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Politics. pfft!

I don’t know about you but I don’t think I’ve ever been more disgusted with our political process than this year. The Supreme Court decision to give corporations the same rights as living people did not help my opinion (hello?) and after hearing how much money was spent by the candidates (billions) and the third party adds – many of which were utterly false – I almost think a benevolent dictatorship might be better. Of course, the trouble would be finding a benevolent dictator that wouldn’t turn into a tyrannical egomaniac. Because we all know what happens with absolute power.


Anyway, I was just thinking what it might be like if we had a process that number one, did not allow false advertising, number two limited every candidate’s campaign spending to the same dollar figure, and number three no third party ads. I know, it’ll probably never happen; there’s too much power and money tied into politics. But it was really frustrating this year trying to make a choice with all the lies and bashing and just plain meanness. I can’t help but wonder what our founding fathers would think to see how democracy has turned out.

Politics. Pfft.

Warning: op ed

It is a sad day indeed when a so called man of God chooses to incite hatred and violence rather than promote love and unity. I don’t understand people like this. My heart and mind cannot comprehend how a person who claims to follow the path of Christianity could think that burning the Quran is something God would find pleasing. Because I am 100% sure that God would find such behavior abhorrent.


Which leads me to the supposition that perhaps this Pastor isn’t a man at all. He just looks like a man. But inside there is a demon. I know, you're laughing at me now, thinking I’ve gone from serious to absurd pretty quickly. But it makes perfect sense. Burning the Quran in an effort to incite violence is exactly the kind of thing a demon would enjoy. So I’m thinking, what can we do? And it came to me like a vision from above. We need to do two things and they’re both really easy. The first is to pray for him. Pray that he can shake off that demon on his back. The second and more important thing is to ignore him. He’s had his 15 seconds of fame. Let him burn the books in ignominy with only his few foolish followers as witnesses. Let no report ever be written in any paper, let no pictures be taken, no video, nothing.

That’s my challenge to everyone, especially the media. Ignore him. He’s just another a terrorist.

Turkish Envoy to return to Washington according to CNN world

What happened is this: Turkey was all in a tizz about the US “passage of a non-binding resolution in the House Foreign Relations Committee, which calls the 1915 massacre of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Armenians in Ottoman Turkey "genocide."” So they pulled their ambassador to punish us. And we were very sad so they relented and sent him back and now everything is just peachy again.

Politics. Pfft.