Opinion

Your sorry ass is happy?

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The world does not, and has not for decades , revolved around American rhetoric and even less around a humanitarian Israel, China or any of the veto -wielding nuclear powers of our times. Staring down the right to self-defence is the right stance for the global community. The right to free expression seems to have no traction when Black lives – remember the Orange Threat’s “What have you got to lose by voting for me?” – are at stake. White people have for centuries been killing Black people with law enforcement looking the other way saying “There’s no there here”. Israel has been oppressing everyone who is not a Jew, with cleverly disguised abuse and bullying of secular Jews. Republican grandstanding just exposed its malignant tumor of hypocrisy thinking they can force yes and no answers to complex questions about civility and free speech. So a rabid mob has succeeded in bullying intelligent persons, while criminally tainted individuals of the Orange And MAGA clan persist in their diabolical schemes.

Now that university presidents are targets – for thinking critically – of the idolatrous conservative political establishment a lot of pundits and respected commentators are going to lose their heads and their place in the pantheon of truth-bare news

Eyes that do not see

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He who can only see greatness in the past has a mental problem.  Or might that be senility forcing a stable genius, who refuses to read documents, steals them and moves them around to deny the owners access, to keep repeating unhinged nonsense about rights and law and order?  Who rides a bike? Whose oversize backside is frequently glued to a golf cart? The loser who can’t stop losing or the sitting president of the United States? Eyes! Stop seeing!

Robotic and repulsive rhetoric

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Everyone with a properly working brain knows that the 45th president and his party are either practically all brain dead or they have stopped thinking. They repeat the same outlandish allegations and outright lies like souped up robots. If the 2024 election in the United States is the most important in history it is so because the 45th president has been trying for 4 years to prove that the 2020 elections were fraudulent.

“If a ruler pays attention to falsehood, All his ministers become wicked.” (Proverbs 29:12, NASB)

Increasingly, people who do not win elections find it convenient to charge the winners with dishonesty. The world is turning with relish to an environment of lies and wild allegations. Politics has always been full of robotic and repulsive rhetoric.

Continue reading

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News is not public service. Maybe you can remember a time when news cost nothing or mere pennies. Today, late summer 2023, a corporation selling news, editorial opinion, expert analysis posts a tantalizing headline, followed by a blurb containing neither geography, chronology, science nor theology. Then comes the bridge, “Continue reading”. Click that object and you will learn the price of that “news” item, and the more desperate corporations will use your click to collect your personal information, ostensibly for identifying you as a client.

Incorrigible corruption

The term “news” should be stripped from many names of television stations, radio stations and websites. We will be sorry if we do not take action now to end the reign of political and religious spin. The corruption in information peddling is deep, buried in the very things that have been dividing society and inviting violence and using patriotism and religious conviction to create a new mindless cult. News outfits become virtual silos of specialized packages of information bits. After what we have learned about the Fox media platforms hatred of facts and social media obsession with manipulating public sentiment with algorithms shutting off the faucet of quasi-news is a step in the correcting of the incorrigible.

Heritage shmearitage

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We have always suspected that the conservative government of Ontario was only interested in military privilege and money in the pockets of big corporations, so we never believed that the Ford government was ever interested in preserving Ontario’s Green Belt as a national Heritage. Now Ontario’s auditor general is revealing that the Ford government favoured developers in its plan to supposedly ease the housing crunch. Will any one be sanctioned for violating a sacred trust like the conservation of Ontario’s moraine? Toronto’s mayor may have seen this coming as he resigned earlier in 2023. Ford will smear the campaign to preserve green space, but his sneering at Ontarians for not buying his housing “plan at any cost” will soon end. Conservatives care about the bottom line at the bank and in the market. Their attitude borders on institutional corruption. The sacred land is a mere commodity. We do not expect Ford to even acknowledge what the auditor says. When there is no more green space he will not be around and the wealth conservatives are trying to build will be useless bits of paper or data. The greenbelt is real heritage deserving protection from the Tory bulldozers.

Take that, Huck!

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders gets slapped on the blinking eye by the federal court. Book burning is uncivilized, and the governor of Arkansas does not know it. She is trying so hard to be a fundamental, deranged evangelical, she forgot that laws exist to enable learning and experience, not the pogroms of the Republican party. Banning books is a very desperate attempt to create the kind of moral society everyone has failed to achieve, including ancient Israel and all those Islamic republics. God showed us who Huckabee is when he caused her eye to blink when she lied daily as 45:’s press secretary.

Misleading giveaways

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Trump’s pleading hands and Sarah Sanders Huckabee’s twitching eyes are reliable warnings to the public. I think Trump’s hands look like I’m open which really means he’s closed, and Huckabee’s twitching eyes were indicators of God warning her “please girl, don’t lie again”

Pleading misleading hands
Eyes do not lie

These two public displays of deceit rank with the more intimate expressions of a lot of Christians when they tell themselves and anyone willing to listen that they are God’s obedient and perfectly loyal people. I have learned to tune out as soon as the loyalty pitch begins.

Sorry, Smirky Niches to the Netherworld

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Everyone who has reached middle age knows for certain that  governments and religious organizations are either deliberately creating a workforce at minimal cost.  They are agents of slave mentality and economies.  Why would a supposedly independent thinker on CNN invite a host to opine about the maxim “Follow your passion”?  We are pretty sure that passion drove the American revolution and sheer evil invented the Soviet bloc, now facing a resurrection attempt.  It is pure passion that makes the Supreme Court of the United States agree with ignorant religious bigots on every issue, not facts, not science, not legal foundations.

Shush the personal integrity and work hard for pennies

Some friend or other colleague-type named Galloway calls the maxim “bullshit”. and I could not help but notice that the video clips that introduced Michael Smerconish’s question included veritable icons of American society Senator Warnock and Oprah Winfrey.  Michael and his friend are probably right now nursing their tongues because of the damage done by their own teeth.  They know that work without passion is an imperialist capitalist invention.  Black workers on White-owned plantations sang while they worked because they had a PASSION to be free not because they loved their work.  The humming of a tune coming from the kitchen and the whistling of a catchy melody are signs of PASSION, signs of comfort, signs of expectation of satisfaction  the products of labour will bring.

Whose side will we take, labour or slavedriver?

You will never hear Smerconish or any of the independent pundits and preachers say that America is  a filthy w**** who pays her johns, and thinks herself a queen but she is nothing but a has-been widow.  Did anyone start a campaign against Ezekiel, a priest no less in sixth century BC Israel, when he described Israel’s harlotry and the buffoonery of her prophets and princes?  Not a dog did bark! How dare Smerconish pretend to be a philosopher, asking questions he hopes will shape, on the sly, the sickening MAGA world of white tyranny. One either occupies oneself passionately or succumbs to prostitution and hypocrisy. The love of money is a passion that sends the greatest persons into the torment of Gehenna. The love of humanity is a passion that the American sages who dreamed up the constitution knew would challenge their people to fly high or sink like stones into the deep.