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The stopping and frisking of Giuliani

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America’s mayor is feeling the heat of law enforcement after decades of trampling on citizen’s rights.  If he was truly a warrior for the law he may have rooted his policies and initiatives in the American Constitution.  If he had a pair of noble bones in his body he might have recognized the twice-impeached and white supremacist 45th president as an angry bear from which to flee.  Not Rudy.  He, when served a warrant for his electronic devices by the FBI, reportedly tried to sell them two hard drives containing the GOP conspiracy about the current president’s son.  There should be no question about what follows the frisking of Rudy Giuliani who thinks he has explained away his stopping and frisking Black Americans.

Lightning, thunder, rain

There are many voices publishing what we assume are the passions and priorities of the masses.  I suppose the angels in heaven thought that Lucifer, the covering cherub, and his crew, numbering 33% of all the angelic host, were the masses.  Lucifer’s crew were attempting to unseat God and short circuit the messianic mission.  America has no department of injustice.  Miscarriages of justice and infamous deeds arise in  every place where people are focused on being active.  A hard drive with Russian-generated information is not needed to sink the boat of violent, white nationalist sentiment.  Here comes combat for Mr. Giuliani; combat unlike the kind with which he challenged the system of government.  It is time for Rudy to lawyer up, pack up his extra-judicial gig, and call off the “drug deals” to benefit the properly fired egomaniac of Mar a Lago.  Justice is about to rain on Giuliani’s parade.

From America’s Mayor to Major Inciter of a third of the hosts of the Hard Right Follies.

Zip the lying lips

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Zuckerberg veto will please the rabble. There is a limit to lying. 45 may have escaped for now the FBI and its truth seeking but not learned judgment or international disdain.

Biblical but bogus

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Even when the holy book is in  hand or on the lectern a lot of biblical speech is historical and political revision without the facts.  Only extreme malice and deceit can result from people wanting kingdoms with no king, doctors that do not heal and saviours that do not save.   We should not be too surprised to see holy things in the service of evil.  There is no  explanation of twisted wisdom and folklore becoming truth except that biblical can be entirely bogus.

Time boundaries

The first thing to notice – let us call it a key – about the term biblical is that it refers to two collections of writings or books written in two distinct eras.  Deny that and a fall is bound to happen. Ignore the distinction in original languages too and  the climb turns on to slide down a muddy slope. One is old and the other is new.

Narrative lines

The second key is that the storytelling takes two routes. One focuses on a people and their journey, and the other tells the story of a man.

Unity of messsge

Taking the message about kingdom and priesthood literally and as final can end in sterility and distortion if the lines are not separated.  The same is true of promise and inheritance.  Aaronic priesthood as the ruling component of a society is not compatible with the divine regard for all human beings.  People cannot be at the same time acceptable to God and unfit for fellowship with His people (see Acts 15)

Who can serve as priest

The science of foundation stones

A people and a building share both process and end result.  The foundation of the Aaronic kingdom on one tribe in one country in the 2nd millennia BC pales in comparison to the global and eternal priesthood of God’s anointed.

We have never seen Christ selling anything. We have not seen him condemn a soul to death. It is not because he cannot or has no choice. “Biblical”, as ling as it means being in the Bible, can no longer be a reason to believe or act.

America: “there was nothing here” is froggy rubbish

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Committed Catholic, former GOP Senator, and CNN contributor, Rick Santorum, falsifies American history with his statement that “when we came” there was nothing here, and he displayed his rank ignorance with his opinion that not much native culture is in First Nations’ culture. Black people cannot relate to that wise junk. When we came we saw First Nations, Jews, and a host of residents, all immigrants, under the malicious boot of people we suppose were Christians. We do relate to a long overdue repentance and some action from America’s foolish virgins. The only fact in Santorum’s blurb is that when Europeans came to Turtle Island they found no people – water in the prediction of Revelation 13 – with whom they could carry on their froggy traditions. There were no people that they could turn into a mindless mob.

The Marine Beast – European kingdoms in the grip of the devil

And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.

Revelation 13:1

The Marine Beast – European kingdoms in the grip of the devil

Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.

Revelation 13:11

The two entities worship the devil. One has kingdoms (that includes royal families). America is an avowed anti-monarchy nation. Its two horns are not kingdoms.

Heaven addresses “earth” and “sea” not land and water

Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!” Revelation 12:12

The duplicitious and deadly froggy deal

All cultures that depend on mobs, whether we find them in places of worship, in service agencies, or in the official squads of governement operatives, are duplicitous and deadly. Three demons like frogs, needing water and thriving on land or in water, are the identifiers of this alliance.

And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. Revelation 16:13 For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.

Revelation 16:14

Santorum is not a guide to any place good. I would not be surprised to find that he supports the January 6, 2021 insurrection and attempt to overturn the election of President Joe Biden. We are not sure that he can continue as an expert for a trusted provider like CNN. His froggy voice matters little to me and has for a long time.

Think about the spread

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CBCNEWS Network shines a light on unsung heroes like factory workers and taxicab drivers. The medical opinion is that reducing the exposure of people to covid19 who do not want to contract or spread is not a postal code operation. There is a high price to pay if we do not act more responsively to the severest threats, such as those person who are the only means of keeping the community functional. The potential for a phenomenally high number of contacts a taxidiver has in a single day makes his workplace a war zone. That is my opinon, but the covid19 war zone is a reality for the driver. The people who move us around for a living deserve to have their plight addressed. They and their families deserve to be a priority for vaccination. #thankugod4taxicabdrivers

The Ford government needs to match its talking points – the best economic engine, the greatest medical scientists, absolute commitment to following the science of coronavirus – to a daily improvement to the safety of all Ontarians. Governments all across Canada think they are operating behind a curtain of “the right words in public”. Factories and a host of congregant entities, including private parties have just come under police scrutiny. Children are showing up with their families in the hospital.

A large part of government reluctance to govern comes from the perception that Canadians will not stand for the curtailment of their right to assemble and the right to be free from being accosted by police services. Law is not so important as personal freedom. The primacy of personal freedom ends in an ever-increasing spread of covid19 (and its variants), death counts, and mishandling of vaccine supplies. The devastating outbreaks in nursing homes shows that talk is cheap, and slow pace of getting vaccine into arms of people who matter most exposes a plan we can only guess is connected to greed, apathy, and discrimination. Remember “kids need to be in school” and “we need to open up the bars and keep essential services running”? It came from every politician in Canada ansd the United States. Who can forget? Home must be a deadly place. Washing hands and observing social distance are simply too much to ask when saving lives is within our reach. Where we are now proves that every resident needs to think about the spread and be involved in reducing it.

Can the rhetoric

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When the consumer closes in on the news these days it is not uncommon to hear references to truth and lies. If human beings are sinners then they are also liars. The scriptures testify to this fact. All of us – no exceptions – are failures when it comes to performing God’s will.  When I go to my Bible I do not expect to be a rhetoric miner.   I do not expect arguments. I go in fully expecting to derive a sense of stability and reliability.  I expect the truth and nothing but.  Exhibit A is the aversion to putting Christ above all authority as the Scriptures affirm.  All the prophets, grind to a halt as the ultimate authority. All the prophets of all the nations cannot be reliable. It dos not take much examination to can see their shortcomings and shortsightedness. “True religion” is rhetoric we can do without.

If you take the wisest man, Solomon, or the leading authority in the Jewish tradition you will most likely hang your hat on fearing God and keeping His commands. You will also be ignoring Moses in his most humble and honest moments.  Solomon did not ghet past the first demand of the Mosaic legacy: you cannot have more than one “god”. Hear Moses now and feel the click.

I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him (18). It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him. (19)

Deuteronomy 18:18-19

The disciples of Christ understood this.  Listen to Peter’s embrace of the message from Moses.

Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren; to Him you shall give heed to everything He says to you. (22) And it will be that every soul that does not heed that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’ (23)

Acts 3:22-23

You can only paint yourself into a corner with your commitment to the law and ancient practices.  Christ is of no effect to the person who confesses confidence in his own compliance with the instruments of condemnation and prejudices that are wholly unattractive and futile.

PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO OWN THEIR HISTORY

If people insist that there are individuals in the North American context who have never demonstrated the vileness of our founding national leaders then there is little reason to hope for a just society. Canadians who do not see the criminal streak in Canada’s settlement of the land and confederation will die due to their rhetoric and pass on the lifestyle to their children. Even in our most cospopolitan areas there lurks all the vilest specimens of humanity. The genocidal outrages and the attraction of military-dominated governments are bound to continue. It will take an unprecedented bit of courage and universal agreement to end the silly rhetoric of nationalists and conservative types. Deny, deny, deny. People who refuse to admit their history can be expected to engage in trashy rhetoric, misguided protest, education that leads away from facts, and they will unload their passions on the victims of bad policy.

Say one thing and mean another

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Magicians get the upperhand of their audiences by distracting with their left hand while their right hand is attracting with the featured illusion. Rabbits out of hats and streams of eggs from nowhere come to audiences by means of harmless deceit. It is no harmless trick to say “Christ is LORD” and introduce an audience to someone else. It is a delusion most deadly and one that is on the menu every day via television and radio. Many books and booklets perform this sleight of hand trick. It a case for a u-turn in reflection on the realities of . Our favourite visionary or author might is irrelevant if we expect a genuine experience of the spiritual life. There is no comparison between Christ and any other person in the universe. No prophet, priest, king, judge, military strategist, warrior, counsellor or vigilante, can be mistaken for the Saviour of the world.

Synthetic religion, built by the adversary

All the comparisons of religious practices may result in a sense of solidarity, but synthetic religion or spirituality is a trap because a lot of religious pracice has nothing to do with values that transcend culture and tribe. By religious practices I do not mean procreating, pursuing carreers, building economies, and finding a new planet to call home. I do not mean placing human life at the bottom of our priorities. If every person cannot have undivided respect from people employed to protect and save lives the religious practice is the brainchild of an adversary to humanity.

Legit activities that cover up spiritual emptiness

A truly virulent example of covering up the truth comes out in an observation of the prayer habits of the scribes. They use a dedicated process or experience to change what people think about their obsession. Scribes and priests were interested in property and the evidence of this was the transformation of the temple from a hoiuse of prayer into a marketplace for enriching themselves. The practice of hiding instead of being accountable and honest is as old as humanity (Genesis. 3:6, Genesis. 3:7, Genesis. 3:8).

And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces (Mark. 12:38)
and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, (Mark. 12:39)
who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.” (Mark. 12:40)

Guilt proven beyond a shadow of doubt

Thoughts and prayers from hogtied politicians

The thoughts and prayers of idle politicians while citizens are being murdered must revolve around (i) the revenue that homicide with guns generates (ii) the incitement of individuals who relish the ability to commit mass murder and escape judgment by killing themselves (iii) the votes funnelled towards the party most vocal about the right to bear arms and (iv) the capacity to terrorize people with unnecessary and excessive policing.

Even some of the oldest practices are lying distractions not spiritual values

  • “replenish the earth”
  • observing schedules of harvest
  • memorials of national history
  • values based on hard work
  • “let’s go home” does not mean cemetery-bound

We are sure that Christ saves people from death and that fact cannot be twisted into an existence of uncertainty. Saved people are SAFE (sesosmenoi) [Ephesians 2:8]. The horrors of saying one thing and meaning another jumps at us when we hear “Taser, taser, taser” and the follow-up is Glock and death. We, witnesses to the Word-made-flesh, hear “life, life, life” all the time and keep cringing when the follow-up turns out to be death and condemnation via the law of sin and death. If only we would remember WHO is doing the saving and HIS record of never losing a patient.

April’s watery wonder

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April 21 2021

Many Canadians do not feel like winter is over after Easter/Passover. That is near the spring equinox. We have come to expect snow, even a major snowstorm, in April. Well, here it is. Snow and chilly temps in April’s last week lead to 50 motor vehicle accidents since 5 am. today. Typically we let down our guard when summer looms large. The weekend of “May two-four” usually marks the collective sigh of relief in Ontario. That is a month away. So let us take a cue from the signs on earth, in particular from Minneapolis, MN, and remain alert. We humans are not the only entities with a sense of humour. The thermometer reads -6C. Stranger things are bound to happen.

Who has seen Mr. and Mrs. Frost?

  • White sights
  • Wet whites
  • Whited walls
  • White water everywhere
  • White wonder

Aww!