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So What!

Posted on by Dr. Bacon, PhD in Freedom & Responsibility

Seems like I keep falling back on religion. Probably relative to my education as a folklorist. My PhD was in Occultism and Mythology, both of which relate to religion magnificently. Which is not to throw stones. Folklore is as real as truth can be. While both occultism and mythology are esoteric beliefs and practices, the same can be said of any religious faith.

The full spectrum of religious faiths is magnificent and touches a lot of ideological bases, Judeo-Christianity brings us down to some very reasonable concepts. My pninciple focus, when it comes to personal belief, boils down to Christianity. Another gigantic package of concepts as variable as believing you can a (L.D.S.) to believing your eternal existence will not be as a God but will be eternal. Much to consider but if we boil it down to the “red letters” (words attributed to Jesus), it all comes across as not only quite reasonable but actually doable. 

The only certainty about religious concepts is that we cannot and will never know, while still here on Earth, the truth. Many claim to, but none actually do, “know this church is true.” The Bible tells us “And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.” 

As a much younger fellow I actually did have a great deal of faith. My parents were wise and carefully taught me that one doesn’t pray to be rich or to beat Brad Dennis in a game of basketball. Prayer is a much more serious and contemplative process. Still, by the time i was eight years old, I knew the the mustard seed scripture was misleading at best, and the true mystery of God and religion came into focus. Now, at the ripe old age of seventy-years, I’ve discovered that when it comes to inspiring action from God, prayer is inches away from worthless. Ninety percent of the time, whatever it is I’m praying for isn’t going to happen. Thus my prayers have been followed by people and critters I love desperately, dying. And massive examples like Rush Limbaugh suffering from cancer and being prayed for by millions of people with far greater faith than mine, yet he died. Not only removing a hero in many minds, but an actual deliverer of Godly principle. Millions of faithful prayers and “nope, sorry.”

On the other hand, I have experienced actual miracles, some of which seem absurd, such as having lost all of my fly-tying tools which I hadn’t used for years, but having experienced an accident which took from me my ability to be an EMT/paramedic, which I was, and left me restrained to a wheel chair. My thought was that I could make a living tying flies. I used to be one of the world’s greatest professional fly-tyers, running High Creek Anglers and tying flies by the hundreds. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find my materials and equipment. I searched and searched till finally giving up. At this point I went to the only option left. I prayed! The next day a friend who’d been taking care of chickens on my yard came in with  a box. “Bacon, I think you need to see this. I was feeding chickens when I heard this racket and this box had fallen from the rack.” Guess what was in the box. Yep, my fly-tying equipment and materials! How the good Lord chooses which prayers to answer, or if this was just ridiculous luck, I’ll never know, but there ya go!

All of which brings me back to the point of this article, which is: so what? We can ponder and wonder and scratch our itchy skulls, but based on the vast majority of historical feedback, we’ll never know. Whatever the truth may actually be, those who believe do have certain advantages. 

For one thing, the believer is never alone! While my faith is weak in comparison to that of many I’ve known, I still talk to God. He never talks back, with one exception, and that one time, it was my own voice, in my own head, but it was a definite response to the question I was asking and well outside my inherent wisdom. Still, the point is I am never alone. When I find myself in the presence of no one, I almost always begin chatting at God, and feeling like he’s listening! Prayer also gives one a sense of control. Situations arise in which one can do nothing, nor have any actual affect, yet one can put in one’s word with God, who does have the power and capacity to do whatever he chooses. I don’t know what he’ll do, but knows what I’m hoping or fearing.

Another benefit is the words of Christ. The “Red Letters.” Guidelines for a good life. Instructions on how to live, treat others, and exercise our faith. The Red Letters house the transformative nature of Christianity. Inspiration to avoid bullying, lying, anger, and judgementalism. To engage in acts of kindness. Nothing weird here. No do not wear clothes of more than one material; No no one whose testicles are crushed…; No no praying with your head covered. Just simple wisdom. The red letters of Jesus are more than just words on a page; they are a call to action, a promise of hope, and a glimpse into the heart of God.

If you pass on and none of this turns out to be true, so what? The life you lived wss inspired.

~Bacon

Is There a God?

Posted on by Dr. Bacon, PhD in Freedom & Responsibility

The big question: Is there a God? And, ultimately, what difference does it make? My religious experience is as weird as it is rich and full. I understand the concept of faith because as a youth, I had it. The strong belief in something without requiring proof. I knew as surely as I knew anything that God was there and that when I prayed, I was talking to God. In the years since, my faith has degraded to hope, and even that is sketchy. The simple and certain fact is that if there is no God, it doesn’t matter. There would be no eternity of regret or happiness, nor anything else of a cognitive nature. It would simply be lights out. The possibilities, on the other hand, if there is a God, are endless, from an eternity of bliss, to becoming one with all others, depending on the faith you follow. But in terms of how it affects us here in the life we know, whether there actually is a God or not, makes no difference. Millions of prayers offered by the most pious among us, go unanswered. Rush Limbaugh dies of cancer, Islam continues to expand and grow, millions die of starvation, thousands of children go missing, still, the praying continues.

Whaever the reality may be in terms of God’s actual existance, the belief in a God, is, on the other hand, a completely different matter. We’ve recently been going through a period during which the belief in God has been fading significantly. A period that illuminates for us the value that resides in belief. Consider the ideology that has spread worldwide, which we refer to as “liberalism,” although it has nothing to do with what liberalism is. The father of classic liberalism was John Locke, an English philosopher from the late 1600s. His was a concept that emphasizes individual rights, liberty, and the cooperation of the governed. Where modern “liberalism” differs from his ideal rests in his idea that our rights are natural. (Recommended reading: “Two Treatises of Government ~John Locke) Locke listed the right to life, liberty, and property. Thomas Jefferson substituted happiness for property to extend importance to matters beyond personal wealth. In classical liberalism, these rights were seen as granted by God and thereby beyond the authority of government to remove or modify them. Modern liberals, on the other hand, have a much more complex view, but place government at the head of not only protecting and distributing these rights, but in deciding what these rights are. They being defined and directed by one’s government. A concept that is imperative in the promotion of communism, thus the importance of atheism in the ideologies of Marx, Lenin, Castro, Stalin, Che Guevara…

While moving away from the Godly premise in terms of rights, we also moved away from Godly concepts in terms of behavior. With no God and no scriptural significance to sway us, things like population lose spiritual significance. Rather than spiritual entities, people have nothing to elevate themselves above anything else. Thus your little girl has no more value than a canary, outside of your personal feelings towards her. Abortion, rather than being the sin of murdering unborn human beings, is sold as a positive. Good for the mothers, good for the child who might be born to negative circumstances, and good for society at large. Since 1973 well over 65 million unborn children have been murdered in America alone! Over  20 million worldwide so far this year! We have leftist politicians working to force American taxpayers to fund abortions worldwide! 

We also have the very people who claim an affinity for feminism supporting the prejudiced action of allowing men to compete against women in athletics. Somehow, they labor under the illusion that a man wanting to be a woman makes it so. It is both amusing and horrifying that liberals asked to define and describe what a woman is. can’t (won’t) do so. “A woman is anyone who wants to be a woman.” To these amazing geniuses, X and Y chromosomes are irrelevant. Being a woman, to them has nothing to do with the ability to have a baby, nothing to do with the menstrual cycle, and nothing to do with having a vagina.

I love watching Charlie Kirk interviewing students on university campuses, asking the question, “What is a woman?” Very rarely does one of them come up with an answer that has anything to do with reality. To the children on our university campuses, a woman is a person who calls him/her/itself a woman. They do have the wisdom to note that calling oneself a walrus is absurd, but that absurdity ends when it comes to the difference between men and women. Who would’ve imagined a time in which, or a population for whom, defining what a woman would become so difficult? 

Another of the great mysteries is teaching children that they can and should choose their sex. Allowing children who are too young to know what sexual preference is, or even to care about it, and convincing them that they should be the sex that they aren’t. Jimmy plays with Barbie dolls so, obviously, we much cut off his penis and put him on a hormone regimen, doing irreparable damage to the child upon whom it is applied. Turning little girls into boys presents a much more complicated problem, but that doesn’t stop ‘em.

This absurd concept that there is no real difference between men and women brings us to the ludicrous position we are in right now, in which men are allowed to compete against women in sports! Thus we have women’s athletic records be crushed by men pretending to be women. A concept so absurd it’s not only difficult for a rational, cognative person to comprehend, it is dangerous for the female athletes being forced to compete against men. The solution seems simple, just refuse to compete. However we are talking about girls whose life’s ambition has been to compete. To simply sit out events is out of the question. Her athletic record is corrupted, and beyond that, in the bizarre Marxist educational world we suffer with today, these ladies are punished! We have cases here in America in which a female athlete who refused to compete against a man has been disqualified! 

All of this is as pure a form of discrimination as one could imagine. This fits in nicely with the history of the demonicrat party in America, which entered the Civil War to keep Black Americans in slavery. Who fought to keep both Black and female Americans from voting. Who went to absurd lengths in the attempt to stop the passage of the Civil Rights Amendments. Going as far as using firehoses and attack dogs against children! Of course, they now claim that Republicans have since become Demonicrats and vice versa in one of the most easily disprovable lies ever foisted upon American society.

“Some are evil, some are stupid, some are evil AND stupid… There exist people on earth who are just plain evil, who will destroy other people’s lives for their own personal gain.  That describes the Democratic Party leadership” (Mark Lewis – townhall.com). There are those, including me, who feel like this evil is inspired by something rather dark and of a purely spiritual nature. Were there some way to apply logic to the absurdities, the battle against civil rights, the boys can be girls nonsense, the drive to abort as many children as possible, but there is no sane logic to apply. As an old biker (NO, not the spandex variety), I’m not one you’d expect to see things from a religious perspective, but I don’t know where else to look. When I refer to them as demonic-rats, it’s well beyond humorous mudslinging, it’s the only suitable logic I can see. 

Don’t get me wrong, as an academic, I became friends with many demonicrats who seem to be fine and intelligent people, but they all have one thing in common. While they get along with me very well (I’m guessing that has something to do with me being a long haired, disabled hippie in a wheelchair), they won’t even attempt to discuss their liberal viewpoints. They just roll their eyes, say, “oh Bacon,” and walk away. These aren’t mean, evil, or stupid people, as one would expect them to be based on the ideology they support. They are fine, wonderful people.

Interestingly, as a biker, I’ve had a lot of friends who are genuine outlaws, yet their political ideology is quite the opposite of that of the academics. They organize in groups to support ideals such as Bikers Against Child Abuse, and Bikers for Trump (both of which I’m a member of). The concepts the liberals hold are looked upon as a joke. There is no way a male biker would compete against a woman in a physical competition, with the possible exception of drinking whiskey. It doesn’t take much imagination to visualize the biker reaction to the sexual mutilation of children!

Which of these groups would a belief in God affect? And, what effect would that have upon this country? And what are we to do? Pray!

~Bacon

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The Trumpet Has Been Blown

Posted on by Dr. Bacon, PhD in Freedom & Responsibility

It’s been quite clear for some time now that what we used to think of as America, has passed. There are many, me included, who believe that America was ordained by a higher power. Our Declaration of Independence makes it quite clear that our founders saw that same vision. “to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them.” “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” “appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions.” There can be no doubt that right or wrong, they saw our rights as bestowed upon us, not by government, but by God.

Sadly, I’m not qualified to forward the intentions of God, nor to pretend any expertise. I have lived my life as an outlaw and for most of that life gave little consideration to the existence of a God. But being a folklorist from well before the time I became formally “educated” in the field, I had a fascination for ancient texts, the older and more obscure the better. Not out of any fascination with the concept of deity so much as out of the arc of curiosity that burned in me about the behavior of humanity. Although it is not obscure, the Bible paints a pretty clear picture of what educated or knowledgable people of that age believed to be important. I must admit, much of it seems absurd, but if one takes advantage of the red letter versions of the New Testament, the basis is both simple and quite explicit and it boils down to a topic that is certainly in red letters in my personal ideology, and that principle is freedom! Biblical freedom comes, as does all freedom, at the expense of responsibility. Thus, the magnificence of the Biblical form of freedom which includes freedom from a gigantic array of possible infections, many referred to Biblically, as “sin.”

This freedom has been the driving goal of humanity for as far back as that goal could be expressed. AND if the concept of Christianity carries any weight, that driving force is to be extinguished by the opponents of the powers guiding us towards it. And so it is! We all have our, so called, crosses to bear, but there are forces out there specifically driven to stand in the way of freedom. Such forces have always existed. Biblically speaking, examples would be the Pharasees, Saducees. Essenes, Herodians and the Zealots. They varied from one another in many ways. The important thing to remember is they all had good points, but were ultimately wrong in their philosophies. So many similarities exist today. Religiously we have such as Islam, which refers to itself as the religion of peace, or the Democrat Party which sells itself as being completely humanitarian.

The problem with any ideology is that it is carried by humans and one of the most foundational Biblical teachings is that humanity is corrupt by its very nature. Thus the “religion of peace,” has an ample history of terrorism and violence and its roots can be found in their scripture, Q8:60 advises Muslims “to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know.” The Quran and the Hadith promote violence, gender inequality, and discrimination against other faiths. We have ample example in the recent attach by Hamas. They went after young ladies and old persons and the horrors of the attacks are absolutely gruesome. They station military operations behind children and beneath hospitals. They certainly appear to be fostering the will of Satan.

As evil as Hamas is, I think there is an organized evil in America which may be even worse, and that is the Democrat party. They started out with the battle against freedom, in the attempt to maintain the slavery of Black Americans in the Civil War, which they lost, but proceeded directly into attempting to deny the vote to both Black and female Americans. An article covering the atrocities of what I refer to as the demonicrat party would fill volumes and you are probably already aware of most of it.

The strongest evidence of the dark power driving the demonicrat party is the endless and constant dishonesty. It is hard to deny that the Father of Lies would be proud of the demonicrat party. The list of lies consists of everything they say or do. One would be hard pressed to find anything Joe Biden (a desperately evil creature) has said that’s true. His lies are so absurd it is a slap in the face of all Americans that the world sees it going on! 

I refer to Joe Biden as Pedo-Joe, it is said that his family refers to him as Pedo-Peter. In any case, while I don’t believe he has the capacity to be in charge of anything beyond sniffing children, he is still the so-called leader of his party. What’s gone on under he and his predecessor, The oBama, is horrifying. The entire structure of American government seems to have collapsed. The Department of Justice and the FBI have become demonicrat tools. A horrifying example is the Jan. 6 protests. After months of bombings, arson, beatings, rapes and vandalism in blue cities across the country an actual peace protest takes place in DC and people are still being held in jail three years later. Charges against Donald Trump that are so absurd it defies all logic, yet the court found him guilty. No complaints, no one damaged, I’m not sure if they ever did actually state what it was that Trump did wrong. And now they’re cracking down on more member of their opposition. Steve Bannon was sentenced to time in prison, his offense? Refusal to participate in the crime going on against the Jan. 6 protestors. Peter Navarro is doing time for the same thing. One of the most absurd actions being taken against opponents of the demonicrats is the case against Alex Jones. Jones did indeed go over the edge in his suspicion about the Sandy Hook affair. An event for which he admits his error and for which he apologized, but Jones is one of the big guns from the right, so the repercussions need to be severe, and severe they are indeed! Alex Jones is no billionaire, but the fine for his Sandy Hook misadventure was one and a half BILLION dollars! Of course this is putting Jones and his Infowars (a marvelous institution) out of business. And no, it doesn’t end here. Cases are up against many others. Dominion who manufactures voting machines that are programable (absurd) and were designed for rigging elections which they have done. “While these vulnerabilities present risks that should be mitigated as soon as possible, CISA has no evidence that these vulnerabilities have been exploited in any elections,” the fact that these risks even exist is all we need. Dinesh D’Souza is being sued over “2000 Mules,” which presents undeniable evidence of vote rigging, so he must be put out of business! On and on it goes.

On the bright side. America is waking up. These absurdities are so overwhelming that Americans who have been victims of the demonicrat party are looking at their history and realizing that they’ve been living a lie. “I’ll have those n—gers voting Democrat for 200 years.” LBJ in reference to the “Great Society” lie that practically destroyed Black American Families. Jewish Americans are seeing that the American home of antiSemitism is the demonicrat party. We even have members of congress pushing the “from the river to the sea” crap about destroying Israel. It was the Republicans that delivered the Civil Rights Act, with demonicrats fighting against it all the way. Our Marxist universities are revealing themselves with protests in favor of people who throw homosexuals off rooftops, who rape girls and young boys, and make movies of it and laugh, people who are committed to destroying everyone who believes differently than them. There is hope brothers and sisters. And right now that hope is a felon! Heroic outlaws indeed!

~Bacon

Don’t miss the opportunity. Work from home!

Tolerance

Posted on by Dr. Bacon, PhD in Freedom & Responsibility

Sadly, I’ve been pretty intolerant of what I refer to as “demonicrats.” The fact is that as an academic, I’ve been surrounded by commie-libs a great deal of the time. While I still believe the father of the demonicrat religion is Satan, that doesn’t make his followers evil so much as misguided, and I can think of no exceptions to the fact that my commie-lib friends, and yes, I’ve even got family who are members, are magnificent, caring, and loving people.

I’ve attempted to get various people to explain what it is that attracts them to the faith. So far, not even one has attempted to make an explanation. They say, “Oh Bacon,” roll their eyes and move forward in their arena of ideology. When I get specific, “what’s the deal with abortion?” they get angry. No specifics, just anger. “Reproductive freedom?” What the Hell is that? The right to have sex and murder the result? I suppose it is unfortunate that a woman becomes responsible for a life other than her own when she becomes pregnant, but that is indeed the case. More respect is given to an adopted pup than to an unborn human being.

Forgetting about all the obvious and healthy organizations working specifically for Satan, what’s going on is nothing new. Dante’s poem, “The Divine Comedy,” tracks a descent through nine levels of Hell. Many of the figures in his poem were real life politicians of his day. More than 200 people were executed for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trial era. Religious persons doing the devil’s work. Daniel Defoe, famous for “Robinson Crusoe,” also wrote, “The Political History of the Devil,” where he claims that Lucifer manipulates world events and politics both in his own form and by possessing the minds and bodies of his allies. He saw the Catholic Church as friends and coworkers of the devil, and held the Crusades as evidence.

At the head of this argument lies the question, does Satan exist? Like most everything in the spiritual world, we don’t, and can’t, know. The evidence, however, seems rather potent. Look at what’s happening in our “liberal” world. It’s very moniker, “liberal” is stolen from a purely capitalistic and free-market oriented ideology which they’ve bastardized into the complete opposite of that defining principle. Looking at Biblical principles, liberalism is steadfastly against them all. The Democrat party’s number one apparent principle, they refer to as “reproductive rights,” which I and the Bible, see not as a right, rather a series of responsibilities.

Assuming, as I do, that there is a Satan, doesn’t leave us in the dark. The debate we undergo today which ridicules spirituality of a deistic nature, hasn’t always been the case, thus history of the concept of Satan is ample. To begin with, a title he has earned, The Father of Lies: John tells us that Satan “has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him” (John 8:44). Satan disguises himself in illusions of righteousness and light. “Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is not strange if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness” (2 Corinthians 11:13–15). One of the factors of Marxism which make it so dangerous is it’s denial of the existence of God, which it replaces with the existence of government which it predicts will devolve itself out of existence. I know, I know, absurd. 

Those who don’t believe in any of this find themselves victim to another of Satan’s majesties, he blinds the minds of unbelievers. Thus he not only spreads the lies, he hides the truth. The result of which we so commonly see around us in the world today, a ridicule of the concept of righteousness. The concept of being morally correct and justifiable is seen as jocular by people who, for example place no value on the core aspects of ones given sexuality. “He plays with Barbie dolls so it’s apparent we should remove his penis. She likes to climb trees so we must perform the most absurd form of surgery to give her a penis (a weird non functional version of one) and a full course of hormone treatments.” All of this while knowing that once having gone through puberty this sexual curiosity typically comes to a natural end. In spite of the decades of women’s rights battles, we now have men competing against women in athletic competitions! What could be more absurd and repercussive? If the trend continues, I’m afraid we’ll soon find out.

All of which brings me back to the bottom line, my commie-lib friends are magnificent, caring, and loving people, so how does it come to this? In looking at human behavior regardless of religious backgrounds we all have our own natural desires and weaknesses, and it is these things that Satan uses against us. Innocent desires such as the need for food or companionship can easily be twisted into overindulgence or unhealthy relational dependence. We all have specific weaknesses which vary greatly from one person to another and which tend to appear in the form of hunger for action which the righteous would consider sinful. One of the principle aspects of our weakness, ironically, lives in our ego and pride, which above all else can easily lead us to justify feeding the fire of Hell, as it were. Even the most righteous of us live in a world of such impressions as “my church is true,” “Pope Francis gives us the word of God.” “I’m right and you’re wrong.” Along with the simple truth that agnosticism or even atheism are also religions just as potent as whatever faith one choses.

So, it all boils down to a trait I’m lacking, tolerance. “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another” (John 13:34). “If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone” (Romans 12:18). “And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’” (Matthew 22:39). Our hope boils down to faith in our reward. So, no matter how bizarre it may seem there is purpose in our divide. Political differences bring out the best and the worst in us. Perhaps an exercise in utilizing his advice, “quick to listen,” and “slow to speak.” “But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: ‘Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.’” 

Thus the answer is not hatred nor belittlement, it is conversion. Which brings to mind an experience from fifty years ago. A time at which my political ideology was yet to become a serious consideration. I’d recently heard Rush Limbaugh on the radio (another marvelous story) who had introduced me ideologically to one of his principle inspirations, William F. Buckley, Jr. Shortly after that, I heard Buckley was going to give a presentation at U.S.U. which I attended. His presentation was amazing and miles away from what I expected; such as his opposition to the drug war! After his presentation he did a question and answer session with the students. This was where my eyes were opened. The student would ask a question and Buckley would ponder it with obvious interest and say something like, “I see your point, but,” and here he would give a thoroughly grounded and unemotional response which made the student’s proposal look completely absurd, and this he did without being offensive in any way. I don’t know how this affected others there, but for me this, combined with the absolutely inhumane treatment I’d seen directed at veterans returning from Vietnam, resulted in an absolute conversion to conservatism which has been amplified by everything I’ve witnessed in the political and ideological world ever since.

As a natural born rebel and an outlaw, both ideologically and genetically, tolerance is not an aspect of my nature.

The Mirror’s Verdict (Author Unknown)

I stand before the mirror, a judge most stern,
Scrutinizing every flaw, every turn.
The reflection stares back, a stranger’s face,
Searching for beauty, for a hint of grace.
Society’s standards loom large and tall,
A mountain to climb, an impossible wall.
But in this glass, I seek a kinder view,
A glimpse of the self that I know is true.
Beyond the surface, beneath the skin,
Lies a spirit yearning to be let in.
Acceptance whispers, a gentle breeze,
“Embrace your uniqueness, set yourself free.”
So I reach out, touch the cool reflection,
And begin the journey of self-connection.
For in this struggle, this daily fight,
I’ll learn to see my own inner light.

~Bacon

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Cruzing the Sea of Absurdity

Posted on by Dr. Bacon, PhD in Freedom & Responsibility

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Following is quotation of a letter I wrote to the good Mr. Cruz:

Well good old Ted Cruz turns out to be just another typical professional politician… Joining hands with the demonrats and the other GOP example of absurdity Rubio, to blame Donald trump for the absurdity and illegal behavior of Chicago liberals. I was already skeptical of Cruz thanks to the universal traitorism revealed by the GOP after the recent victories in DC which were followed by the republicrats joining hands to support the oBama rather than keeping their promises to the voters.

I really felt like Cruz was of a different sort, but obviously such is not the case. My support and whatever influence I can generate will henceforth be in Donald Trump’s behalf.

The GOP used to be the wall behind which the American tradition of freedom/responsibility took refuge, but now the democratic (politic of mediocrity ~Socrates) infection has spread from the demonrats and infected the GOP. This is a tremendous disappointment.

It is most unfortunate that politics has become a profession. Cruz and the rest are the executive welfare class. Enjoying the perks of lifetime wages, healthcare and and a host of other benefits at the cost of the voters whose pocketbooks they are milking.

Trump will have his work cut out for him, getting past both the demonrats and the Republicrat liars… god forgive us if we are unable to wrest control from the political professionals and return it to the people.

But Who to Thank?

Posted on by Dr. Bacon, PhD in Freedom & Responsibility, Poet, Ya, I Am

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Some of us are thankful for freedom

Others for big brother’s purse.

I’m thankful for Jefferson’s wisdom

And thankful things aren’t even worse.

I’m thankful for my little sister

Souls bleed but this is obverse.

Children, grandchildren, the National Anthem

The ability to converse.

To who is it we are to be thankful?

Who was it that lit the big bang?

What was it that up and exploded?

From what origin does that one hang?

Jesus? God? Allah?

Or is it Caballa?

Perhaps just a useful harangue.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter

The fact is that thanks does exist.

Whatever it is, this “creator”

Will not go by me unkissed.

I guess it’s not odd if I call it God

And I’m thankful too for this tryst.

~Bacon

Bom Jesus da Mata My Ass

Posted on by Dr. Bacon, PhD in Freedom & Responsibility

Written in reaction and as commentary towards “Death Without Weeping / Has poverty ravaged mother love in the shantytowns of Brazil?” by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, for a cultural anthropology class I’m taking…

I have a difficult time with this.  We live in a world where this type of thing need not be.  The wealth of the world is astounding and people still suffer indescribably from what we call poverty.  Coming, as I do, from a background of Christian “virtue”, it’s been stunning to realize that so much horror occurs in the name of “Jesus”. In this situation we hear of a midwife speaking, “just to dust the infant with baby powder and wait for it to die”, this sort of thinking justified as “cooperating with God’s plan.” It’s certainly hard to comprehend how anyone could see such a thing as being part of the “plan” of an all powerful deity. My own ethnocentrism temps me to explain it as the ignorance of a substandard civilization, but I see the same logic used right here in our own glorious, civilized, academic territory of wisdom where many see everything as directed by some unseen, inexplicable deity and all the misfortunes as being part of “his will” and the fault of our “unworthiness” of some sort. We see beliefs and behavior in another culture which are very similar to our own, and see it as horror, which many of us also see as “his will”.  The solution to such problems as this is indescribably simple, unfortunately the first requirement is logical concern against which, Gods, politics, power and money are vigilantly on guard. Bom Jesus de mata doesn’t mean “beneath the quiet” in my book..  But then, I’m just cooperating with God’s plan… ‘er somethin’.