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Do you believe Tom Hanks, who has a full-time career as an actor, has had time to read those books supposedly on his bookshelf? |
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I couldn’t resist including this item on what might be the bookshelf of Donald J. Trump.
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Draw Your Own Conclusions! |
JL
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Whose Side is the Calendar On?
The other evening, I saw a CNN interview on TV of a lady wearing
a Trump cap that also featured Jesus.
She was claiming that the Constitution was divinely based and pointed
out as evidence the language of its Article Seven, to which all the signatories
apparently had agreed.
That language, in indicating the document’s date of
signing, used the phrase ‘in the year of our Lord,’ and hence, she felt that applied
to the entire document, meaning that there is no real separation between the Almighty
and the document upon which our nation is based. Here is the language of our Constitution's Section Seven. You can
be the judge.
‘Done in convention by
the unanimous consent of the states present the seventeenth day of September in
the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the
independence of the United States of America the twelfth. In witness whereof We
have hereunto subscribed our Names,’
Does this mean that the use of any date based on the year
of Jesus’ birth somehow acknowledges his divinity? I think the First Amendment gets our government
off the hook on that count, but while calendars work fine with days and months,
they do not count years, and to understand history, you have to start counting
somewhere, and where that point should be remains a controversial challenge.
Right now, Jesus’ birth or the beginning of the Christian
Era, is as good a starting point as any.
Some Jews prefer to start the count 5784 years ago, based on what
Twelfth Century scholar Maimonides calculated to be when the Creation occurred,
despite modern evidence to the contrary, and other calendars find other
starting points based on their theology.
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The year of the Constitution’s signing, 1787, according to
the Chinese solar-lunar calendar, was a ‘Year of the Goat.’ (There
are a dozen such rotating Chinese zodiac signs for years in that calendar,
usually modified by ‘elements.’ They are, in the following order: Rat, Ox,
Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and
Pig. 2024 is a ‘Year of the Dragon.’)
Our Constitution, back then, was probably the first attempt
at fully documenting the operation of government, and remains today as the ‘Greatest
Of All Time’ of such attempts, just
as retired football player Tom Brady is sometimes also, in his role as a quarterback,
referred to as the ‘G.O.A.T.’
But getting back to the lady with the ‘Trump/Jesus’ cap, how do you deal with such people? In their minds, criticizing Trump amounts to criticizing their belief in Christianity, somehow connected to Trump in their minds, and is an attack on their constitutional right to believe in whatever religion they choose.
Actually, anyone stupid enough to still consider Donald
Trump to be their president, even after his totally documented defeat in 2020,
is in need of someone to wake them up, regardless of their religious beliefs. Whom they might turn to is up to them.
JL
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Vote ‘Yes” on Florida Constitutional Amendment Four, Anyway!
In retirement, I live in the State of Florida. Although it
was an attractive option back in 2001, it is no longer one today. I would discourage
anyone from moving to Florida and to consider one of the Northern New England
States, the upper Midwest, or the Southwest instead, if they feel a move is in
order for them, for economic reasons or otherwise.
Why? There are
enough highly susceptible idiots and imbeciles among Florida’s voters to make
it comparable to Mussolini’s Italy or Hitler’s Germany in the Nineteen
Thirties, and to make it an uncomfortable place for anyone with half a
brain. Without going into the many
possible examples of why this is true, let me
concentrate on one item, the Florida Constitutional Amendment appearing on the
November ballot guaranteeing abortion rights, and
requiring 60 percent approval to succeed.
From all surveys and polls, it appears that the Amendment
will be approved by the State's voters. That is becoming clear to the Republican politicians who these
idiots and imbeciles repeatedly elect to office. Hence, they are struggling to find a way to
defeat it, because it might increase the number of Democratic votes throughout
the State.
(In the past, an Amendment to give most felons who had
completed their sentences the right to vote was passed only to have legislative
obstacles passed by the Republican legislature defining what completing their
sentences constituted, a partially successful effort to prevent a surge in Democratic
registrations).
These same Republican scoundrels are now insisting on
including the following wording on the ballot, a blatant effort to get Florida’s
idiots and imbeciles to vote ‘No’ on Amendment Four. By law, a financial effect statement is
required to accompany such ballot questions, but never before has there been
such a statement amounting to putting their campaign literature on the ballot!
Right now, Florida courts are deciding
whether the following language should be on the ballot. Knowing the political make-up of Florida’s
courts, it probably will be there, endangering the passage of the Amendment. Here is what that language says:
‘The proposed
amendment would result in significantly more abortions and fewer live births
per year in Florida. The increase in abortions could be even greater if the
amendment invalidates laws requiring parental consent before minors undergo
abortions and those ensuring only licensed physicians perform abortions. There
is also uncertainty about whether the amendment will require the state to
subsidize abortions with public funds. Litigation to resolve those and other
uncertainties will result in additional costs to the state government and state
courts that will negatively impact the state budget. An increase in abortions
may negatively affect the growth of state and local revenues over time. Because
the fiscal impact of increased abortions on state and local revenues and costs
cannot be estimated with precision, the total impact of the proposed amendment
is indeterminate.’
Be smart! Leave Florida to its idiots and imbeciles, (and their guns, necessary for them to ‘stand their ground.’) Many of those who seek a more welcoming environment for non-traditional marriage and gender identification, and those who object to efforts to introduce politics into judgeship nominees, public schools, libraries, and State colleges are already packing their bags. But for every sane person that leaves, there are incoming idiots and imbeciles from other States eager to experience the ‘freedoms’ of the Sunshine State.
Folks considering a retirement location: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, or Colorado beckon and are better choices!
But it’s really ‘no problem.’ With or without you, ‘climate change,’ two
words that Florida’s laws ban from appearing in any legislation, will
probably result in most of the State being underwater before the end of the
century anyway. Most Floridians won’t
notice it until they wake up some morning to find that during the night, their
house floated away and they are now residents of Cuba.
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Floriduh Voter |
But still, vote ‘Yes” on Florida Constitutional
Amendment Four, anyway! Its passage will
at least put the ball in the court of the scoundrels in the State House in
Tallahassee.
JL
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