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"When I turned 18, I registered to vote and according to my grandfather, that’s the day I became a politician. “If you can vote, you’re a politician,” he would say. ... The policies and the rhetoric coming out of the Trump administration no longer represent the values that I hold true. The wealthy are favored at the expense of the vast majority of working and middle-class families. Too many are denied access to basic health care. Millions of people – mostly black and brown – are preyed upon by a system that favors profit-driven mass incarceration over rehabilitation. And the...

Tomorrow's "Yarnell 19" memorial is getting out of hand. a temporary cell tower is being erected in the Kohl's parking lot. SS communication? Jamming? Semis with big-screen TVs for parking lot viewing of the memorial. TV trucks with big dish transmitters (NBC will pipe it live, and feed other networks, but lots of local tv crews). The city finally finds it necessary to cut the weeds around the arena area. Civic center, library, local pool to all shut down. Traffic is going to be a nightmare tomorrow. So glad I work from home. Only airport is a small one, Biden...

In a nutshell, imprecatory prayer derives from the Abrahamic covenant (Gen 12:1-3), the passage where God himself tells Abraham that he will curse anyone who curses him and his descendants (God’s children). When the psalmist or anyone else prays for God to judge people (even killing them), the basis is that the person praying is, in effect, asking God to remember this covenantal promise. The one praying is asking God to settle scores and judge evil oppressors. In other words, rather than taking matters into his own hands, the one praying leaves it to God to remember his promise. Jesus...

For years I had a photocopy of this article/opEd and finally lost it in a move.

So the family takes a vacation this week to Disney (no escaping it for me) and one of the highlights is the "Alladin" stage production. really pretty cool. At one point, just after Jafar (the bad guy) captures the magic lamp, Genie says: "Hey, Jafar, why are you so angry looking? Why the long face? I mean, I just made you Sultan, and you didn't even earn it!... What do you want next, a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE?"The place erupted. The crowd definitely "got it" and we were laughing so hard (this is what, 2000 people?) that they delayed the next...

Living in a very conservative county is a good thing! Last night Mrs. Sparky and a friend went to the McCain Rally here in Prescott, AZ. I stayed home with the kids and a bad back. Overall a good time, over 6,000 ticketed "reservations" were made, but many, many more showed up without tickets and were allowed in. The downtown Prescott area is small, so it was packed. The crowds were good-natured and it was easy going, as the checkpoint took longer than they'd hoped for. There was a roaming band of about a dozen barking moonbats (the Missus apologizes...

THIS WILL SHOW YOU HOW STUPID PEOPLE REALLY ARE AND THAT THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT RACE FOR SOME PEOPLE. http://www.bpmdeejays.com/upload/hs_sal_in_Harlem_100108.mp3