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Race-obsessed media cries wolf, Trump gains in polls

From the Washington Examiner (full article here)

The media is helping President Trump’s reelection effort by its constant, obsessive, nearly unhinged determination to tell their audience for the 2,965th time that Trump’s tweets about four radical congresswomen were “racist.”

At least three respected polls, including one just out today, have shown the backlash those tweets — in Trump’s favor. I immediately predicted this would happen if the media persisted in its passionate, unprofessional behavior of affixing the “racist” label to the tweets as if the label were straight news rather than an opinion.

As I explained last week, words matter, and wolf cries eventually cause people to get angry at the crier. The word “racist” in particular has been so overused as a pejorative that plenty of nonracist people at least tune it out and sometimes revolt against it.

In this case, if the observer sees Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar primarily as “women of color,” then the nasty Trump tweet appears aimed at their “color,” which in these “woke” days often is misused as a stand-in for “race.” Yet if the observer doesn’t look at everything first and foremost through a racial or colorized lens, what the women have in common isn’t their supposed pigmentation similarities but their radicalism.

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When You Come To Be Light, What Will You Do?

What’s Real?

The 11th Saying in the Gospel of Thomas is another one of those passages that both comforts and confounds. As odd as this might sound, I like the confounding aspect as much as the comforting one. The Blatz interpretation reads:

This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away; and those who are dead are not alive, and those who are living will not die. In the days when you ate of what is dead, you made of it what is living. When you come to be light, what will you do? On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you have become two, what will you do?

The Layton interpretation is slightly different and that slight difference is enlightening because of the word ‘element’. Here is how it reads:

“This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. And the dead (elements) are not alive, and the living (elements) will not die. In the days when you (plur.) used to ingest dead (elements), you made them alive. When you are in the light, what will you do? On the day that you were one, you made two. And when you are two, what will you do?”

Of course there are other differences between the two interpretations, but I thought the addition of the word ‘elements’ changes the passage considerably. One more interpretation, this time by Doresse:

“This heaven will pass away, and the heaven which is above it will pass: but those who are dead will not live, and those who live will not die! Today you eat dead things and make them into something living: <but> when you will be in Light, what will you do then? For then you will become two instead of one; and when you become two, what will you do then?”

I’ve highlighted the two major differences in Doresse from the other interpreters because the way the passage is now stated a lot of the meaning has change. The statement now reads you will be in the Light (note that Doresse capitalizes Light) and that you don’t become two (from one) until you are in the Light.

These three interpretations treat the subject of light differently:
Blatz: you come to be light
Layton: you are in the light
Doresse: when you will be in Light

So, where am I going with this? I am proving the validity of my earlier assertion on confusion and confounding. If we had read the statements in Saying 11 without trying to understand the implication of what the differences between the three ways ‘light’ is treated would we have grown any intellectually? Would we have spent any time today to ponder on life after life?

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Can’t We Leverage A Little Good Will?

Over at Breitbart there is an article that talks to Talib and Omar’s impending visit to Israel. Looks like they will let the moon-bats into the country, now if we can just leverage our goodwill and have them keep them? I’m guessing that the same propagandist crap we saw at our southern border (mistreatment, cages, and the drinking of toilet water) will shortly follow. The article reads, in part:

“Out of respect for the U.S. Congress and the great alliance between Israel and America, we would not deny entry to any member of Congress into Israel,” Dermer told the Haaretz daily on Friday.

Earlier in the week, the same paper reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be tasked with deciding whether they would be let into the country, due to the sensitivity of the visit and its possible ramifications for Israeli-U.S. relations.

Officials later said that the prime minister would consult with the National Security Council.

Speaking to the Jewish Insider on Wednesday, Omar said that she and Tlaib were planning to visit Israel and the West Bank in “a few weeks.”

“Everything that I hear points to both sides feeling like there is still an occupation,” Omar told the paper.

Her comments were made after pushing a pro-BDS resolution in Congress, co-sponsored by Tlaib (D-Michigan) and Rep. John Lewis (D-Georgia), that seeks to “oppose unconstitutional legislative efforts” against boycotts. While the text does not mention the BDS movement by name, Omar admitted that the bill’s intention was to allow “an opportunity for us to explain why it is we support a nonviolent movement, which is the BDS movement.”

The text of the resolution cites examples of boycott movements against Nazi Germany, the USSR and apartheid South Africa, and also suggests that the BDS movement is comparable to the Boston Tea Party. “Boycotts have been effectively used in the United States by advocates for equal rights since the Boston Tea Party,”

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Captain Oblivious

You’d think that with all of the criticism Dirty Joe has received over the last several week he would have found less intimate way to greet his granddaughter. Damn Joe just give the ladies a little space!

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Salsa Round Two | A Surprise

The Roma tomatoes are coming into their own, so I rounded up enough to make another batch of salsa this afternoon. The way I keep the sauce from becoming to runny, after I get the pot simmering for several minutes with the tomatoes, peppers, parsley, garlic, oregano, salt, and pepper I take a large spoon and lift out as much as the liquid as I can. I do this because I know that I will have to add vinegar and lemon juice back in.

Well I was looking at the glass 4 cup measure I use to hold the juice and thought: ‘bet that would be good over ice’. It was! I’ve been making salsa for years and this is the first time that I tried this. It’s not just good, it’s damn good. It’s so good that I’m tempted to make batches of the liquid alone!