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A. Scrooge McDuck
B. Darrin Vader (Darth’s oldest son, who is presently governor of South Dakota)
C. Wiley Coyote
D. Andy Amoeba (a single cell living in my toilet bowl)
E. Any one of the Munchkins (a personal prejudice)
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Jonathots Daily Blog
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I thought I would send along today the ideas that give me the spine and create the backbone for my faith and human journey.
There happen to be ten of them—but this has nothing to do with the original Commandments, just more or less my relentless respect for the symmetry of a good essay.
That’s about it. I could elaborate, but I think that might be best left to you.
So here it is:
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Jonathots Daily Blog
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Today I have two words. Each one individually could fit our category, but together, they become a negative fiasco. So the P word—or words, in this case:
I hope you can see my point.
Politics, as a whole, rather than being a launching pad for the discovery of truth, has become a rocket jettisoned into the landscape of reasonability.
And a pundit is someone who already has decided, and makes the circumstances fit the philosophy, and the questions conform to stump answers.
Let me further unpeel the onion of nonsense by stating that a conservative approach to life is incapable of providing all the answers.
Likewise, as we take off the rose-colored glasses, let us admit that being liberal doesn’t always honor the kind of hindsight essential to balancing power.
So since both suffer from inadequacy, a little humility might be in order with the body politic—and certainly, the absence of anyone who becomes a champion for one thinking.
Alas, we don’t do it that way. Instead, once we decide on our political position, we become pundits of the party line. This has degraded our national dialogue down to hurling grenades of insults.
Until we stop accepting politics and funding pundits, we will be a nation under the control of whoever can fund the most outlandish plans and suit up the prettiest announcers.
Political pundits: two words that need to be removed from our lingo.
Just get the facts and make decisions based upon our Constitution and the convictions of our national soul.
Because once we discover what direction we’re going—whether conservative or liberal—what we are looking to achieve is unity, not dissent.
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I know it is very popular to contend that love is the ultimate force for good, and shall eventually, through struggle, conquer all.
The reality is:
The fact that each one of us has free will to make our choices extends from the heart of God with even greater certainty and power than love.
It is why, although we love our children, we ultimately have to grant them the free will to do that which stirs their hearts, even if we believe it is going to damage or destroy them.
Free will comes to play in the very essence of our country.
It is astounding to me that people who say they believe in God refuse to grant the courtesy of free will to other humans, when they know that God considers our free will to be sacred, even if we’re determined to kill his son on a cross.
We have tried to escape this reality by manifesting destiny. This is the notion that our lives are predetermined by fate. We feel this lifts the burden off of us to choose, when actually, personal selection is what God intended we pursue.
Therefore, whether I agree with your choices or believe them to be righteous, they are your decisions, and shall be honored.
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Actually, there was no Yellow Pages printed out by the local community.
Even though the town was emotionally depressed, spiritually entrenched and socially retarded, it had culturally caught up to the current century in technology. Therefore most astute businesspeople found their information via their computers. Yet there were several private schools in the city which had agreed to put together a Yellow Pages, including telephone numbers and business ads, to raise money for their institutions so that their students could have at least some good of the better, if not the best.
Karin’s editor, in a fit of civic pride and an unusual bout of generosity, had purchased twenty of the volumes, which now lay around the office ignored, threatening to be fire hazards.
Karin tired of web surfing, so she resorted to one of the catalogues, which began with a table of contents, including:
Agencies
Banks
Child Psychologists
Doctors
Educators
Financiers
Grocers
Helping Hands
Insurance Companies
Judges
Kan-Ga-Roofing
Labor Organizations
Mothers
Newspapers
Office Supplies
Priests
Q-Tie-Pie Child Care
Religious Organizations
Senators
Teachers
UNICEF
Videos
Women
X-Ray Technicians
Youth Clubs, and the
Zoo
Yes, everything from A to Z. It seemed that blessed benefactors were bountiful—an alliteration of possibilities of people to hit up.
Karin entered the project optimistic and energetic, but soon found that no one wanted to become involved—at least not directly or openly. Yet amazingly, almost everyone offered something, even if it was just negative advice. After about six hours of calling, Karin sat back, having secured the following assistance through her persistence:
One Port-a-john toilet
Sixteen orange construction cones
Seven miscellaneous books in Aramaic
Two fluorescent green soccer balls
Four pairs of tennis shoes
One hundred dollars-worth of gift certificates for food items
One teddy bear
A bag of army men
Three Bibles
Two Korans
A single copy of the Talmud
Seventeen sympathetic sentiments
Eighteen guarantees to participate “if someone else does something first”
A promise from a politician to do his part after he was elected
And a bag of all-black jellybeans
Karin perused the list carefully, trying to determine if there was any theme to the collection, and finally decided that the common thread to the whole encounter was: thoughtful but basically worthless.
Persisting, she decided to chase down one more idea. Some press coverage would help, but nobody at the wire services and news agencies expressed interest. A universal chorus arose from all hearers. It was either, “no story there,” or the story that was there was too scary to chase.
As a matter of fact, one cranky son-of-a-gun called the situation “blasphemous.” When Karin inquired what made it blasphemous, he replied, “That’s easy. If you want to make money and you live in the Middle East, anything that’s too hot to handle is best determined to be blasphemous.”
He continued, “It would be like someone calling me on the phone who said he had a huge scoop about an abortion doctor who discovered the mysterious gay gene while vacationing with his mistress in Red China.” His conclusion to Karin? “Although intriguing, there’s no part of the topic that’s public-friendly, so therefore, it must be classified as blasphemous and be avoided—like a Biblical plague.”
Karin listened carefully, wanting to object to comparing the two boys to locusts, but before she could speak, he added, “Arabs and Jews want to pretend that they don’t have a problem, and they certainly don’t want two upstarts reminding them that they are lying to each other.”
She tried to insert a thought, but the line was dead. She was pretty sure he hung up on her. Still, one possibility remained.
She picked up her phone one last time and called…
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