Many of us are worshipping the capacity to choose and we stick to the routine of jumping through the same hoops week after week. The assumed helpers of this chosen lifestyle are the massive legal institutions we depend on to punish wrong and often the innocent. The exercise becomes a futile venture when we insist on trying to cultivate our choices and values in perfect isolation from others.

With thousands of years and hundreds of rules under our belt we still can’t say we have achieved purity, safety, or maturity. Nobody can. All the modern nations coming to grips with their divided houses and running out of fingers to plug the holes in their leaky constitutions many Christians have bought the delusion that law will stop crime.

If the gloating bigot in the White House is saying it, it is likely to have a gaping hole in the bottom. Humans do not change by willpower, and it is impossible for any human to become a citizen of God’s kingdom by willing it.

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13

There is no successful vote to end crime

Ontarians seem to have bought the “open for business” slogan, if one counts election results as intelligent conclusion.  The Ontario PC party thinks that the Federal Government (headed by the Liberal Party and the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau) was either wrong or ill-prepared to put its platfiorm into action.  The PC chief has shown how disconnected he can become and how quickly he will chop of his nose to spite his face, when he announced that Ontario is open for business.  What does Doug Ford have to sell?  He ought to follow the lead: cannabis decriminalization, new automobile technology, opportunity for the increasinly diverse population of new immigrants are the  trending

Since being elected to power in the last provoncial election, Doug Ford has

1. squelched the voice of Toronto’s Grade A civic politics by decreeing the size of Toronto City Council
2. claimed that the Federal has rushed and downloaded cannabis decriminalization onto the province
3. shown that labour is a mere tool for elections with his spineless defence of General Motors workers in Oshawa
4. savagely attacked social services
5. shown an incrddible insensitivity to health care needs

He has made Ontario a “D” grade jurisdiction, and the fist evidences of that were his promise to sell beer at $1, and his delay in opening cannabis stores at least 4 months after Newfoundland opened it first stores.  Doug is a rich guy who is willing to lie to Ontarians.  That should ring the bells loudly, “Not another rich brat”.

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Doug Ford’s play book: democracy is for getting elected, push cheap alcohol while delaying cannabis stores, opt out of the Canadian Charter (that never leads to a good place), and attack the vulnerable segments of our population.

We will see who comes to Doug’s store.  You can be sure the Innu are not moving south.   We, in our magnificent diversity, are the best catalysts for ensuring the failure of Doug’s prostitution market in Ontario,  Maybe he is expecting a rush on the border from the south, cementing the conservative and oppressive support for business.  A new kind of poverty is knocking on our doors.

Ontario needs a be a place where children and not just ecomonies grow

Government cannot be run like a racist criminal real estate enterprise. The GOP and its evangelical enablers might as well be liquor-impaired. Their judgment has been faulty because they chose stupid slogans over noble ideals. If it seems that government is increasingly going to the dogs and treasure troves are turning into major landfills the chances are that politicians are surviving on an improbable diet.

Isaiah’s courage

While we are not certain about the details of the persecution of Isaiah by the Jewish people his courageous speaking of the truth would have landed him prison. The only people who dare to speak unvarnished truth to the public about government today are misguided and xenophobes and Caucasian racist extremists. They are no Isaiah.

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment. For all tables are full of filthy vomit, with no space left.

Isaiah 28:7-8

When your president, anointed by 30 percent of your voting population, incites violence against the media, then pretends that he is concerned about the safety of the journalists the bare backside of the your nation comes into unobstructed view. Few nations have sunk this low.

The old paleface megalomaniac chief is practically roasting in the sunlight of facts and history.

There, in plain sight with shameless bravado, are the fascist chants, the Russian extortion handcuffs, confidence in xenophobic installations, and the poorly-disguised Nazi-inspired mass murder of the innocent.

I do not listen to speeches by the gloating bigot. I gather my info from the excerpts put forward in reports.

I know that many people who say they are followers of God’s Only-Begotten Son stand behind the ignorant bigot in the white house, behind every Nazi policy, behind all the childish imperial slogans, and behind the uncaring knee jerk reactions to invented crises. This is how they make an idol of the American experience, all the while paying lipservice to decency and indulging in the prostitution that has not failed to make a byword of every nation that exalts itself. It’s time to stop deceiving ourselves about a nation of laws. There has never been a nation that has justified or dignified their own set of laws, no matter how extensive.

There’s no sunshine in the deep

There is no city on the hill