Fear the Empty

Donald Trump is scary. He is a frightening man not because of the things he says but the fact that he does not care about what he says and will say whatever is necessary to keep his name in lights, his image on the screen and his reputation alive. Donald Trump as most people of intelligence will tell you is an empty vessel but he has full cargo when it comes understanding how fear innuendo, and phobia work especially in the minds and the bottomless souls of self proclaimed victims. Donald Trump believes there are no consequences for his actions and will always mange to leave the theater before he screams fire! Donald Trump can provide the instructions for tar and feather, assume that he just might have to do this or that tell a group of mob minded insecure lemmings how scary the future looks walk away and gleefully laugh as mayhem ensues. Never have his fingerprints on an act of menace but he certainly understands how to suggest the possibilities.

Donald Trump is wise enough to know he does not know how to be president, so he exposes that weakness by saying I will do it differently. For the masses who also have no idea what it means to be a president this used car sales pitch resonates as a miracle. You had a clunker in Bush Trump bemoans, you have a lemon in Obama Trump brags, trust me that my car will be speedier, shinier, sleeker its a secret how that will work, but you will drive something so much better. And all the townsfolk need as they gather their pitchforks is the promise of a man who has made things glitter albeit not from gold.

Setting traps, establishing blame, seeking scapegoats, are not new to the history of politics; what is unique is that after so much history of that kind of evil having taken place, to see it reborn is scary. Donald Trump has no conscience that is clear but he has a narcissistic drive verging on madness, and madmen know no boundaries. Donald Trump has NOTHING in common with the people who seek his radiant glow, but he understands that void and uses their own insecure virus to attack them. It matters no longer if Donald Trump wins the nomination or not and that should frighten all of us. Donald Trump has established the conversation for the next presidential election he has set the agenda for policy for the next year, and he has the kool aid in paper cups at the ready for angry to drink. Donald Trump is scary but it is the minions who need reason to hate, purpose to despise, and cause for violence who we ALL should fear.

Look AT us

Look at them, NO, seriously look AT them. There was a news conference held today at the hospital in San Bernardino where many of the victims arrived after the heinous and murderous attacks took place. Three primary doctors spoke to the reporters and if you looked at them, NO, seriously looked AT them, you would have noticed that all three doctors did not have glimmering white complexions but rather differing degrees of a brownish skin tone. If you looked at them, NO, seriously looked AT them you would have seen two of the physicians most definitely were immigrants to this nation, and one perhaps a child of immigrants or maybe even though his skin was not white as snow an American citizen of American citizens. Look at him, No seriously look AT him the country commissioner of San Bernardino, was a man with brown skin, this man explained how the largest county in the nation reacted to the murderous rampage and how he and his fellow commissioners will continue to respond. Listen to them, NO seriously listen TO them, three of the speakers had a non-American English accent, yet they communicated their emotions, trepidations, fears and most importantly their HOPE to aid the victims and tom try and prevent more insane violence. 

Look at them, NO seriously look AT them, the men who shot people from bridges in Maryland, the teens who decided to murder students in Columbine, the young man who felt a movie theater audience made a better target range, the guy who believed Jesus would forgive him for killing the lives of the people who he thought were killing lives of the unborn, the guys who hated the government enough to blow up a building in Oklahoma. Look at them NO, seriously look AT them, each was a caucasian as they get, each spoke the English language as their first language, each was born in the United States.

Look at us, NO, seriously look AT us. We are notALL the same people. We are not ALL the enemy. We are not ALL your reason to be fearful, hateful, ignorant, bigoted or biased. But in America for a long time many of us DO NOT take the time to look, NO, seriously look AT us. Why is it so much easier to single out a scapegoat, act the bully, discriminate, and blame then it is to find commonality, consensus, or care. Look at us, NO, seriously look AT us!

Festival of Lights

In the light of a candle as it bounces, blossoms and beckons bits of beauty, many people begin to imagine images dancing, floating, haunting and picturesque. On the nights of Hanukkah as I light my Menorah I too look deeply into the wispy glow of the candles and emotions from my grandmothers stories as a little girl, my grandfathers saga’s of bravery as a young man, my parents tales of how miracles are made more majestic not magically BUT by our own perseverance and patience; I stop, sigh, and realize just how important mere moments of our lives matter.  Many Jewish families will begin an eight day celebration of wonders, why’s, wisdom and wishes, wanting to know if they too will have the power to defeat their own adversaries. We live in a nation with potential and promise but somehow recently, the lights of peace and prosperity waver in the wind. On this Eve of Hanukkah, as I light my candles I hope to see opportunities of kindness, caring, acceptance and accord sway swiftly in the orange, blue and yellow willows of candle light. Cha Urim Sameach, (Happy Festival of Lights!)

LETS STOP PRETENDING

Lets stop pretending that the current Republicans care one ounce about life, and that they and only they can and will keep America safe. While we joyously watch one cable network try to out produce shock and awe regarding this latest terror attack by another American creating stories that never find a conclusion as to how to stop this madness, the Republicans in our Congress vetoed a bill to AT LEAST PROHIBIT the same list of terrorists who are a no fly list from procuring guns. Yep, in the yes of this republican Senate you cannot fly American but you can buy American adjust stay home and murder any one you want. And while this group of Republican Senators whine and moan and croon a tune about Jesus they also too the time to try and repeal yet again ObamaCare and of course defunding Planned Parenthood. Yep somehow their Jesus loves the fetus but hates the carrier of that seed. Jesus loves a life in the womb but somehow believes that once it breathes it first breath medical care, health screenings and quality of life don’t matter too much.

Lets stop pretending that the current crop of Republicans care about all the people of America when in fact the only persons they seem to dote over are the newly created life form that our Supreme Court identified called Corporations. No sane gun laws, (and sorry folks no one is taking your guns away from you just trying to make sure even if you consider yourself a good guy you you don’t turn bad) because the personage in the form of the NRA’s life matters more. The life of the Oil Industry matters more, so don’t expect to breath clean air until they breath in as much cash as they can. And of course nothing says life more then a good war or two so the lives of the Industrial Military complex matter a whole lot more.

Lets stop pretending that the current crop of Republicans are more Patriotic just because they know how to scapegoat, lie, fabricate and incite fear better then anyone else. Lets stop pretending that when 13 men and one woman only offer prayers and thoughts to end gun violence, spend more time repealing affordable care instead of presenting an even more affordable health plan, who find deferments for them to never fight in a war cool but want more, more, war, who pride themselves as having family values, but are sure women do not deserve equal pay, family leave leads to laziness, homelessness is a crime, women’s reproductive parts are government property and a living wage is nothing but socialism. Lets stop pretending that the current crop of Republicans are nothing but shills for some really greedy, gluttonous group of men who believe in fact they are Gods.  LETS STOP PRETENDING  

God Blessed 'Merica

God blessed ‘Merica, again by golly! Not just any God but the real one the God who dictated the terms of the 2nd Amendment to the Christian Founding Fathers, y’all know the Jesus God. It WAS a bad guy with a gun who shot those Americans, even though if they had a pistol in their pockets they might be alive, so in a way it is their fault they died. Why, Jesus is telling us once again if you ain’t packing a pistol you might as well swear allegiance to the Nazi’s or worse the kind of pretend God that people called Omar, Ali, or Muhammad believe in; that nasty pretend God who only permits heathens and bad guys pray to him. This is another perfect example that Marco Rubio told us about, that God was angry with ‘Merica and blew up the Twin Towers and when we didn’t heed his commands to never trust anyone who ain’t Christian he took out those pansy Parisians. (Kind of should have expected that for not following the advice of President Cheney and go into I-rack!

God blessed ‘Merica gain, indeed! Just listen to Mr Trump he told us he could smell when the next terrorists attack was gonna happen, he is smart that way. Mr Trump predicted we would be attacked by foreign fighters, nobody with red, white and blue blood would ever kill good Christian ‘Mericans. Why Prophet Cruz stood on the alter of an evangelical church touting that once we permitted those Sodomites to actually think they were normal and marry we were begging Jesus to smite, smote and kill. Pastor Huckabee knows that Jesus is a good God but can be a bit pissed off when we let those abortionists kill innocent babies. He said that false Gods like that Ali Baba God will try to take over ‘Merica because too many of us are being contaminated with the Progressive Hilary Clinton disease. We need to remember the bad guys in dark colored skin ain’t got no place in the White Christian nation. Bull crap with that liber-tard make believe history that there is a divide between church and state and that this AIN’T a Christian nation. That’s why I fly my nations Confederate flag, cause them guys knew how keep this nation Christian and safe.

God blessed ‘Merica fer sure! Bad guys with guns ain’t got no excuse like that pretend mental illness thingy, its them Islam-Muzlins doing the bidding of some kind of demon who hates anyone with values or morals as stated in my King James Bible; all they want is to destroy freedom in this great Christian nation, my freedom to hate those who don’t think like I do, my freedom open carry and decide who I need to fear, my freedom to elect real Americans into office like Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. God blessed ‘Merica because he knows that only non-Christians are the bad guys, and only Christians shooting, and killing are the good guys! Amen to that Brother!!!!!

Thought and Prayers

If you or your loved one is murdered by a person who has other than Christian purposes in doing so, then there is never an issue of the gun being the problem, it is simply that his or her God is nothing but the Devil in disguise.  If you or your loved one is murdered by a Christian raised by a good Christian family then, then once again it has little to do with the gun but most likely it is a mental health problem. If you or your loved one is murdered by a person who was raised in family of divorce once again it is not the gun at fault but rather the child of a Godless family who had they really found God would have never divorced. If you or your loved one is murdered by a white person, then there must always be other circumstances for this heinous action, but of course it has nothing to do with the gun. If you or your loved one is murdered by a person of the Muslim faith, then YOU must immediately purchase more guns because the only answer to THOSE people is to kill them first.

If you are running for President from the GOP/T-Party then you MUST never admit that guns are the issue, rather state that too many good guys did not have access to guns to shoot at all the bad guys with guns. If you are running for any office within the GOP/T-Party you must make sure that your puppet masters the NRA write your script for you, the one in which it is never the gun’s fault. If you are a GOP/T-Party politicians or a loon from FOX News or a fan of Conservative media you must learn how divert the conversation about gun control insisting that it is more about the government controlling your freedoms; you know like shooting whom ever you believe is the enemy. If you are a GOP/T-Party lover of guns, and call your self Pro Life you must always end by criticizing or Obama and the Liberals/Progressives by saying our prayers are with you for the death and destruction brought to you, not our God but the pagan false idol those people believe in.

If you are tired of hearing the GOP/T-Party recite “our prayers and thoughts are with you”, but we cannot pass laws to protect you. If you are tired of hearing that if it was a white murderer the “poor thing must have mental illness, so not too many prayers or thoughts for that. If you are tired of waking up and in the same newscast hearing the weather report, traffic conditions and how many people have been massacred and murdered today it is time to unite and vote out all of the accessories to murder who never pass laws but only provide “thoughts and prayers.”

Imagine War

Imagine if all of the War Video games playing, open carry in God We Trust Patriots, and AK 47 freedom fighters actually enlisted in one of the Armed Services, just how really scary our war on terrorism might be. These couch sitting, Wal-Mart roaming, Boarder crossing militia all( he-man and she-woman) who love to shoot pretend laser beams, intimidate shoppers or goad minorities are always declaring war on imagined creatures,or women seeking health care or people of any color but white, but never seem to find the time and enlist to serve this nation overseas. Imagine how quiet the conversation of war would become if this time around the Congress passed a bill re-creating the Draft. Imagine how some real debate would emerge from the tongueless, deaf elected officials if they, their children or grandchildren were just as eligible to serve this nation as the people living in poverty, or the less influential citizen does. Imagine what might become real conversation when the conversation of America’s might also includes the very people who seem to insist our dignity is devoid when we don’t start another war.

Imagine if after every war this nation declared as American responsibility we had an honest accounting a REAL bi-partisan evaluation made public (every step along the way), and we all got to discover the real facts about which Military/Industrial Corporation made billions, what our billions actually purchased, how many Troops were killed, how many Troops disabled and how much money would really be necessary for the burials, physical/mental health care of the returning Vets, what plans were made for the surviving families. Imagine if we made both the Congress and President accountable by insisting we have a real national evaluation of each and every war this nation has played a direct or indirect part in pursuing. Imagine if we did not permit any cable spin machine to deflect the truth, spread partisan propaganda, and also be listeners to the real experts who care about the lives and dollars spent on war.

Wars may be very necessary, but wars contrived by people who have never fought in any war nor ever fight in a war love to provide bluster and BS but never seem to bother with the realities of war. We talk about “American Exceptionalism” and do so safely from our living rooms, the aisles of public markets or the roads and highways of the boarder states. Imagine if we all had to play an equal part in understanding the need for war and then equally assumed responsibility for fighting that war. Imagine that!