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  • Posting Those 10 Commandments in Arkansas and Elsewhere, part 1

    Do as I say, not as I do.

    Posting Those 10 Commandments in Arkansas and Elsewhere, part 1

    Posting a copy of the 10 Commandments in classrooms of public educational institutions is a violation of the principle of separation of synagogue/church/mosque and state. Moreover, it is a glaring spectacle of MAGAt hypocrisy blended with self-absorbed ignorance.

    MAGAt religious luminaries, rank and file preachers and teachers, along with non-clergy types break as many of the 10 Commandments as possible as a manner of life, as the way they live out their religious (not to be confused with authentic spirituality by any stretch of the imagination) lives. Why, then, would they want what calls them out and condemns them posted where every pupil in public primary and secondary schools and every university student in state institutions of higher learning can see MAGAt rejection of the Commandments on an hour by our basis? It escapes me.

    Quick review.  As enumerated, the first four of the 10 have to do with the relationship of individuals and/or communities with God Godself.  The last six have to do with how people relate to others in their homes, communities, and beyond.


    First four. As the story went, God said to the male Israelites (applications for females would be reflected upon in other contexts):

    1. Don’t have any gods but me.
    2. Don’t create any physical representations of me.
    3. Don’t connect my name to your sin and nonsense.
    4. Don’t act like regular times to focus only on me are unnecessary or unimportant; one in every seven days is the right balance.

    Next six.

    5. Don’t fail to honor your parents.

    6. Don’t murder.

    7. Don’t commit adultery.

    8. Don’t steal.

    9. Don’t lie about what others have and haven’t done.

    10. Don’t covet the possessions of others—including their wives, slaves, and livestock.

    OMG!  Seriously, oh my God. Take away all the don’t’s and you have a do-manual for daily MAGAt living. In order to be a MAGAt higher up, you have to break each of the ten weekly. daily (except the sabbath one, naturally) preferred.


    Despite concerted MAGAt efforts to make them ignorant, a good number of the public school students of all ages who see these commandments posted every day are going to figure out there are some serious incongruities going on between what is posted and how MAGAts live.

    Part 2, coming soon.

  • Defiance, Decadence, Delusion, Duncedom

    The Dandy of the “Deliverance ” Crowd

    Donald Trump is a danger to humanity. The people he most despises are Brown and Black. Next are those who make up the bulk of his so-called base—Caucasian low income, redneck, tobacco-stained, bright-object-hypnotized, ham hock-gobbling, Fox News-addicted, Bible-toting and -quoting biblical illiterates. He doesn’t like his male sycophantic marionettes, including his cabinet members and political appointees, too much more; and the females a little more because they make him feel virile as they tolerate, yeah welcome, his sexual innuendo in conversation and public pronouncements.

    Trump is one of those people who has never been loved by anyone except, perhaps, his mother. Not his wives. Not his concubines. Not his children. Not his god.

    He understood all his life that absolutely no one, beginning in his childhood, liked him, much less loved him, for who he was or is. The only people, therefore, in any kind of relationship with him were/are those paid to be or coerced into being with some kind of threat hanging over them if they refused/refuse to pretend.

    His appetite for destruction is no less voracious than his appetite for food and illicit sex with adults and children. In shotgun style retaliation for not caring about him, he would like to see as many human beings destroyed as possible through lack of medical care, through starvation, through shootings and bombings.

    Money allowed/allows him to strike out at those who discounted/discount his worth in ways escalating from verbal diminishment to death. The people attacked didn’t/don’t have to be only his perceived enemies specifically; again, generalized killing works too.  Since he has always hated most human beings any victims are fair game.

    Money is his primary catalyst for having been declared above the law, and even when some few sources try to require him to obey, he is absolutely defiant.  He has no intention of obeying any law, and he has a Supreme Court and a Republican Party along with the do-nothing Democrats who enable this outlandish and anti-democracy behavior.

    Trump is not sick, at least mentally. He is evil. He doesn’t have dementia; his absurd comments and behaviors are staged to cause some people to believe that his horror as a human being is the result of some kind of cognitive decline.  Nope.  Nor are demonic forces the culprits behind his reprehensible behavior; blaming devils and demons has always been a last resort way to avoid accepting responsibility for one’s wrongs. Trump and his enablers are entirely responsible for these intentionally malevolent choices.  

    When, in exasperation Trump‘s critics or victims throw up their hands and say, “I hope he burns in hell,” their point is well-taken, but the afterlife cannot deal with Trump the way he needs to be dealt with for his evil. That can only happen in this world.