The Sad and Sorry Spectacle Of Evangelicals All Too Willing To Be Trump's Lapdogs

"God must have quite a sense of humor to have brought evangelicals and Donald Trump together. Sometimes the most unlikely people become our staunchest defenders and he certainly has!" - Ralph Reed, quoted in a June, 2018 article in the NY Times.

"The American Evangelical Church isn't so weak that it needs Trump's version of secular salvation...Yet the church is acting as if it needs Trump to protect it. That's not courageous. It's repulsive. And so long as this fear continues, expect the church's witness to degrade further. In seeking protection from its perceived enemies the church has lost its way" - David French, 'The Evangelical Republic Of Fear', TIME, July 8, p. 16)


I'd always believed white evangelicals (especially), were pathetic in their adoration of Trump.   But that perception amped up exponentially after their turning a blind eye both to his pussy -grabbing and assaults on nearly 23 women (documented to date) , as well as sleeping with Stormy Daniels even while wife Melania was having a kid. E.g.

Why Do White Christian Evangelicals Worship A Pervert ... - Brane Space

brane-space.blogspot.com/2018/01/why-do-white-evangelicals-worship.html

So in that sense the Evangelical clown Ralph Reed is correct in claiming it was ironic that Trump and his bible puncher brigade found each other. (Though I seriously doubt any deity had a thing to do with it, for the sake of humor or otherwise.) I didn't think it could get much worse than that until learning that at Trump's Orlando send off he actually had a white woman preacher calling down perdition on anyone opposing her master.

In one of the less noted batshit crazy outbursts out of Trumpdom, we learned last Tuesday (WSJ, p. A15, Crispin Sartwell) that one TV preacher named Paula White fairly went ape shit.  The televangelist wench led the crowd of yahoos at Trump's Orlando campaign launch by bellowing (ibid..):

"Right now, let every demonic network who has aligned itself against the purpose, against the calling of Mr. Trump, let it be broken. Let it be torn down in the name of Jesus! And I now declare that President Trump will overcome every strategy from Hell and every strategy from the enemy!"

"Every demonic network"? Uh, lady, ever heard of the 'enemy within'?    (Ever heard of meds  for psychosis?)  That is your great leader who is himself the Devil in sheep's clothing,  you numb nut!  Plus,  how much evidence do you need given we have photos of him palling around with child sex pervert and predator Jeffrey Epstein?.  See e.g.

Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Were the Only Two Guests at a Party with 28 Women Flown in for the ‘Entertainment’: NYT Report

Let's concede there's a point at which style overwhelms substance and madness trumps (no pun intended)  even residual embers of sanity.   That has clearly transpired with the white Evangelicals now drooling over Trump as their new "Savior".

Trump’s staunchest defenders are uniquely brazen to the extent to which they justify any means to favored ends. His evangelical Christian supporters, for example, are willing not merely to excuse Trump’s adultery and deceit but also to embrace them: The more vulgar he is, the more he fulfills his supposedly divine mission.  I mean you have lots of weaklings giving him "mulligans" in golf, but this boggles the mind - to be awarded them in spades for serial morality transgressions-  and by a bunch who profess to be holier than any other sect in the US of A.  They "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ", but don't you dare say a word against the pussy- grabbin' Dotard!

And yet as David French writes in his TIME essay, these forlorn and misbegotten fools actually believed Hillary was the greater demonic threat, writing:

"They responded with raw fear at the very idea of a Hillary presidency. They believed she was going to place the church in mortal danger."

Little realizing the person that would really place their church - as well as their entire moral credibility in mortal danger would be the No.1 Pussy grabber Trump.  And as French put it (ibid.):

"That wasn't faith speaking. They were the words of fearful men grasping at failing influence by clinging to a man whose daily life mocks the very values that Christians look to advance."

And what about the firebrand TV preacher Paula White? Well an objective observer would wryly note that while she was railing against "strategies and enemies from Hell" - an actual imp had taken over her brain as well as the brains of all those eating her drivel up in Orlando.   My sister-in -law Krimhilde:


 Before she fell victim to Alzheimer's, actually had the evangelicals and their Trump connection pegged perfectly - relating to us at a family gathering in Barbados,  in April of 2016:

"They preach love and God's mercy to sinners, but their souls  have been degraded by  hate. This hate is against all others unlike them, whether immigrants, poor black people  or gays, or atheists.  So they seek to remake  their god hateful in their image.  They also knew they needed a strong  darkness to cover and protect their own hateful darkness so they used Trump to that end.  They really have sold their souls to purchase what they believe is spiritual security but is really selling their souls and faith to a human devil."

Hmmmm....echoes there of Faust and Faustian bargains.   How else explain a sanctimonious putz like Tony Perkins (Family Research Council president) giving Trump such blind allegiance that he dismisses all sexual allegations against Trump as "sour grapes"?  Oh, and dismisses the Mueller Report in the same fashion.


Despite all this,  many of these same Xtian supporters claim to seek a "constitutional revival" with slimy Dotard.. In particular, they believe that the judges he has named atone for every other presidential sin.  (Presumably including the ones in New Orleans now set to scotch Obamacare and toss 20 million off their health care.)  I hate to break it to these lunatics with refried brains but there aren't enough judge candidates in the entire U.S. to achieve that 'atonement'.  You can't confect an  atonement for a piece of human garbage who won't atone.

But there is a point at which style and posturing overwhelms substance. Trump’s staunchest defenders are uniquely bold in the extent to which they justify any means to favored ends. His evangelical Christian supporters, for example, are willing not merely to excuse Donnie Dotard's adultery and deceit but also to embrace them: The more vulgar he is, the more he fulfills his supposedly divine mission.

Of course, it never occurs to these sorry troglodytes  that by doing so they have effectively destroyed their own moral credibility and with it any divine mission.  And as David French puts it, this is motivated by fear which in the end totally destroys any claim to religious witness. Or good faith.  This is given one cannot aspire to good faith or good deeds, by embracing a person of bad faith, namely one who lies with every breath.  Oddly, it is the Christian version of Shaitan ("Satan") who is referenced as the ultimate Liar.   So what does it say about evangelical Christians if they so shamelessly embrace perhaps the consummate Liar in U.S. history?  Shaitan worshippers?

Maybe it tells us what Mr, French attempts at the end of his essay:

"It is time for evangelicals to exercise their political veto power. America's conservative people of faith should seek a primary challenger to Trump and send a message to the GOP that it will not compromise any longer."

But is that even feasible given how much  of their moral authority the evangelicals have already compromised ?  If one  really believes that, then I have an acre of ocean side land in Barbados to sell you for one Bajan buck.

See also:

William Barr and Opus Dei, the Secretive Ultra-Conservative Catholic Organization

Why Do White Christian Evangelicals Worship A Pervert Prez Who Loves Spankings & Golden Showers?

"Stormy! Why ya had to spank me so hard! I can hardly sit, or pee!"

By now most everyone in the US of A knows what a pervert Donald Dotard is, and it was interesting to see last week, former Bush Jr. WH ethics guy (Richard Painter) fulminate about it, e.g.

https://www.mediaite.com/online/richard-painter-slas-trump-over-stormy-daniels-nothing-sexy-about-dirty-old-men-in-politics/


As well as insinuating there may be other legal ramifications,  including from paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels in the amount of $130,000.   It didn't appear to have worked as that story,  including lurid details, managed to reappear in a republished 2011  In Touch interview with Daniels. Therein she described having a sexual affair with Trump which included her beating his ass with a FORBES magazine. (The spanking was revealed in a string of emails) Subsequently,  Mother Jones basically confirmed all the sordid details that Daniels described from her 2006 encounters  For reference, see:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/stormy-daniels-trump-spanking-forbes-and-shark-week.html

According  to a trove of  2009 emails exchanged between political operatives (advising Daniels at the time on a possible political campaign), the adult film actress claimed that her affair with Trump included spanking him with a copy of Forbes.  By one account,  a political consultant to Andrea Dubé related in an email that:

"He made her sit with him for three hours watching Shark Week. Another time he had her spank him with a Forbes magazine," 

The magazine used evidently had Dotard's  face on the cover which no doubt provides endless material for any Freudian school psychiatrists and psychologists.   See this humorous take from  late night host Stephen Colbert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-gMiiZOSYQ

Recall also this isn't Dotard's first pervert rodeo. From the Steele dossier we already know he was into "golden showers". As reported therein by former MI 6  spy Christopher Steele's sources:

"Trump's perverted conduct in Moscow (2013) included hiring the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel. where he knew President and Mrs. Obama (whom he hated) had  stayed on one of their official trips to Russia, and defiling the bed where they had slept by employing a number of prostitutes to perform a 'golden showers'  (urination) show in front of him.   The hotel was known to be under FSB control with microphones and concealed cameras in all the main rooms to record anything they wanted to."

This was reported in 2013, while Trump's spanking antics  with Stormy Daniels occurred in 2006,  little more than a year after his marriage to Melania and barely 3 months after the birth of son, Barron.  All of which makes the inquiring secularist ask: Why aren't the white Christian evangelicals crawling all over his ass about his infidelity as well as predilection for perversion?  Have they no shame? Or are they just moral hypocrites? This inquiring atheist wants to know. Same way as I did when the RC Church tried to take back their fictitious moral high ground after their priestly pederasty was exposed.

Look, like any other red-blooded 'Murican, Trump is entitled to indulge in his unusual sexual proclivities as long as they are consensual.  Where I and many others have problems is when white Christian evangelicals support his  most radical,  un-Christian behavior,  (like praising Nazis as "very fine people")  then giving him a pass. . See e.g. Tony Perkins of the hyper self -righteous, conservative Family Research Council,  giving Trump his benediction via a "Mulligan" (moral do over):

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/23/politics/tony-perkins-trump-affairs-mulligan/index.html

But as  conservative WaPo columnist Jennifer Rubin put it at the end of All In last night, "This isn't about Perkins or his group promoting any faith, but politics." Of course!  The white evangelicals know they have a puppet who will come out swinging against the LGBT populace, sign any anti-immigration laws he's given, and appoint all the anti-abortion justices he can. Just don't tell him to give up his porn star spankings! Hell, someone needs to discipline this deranged imp. 

Ms. Rubin added. providing some stark clarity:

"These white Christians are now, for the first time, not in the majority of the American people.  So they're no longer just leaders, they are grievance leaders.  They feel  this put upon, discriminated against, angry sentiment that their fellowship voices. They don't like being displaced from authority in society. They think women, they think immigrants, they think gays are somehow displacing them taking what is rightfully theirs. And these people are out to claim it. They believe - and in some really interesting polling - they think they are the victims and not African -Americans, and not gays in terms of discrimination in America. That is how twisted it is."

For which insights I give her a '10' out of 10. 

 Hmmmm....grievance leaders?  Poor little victims of those nasty "libtards", "commies", Blacks and gays. Oh, the pity!   But as Denver Post Sunday Editor Chuck Plunkett points out ('Donald Trump's True Believers',  Jan. 21, p. 1D) this does have repercussions for the integrity and propriety of evangelicalism - in much the same way their support of Roy Moore in Alabama cheapened their moral brand. 

As Plunkett wrote, after his interview with Jeff Hunt - director of the Centennial Institute of Colorado Christian University:

"When it comes to politics Hunt has one of the worst cases of true believer syndrome I've ever seen. Again and again his defense of Trump is purely partisan, no matter the violent it creates with Christian values and beliefs."

Which is precisely the point Jennifer Rubin also made about the white evangelicals and why they aren't doing more for  "the least among us", e.g. sick citizens in terms of health care, or the homeless, or Dreamers who've done nothing wrong.  Why aren't they in soup kitchens helping to feed the hungry instead of trying to take away social safety net after safety net? Why are they more obsessed over the life and health of a fetus than an already born 1 or 2 year old who needs expensive treatment for spinal bifida or cancer?

Well uh, because they feel hard put upon by all those damned minorities - which together are quickly rendering them a white minority. Excuse me, a white evangelical Christian minority.

As both Ms. Rubin and Mr. Plunkett put it: :White Christians "want power and Trump gives it to them."   He gives them power over those same minorities they detest. Never mind it comes with a toxic source, from a guy who's groped dozens of women who never wanted his attentions, never mind his spanking fetish.

The questions most of us in the secular political realm want answered are: How can evangelicals be so hypocritical? Why aren't they consigning this jackass to eternal perdition, because he sure as hell hasn't been saved? 

Nowhere is there any evidence that he truly believes on the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, the path to salvation according to the oft cited John 3:16.

Plunkett  himself pursues this dichotomy further, asking:

"What about that escapade with Stormy Daniels, the porn star that The Wall Street Journal reported got the hush money? 

According to Plunkett, Hunt at least agreed that he "wasn't supportive of the sins of pornography"  but he "wasn't sure the report was credible". In other words, like other ignorant putzes he believes it's fake news. Let's just dump this one time given the WSJ is not your typical "liberal rag"  but one of the more conservative (but still respected) news sources. Indeed, it's run by Rupert Murdoch who also runs FOX News.

Why though do the white evangelicals so ardently support this pervert prez? Plunkett lists the reasons as conveyed to him by Hunt:

-  Removing protections (from discrimination) for the LGBT-gay community

- Ending the requirement that employers pay for their employees' contraception

-  Placing conservative  justices on the courts to overturn liberal rulings

-  Repealing the Cole memo which was issued under the Obama DOJ and allowed states which passed MJ laws to preserve  their application and integrity.

When Plunkett pursued whether Evangelicals ought to support  a president without question, Hunt was non-committal.  Proving again Jennifer Rubin's take that he like Tony Perkins is just a "grievance leader" not a moral leader. Moral leaders would not support a presidential toxic turd like Donnie Dumpster fire.

Plunkett's conclusion?

"Trump is no Christian. He is a Judas playing evangelicals for fools. Sadly, that makes Hunt's unflinching support a Judas position."

It also renders all other evangelicals who support Dotard the same:   holding "Judas positions".  If the white evangelicals had a scintilla of moral or ethical fiber they'd be deserting Trump in droves. That they aren't discloses they not only support his toxic policies but his toxic morals - or lack of them -as well. 

No, There'll Be No "Blood Moon Apocalypse " In September!

"Blood Moon" visible in Barbados last April.

During a lecture I gave on lunar eclipses in 1975, several attendees - on seeing a slide image of the Moon at the total phase- expressed concern. "Did this bloody Moon not portend the last days or an apocalypse? Was it not one of the signs and wonders written about in the good Book? Should we not begin to prepare ourselves for the end?"

To all of these questions, and to the astonishment of the questioners, I answered a firm 'No'. The phenomenon was a totally natural event that occurred at least twice a year- due to an alignment of Earth, Moon and Sun and had no supernatural overtones. Nor should one extrapolate such overtones.   To grasp more clearly what is going on I show a sketch below of the lunar eclipse situation:



Note the alignment (top) fixes the Sun at one end and the Moon at the other with Earth in between. The light  from the Sun - on intersecting the Earth -  produces a smaller, darker umbra and a lighter outer shadow cone called the penumbra.  If the lunar transit is such that the Moon (as seen from Earth ) only passes through the penumbra, we have a partial lunar eclipse.

If, on the other hand, the Moon passes through the darker umbra, we have a total lunar eclipse and what is called a "blood Moon" because the luanr surface appears reddish or ochre on account of being seen through the Earth's atmosphere. Thus, we observe the Moon as seen in the photo.  A special case for attention is the lunar tetrad. This marks a consecutive sequence of four lunar eclipses, spaced s ix months apart. (The most recent blood Moon occurred in April ).

As may be inferred from the diagrams, on account of the Earth casting a much larger shadow than the Moon (say when there are solar eclipses) the duration of lunar eclipses is longer, including the total phase. An entire lunar eclipse can last for hours as opposed to minutes for the solar eclipse.

Having now dispensed with the notion there is anything supernatural regarding blood Moons and lunar eclipses, it is somewhat astonishing to note that here in the year 2015, there is a United States congressman who actually believes that a so-called blood Moon prophecy determines the fate of the Middle East as well as the fate of the world, of all of us. .

Says Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia:

“Blood moons have preceded world-changing, shaking-type events,”

WHICH ones? He doesn't say but never mind,  This balderdash is gaining surprising traction in conservative media, and is being adopted as legitimate by prominent figures, including Hice in Congress and the Family Research Council, the powerful social conservative lobbying group in Washington.

Ironically, as these yahoos are getting all worked up over blood Moons, we are facing a genuine catastrophe as now the pace of global warming appears on track for a 4C rise in global mean temperatures and even a 6C.  People in TX may not think their 34 trillion tons of rain pouring down causing flooding the past week has  anything to do with climate change - but they'd do well to rethink that. Anyone who's taken basic basics knows that a hotter atmosphere  (because of greenhouse gases like CO2) absorbs more moisture - and this can be triggered to pour down when that warmer, moister air encounters much colder air - as has been spinning off the Rockies the past couple weeks (seeing our night temperatures sometimes diving to 32 F or less)

It's true that singleton events or even temporary phases of weather do not "prove" global warming, but we are talking about a trend of  climate that has appreciably warmed the atmosphere over years enabling it to hold more water. More water, means more rain - depending on when and how it is triggered, whether in the NE or SW.

Anyway, we also know that mega-pastor John Hagee, the leading purveyor of blood Moon prophecy talk, is powerful in Washington, and able to command the attendance of influential conservative politicians to his events. According to Hagee here’s how the prophecy is supposed to shake out:

It was “discovered” that blood Moon tetrads  that coincide with traditional Jewish feasts and holidays announce world-historical moments for Jews; and because the fate of the Jewish people determines the fate of humanity, according to fundamentalist Christians, each of these revelations signals the approach of the End Times.

Thus, a blood Moon tetrad coinciding with Jewish holidays in 1493 is said to have marked the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and the European discovery of America. Another in 1948-49 signaled God’s pleasure with the founding of the state of Israel; and the next, in 1967-68, coincided with the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, which allowed Israel to acquire Arab territory, much of which it still maintains. The occupied territory is considered prophetically necessary and in accord with Scripture by many conservative Christians.

But all of that was merely a prelude to the tetrad currently underway. The third blood Moon fell in April, and the final prophetic moon will occur in late September. This tetrad, according to the prophecy, signals the beginning of the end of the world. (Though strangely, we've yet to hear a peep from Hagee or anyone else in his camp of where the "AntiChrist" may be hanging out - and bear in mind there's supposed to be a 7-year reign before everything comes to perdition in the "Tribulation"

Ah - but WAIT! Earlier prophet and bloviator Hal Lindsey in his book 'The Late, Great Planet Earth', already forecast that was all to unfold in 1988 (using 'one generation' = 40 years, marked from the birth of the Jewish state in 1948.)  But a funny thing happened in 1988, nothing!

Never mind! The current crop of bumpkins is forecasting that the  apocalypse is coming this September. So it’s crunch time in the land of the apocalyptic crazies. All hands on deck! This is not a drill. As a heads up. on May 14, a large banner atop World Net Daily, the popular conservative Christian website, advertised its “exclusive” report on the four-month “countdown” to the “Biblical day of reckoning.”

In addition, in order to pump up the expectation and fear, a movie about the prophecy was released last month in theaters, and pastor John Hagee’s bestselling book about blood moons spent months on Amazon’s top 100 books list.  (I suspect it will meet the same eventual fate as Lindsey's effort.)

The impending doom even compelled Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of Rev. Billy Graham, to issue a call for a seven-day “mayday” prayer offensive, to appeal to God, with this warning to motivate:

“Institutions will collapse. Banks will close. The Stock Market will plunge. Planes will fall out of the sky. Cars will crash on the road. Government in America at every level will disintegrate. Families will be torn apart. In the unprecedented turmoil, our nation will be vulnerable for our enemies to seize the moment and attack us. There will be mass chaos, confusion, fear, grief, despair, anger, threats, danger… judgment.”

The Family Research Council urged its flock to heed Lotz’s call. And note: The FRC is not some ramshackle backwoods chapel filled with snake handlers; the well-heeled D.C. lobbying group’s “Values Voter Summit” in late summer will be a who’s who of conservatism, with Rush Limbaugh, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Sean Hannity and a host of others expected to speak at the conference.

Again, all this huff and puff is going on while the actual, impending threat to humanity, global warming, is considered a “hoax,” a whole cloth invention by pointy-headed liberals and scientists,  Meanwhile the color of the moon and the spotty wisdom of goat herders from 3,000 years ago is stitched together into some kind of astro-hermeneutics, used to determine whether or not October happens.

John Hagee again:

“When you take scientific fact and historical fact and line it up exactly with prophetic fact and they all are in perfect agreement, now is time to put doubt aside and to believe that God is trying to communicate to us in a very special way…and something is about to change.”

The problem for Hagee and his Hag-ee-ites is that you can't use scientific facts to cook up codswallop.You cannot use science, in other words, to carry grist to the fantasy and superstition mill. If Hagee and his lot had any sense at all they'd instead be doing all they can to make sure that the 6C increase mark for warming isn't reached. If it is, they will have a real apocalypse to fret over - and alas, no one coming to "save" them. 

Now Fundies Want to Go After All Those Practicing YOGA!

Where does it end? What drives these hyper-Christian freaks? (E.g. The Pastor Mike clones who propose things like 'national registries' for atheists). The latest target is Yoga! Put in the same category as Eckanckar  - which my niece Vanessa follows- it is claimed by the likes of former Pastor Mike and his clones to be a "Satan-devised teaching" and  "one of the most dangerous practices of giving an opening to demonic forces. " (Jan. 20, Mike's  'Straight Talk'  Blog). Jeebus, one wonders what lil ol' Mikey was drinking? (Hope it's wasn't Miramar Moonshine!)

My nieces, see their images in the March 6 blog, used to do Yoga all the time, following the example of their mom. They enjoyed it, plus meditating on the 'OM' focused their minds, assisted in helping them get through tough times (like the aftermath of the Cubana Airlines bombing and bloody parts washing up on Paradise Beach). While bro Mikey has bragged how he was a Marine and all that (during the 'Nam era) I doubt he saw as much blood and gore as my three nieces and I did that god-awful day in October, 1976. If he did, he's never mentioned it, and if he was on KP duty it's hard to imagine unless he sliced himself with a butcher knife while cutting chicken quarters.

Anyway, fast forward to the present bunch of anti-Yoga nuts. Since October, a group of parents in Encinitas, Calif., have been working with the Encinitas-based National Center for Law and Policy (NCLP) to stop one of the town’s public elementary schools from teaching yoga to its students and thus indoctrinating them in the Hindu faith. Never mind such teaching would solve a lot of problems and enhance student self-esteem and inquiry.


The NCLP is helmed by Dean Broyles, a lawyer who says he was “called to law school specifically to be trained to fight for religious liberties.”

Liberties? How about the liberties of the students to practice Yoga like my nieces?

But look at the source. This bozo apprenticed under Jay Sekulow, head of the Christian-right American Center for Law and Justice, and “received extensive training in pro-family, pro-life and pro-religious liberty matters” from the National Litigation Academies run by the virulently anti-gay Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly Alliance Defense Fund).

In other words, the imputation is that yoga (a practice thousands of years old dating to before the birth of Christ) is anti-family, anti-life and anti-liberty. What a bunch of rank codswallop!

Truth be told, it's hard to fathom what these people are bitching over. The cold hard fact is the Encinitas program, like many American adaptations of yoga, has been stripped utterly of any references to prayer and reduced to a strictly physical regimen. Thus there is no sounding of the OM, the holy word of the universe bidding it to unify with oneself. (As my nieces practiced, and which helped them immensely to get past the horrors of the Cubana Airlines attack).


But  that’s not enough for Broyles, who bellows:  “Who decides when enough religion has been stripped out of the program to make it legal?” he asks. “That’s the problem when you introduce religion into the curriculum and actually immerse and marinate children in the program.”

But there is NO religion introduced, you numbnut! It's a purely physical exercise, like Pilates.


Broyles isn't the only far-right Christian hardliner to brood over the potential impact of yoga on vulnerable young minds. Tony Perkins, president of the anti-gay Family Research Council, in January lit into the U.S. military for "promoting the pagan art" among its members.


Perkins, on his stupid radio show referenced a weekly yoga class offered to U.S. Marines as a means of dealing with stress, Perkins lamented that “the military seems intent on driving religion out and replacing it with wacky substitutes. They’ve added atheist chaplains, Wiccan worship centers, and now, meditation classes. But none of them are as effective or as constructive as a personal relationship with God.”

I wouldn't be so bold as to say that! Look, imagine if my deranged brother Mike had had the benefits of Yoga while he was being subjected to all those indignities and humiliations at Parris Island. Chances are he would have emerged with at least some semblance of  good will and tolerance as opposed to ill will, class and race hatred and religious bigotry. To me he lost out though he insists he "saved his soul". All I can ask is: What soul? That  rancid, abhorrent, fulminating excuse for a thing you display every day on your pathetic blog? The one where you portray Obama as everything from a 1-eyed goblin, to a Nazi to an Antichrist? And you display your own kin boiling in fires with their eye balls melting while your image is there laughing at them from "heaven"?

Anyway, let us hope the ACLU and SPLC step in and put the kibosh on this derelict effort to eradicate student choice and health benefits.  As my niece Trudi  (seen in Mar. 6 blog photo on the left) said: "What have those kids got to lose? They have everything to gain!"

I totally agree!