You have a lot of facts and figures, but you can't see the forest for the trees. Thank God that President Biden can! You expect him, in three years, to undo all the damage Trump did? It will take at least 20 years. President Biden is steering us back to the right course. As Bob Dylan said, "Get out of the way if you can't lend a hand ..."

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This retired minister, Buzz Thomas, you're talking about doesn't seem to have a clue. The kind of church he's talking about has already been tried, the Unitarian, and has resulted in not much more than a social club. They stripped Christ of his divinity and refuse to recognize the Holy Trinity, so there is no spirit left in their group but the human spirit, which you have clearly pointed out in your writings is insufficient to the task.
The power of the Holy Spirit, which was accessed at the Azuza St. Revival in L.A., and then again by Dennis Bennett's Episcopal Church in Seattle, started to turn the Christian church around. But then the movement was hijacked by the mega church millionares and the Christian Nationalists. God keeps his church safe through the centuries and will bring things to his appointed conclusion, working through honest and faithful people.

Now all you need to do is examine your conscience!

I get you. Someone (here in Berkeley) is reading your blogs. Keep it up! 👍👍😁

In the Dec. 7 2023 Reader, the first 2 pieces, a letter from Peter W. Johnson & Ed Raymond's "The Nazis are Coming" both suffer from the logical failure of making claims which lack evidence & contradict reality. Specifically, both claim that the 2024 return of the great Orange Satan will end US "democracy" forever, when there has clearly been no such thing in years.
The current 2-party duopoly we have is entirely corporate-owned and right wing. The D's are center right and the R's are extreme right (except for a very few libertarians on their fringes on a few issues) and have been for years. Starting fully with Clinton's term the Neoliberal ideology that only the sacred Market matters (& that human beings don't) became explicit with both parties. Subsequently the cruelty, promotion of economic inequality & the Financial Sector (along with Big Pharma, Big Ag, etc.), war on the poor (War on some drugs, & non-whites) and endless regime change wars installing right-wing austerity governments worldwide became the norm.
I was a Democrat before I could vote (worked to get Jimmy Carter elected when I was in high school), but I exited the Dem party after the 2nd primary was openly stolen from Bernie Sanders in 2020 by the party elites. Both parties have the same donors & cater only to them & not to the majority. Money has been shoveled up to the rich non-stop since the Reagan admin (that's 42 + years if you're counting), & while Mr. Raymond praises the Dem. platform in other columns, they have never remotely even tried to fulfill the platform once elected. Some obvious examples: Obama claimed he wouldn't bail out the Wall Street crooks who crashed the economy in 2008 & then did bail them all out. Additionally after voting against the Iraq War, he continued it as if running a Bush Jr. 3rd and 4th term, did not withdraw from Afghanistan as he'd claimed he would, let all the Bush torture crew off scot-free, etc.
And Biden has followed the trajectory of his reactionary, war-loving and anti-worker instincts since launching his political career as President. Jim Crow Joe who opposed letting black & minority children attend better white schools is now known to those of us on the actual Left as Genocide Joe for abetting an open genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, providing Israel 90% of the bombs being dropped Dresden style on entire neighborhoods, with 40% of the dead being children, the current count as I write this is at least 16,000 dead-- far more civilians killed by Israel in the first 2 months than the "evil Putin" did in 22 months fighting a US proxy war we funded to the tune of $11 billion and counting. Oh, & the "Liberal" millionaire talking heads of the MSM tell us (James Carville, Paul Krugman e.g.) that we're stupid and the inflation we see at the grocery store is imaginary. My health care costs go up 15% every year, I spend over $12,000 annually for coverage and pay $100s more for ever visit, even a basic check-up, that I make.
It matters little (if at all) which of the oligarch-funded "choice" we are given by the duopoly parties we vote for. We are going to get the same thing. Unless we are in the millionaire class (I'm not) we will get further economically squeezed, the US under Biden now is waging 2 wars in Palestine & in the Slavic hinterlands and the Pentagon announced we should be ready to start a 3rd one over Taiwan in 2024. Trump is awful, Biden & his Neocon cabal are awful, & the 'Murican people are screwed either way. I will vote 3rd party as I have since I naively voted for Obama (non) "Change" in 2008. I would only vote for Trump or Biden (or Newsom) if someone put a gun to my head, I know that they have contempt for the majority of us and are not on our side.

I can tell everyone in these comments are a Scorpio because I felt the exact same way about whoever wrote this but you all handled it extremely well.

So how long is the bed quantitatively?

I’m having trouble understanding the letter “Contradicting reality” 12/21/23. The writer proffers that there’s no difference between the front-running candidates of the major U.S. political parties. I wonder if he fails to see the difference because he is a he, he is white, and perhaps he is also mainstream Christian. While I, on the other hand, can see a difference that may mean life and death for me. I am a woman from an immigrant Jewish family. I am one of the “vermin” Trump has quoted as ruining this country; he got that from Adolph Hitler, that’s true, but then Hitler got it from Henry Ford, who put anti-Semitic literature on the front seat of every car sold initially by the Ford Motor company.
Trump has said he will dismantle the justice system; Biden has not. This is no trivial difference.
Trump has said on his first day in office he will use the military to repress any dissent in this country; Biden has neither said it nor done it.
Trump argues that there is lying, cheating and stealing of elections in this country; Biden does not. And, I may add demurely, there is no data, that is zero, nada evidence that Trump did not lose the last election fairly and squarely. And this is a BIG PROBLEM. He repeats and repeats unsubstantiated claims, which, as a cult leader, his followers accept as true. The key word is “unsubstantiated”. Repeating that there is evidence for his lies and never providing it is a dangerous trait.
Inciting violence is another dangerous trait exhibited by Trump, not Biden. Promoting violence to overturn a typically fair and honorable election in this country is a further example of how he repeats and repeats unsubstantiated claims in order to foment and normalize violence. The perpetrators of violence in the U.S. capitol, contrary to what Trump says, are not patriots; they are criminals and the fact that many are in jail is proof of the efficacy of the current judicial system.
No, I disagree heartily with the author of that letter, who said “It matters little (if at all) which of the oligarch-funded ‘choice’ we are given by the duopoly parties we vote for”. Democracy is at stake in the next election and I hope readers will educate themselves and make sure that they understand the current critical differences between the major parties.

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This hurts my heart, its a wonder there aren's more depressed and heartbroken people in this world of sin and terror. But God is just and loving and merciful, and we can trust Him, even though we too often cannot trust our fellow man. I will keep "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of my faith...." Heb 12:2 God bless you for this article. The other item was a video expose' of Lyndon Johnson, gut wrenching how evil that man and his compatriots were. I trust in Jesus. Glory be His Name.

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My sister and I used to sing, "Gimme that old time religion" together in the car, we loved that song, and it was fun! You sound like a crank and a killjoy. But that's okay, you just need to learn better. The old time religion can't be understood through the intellect alone. You need the Holy Spirit to show you. God is 3 i one: he is the Father creator, he is Jesus the saviour who brought us the word, and he (or she if you will), is the Holy Spirit who is the power. The only way to fully understand is with the help of the Holy Spirit. If you want it, you need to confess Jesus as your savior and ask him for the Holy Spirit to help you. You are talking a lot about the material world but you don't seem to have experienced the spiritual world.
When you blame wars on religion remember these wars are mostly about material things such as territory and political dominance.

Why do some photographers have links under their name and not others?

Born Too Late-best name for a young band that is musically sharp beyond their years

The links are added by whoever nominates the photographer.

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