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The Abandonment of Obama
Mark another win up on the scorecard, the Financial Times has a great read on just how much Trump has beaten back the forces of darkness. A snippet below, full article here.
It is one thing for Donald Trump to reverse everything Barack Obama did. His quest is nearing completion. From the Iran nuclear deal to the Paris climate agreement, Mr Trump is stamping on anything with his predecessor’s name on it. The unfinished task is Obamacare, which Republicans have only partially disabled. It is thus ironic that most Democrats vying to replace Mr Trump would finish the job for him. Very few are promising to restore Obamacare. The main exception is Joe Biden, who, as Mr Obama’s number two, helped enact the Affordable Care Act. Even Mr Biden, however, is conflicted about whether to boast of his Obama association, or change the subject.
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As Certain As Day Follows Night | The Nations Response to Obama
I have yet to understand why the left hates the President so completely, but they do. The next time you find yourself in that unhappy place where a lefty is bitching about Trump, ask them these 10 questions:
Has he proposed taking away our constitutional rights?
Have any of our rights disappeared?
Has he proposed higher taxes?
Has he caused the economy to fail?
Has he started any new wars?
Have minorities suffered more under his leadership?
Did he run guns into Mexico?
Did he direct the IRS to target enemies or non-profit groups?
Did he spy on other politicians or journalists?
Has he used the Justice Department to savage his enemies?
His only ‘sin’ was in humiliating the left and those within the entitlement culture. I once heard that ‘elections have consequences’; that’s true. It’s also true that Trump’s election is the consequence of our nation’s repudiation of Obama and his minions.
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When the Least Moderate Thing About Your Debate… Is The Moderator.
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The Sign Goeth
A North Carolina-based advertising company said it’s taking down a gun shop ad that disparagingly refers to four congresswomen of color as the “4 Horsemen” and “idiots.” Anti-gun violence and civil rights activists have lambasted the ad as “dangerous” and “violent.”
I do note that the advertising company is pulling down the sign and not the retailer.
Dangerous and violent? What a weak-kneed nation we’ve become.
Government as God
Sorry Tomi, while the right is not God given the government does have the ‘authority’ to do whatever it wills. Our government has become so powerful that it now embargo’s the accounts and currency of innocent Americans and makes them fight, without resources, for their return.
The government believes it is God.
The country formed on the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness now deprives it’s citizens of each of these without either shame or due process.
Have we gone to far down the path of tyranny for the blood of patriots to right this ship? Probably so.
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Word Play and the 114th Saying
In the past I’ve posted several articles on the structure of certain sayings and intermingling of several seemingly independent phrases within Gospel of Thomas. Sometimes I question whether (or not) some ‘helpful’ scribe or transcriber decided to include their interpretation of a saying or to add information to help the reader to understand what Thomas had written. In other instances I wonder if the entire saying is attributed to Thomas’ writing when it was not his contribution at all.
I’m not a forensic linguist and I don’t have a friggin clue on how to decipher Coptic. The only tools I am capable of leveraging to understand the Gospel of Thomas are my faith, my intuition and my intellect (as weak as this latter attribute may be) .
So I was plodding around in Thomas’ work and read his final saying (114) and here are my thoughts.
Saying 114 in Layton’s translation reads:
(114) Simon Peter said to them, “Mary should leave us, for females are not worthy of life.” Jesus said, “See, I am going to attract her to make her male so that she too might become a living spirit that resembles you males. For every female (element) that makes itself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.”
As is my want, I thought to bring some words forward within the saying and to send other words to the background. I came up with this:
Or
Jesus said “I am going to make her a living spirit that will enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Now, along with the gazillion of other things I don’t know, I don’t know if this brushes away error and deceit and correctly captures what Thomas originally intended. However, my faith, intuition, and intellect leads me to believe that this is what Jesus would have us know.