Thursday, December 31, 2015

Trump the Uniter



Recently Trump made these comments aboard his airplane to a number of reporters:
“Mine is a message of hope, not a message of fear.”
“”As a businessman, I have an obligation to get along with people;
that’s democrats, republicans, virtually every politician.”
“I have great respect for a number of the candidates I am running against.”
“I am extremely inclusive.  I am going to bring people together”  (how’s he doing so far…couldn’t resist)

Keep in mind that Trump really only cares about himself and his image, but YOU know that.  Even politicians do not need demean, degrade, and debase everyone who has ever disliked them or didn’t agree with them.
I have a another post of 68 people Trump has insulted.  It just takes three minutes. But, here are some  the HOPEFUL, INCLUSIVE, UNITING messages that Trump says or tweets.

Muslims
 - government should shut down mosques, start a database to track them, and prohibit Muslims from entering the US.
Refugees-
  US should not accept Syrian refugees for fear that ISIS could be hiding among them”
Immigrants-
“our country will be overrun.” “Mexico is sending their worst, their murderers and their rapists”
Republicans
– “The Republicans don’t know how to negotiate, to be honest with you.”
“I’m a Republican, it’s embarrassing to watch them negotiate.”
African Americans
 – tweeted false crime statistics indicating most killings were done by black people. Protesters for Black Lives Matter “maybe should have been roughed up”.
Ben Carson
– Carson either totally fabricates his stories or worse he tried to hit his mother over the head with a hammer and tried to stab a friend. Violent criminal or pathological liar. “don”t know about his religion”
Marco Rubio
 – weak on illegal immigration. A lightweight.  Rubio is disloyal and asked Jeb Bush to denounce him as a friend.
Jeb Bush
- needs to be more competent. Low energy person. “lost” “pathetic”
George W. Bush
- “When you talk about George Bush, I mean, say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time.”
Mitt Romney
 – “choke loss to Obama is 2012, blew an election that should never have been lost”
Carly Fiorina
 – “interrupted everyone during Nov 10 debates. She has a failing campaign.”
John Kasich
– “irrelevant to the race”,  “ a complete and total dud” “one of the worst presidential candidates in history”
Lindsey Graham
 – polling so low he should drop out
Hillary Clinton
– “weak on immigration”, “totally incompetent”, “corruption is what she’s best at”. – “one of the worst secretary of states  (sic)” “had a bad record” “Elect Hillary and you have a country that goes to hell”

Martin O’Malley
 – “the failed former Mayor of Baltimore and “a clown”. “Why is he on the stage?”
Barack Obama
– “Obama has a horrible attitude. “he is resigned to defeat” “Obama is insane for continuing his support of accepting Syrian refugees.”
John Kerry
– Kerry is ‘the worst of all time”
Bernie Sanders
 – “manic” “socialist/communist”
Bill de Blasio
- “de Blasio is the worst mayor in the united states.”
Jonathan Martin (NYT reporter)
– “such bad reporting, he should learn how to read the polls before writing his next story”
Serge Kovaleski (NYT reporter)
– mocked reporter for questioning Trump’s claim of seeing thousands of people cheering in New Jersey on the collapse of Twin Towers.
Trump mocked his disability by flailing his are arms saying “you oughta see this guy – “uh, I don’t know what I said, uh, I don’t remember.”
Chris Stirewalt (Fox News political editor)
 – “one of the dumbest political pundits on television”
Charles Lane (WSJ)
 –“ it’s amazing that some of the dumbest people on television work for the Wall Street Journal, in particular a real dope named Charles Lane”
George Will
 – “broken down political pundit”, “boring”, should be “thrown off Fox News”
Wall Street Journal – writers are “dummies”
Vanity Fair (Graydon Carter)
– “ Vanity Fair is doing really poorly” “watched Carter fail and close Spy Magazine. He is a total loser”
Associated Press (Jeff Horwitz)
–“ AP is irrelevant, and I can say from experience their reporting is terrible and highly inaccurate” “Horwitz is one of the worst reporters in the business”
Karl Rove
 – “Rove is a total fool and a biased dope”
Ronda Rousey
 “glad to see that Ronda Rousey lost her championship fight last night. Was soundly beaten – not a nice person”
Politico  
- “their journalists are clowns”, “their reporting is dishonest”
Glenn Beck (and John Boehner)
 – “Wacky Glenn Beck who always seems to be crying (worse than John Boehner) speaks badly of me only because I refuse to do his show, a real nut job”
Bill Kristol
– “dopey” “lost all credibility with so many dumb statements and picks”
Marc Thiessen
-  “a failed Bush speechwriter whose work was so bad that he has never been able to make a comeback.” “A third rate talent”

I would bet my house that I forgot a few people in this list, or that there won’t be many more before the first primaries. Remember, that if Trump attacks and demeans you, it is because he respects you and wants to unite everyone.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Drinking is Good for Soul

I am patiently waiting for some followers of my blog. It's like waiting for Godot.
I like drinking good liquor and good wine. It would be nice to get feedback about your favorites too. Once we have a small group we could actually start evaluations and ratings - or not.
My favorites are currently Tequila and Bourbon. Tequila favorites tend to be anejo. brand favs : Don Julio, Clase Azul, Herradura and many many more.

Bourbons represent a much smaller selection sadly. My favorites are  George T Stagg, Michters, Pappy van Winkle, Jefferson's Reserve(small batch) and Booker Noe's.
Fill me in on your favs. Thanks

Knowing the unknowable.

Religion, religious organization and those belonging to those groups have puzzled me my entire adult life.
When I think or write about religion, I wonder what I could think or say that has not been said before, probably by someone much more intelligent than I.
I also wonder, what percentage of religious people have minds that are solidly fixed in their dogma. Those with fixed minds, either rationalize their doubts, punish themselves for having doubts, or simply ignore any rational arguments about their beliefs.  Classically, this is common among fundamentalists and others who believe in creationism and not evolution.  For them, "Science is lies from the pits of Hell"  End of further argument.
I have heard that certain beliefs,  practices and laws come from the Laws of God from the beginning time. Then I shudder.
First of all, using a phrase such as "from the beginning of time" is so grandiose as to engender awe.
But what does it mean? The beginning of time?  Doesn't that imply there was a moment before that when there was no time?
We understand time as the progression of events, whether macro or micro. To have time, things must change. How can there have been a God before the beginning of time? Did God exist at absolute zero?  Do religious folks imagine God as corporeal or amorphous energy? In either case, just as in the Big Bang theory, to start time, God must have gone from static to active.
What is the religious belief behind that transformation. Why would God decide to just do nothing.?
Actually, if God was even thinking about being active, God would be active already and there would be time. So already one dilemma concerning the beginning of time emerges.
My next thought concerns creation. To create the Earth and Mankind, religions bestow the following attributes to God:  omnicognizance,  omnipotence, and omnipresence.
If  God is all knowing, then he must know everything that will happen from the beginning of time to the end of time. There can be no surprises for God because God is everywhere simultaneously, knowing exactly how everything God decided to create would unfold.
If God is omnipotent, then God could imagine Earth and it's occupants and the sun and the hundreds of billions of galaxies.  There would be no need to create any of it.
Could God have been bored? Did he need something, like adoration? Well, if  God created man, God wrote the script by which all men would behave. God created the Adoration of God. If some men did not believe in God, he would have known who, why and when, eons before. Why would God ever get angry at any of Man's behaviors, if God as Creator, knew exactly what would happen?
Does God need entertainment? .  That would be my guess about why God made Man with free will. God would have to blind himself to all knowing and be surprised by Man's behaviors.
Then, surprised, God would be acting with anger and emotion at the very events which God could have predicted or chose not to predict so that God would be entertained.
If God got so angry that he would annihilate some of his Creation, doesn't it raise the issue that God was not entertained? If  God was, God would continue to observe.
My conclusion, and I'm not the first,  is that man created the concept of God.
Who wrote the Bible? : many  men over a very long period of time and in many languages.
Some of those languages are so archaic, no one knows really what some words and phrases were intended to mean. Instead the so called "words of God" are Man's interpretation of the words of God.
Why the insistence that the Bible is true word of God, when man clearly wrote the words. Man is not perfect. If God really wanted Man to have his Bible, then God could have created IT in its entirety, with rules, laws, aphorisms, poetry and inspiration presented in such a format and in such a way that there would be no question as to its origin.
Why didn't God create us instantly? Why six days?  It's more interesting prose.
Out of space in this blog. The beginning.