When I was a child and acted like a child, I went to Sunday school one day. Sister Agatha told us God made Heaven and Earth and Everything Else. I raised my hand and asked if God made the telephone poles. Sister Agatha walked over to me and slapped my hands – and she told me not to be rude. To this day, I still do not know who made the telephone poles – and I try not to be rude, either.

So I got to wondering about God over the years. A little bit later in life, I heard God knows everything. He even knows how many hairs there are on my head. And I can’t stop thinking about this. Does He know how many hairs are on everybody else’s head?…all nine billion of us and how many we have lost?  And does he remember how many there were on everybody else who ever lived? Why does He bother to cram his head with this stuff? Perhaps this is why He has not been answering my prayers lately.

Now, after I have grown up a bit, I find many people disagree about who or what God is.  Is God a He or a She? Or, God forbid, Both?  (Warning, if you choose “Both” you will not be allowed to teach anything in Texas because they won’t tolerate such nonsense there.)  Did God write the Bible?  Or is it merely a written down version of stories told many years ago?  Did God write down the Ten Commandments?  And then throw them away?  And then did Moses remember them correctly and someone else wrote them down hundreds of years later…and did Moses ever really exist?  And did God give the land to Moses’ people – even if Moses did not exist, …from “the river to the sea”…and does that mean from parts of Iran, Egypt and God knows where else. And what is this “Thou shalt not kill” business?  Who is this ‘Thou’?… And when can you get dispensation from the not to “Kill”?  If you are a good Patriot?  Or a good soldier?  And what if you were to assassinate a dictator who has killed thousands of people and is going to kill many more?  Can you kill him to save millions of lives and does that make you a hero?  Or a villain?  And do you go to Hell for saving millions of lives…and you ask for help and God is counting the hairs on your head…and you wish you had all the Answers like Sister Agatha had.

      Forget about all that early childhood stuff.  I go to High-school and I learn there were Dinosaurs before Adam and Eve.  For millions of years, some say, dinosaurs were stomping around, eating big flowers and such…Why?  Was God fooling around in some sort of a creativity lab?  And then one day He threw an asteroid at earth and killed all the dinosaurs and this was all before the 7 day business.  

     And now, while we are all here fighting with each other over:  Land ownership (including which land God gave to whom) and Citizenship, Food, the American Dollar, and Bitcoins.  God, it appears, is building universes and galaxies we never heard about – and for what?  Does He or She even remember we are here, let alone know the numbers of hairs on my Head?  Soon AI will know the number God knows, God knows….so this skill is not such a big thing.

     …Having given this much thought and having pondered even more God related questions than I’ve mentioned here, I find I am beginning to formulate a theory of sorts, about the future:  Imagine, we are today’s dinosaurs, and God has tired of us.  Remember He threw a big rock into the earth and the show ended and a new one began.  So…this time, instead of a hard slider, he throws a Human Dictator into the mess.  And the show, as we know it, ends.

Now, I have friends, some of them seem fairly intelligent.  Some consider themselves ‘Optimists’ in that they think ‘Man’ will overcome these ‘short term’ problems we have created for ourselves.  Somehow we will ‘Rally’ – take to the streets, like we did for Vietnam.  We will march for Women and against Kings and Cruel Deportations and life will be good again.  Me?  I think that takes a belief in Man – a subject for another writing.    

      Have you noticed the telephone poles are almost all gone?  We don’t need them for the phones any more.  They also carried electric wires…but everybody wants the electric wires to be underground.  If we can’t afford to take them down, the poles just rot up there.  If she were around, I’d ask Sister Agatha if God knows how many telephone poles still stand.  I bet you she’d give me a big whack on the knuckles for that.

 

Our TEST continues…Test yourself to see where you fit…Are you a Friend? or a Fiend? …A Lover of America? Or a Hater of America?

• A) Last week we saw a picture of Mr. Trump’s neck with a large patch of purplish skin discoloration on it. (Maybe 2″s x 2″‘s) Do you think this purple mark was caused by? 1) An altered photo by some Left/Wing Nut Job. 2) An Epstein Victim over-excitedly kissing him in appreciation for his bringing justice to the cause. 3) A bruise endured from a kickboxing match he was in for the fun of it. 4) A typical reaction from a neck skin tightening operation. 5) The same kind of worm RFK Jr. had that crawled down his ear and into his neck and maybe made him go forever crazy.
• B) Iran is a country…1) That most Americans don’t know where it is. 2) That the President of the U.S. probably does not know where it is…(though he knows where Palm Beach is – give him credit for that.) 3) That has more bombs and missiles than our Secretary of War knew about a few days ago. 3) That – soon most Americans will know where it is; including many U.S. soldiers who do not know where it is. 4) Controls the Straights of Hormuz, which has a great influence of the price and shipments of Oil – even though we don’t know where it is our Navy has discovered the Straights 5) All of the above
• C) Underline each country which is a potential enemy of Iran. Draw a Circle around each country which is a friend of Iran. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Russia, Israel, Qatar, Syria, Yeman, Lebanon, Israel, U.S., China…(Do you see the Problem?)

Answers: A) There are no verified correct answers to this question. B) #5, All of the Above  C) No one in the State Department, the ‘Agency’, or the White House can agree on how this answer should be drawn. So, how can you be expected to do it? The best answer would be “I don’t know” …and then not bomb any of these places for now.

 

 

 

 

Thoughts from others:

• “War As Politics By Other Means.” -Clausewitz
• “The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.” -H.G. Wells
• “War is peace… Ignorance is strength.” -George Orwell, 
• “All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.” -George Orwell
• “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.” -George Orwell
• “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” -George Orwell
• “The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”  -Aldous Huxley
• “Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.”  –Aldous Huxley. 
• “Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.” Ray Bradbury
• “When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent” -Isaac Asimov
• “The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.” -Isaac Asimov
• “Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.” -Isaac Azimov
• “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” – Isaac Asimov
• “It’s not what happened but how it is told.” -Philip K Dick
• “This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.’ -Philip K Dick
• ‘You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.” -Robert Heinlein
• “A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.” -Robert Heimlein.
• “In my first ten months, I ended eight wars.” -djt.  creator of ‘Board of Peace’

 

                              TAKE THE TEST – Part 1

See where you fit, or if you are fit, or if you fit in, or if you are likely to have a fit.  Just take the test…For each topic give yourself a rating of 1 to 10…Ten being the highest. This is like the Pain Test, only different.

1)  How comfortable does raising taxes on the Wealthy make you feel?  (Your score here):____

2)  How much do you wish you could have gone to the streets of Minneapolis and protested against ICE? ___

3)  How much do you wish you had protested against Israel’s treatment of Gaza?___

4)  How much do you not believe when President Trump looks like he is sleeping in a meeting, that he is not really sleeping but is planning what he is going to do next?___

5)  Now that the Gallop Poll people are not going to publish their polls on who will win the next Presidential race, because the poll  might offend ‘you know who’ and get sued; How much does that bother you? ___

6)  How much do you dislike Billionaires and the power they have over the Government and the Press and everything you buy and do? ___

7)  How much do you wish you were a Billionaire, versus what you are now? ___

8)  The Department of War, specifically Mr. Hegseth, wants to use AI (Anthropic) to surveil American citizens.  If you are an American citizen, how much does this bother you? ___

9)  How upset are you over whatever it is that Iran is doing (or not doing)? ___

10)  How upset will you be if The Department of War attacks Iran?__

10a  (extra credit question) How upset are you that ‘we’ are still shooting Maduro’s fishing boats out of the water and killing the fishermen?___

11)  Our Justice System:  How concerned are you that Billionaire drug dealers, Bitcoin & Corporate fraudsters and Violent Jan. 6’ers have been pardoned while American Men, Women and Children sit in for-profit-ICE prison encampments with little hope for a fair trial – let alone a pardon? ___

FOR 5 BONUS points:  Last Week, who said?: “We have the greatest economy ever in History.” ___ (If you guessed correctly, and that Quotation does not bother you, subtract 20 points from your total score – otherwise add 5)

If your score is 88 or higher: You are probably not a MAGA

If your score is 55 or lower you should not take next week’s TEST and should consider applying for work at ICE, since we hear jobs are opening up there.

A quote:

“The Fundamental weakness of Western Civilization is EMPATHY.” -Elon Musk

 

Disclaimer: The following post was not written by AI. Nor was it influenced by: Russian operatives, Pam Bondi, Steve Bannon, Fox News, my old friend in Ohio who voted for Trump – but says he did not, a software program, a job/cash offer only if I said certain ‘Loyalist’ things, a modest glass of wine, drug dealing sexual predators from Venezuela, vote cheating Georgians, Freedom hating non-Christians. As a matter of fact this posting does not owe its originations from anything other than fulminations from the nether regions of my TDS’d subconscious.

Person, Man, Woman, Camera, TV

• Good News!: The EPA has determined that Greenhouse gass emissions do not pose a danger to Americans’ health and welfare. It goes to show we can admit when we are wrong. I remember when, years ago, it was said eggs, especially egg yokes, were bad for you…and then the egg people got together and we learned this was not true. Now we can drink all the coffee we want, eat all the eggs we want and breathe all the car fumes we want….things are getting better – thanks to less Government overreach. I wonder if all these people who are getting the Measles…if something else was wrong with them other than their not getting a vaccine.
• Quick! Can you remember the 5 words which appeared at the beginning of this post? If you can: You are as smart as the President was last year. This year it was trickier.  He had to identify: A Lion, a Giraffe, a Fish and an Hippopotamus.  It is said He managed to do so, though there were no 3rd party witnesses to the event. He could probably have done it in his sleep.
• “Citizens United v. FEC” (2010) came out with a ruling that basically said “Corporations are people too”. This decision by the Supreme Court changed things forever and corporate money became the  biggest player on the block. I think we need another case where the decision would be “Democrats are people too”. I have not figured out where the money will come from, however.

A quote, or three:

• “Let’s just focus on unity and love.” -Pam Bondi
• “We’re gonna make everyone rich. Everyone’s going to be rich” -47
• “A fool and his money are soon elected.” -Will Rogers