Demonstrating the Truly Insidious Nature of Self-righteousness?

Up close and personal.......

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Government as an Instrument of Safety, Inspiration and Hope

Last evening on TV I flipped to the Local News & Weather Channel--I kid you not, the first breaking news was about a couple who incestuously molested their very own child.  Next came a report about a drive-by shooting in which a young man was killed; this  was  followed by a corruption story; followed by a story that babies in alarming numbers are being born with drug addiction due to their birth mothers’ own drug addiction   Finally came the weather report--a dangerous tropical storm is headed our way.   (Opps (ad time...)




Now the tone dramatically changed with a bouncy, attractive, and upbeat advertisement selling  the Florida Lotto (similar to ad above).  The room itself became illumined with inspiration and hope--if not exactly like a Shining City on a Hill, at least resplendent as the most luxurious suite in Vegas.

Just think about that for a moment--the institution whose sacred mission is to ensure public welfare, safety, and the common good is now peddling hope like a shyster preacher assuring that a hanky dipped in the Jordan River is your road to existential hope and preternatural riches [at core spiritually no different than peddling a false god].  

Maybe the many throughout American history who have died on battle fields, lynching fields, or dangerous streets have died with a prayer that America would one day fulfill  its promise of fair play for all …..that is, without question a death-wish prayer yearning for the erection of state-run one-armed bandits on every block and through government auspices trumpeting true-believer propaganda promising vaults  overflowing  with sequined wardrobes and a gushing satiation of private wealth.  (Maybe the heroes so died, then again, maybe not.)  Surely winning the mother lode is nothing less than the highest symbol of America’s Deepest Values and our most helpful and winning witness to the world.  [God Bless  America!!--as  President Trump so often prayerfully and humbly petitions--sometimes  even in public!!]






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It All Depends Upon How You Define “Winner"

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Looking Back......Looking Forward

Memorial Day: Revolution (Revelation) in God’s Country





Now be Honest -- Ain’t this Great!!!!!

Think now…looking ahead…don’t you sense a fresh wind at our backs?  Like in the 50’s, the old paradigms will blow their locks and find the streets overflowing with revolutionary new sexy moves.  


Psalm 100 (KJV)

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.



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Beyond the Pale of the Humane

The book WiseDogs : Brown & Spartas

It is becoming more and more apparent that significant sectors in both Russia and America are motivated not by ideology so much as sadism—enjoying perverted thrills from inflicting pain, suffering, and humiliation on others.  The ultimate thrust of the knife and lurid achievement is the murder of hope itself—the ripping of hope from the heart of others and then to desecrate it with shit (or perhaps piss upon it in a golden shower) followed by gleefully scurrying off with it as a trophy to subterranean caverns beyond the pale of anything remotely recognizable as humane.

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And the Land I Favor and Love....What Now is Your Excuse?

The Creator’s Partnership with humanity through science presages the end of innocence as a nickname for sheer ignorance .  Will we spit in God’s face and bow before money and the self-righteous escapism fueled by codified political payola?  Warning: the true impact of alcohol upon perception profoundly undercuts the abiding glue of community and clips its wings that fly.


41Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, 'We see,' your sin remains.  John 9:41 NASB

A World without Borders

The other day I wrote regarding the insignificance of the real estate mantra--location, location, location.  While ethics can face challenges in regards to identifying the greater good, the determinant factor finds mental and spiritual geography a thousand times more important than physical geography.  For example, the parables of Jesus drill down to essentially a substratum of universal application. It would be absurd to think that Jesus’s whole point regarding the prodigal son was about sand location rather than the quicksand of spiritual rebellion and the forgiving grace of God.

In this light we can see the true significance of a Shining City on a Hill. Nothing is more desirable than that every single person in the world (including the US itself) be blessed by the better angels of mankind's  nature. In this sense, I yearn for the entire world to become my fellow Americans and longingly welcome each and every one to our free and open banquet table.







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