DECEPTION IN SOAP LAND We had a combo Italian lunch meat sandwich on a French roll that was very chewy, and lots of potato chips.  We had pineapple for dessert.  I had the Gary and Shannon show on including “draining the swamp”.   Melody came by around nine to change Bill’s sheets but Bill was sound asleep.  But she never came back but had left the clean sheets so Bill changed the bed himself.  On “Days of our Lives” Dr Ralph died of a heart attack or something.  Samantha hit him with her gun and then continued to hold it on him while she barked out questions.  Dr Ralph was complying supplying new details of the event.  But now he’s dead and the Salam PD has a lawsuit on its hand brought by the Estate.   Adrian was rescued from Justin and had a nice emotional release, or break-down.  The crisis is solved at the Kiriacus household and there will be no wedding today.  However Bonnie, the impostor, escaped the grasp of the Salem PD, which seems inept at just about everything.  As a follow up Dr Rolf bit down in a cyanide pill just like Goering did with the Nazi trials so his death was self inflicted and there will be no law suits.  In the light of a ton of evidence the Prison authorities at Statesville still won't release Adrian because they still say- - despite overwhelming evidence- - - that Adrian is really Bonnie Lockhart and they need to keep their cell tally at the right level. 

I'm not saying that Christianity got going through the propigation of a lie that everyone just believed without question.   It's more complicated than that It's a combination of events all occurring at once.  There were the very early Christians, who were anti Roman, in the first century like in Nero's time.  If the Church as we know it knew what these people taught and believed and who they were founded by, they would repudiate them entirely.  These are the ones whom Tassitus refered to when he said "They first began in Jerusalem but the ailment then broke out right here in Rome and to this day the sect of the Christians is still not extinct".  Note the wording.   There is another line in there about how "Everything dispized and distasteful ends up eventually in Rome".  But there was an event that triggered another round of resurrection belief and that was the death of Apalonius of Tyannus just after the turn of the second century or just after 100 AD.   The Christianity of Paul centered around Turkey and Greece where the "school of Tyannus' was most prevelent.   I believe there was a real Paul who preached about this time just after the resurrection and ascension into heaven after forty days, of Apolonius.   Gnosticism was just getting going at this time too.  That is, the form of Gnosticism taught by Marcion.  Then there is "the party of the Judaizers" whom Paul refers to in his writings.   There was also a "Syrian Church" that I believe was full of out of work Priests of the Saducee variety, who strictly adhered to the Torah.  This is the group that won out in the battle of wits.  Their Jesus was one who taught against divorce (Paul allowed divorce on two grounds, adultry and desertion) and put in Jesus' mouth the words "Not one jot or tiddle will pass away from The Law until all is accomplished".   This is the group which came up with the theological stance that Jesus was perfect, and because He was perfect then we have to be perfect.  This is what gives the Catholic priests all their power with confession and absolution from sin and all.