Month: July 2021

Luke 18 10-14

10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax collector; 11. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. 12 I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I possess. 13 And the tax collector, standing far off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. 14. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone that exhalteth himself shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

On my last post I said this post would have a song about power. Looking for a song about power I thought of this song that was on a K-tel album we had way back in 1972. When I look at all the laws that are coming out of the Arkansas State legislature they are not only power hungry their power crazy! It appears they have gone totally berserk. But it’s not just here in Arkansas Republicans all across the United States are passing laws that are not only unconstitutional they are just plain crazy. One of these laws I’m talking about involves our schools and a problem, if you call it a problem, with transgender boys playing sports as girls, which is unfair to all the girls because as everyone will agreed boys are so much better than girls at everything! The fragile female needs the protection of the Republican men of the Arkansas legislature. The girls and women need the protection of the superior men of the Arkansas legislature because the school boards across the state won’t protect the fragile female. Oh that’s right we do have school boards in each school district in Arkansas but the Republicans have gone power crazy, stripping all local laws declaring the schools are no longer under local control by the local elected school boards. The power crazy Republicans have overtaken our public schools and I guess they have appointed the governor to be the supreme superintendent of schools. Other than a naked power crab, the republicans are claiming that they are making these laws to protect women. The law only serves one purpose that is to attack the LGBTQ community. They may have a religious reason for making this law. What would Jesus say about this law? Here’s what I think he would say and I base this upon scripture.

Two men went up into the Temple to pray: one a Republican Arkansas Legislator the other a transgendered volleyball player. The Republican Arkansas Legislator stood and prayed to himself, God I thank thee that I’m not like these evil LGBTQ people, liberals, illegals, Democrats, people who tell the truth like that Cheney woman! And I thank thee, God that I’m not like this transgendered volleyball player! And the transgendered volleyball player, standing far off, would not lift his eyes toward heaven, as the Republican Arkansas Legislator does, and smote himself on his chest saying God forgive me for I have taken advantage of the inferior female I know that now because that phony Republican, Bruce Jenner told me how much all men are truly superior to women in every way and these state laws are right. I’m so sorry but you see I really don’t like football!– Well that explains everything.

The righteous Republican Arkansas State Legislator has gone totally power crazy and taken over all local control over our local schools shamelessly stealing control of all Arkansas schools from the local school boards and superintendents who are elected by the local people to ran their LOCAL schools! This is not only a crazy power crab it is an assault on democracy itself. If this is a problem in our Arkansas schools then why hasn’t anyone gave an example of this even happening in Arkansas schools. If this an issue at an Arkansas school then the local elected members of the local school board that has the true power can look at this problem and can take care of it in any they, the ones who are duly elected to run each local school should take care of it, NOT the Arkansas State Legislator.

This is not the only example of the Arkansas Republicans crazy power grab. They also passed another bill that banned doctors, that right doctors the Arkansas Republicans believe they have the power to tell doctors how they can treat their patients. This law removes the right for doctors to prescribe hormones to their transgender patients under the age of 18. Now I ask this question and I know it won’t have the same effect on Prince Charles as it does the Republicans in the Arkansas legislator but: who died and made you King? The Republicans must believe they are royalty able to pass any law they please while claiming that the people voted for this. The law takes away all doctors rights to treat their patients as their years of Med school and years of experience and let’s not forget their Medical License gives them the right to do. The law is now in the courts and for now this law cannot take effect.

But there’s more The Arkansas Republican Not only hates the LGTBQ people but they extend their hatred to all Arkansas residents who believe in the Coronavirus. They passed a law banning the governor, cities, schools or any one else from passing a mask mandate. Yesterday 12 people died in Arkansas today 15 more people died. And yet the Crazy Arkansas Republicans, who will brag how pro-life they are, could care less how many people die and refuse to change the law. A group of Democrats have made a plea to the governor to call a special session and end the law, but so far our beloved pro-life governor refuses to do that. But with the opposition to these Republican laws I can say we’er not ALL crazy now!

Today I’m still writing about Arkansas new Stand Your Ground Law. As everyone can see by my choice of today’s song shows how serious of a matter this is as I have chosen a song from such a high quality group as the Grateful Dead. But I’m not saying I haven’t looked at the Grateful Dead before. Went I was talking about Confederate monuments I almost choose Touch of Grey but then I found the Monkees Shades of Grey which worked out better for my post anyway. That’s the post where I started out I’ve heard there are fifty shades of grey but today I’m only talking one shade of grey-Confederate grey! Well anyway I thought that was one of my best lines so far.

Me and my sister are big fans of Lieutenant Joe Kenda Homicide Hunter, which is a longtime program and yes I know they are TV shows not programs and I did look at Wal Mart for a sign that says live, life and love but I didn’t find one! With our steaming service, no more cable EVER, we started watching every episode from the beginning, I think we’re in season four or five. The other night the TV show was about a man that was stabbed, lying dead in the living room floor. The man that stabbed him was in the kitchen so young Joe, I really like young Joe he’s so serious all the time, the man went on and on about how he was so innocent the other guy was attacking with a knife and him was defending himself, it was self-defense!! As you may know Lieutenant Kenda doesn’t just take people at their word he investigates, maybe that’s why he’s called the homicide hunter. Went he goes talk to the coroner, the coroner tells young Joe the vic, that what they would call him on CSI, he didn’t have one or maybe two stab wounds, he had a total of 28 stab wounds! MY, MY,MY No way was this self-defense it must had been a homicide. If you commit murder Kenda will find you. Of coarse this murderer wasn’t real hard to find since he was right there in the apartment covered in blood and said he stabbed the man, but still Kenda found him! After much investigating Kenda determined what happened. Turns out the vic was the ex- boyfriend but the problem was the suspect was the husband. The vic thought it was a great idea to go talk her back after midnight while she was in bed with her husband. Turns out that wasn’t the brightest idea that man ever had. Upon entering the apartment the husband rans into the kitchen grabs the nearest knife and attacks the ex-boyfriend stabbing him 28 times. That answered the question will his wife take him back? That would be a No! Yet another successful case solved by Joe Kenda. But wait there’s more! A couple of months later Kenda receives a call from the DA telling him that they were dropping the murder charges and letting him go free. Why? Kenda explained that the state of Colorado passed a law known as the Make My Day Law, in which if someone comes into your house you now have the complete and total right to stand your ground and kill anyone however you see fit. In Colorado the homeowner is always right. But if you live in Colorado and you invite someone over to your house, make sure you have a good plan to overtake him after all–A man got to know his limitations! So you have to ask yourself–Do you feel lucky? Hey wouldn’t the young Joe make a great Dirty Harry? As I said it my last post the Stand Your Ground and now the Make My Day is just making murder legal. It’s like those Purge movies where they take away all laws for a day or maybe more, I didn’t see Purge 2, but like the current movies Republicans with their Stand Your Ground and Make My Day laws have made a Forever Purge.

There’s an old hymn entitled What a Friend We Have in Jesus, thus today’s song. Your either a friend of Jesus or your a friend of the Devil. The Republicans have made their choice, Thou Shalt Not Kill has now become Thou Shalt Not Kill UNLESS thou seeth someone thou thinkest needs killing. (That’s the King James Version) Isn’t it the Republicans that are so proud that they call themselves pro-life? While their claiming how much they love and protect life, they will shake their Bible under your nose and say something like My Bible says Thou Shalt Not Kill–and the crowd goes wild. But it appears to me that just like mask wearing, Thou Shalt Not Kill doesn’t seem to apply to them.

I assume (there’s a saying about that word assume I wish I could think of what it was) but I assume Stand Your Ground and Make My Day laws are pretty much the same. I know the basic change in the Arkansas Stand Your Ground Law was to remove what is called the ” duty to retreat” just from name make my day sounds like its now lawful to say “Go ahead make my day I double dog, no I triple dog dare you! There’s no doubt that the members of the Colorado State Assembly have at least one time in their life have stuck their tongue to a frozen flagpole. And I’ll bet they were all pro-life Republicans just like here in Arkansas. This is a good example of these laws you have a mob (state legislatures) standing around a flagpole taunting the kid who knows it’s wrong, but the mob dares are so powerful that the good kid gives in to the mob.

Make My Day and Stand Your Ground Laws are not to be confused in any to the self-defense laws. These are new laws that Republicans have passed over several states and have no relation to self-defense or justifiable homicide laws. These laws are not intended to preserve life but rather these laws only purpose is to justify the taking of more human life. And yet the church going people who vote for these very Republicans will claim that they are voting Pro-Life.