Been thinking about Bibi's UN speech today.
The Most Equal Comrade has established, via that please-let-me-be-your-bitch phone call to Rouhani, a new framework for the way the world is going to deal with Iran. The bottom line regarding that is that Israel now finds itself completely alone.
There are parallels in domestic policy. The chances are growing reed-slim that pro-freedom forces can prevent the rollout, which started today, of the exchanges, and the subsidy thereof, come New Year's Day. The pressure is too great to prevent a prolonged government shutdown.
We must take our cue from the prime minister. Our decision to keep fighting must be as automatic as it was several phases ago, when it was much easier to thus commit.
We're not done. It is right to defend human freedom. Circumstances are a minor consideration when the prevailing of that which is right is at stake. Ask Joan of Arc. Ask William Barrett Travis. Ask Armando Valladares. Ask Jesus.
And I've been thinking about it from the opposite perspective. There is something fundamentally dishonorable in human nature, something that loves abstractions like "peace" and security," even after trillions of real-world examples that refute such a yearning. Something that still hopes to see a desire for actual peace in one's enemy's eyes, something that yearns for a "system" that will provide everyone with health and warmth and cookies and "inclusiveness."
Truth gives us a very different picture of the universe we inhabit. It is harsh, but only as long as we don't heed the words of the one true divine Creator. We are assured that when we choose that route, the real purpose of our being here becomes clear.
I'd ask those suggested but they are all dead. Only one claimed to leave us with His Paraclete, but, some Sprit, Ghost is more like it, Holy?
ReplyDeleteInteresting you would cite Jesus. Your Yiddish leader doesn't believe in Him according to my meager understanding.
ReplyDeleteActually the Prince of Peace supposedly said that His Kingdom was not of this world and was a severe critic of the moneyed and powerful. Tell me Nettie isn't both.
ReplyDeleteBut it is refreshing to argue about something other than the government shutdown & Obamacare this glorious early Fall day in America. I frankly fail to see how we are going to end up being so free if you get your peeps in power in both houses and the executive office. You will be dictating morality to the people, your way or the highway, no?
ReplyDeleteWe'll be free if my peeps get that magnitude of power because we will use it to pare government involvement in the daily life of American citizens back to what James Madison envisioned.
ReplyDeleteMethinks you will try to legislate morality. Talk about something that has always failed on this earth.
ReplyDeleteAs Francis put it, Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
ReplyDeleteWhere there is hatred, let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light and
Where there is sadness, joy.
Oh Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be understood, than to understand,
To be loved, than to love
For it is in giving that we receive
Oh screw it, it's not even attributed to St. Francis any longer, just bull shit, bombs away, get your way, blah blah blah
Hate your next door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace,,,,
The Prayer of Saint Francis is a Catholic Christian prayer. It is widely but erroneously attributed to the 13th-century saint Francis of Assisi. The prayer in its present form cannot be traced back further than 1912, when it was printed in Paris in French, in a small spiritual magazine called La Clochette (The Little Bell), published by La Ligue de la Sainte-Messe (The Holy Mass League). The author's name was not given.
A professor at the University of Orleans in France, Dr. Christian Renoux, published a study of the prayer and its history in French in 2001.[1]
The prayer has been known in the United States since 1927 when its first known translation in English appeared in January of that year in the Quaker magazine Friends' Intelligencer (Philadelphia), where it was attributed to St. Francis of Assisi. Cardinal Francis Spellman and Senator Albert W. Hawkes distributed millions of copies of the prayer during and just after World War II.[1]:92–95
Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_of_Saint_Francis
Over and friggin' out, have a nice life here, I'm not givin' up either....