Thom Hartman yesterday was talking about how democracies are in peril all around the world notably in Poland and Hungary and of course in Turkey and the Philipines it's getting worse. This in itself should be a major debate topic in this campaign cycle. That is the survival and success of democracy around the world and even here at home. It's only too bad that our religion doesn't think more highly of democracy. The idea of Greek rationalism is not popular in "mainstream Christianity". It's deemed either not necessary or superfelus or at worst, in opposition to God and God's way for mankind. Roosevelt spoke of economic royalists. But we've always had "Royalists" in the realm of religion. Here are some other remarks from yesterday and I will add another paragraph when I get around to it. This
is Wednesday May 1, 2019. Att Gen Barr
testified before a senate hearing today and for a while there was coverage on
channel two. A Republican tried to shift
the blame to the Steel Report and how democrats allegedly “colluded” to get
that information from the Russians since it was about Trump’s activity while
visiting Moscow. There was talk about
the FBI “spying” on Trump for the Clintons.
Barr didn’t answer any questions asked by the democrats. I only watched a little on KNXT and also on
Thom Hartman where they had Aimy Clovichar asking questions. She plugged two of her campaign bills. There is a bi-partisan “clean elections” bill
that supposedly even Lindsay Graham supported.
Dorthey said a couple nights ago that Deputy Att Gen Weinstein resigned
two days ago giving his official two week notice. I find no confirmation of this. There are tornadoes galore in the news
including Denton, Texas, which I didn’t know was a suburb of Dallas. We never used to see tornadoes this constant
or this wide-spread in areas where you didn’t normally see tornadoes. There was another mass shooting and this one
was in North Carolina but a heroic guy jumped him and got killed himself. Barr was slated to testify tomorrow before
the House committee but he canceled that just an hour or so. I guess the grilling was getting a little
rough and it would only promise to be rougher tomorrow.
Thom Hartman is trying to turn the Venesuelan situation into a racial issue. The new upstart guy who ran against the military dictatorship in Venesuela is said to be a white guy and he wants to fill the country with mutinational corporatists, whereas the guy leading the country now is the true more racially compatible Latino guy whom the people really want. He won the election and we didn't accept the outcome according to Hartman. So the question is "to intervene or not to intervene". I don't know. According to Hartman Afghanistan was better off than it was in 2001 before we invaided. This is contrary to everything I've seen and read on Afghanistan saying the US military has worked wonders in Afghanistan and how much safer that nation is now with more schools for women and such. I'm confused and I guess I need more information. I hope Hartman is not just a tool of the Russian propigandists. Everything I've seen on my TV has me thinking this is one area where we should agree with Trump and maybe intervene to save democracy. But Hartman says that if the people of Venesuela are suffering it's only because the US is sabotaging their economy.
I know that in Christianity- - - Jesus was not in favor of intervention to save the nation of Israel. Most historians regard that as a bad thing bringing about two thousand years of Jewish persecution. We have St Peter saying that Jesus was the messiah But his next question should have been "Will you now set up your kingdom of divine rule in Palestine? That would be a No. Instead Jesus talking about getting Peter to found his "Church". Peter's next question should have been "Lord, what is a church?" Gandhi talked about passive resistance and civil disobediance in India but Jesus and Paul only spoke of civil Obediance and "Going the extra mile" to further Rome's causes. And Jesus went further and said "If Israel goes down it's all your fault really because you didn't believe in me", when one wonders what Jesus expected of them. Gandhi didn't expect people to worship him as a god or whatever. Certainly there are no arguments over whether Gandhi is the "firstborn of Creation" or else the second person of the Trinity and spend a thousand years arguing about this. There is a book called "the five gospels" where the text of Jesus' words is in different colors. If you see text in black you can be pretty sure it wasn't Jesus. Was Jesus obsessed with his geniology? Should we be? What if some sayings contradict Walter Martin's theology, who should we believe?
In case you are wondering the updated version of "Radio Ready A to Z" was typed in early August of 2017 and it's in the Cosmic Tides blog. Some of you must have been looking for that. Sometimes we bury our updates and you never know where to find them.
Thom Hartman is trying to turn the Venesuelan situation into a racial issue. The new upstart guy who ran against the military dictatorship in Venesuela is said to be a white guy and he wants to fill the country with mutinational corporatists, whereas the guy leading the country now is the true more racially compatible Latino guy whom the people really want. He won the election and we didn't accept the outcome according to Hartman. So the question is "to intervene or not to intervene". I don't know. According to Hartman Afghanistan was better off than it was in 2001 before we invaided. This is contrary to everything I've seen and read on Afghanistan saying the US military has worked wonders in Afghanistan and how much safer that nation is now with more schools for women and such. I'm confused and I guess I need more information. I hope Hartman is not just a tool of the Russian propigandists. Everything I've seen on my TV has me thinking this is one area where we should agree with Trump and maybe intervene to save democracy. But Hartman says that if the people of Venesuela are suffering it's only because the US is sabotaging their economy.
I know that in Christianity- - - Jesus was not in favor of intervention to save the nation of Israel. Most historians regard that as a bad thing bringing about two thousand years of Jewish persecution. We have St Peter saying that Jesus was the messiah But his next question should have been "Will you now set up your kingdom of divine rule in Palestine? That would be a No. Instead Jesus talking about getting Peter to found his "Church". Peter's next question should have been "Lord, what is a church?" Gandhi talked about passive resistance and civil disobediance in India but Jesus and Paul only spoke of civil Obediance and "Going the extra mile" to further Rome's causes. And Jesus went further and said "If Israel goes down it's all your fault really because you didn't believe in me", when one wonders what Jesus expected of them. Gandhi didn't expect people to worship him as a god or whatever. Certainly there are no arguments over whether Gandhi is the "firstborn of Creation" or else the second person of the Trinity and spend a thousand years arguing about this. There is a book called "the five gospels" where the text of Jesus' words is in different colors. If you see text in black you can be pretty sure it wasn't Jesus. Was Jesus obsessed with his geniology? Should we be? What if some sayings contradict Walter Martin's theology, who should we believe?
In case you are wondering the updated version of "Radio Ready A to Z" was typed in early August of 2017 and it's in the Cosmic Tides blog. Some of you must have been looking for that. Sometimes we bury our updates and you never know where to find them.
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