The intent of this blog is to promote human equality, human progress, human peace and justice, and optimism. To accomplish this, to encourage the discussion of ideas after identifying and discovering problems, and then creating positive solutions for "we the people," in order to provide for the "general welfare" and "domestic tranquility" of America now and its "posterity" into the future. To encourage an emphasis on separation of religion and state for all, no matter if this is for those "of faith" in a Maker / Creator (Deists, God-loving people, Christians, various people of spirituality) and atheists or agnostics.
As a historian, I consider what can be learned from history. Being an avid viewer of Murder, She Wrote, Perry Mason, and [Ben] Matlock, Poirot (Agatha Christie), Murdock Mysteries (produced and broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.), I often consider what it takes to research what is happening, both historically and during our current days. Actually, I have been doing research about much of what has been happening with political figures since I was a librarian working at a Florida corporation where Lawton Chiles (“Walkin'” Lawton who won his U.S. Senate seat after walking the entire state of Florida). While I spent most of my time researching environmental impacts of zebra mussels on hydro plants, nuclear energy and cold fusion as an alternative, alternative fuels, and self-insuring the corporation following losses due to Hurricane Andrew in 1992, I was also assigned projects by the CFO of the company who likely got the orders from “Walkin'” Lawton who was serving on our board of trustees after he departed the U.S. Senate and was preparing for a run for governor.
The assignment was to research the possible impact of Jeb Bush on our company should he run for governor. In the process, I discovered “Jebbie’s” interests were strong in gambling and attempting to make gambling legal in Florida. (“Jebbie” was the name used by a Republican in Florida whom I had known most of my life who had come from Newark Valley – speaking as if he knew “Jebbie’ personally; he may have; coincidence: once gambling happened in Florida, the guy spent a great bit of time at the gambling casino; the CFO of that company was related to the founder of the Publix chain which, along with “Walkin'” Lawton, stood firmly against legalization of gambling; another note: the one from Newark Valley was the widower of a former mayor of Newark Valley; both were in two different political parties, but at that time, I was still a registered Republican; that guy was also a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps of World War II). Apparently there were a number of us who were looking into Jeb Bush and in various arenas in Florida and who knows where else.
As a result, when Lawton Chiles ran for governor in 1994, his opponent was “Jebbie” Bush. “Walkin'” Lawton defeated “Jebbie” Bush in that 1990 election. It likely really angered “Jebbie” and I believe I have felt the target of vengeance, among many others. For during that time, there was an influx of Republicans beginning to work a hostile takeover of our company where I owned company stock. They were working with two that I know of. Kenneth Lay of a natural gas company based in Houston, TX (where possibly – speculative – a NV Baptist and former Democrat racist bigot turned Republican was employed – his family enemies to my mother). The other person was Charles Colson. Colson had bee released from prison and made his home in Naples, FL. Other we had not found as much about him in this regard. My bet is that he was far more involved than we knew.
If one reads the details of Charles Colson in a Wikipedia article, one discovers there is a great deal of connection to both “Jebbie” and George W. Bush. First of all, Governor “Jebbie” pardoned Colson and returned Colson’s right to vote, in spite of being a convicted felon. Hypocrite “Jebbie” later created a privatized prison system in Florida for the purposes of jailing black folk. The reason? To arrest young black folk on misdemeanor charges in which white fold were NOT arrested, putting those young folk in jail with hardened criminals. Once released those kids were often tied up with the criminals in jail and often got framed for crimes they did not commit and ended up back in jail. Eventually they became felons who could not vote. Do we know a church where the pastor was formerly imprisoned and framed after returning to society? Framing is a common way to put good people away and remove their rights as citizens entitled to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the land with “liberty and justice for all.” It was a device used in Florida quite frequently, especially with black folk. Our Peace & Justice Ministries, an ecumenical group, worked to fight that as much as we could. We had Protestants and Roman Catholics all working together to work in the name of Christ and top the BS being done by racists in Florida. People up here say, “why should we be concerned because it can never happen here.” Think again. THINK… as Thomas J. Watson would say.
While president, George W. Bush gave an award to Charles Colson. Did he deserve it? Not on your life did he deserve it.
Furthermore, “Jebbie” pushed for a law called “Stand Your Ground.” It was sold as a means to stop people with guns. It was actually a law to shoot down black folk. For example, shortly after the law was passed, a young black man in a car turned the volume of his rap music up to high levels. Some white guy shot the guy and killed him. The white guy gets off for murder based on that law in Florida. Yet, as with Renee Good of Minnesota, the young man never threatened the white man.
Another example. A black person in a theater was talking during the movie. He was shot to death by a white person. Another example. An inter-racial couple at a stop sign in Fort Lauderdale were shot dead by someone “standing his ground” because he did not believe that there should be inter-racial marriage.
If anyone thinks this “foreshadowing” of events could never happen here? You are mistaken and we need to be prepared for such.
One more issue with “Jebbie.” He joined the SAR at the same time I did. When some of us wanted to admit black folk descended from veterans of the American Revolution, “Jebbie” was opposed to such. That would mean that my black relatives (inter-racial marriages) in Binghamton would not be able to join the SAR, based on the same ancestors I have.
Oh, yes. Can I forget when I was at St. Mary’s Medical Center in North Palm Beach (where “Jebbie” was on the board of directors), I was blackmailed by some woman on staff there who had said she knew “Jebbie.” Hmmmmm. Her last name was Ellis. Do you know what JEB is? JOHN ELLIS BUSH – related to the Ellis family. She tried to blackmail me unless I expressed support for Donald Trump. That was 2018 during Trump’s first term. Furthermore, I am still wondering why I was carted a long distance by helicopter to St. Mary’s when there was a trauma center within a short driving distance from my home and that hospital was where my own primary care physician worked.
The question still remains. In the last month of “Walkin'” Lawton’s term as governor, as “Jebbie” was about to assume the office of governor, he suddenly died. There has been talk “on the street” that Bush and that family was responsible for the death of Chiles. But it has never been proven. After reading the article about Charles Colson of Naples, FL, I have to speculate, based on the number of times that Colson used poisons and LSD against people whom Nixon had a vengeance. One person was against a reporter named Jack Anderson who had released a defamatory story about Nixon just prior to the 1960 election. Nixon held a vengeance against Anderson, blaming him for losing that election of 1960. And even today, we still live with this bullshit with the Man-baby and the Kennedy Rose Garden and the Kennedy Performing Arts Center.
Do I have proof that Colson was involved with Governor Chiles’s death? No. I do not. Only circumstantial evidence and hearsay “on the street.” A huge part of the circumstantial evidence is the popularity of Governor Chiles so as to defeat “Jebbie” in 1994. It was widely known that the Bush family was scared of Governor Chiles as he had plans to run for president in 2000 and the governor of Texas was favored by the Republicans: George W. Bush. Chiles could have beaten Bush, for sure.
It is also said that many who would be good leaders have been frightened by these events and don’t want to get involved in politics. Is this true? I don’t know.
There is also evidence that Teddy Roosevelt may have had ADHD. In those days, there was no medications to curb ADHD, as today. The claim has been made that those today who are like Teddy Roosevelt with ADHD would be pushed off into a background job of accounting or technology and not seeking leadership positions at all. Is this true? I don’t know for sure. TR’s father, Teddy Roosevelt, Sr., like many people of wealth, had purchased his way out of the draft in the Union Army of the American Civil War. TR reacted to that by insisting, during a later stage in his life, joining forces in the Spanish-American War where he led forces up San Juan Hill in Cuba.
But in 2007, Democrat Lee Iacocca wrote a book titled, Where Have All the Leaders Gone? It was not conclusive, but did bring up many questions for consideration. Iacocca did mention the favored status of the Saudi government by the Bush regime as it exited members of that royal family out of the USA following Osama Bin-Laden’s 9/11 fiasco. And much of what was happening with the corporation where I was working – Kenneth Lay, etc. – was related to the Saudi Arabians. I have a suspicion that the attack on Iran is more than just Netanyahu and Israel. Here we are in 2026 and the same ones who gave us high oil prices under Nixon are likely still involved with what is happening today, one way or another.
Side note: I have discovered that Lee Iacocca was at Lehigh University at the same time that a former Tioga County legislator from Newark Valley was at Lehigh University.
One thing about J.B. Fletcher, the character in Murder, She Wrote, was that she had taught English in the Cabot Cove High School. She often used literary elements in her work as a mystery writer and in assisting solving murders. Often she mentioned the use of foreshadowing in literature and applied it to real life situations. In this case, I see Charles Colson with Nixon and others, plus Florida events from the 1990s until the present day as foreshadowing what we are seeing now. People must not be familiar with this idea of “foreshadowing.” Most of my writing for the past 20 years is meant to be a foreshadowing based on what we all experienced in Florida.
Instead, I got this. “Don’t talk to me about politics.” It’s not politics. Sometimes what happened in Florida had to do with murder , framing, and blackmail by people who have no morals, scruples, or ethics.
Rather than look at what I say as a “foreshadowing” and an environment to learn from history, as I pass the historical experiences and information to others, people shoot holes in the information before even considering it. Listening to one another? You have to be kidding.
The Democrats who ran the corporation where I worked often had us doing brain-storming. NO ONE was to shoot something down and all was to be like placing our cards on the table before even discussion and communication. But there was NEVER to be shooting at something as if some person’s ATTITUDE was that the idea was stupid. If that shooting happened, such a person was only thinking about themselves, how THE PERSON could win, and push their narrow part of the world. Such ones had no capability for viewing the wider picture.
There is too much shooting down of ideas and solutions among the Baby Boomers and younger. In brain-storming of the 1980s and 1990s, those in the WWII generation were less likely to do such a thing. They had experienced this nation going through quite a hassle in Europe and the Pacific, besides experiencing the Great Depression. They had witnessed how this nation had to solve the problems of those days so such WWII people knew what to do in brain-storming. The idea for researching self-insuring rather than relying on big corporate giants of insurance so as to protect against hurricanes came out of one of the quality circles brain-storming sessions. Before we could take it any further, the GD Republicans swerved in and shut us down. An example of how much those bastards only like big corporate billionaires, which was something I viewed in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Florida. In those years, the Republicans shut down R&D for cold fusion and the R&D moved to Europe where they have made progress in that area, even if it is still not solved. As with the treatment of Einstein and 19th Century “Clinton’s Ditch” builder, narrow-minded Republicans scoffed at the ideas as if they could not be used to solve problems. Of course they could not when Republican strategy is to destroy by sabotage, as they have done with forms of public retirement and retirement healthcare which could provide capitalist ROI for retirees. To Republicans. It is called “capitalism, stupid.” Capitalism with balance and profits which is not an evil thing. Meanwhile, the one-sided lop-sided bulging pockets of billionaires is NOT capitalism. The 1000% PLUS increase in CEO salaries is NOT capitalism.
Colson did quite a large amount of damage to this nation and then was pardoned with his rights as a felon overturned so he could vote, and then awarded a presidential award. Life is not about winning and being vengeful when not winning. Such actions are described in the Hebrew Scriptures with verses about vengeance such as “you must take an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” In this time of Holy Week, we need to remember that Christ overturned that Hebrew Scripture. Christ also would not have accepted the Machiavellian words of selfishness and greed: “the end justifies the means.” Colson and others all follow such a principle or else they would not have invaded the Watergate Hotel and then validated their actions by putting down those who challenged them on their evil actions because “the end justifies the means.”
And with Nixon and Watergate, we thought it was all over when Nixon resigned in 1974. It was not. Democrat turned Republican Ronald Wilson Reagan reared his ugly head and challenged Gerald Ford from the moderate wing of the Republican Party, setting up the path for the fascists in that party. And going back even further, fascist Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover of that political party. Taft had challenged Teddy Roosevelt and the party was split in 1912. The difference was that, in the 1970s, Gerald Ford did not know how to “speak softly and carry a big stick” when Reagan came on the scene. That was also the beginning of huge increases in CEO salaries for people who don’t know how to make money the old fashioned way – “to earn it.”
Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty has no idea what it means to “earn” money. And this was known before he even ran for president in 2016, but did people take it seriously? Nope.
There is more. Charles Colson and the Christian Nationalists. Another day. Maybe?
It is not politics when it comes to human lives, human justice, human rights, and humanity living together in community and not as cliques which control other human beings. Lives have been lost in the Middle East due to an asswipe called the Man-baby who has no idea why he did it. That tells me he is a puppet of not only billionaires but also the Netanyahu Zionists of Israel. Zionism is a HAWKISH sect of the Jewish religion and I don’t like them as much as I don’t like those of the local Baptist Church and Christian Nationalists who believe anyone who does not believe as they do are heathens and heretics.
Those are NOT the words of a 1st Century Jewish man named Jesus Christ. My belief is that Christ is my Savior, in spite of the asswipes called Christian Nationalists who do not know the truth about Jesus Christ nor do they even understand the truth about Christ. So there. They claim we are all heathens. I just called that sect of asswipes heathens. Makes me feel better, don’t you know?
Zionism is actually similar to the 1st Century Zealots who were hawks and had one member of their group betray Jesus Christ and then he hung himself. His name was Judas Iscariot. Perhaps there was a purpose for Judas to betray Jesus Christ, but he realized his mistake and took his life, rather than repent for what he had done and change his ways. “Poor Judas” were two words used in song lyrics of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock musical, Jesus Christ Superstar. “Poor old Judas.”
Is it not time to say, “poor old Zionists and Netanyahu?” The ones who the Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty follows blindly along with Putin of Russia. The Man-baby proves that he has no brain of his own nor does he do any thinking to consider the overall picture. He is a puppet and only does what the Man-baby thinks will be best for his egotistical narcissistic ways.
In this environment, what we have during this Holy Week of 2026 is something similar to the “Saturday Night Massacre” of 1973 when Nixon fired several people due to the Watergate scandal. Just by coincidence (and I am saying ONLY coincidence, unless something proves otherwise), at that time (1973), oil prices were soaring so high that we lowered the speed limit on the interstates to 55 MPH, set up car pools, and made other attempts for consumers – you know, the DEMAND SIDE OF THE CAPITALIST MARKET – to save money and not be pushed when the envelope was pushed to extremes. One may recall driving four hours to attend college as a freshman and frequently car pooling on the trip to college and back.
What we have today, on Good Friday (3 April 2026) is a Judas-type asswipe in charge of this nation and we are there “when they crucified my LORD by killing other people. For Christ said, “those who do the least of these things to others, they do it to me.” The evil one with the Zionists are doing murder to the least of those in humanity because Christ believed in all people. Much to the chagrin of the Jews of his day, he spoke with people he was not supposed to speak with. A Samaritan woman. A prostitute. A leper. A hated tax collector. He said we need to love one another, which, according to a Lutheran pastor who wrote a book about James, the brother of Jesus, said is based IN the Jewish religion. Netanyahu and the Zionists, like Judas the Zealot, are NOT acceptable Jews, just as the American Christian Nationalists and the Man-baby in charge are NOT true Christians. Thus, this week, we viewed the “Holy Week Massacre.”
Furthermore Netanyahu and the Zionists demonstrate what it means with the oppressed becoming the oppressors. It happened with the fucking gentile puritans in the USA. It has happened with Roman Catholics, too. In 1948, the USA and its WWII allies were so comforting to the plight of the Jews in Europe, they helped them set up the nation we call Israel. The intent was not to make oppressors out of those who were oppressed, but to bring freedom to the Jews. When they fought, it was in defense of their land. This crap today is offensive and I mean obnoxious offensive done by oppressors who need to be shut down. Stop being like Judas Iscariot, you asswipes.
The person who told me, today, it was okay for us to “agree to disagree,” I say this. Your attitude sucks because I was addressing issues related to humanity not the fucking Man-baby and his fascist dictatorship which goes against humanity. It is NOT about politics when I am FORCED to pay a huge cost for injections in the eye while all other developed nations have FREE HEALTHCARE. Besides this consideration, there is another consideration. I spent almost 50 years paying into Medicare and could figure a large amount of money. It is a huge sum of money when it is added together, PLUS the fact I STILL INVEST IN MEDICARE TODAY WHILE BEING RETIRED. I SHOULD have access to the money so as to not pay huge amounts for healthcare. But due to the sabotage of people like the fucking Man-baby, we don’t get what we invested in a scenario of CAPITALIST ROI. What is ROI? Look it up in the dictionary, you dickheads. You MAGA shitheads. You fucking lousy ones who call us “Dumocrats” when we attempt to reason about CAPITALIST ROI. And where is MY MONEY GOING? To kill people in the Middle East, not for healthcare for the living. Fuck the USA military and the hawks running the Dept. of Offensiveness, not the Dept. of DEFENSE. Fuck all of you because you have pushed the envelope far beyond what our Founding Fathers would have accepted.
My apologies for becoming so irritated, but I am fed up with dismissing me with “agree to disagree” when it comes to human issues. That is fucking lousy thing to say to me. The stupid ones who cannot THINK are not even looking at things from an overall broad picture and are unable to discern right from wrong. We expect a secular government in the USA because we have FREEDOM OF RELIGION. Just because I use such words does NOT negate the fact that I believe in love for one another – unconditional love. Because we have a leadership which really sucks and tries to force their hawkish ways upon all of us – an attitude opposite to love and called hatred. Besides, I have seen more use of the “f” word on Facebook by people whom I have known rarely use the word. What is the fucking Man-baby going to do? Line us all up like the Jews in Europe and gun us down into mass graves? That is called genocide.
As a result, we end up in this nation with a fucking lousy leadership which crucifies our LORD. We shall overcome.
“When a man gives up his moral values, there is nothing left.” A line from the series, M*A*S*H, spoken by a character named Col. Sherman T. Potter. He was replying to a soldier who was speaking about how his morality was that any person any human should not have sex outside of marriage. Col. Potter was encouraging the soldier because the soldier had to defend his morals against nasty and bullying fellow soldiers who claimed “he does not like girls.” The issue was not whether he liked girls. The question was his belief in procreative sex and how strong a feeling that was for him.
Kind of explains me when I was growing up. I relate to that soldier with morals. However, I do not believe I should force my moral beliefs upon others, just as bullies should not be forcing their IMMORAL beliefs upon others. I can TEACH others my moral beliefs. I should not PREACH my moral beliefs and values to others, just as homophobic bastards in churches should not PREACH their homophobic beliefs to others or PREACH their beliefs about whether clergy can only be straight men and women and LGBT+ should not be clergy.
Along those lines, it is not right to preach and judge humans with regard to recreational sex. If humans are unable to produce children, perhaps due to different reasons, they should be able to choose recreational sex. Such recreational sex may go along with a same-sex relationship. There should be no judgments made by human beings. Such people who do such judgments are evil, influenced by demons who promote a lack of confidence, and are influenced by the evil one some call Lucifer or the devil or Satan or…
Jesus Christ said, “judge not lest you be judged” (Gospel book of Matthew, chapter 7, verses 1-2). PREACHERS do too much f***ing judging of others. Those who do the judging anyway and use the “sin book” (Romans) are mixed up cowards who lack confidence about living our human lives together in community and society and living in an environment with peace and justice. Peace cannot happen without justice.
Tonight, once again, the Lawrence Welk Precious Memories program was broadcast by Binghamton’s PBS channel, WSKG. It brings back precious memories to me. We should be thankful for such programs, in spite of the cuts in revenue by the Man-baby and stupid fascist Republicans in their cuts to PBS.
The hymns sung on this program brought back precious memories of the last days my Grandma Mary (Albro) Cornwell living at our home at 26 Main Street in the valley. Grandma Cornwell had survived a heart attack and was living with us. At age seven, I would sit with my grandmother as she listened to hymns being sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford. “The Rugged Cross.” “Amazing Grace.” Many others.
The one most remembered was the Church in the Wildwood. It was a brown church. But because we attended the white church next door to our home, I always changed the word in the hymn from brown to white. It was simply because it was a wooden church painted white, not brown. That’s all.
Such programs as Lawrence Welk programs may be of interest to only a minority of people in the media market, but we are important. We in the minority pay for sports, religious programs, and, as with Dish Network, porn. We pay for many programs and have to endure the lousy stupid productions and stupid commercials which are nothing but farsical at most. We in this minority can only ask that we be respected for the low cost programming we enjoy more with PBS. Programs like Lawrence Welk and culture – so forth. If you are unable to give us R-E-S-P-E-C-T, then all I can say is that I hope you can fall flat on your faces.
Neither democracy nor capitalism are about serving a simple majority of people. It is about serving all the people.
My criticism is not about whining. It is about stopping the movement to remove from the minority what we in the minority enjoy. After all, without watching any sports, we still pay for those million-dollar salaries of overpaid athletes. We need to have some of that money back in the form of government funding of PBS, NPR, and APM. Precious moments means many things to many people. The first NFL super bowl might be a precious memory to some. Or the Amazing Mets of 1969 might be a precious memory to some. But for many of us, we have precious memories in media programs like Lawrence Welk or Ed Sullivan or Kristen Chenowith or Renee Fleming or. Perry Mason or MASH or .. others. We are paying for a lot of shit on television which apparently is enjoyed by the “in” crowd for which we are not in that “in” crowd. When we say”life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all,” we mean it. It is not “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for the large majority in the ‘in’ crowd.”
Consider this. If you say, “nobody listens to Lawrence Welk,” then you are low-life scum because there are many of us who are “nobody.” We can have R-E-S-P-E-C-T for what you enjoy. Now. Have R-E-S-P-E-C-T for the rest of us who are the “nobody” in the world. Otherwise, your words become lies told over and over again to such an extent that it becomes the truth – the truth for those in the “in” crowd who don’t give one damn about those NOT in the “in” crowd. You lack so much confidence that you resort to lying in order to force everyone to believe and enjoy what you do.
What I say is about how to maintain a civilized democratic capitalist society with balance, not a barbaric one like that of the Roman Empire where they got their jollies from watching gladiators kill one another or Christians being killed by lions in an arena or… All as a spectacle in their lives. Barbarism is sick. The entire set of ideas in which our Almighty God wanted us to follow was to love one another. Period. No if, ands, or buts about it.
For me and many others, we learned that principle from the example and Gospel of Jesus Christ. But other religions do teach love for one another. Those precious memories come from family and the religious organization which taught me such principles. Sadly, such teaching has been eliminated today and that needs to be changed. We don’t need to become “churchy” people again. We need to come together to encourage one another to have a love for a deist or god of the universe because that deist or god loves the human race made in the image of such a deist for the purpose of having a civilized human race which loves one another. We can do this in different ways and do not have to fall back on the methods used in the past. By coming together we teach one another and the younger ones the importance of love for one another.
As far as I can see, you purchased the Florida Governor’s Mansion. You took advantage of a low voter turnout in 2010. That’s a shame, when considering you are practically a minority governor forcing your will upon a large number who voted against you.
You appear to worship money and consider money to be more important than human beings. In the healthcare industry, this translates to an unsavory idea about making money, rather than healing people. You are pushing this same ideal upon public education, you money-worshiping louse.
Your number one priority is to make money, so you worship it. You claim to be a “born again” Christian, but you are not my fellow Christian. You are not a “brother in the LORD” with me and others who are on the small and cramped road to everlasting life. “The road not taken,” which does not follow conformity to the crowds of money-loving materialistic shallow folks.
Perhaps you disdain a letter in the scriptures which says, “the love of money is the root of evil [or all kinds of injurious things].” So how can you maintain a faith in GOD, our CREATOR, and HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST? As Jesus Christ himself would say, “you hypocrite!”
Jesus Christ became violently angry about those in the temple who were deceiving others. VIOLENTLY ANGRY. Seems to point to a very strong message from GOD and that does not indicate WE become violently angry, but learn from the message.
GOD became violently angry at the deception and violence of rape at Sodom and Gomorrah, too. It was not anger directed at homosexuality, which never occurred, only suggested. Because the towns people were selfish and not accepting strangers in their midst, they would often rape strangers of any sex, in order to embarrass the strangers. The story is about an intervention from GOD, due to his dislike of raping strangers of ANY kind.
Here are some words you should consider:
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image.
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD the GOD in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Honour thy father and thy mother.
Thou shall not kill.
Thou shall not commit adultery.
Thou shall not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not covet.
What part of this don’t you understand? Shall we discuss false witness? How about the deception that comes with adultery? Oh ,perhaps you never cheated on your wife, but how many countless others have you cheated on? And I am not discussing sex, either. Let’s discuss the words, “Thou shall not steal.” You pleaded the fifth, did you not? Is this deception like that of adultery? What about “coveting?” Worshiping money, rather than the true GOD? What part of this don’t you understand?
One of the original tea party members was able to “get away with murder.” John Hancock, a scoundrel bootlegging rum into Boston from the islands, murdered a British customs agent and purportedly got away with murder. He did it all in the name of selfishness, greed, love of money. Murder is on this list, too. One hopes you did not do this and get away with it. But then, you are a part of the modern-day scoundrels called the tea party, are you not?
We now celebrate with a beer named after John Hancock’s partner in crime, Sam Adams. Sam’s cousin, John Adams, was forced into joining the tea party when he did not wish to do so, due to his repulsion towards their activities. FORCED, without choice, by scoundrels and shallow low-life people with money made illegally (rum trade) – like drug dealers today.
Shallow low-life scum like you, Rick Scott, who worship money and step on the lives of people are repulsive. Then you pretend you like people, just enough to get elected. And at the same time, you destroy those who DO recognize humanity over money – the teachers and professors of Florida. Students are not customers and have no idea what is best for them, when it comes to education. The legacy of what has been accomplished and made our nation successful, in the centuries prior to these students, is what is important. Money is not to be worshiped.
John Adams, our second president, was a member of the same church denomination to which I belong and have spent most of my life: the Congregationalists. Former Governor and Senator, Bob Graham, who opposes both the Scott and Jeb Bush higher education plans, is also a rational-thinking member of the same denomination. This denomination’s legacy IS public education. Our denomination advocated for public education and did so, not in the name of the worship of money, but in the name of humanity. Now you, Rick Scott, wish to destroy public education. You wish to project those of us who stand steadfastly in favor of humanist and secular public education as being devils. “Judge not lest you be judged.”
Jesus identified Satan. “Satan is the father of the lie.” You and the Bush family embrace (George Bush is even quoted as saying this) the words of Hitler’s propaganda minister as he said something like: “Tell a lie enough times and eventually it becomes the truth.” Jesus said Satan is the father of the lie! Perhaps you use psychologists to twist this even further and disguise your lies and projecting the words of good humanist people as lies. The U.S. Constitution protects freedom of the press, not freedom of the false press.
But then, as my grandmother would say to me, “judge not lest you [thou] be judged,” so how can I point out these things about another person? I would bet one of your friends in Southwest Florida remembers my grandmother, even to the point of picking on her – many times. And this friend of yours also forgot his past and those who helped along his way to wealth, thus slighting my own mother, who faithfully served the Republican Party for many years, as a party committee person in NY.
Jesus also said, “turn the other cheek,” to enemies. Here it is, Rick Scott, so begin slapping my other cheek. Go ahead. Bear false witness against me. You are a hypocrite. If Jesus could call the deceptive lawyers and business people of his day, “hypocrites,” then I am only following the model of my LORD and Saviour. Deception is in the 10 commandments, but gets hidden by sex. I guess it makes us feel better, don’t you know?
Jesus spoke of love for one another. The Old Testament focus in Leviticus was about a lack of children in society. Homosexuals did not perpetuate the birth of children, so were going against the grain of the society. Thus stringent measures were taken, which are not necessary in today’s society. Our world is different today, requiring all kinds of forms of loving families, even alternative families with same-sex parents, to lovingly care for children of unwanted pregnancies and from broken homes in an over-populated world.
Jesus Christ never endorsed traditionalism. Yet, in this program about Bishop Gene Robinson, there were those who talked about “2000 years of tradition.” So what? If the traditionalism is not the solution, then why do we stand by it? Jesus did not believe in idolatry. Yet, the man in this IndependentLens program… the man from California who repeatedly used the words, “Bible-believing,” sounded as if he worshiped the Bible, not God. That is idolatry and blasphemous and would NOT have been favorable to Jesus Christ.
In another portion of this program, a man speaking against the pro-same-sex measures of the Episcopal Church said, “The needs of the many outweighs the needs of the few.” Jesus Christ said, “the road to hell is large and spacious and many would be on that road; whereas the road to everlasting life, few would find it.” The words this man spoke before the Episcopal gathering were words abrasive to those of Jesus Christ. This recognition is the reason why our American justice system finally abolished Jim Crow measures against a minority. The larger numbers who persecuted the minority were/are evil in God’s eyes. Besides the fact… Jesus Christ said, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” “Love God; love your neighbor as yourself.”
The same book of the Old Testament speaking against homosexuality due to the need for more children also endorsed the stoning of rebellious children and forbade eating a number of foods, including shell fish. Why would we pick some and not the other? Because of men who don’t feel comfortable with themselves and who have endorsed continuing “traditions” which don’t mean a rat’s tail.
And at Genesis 19, there was only a threat of homosexual rape, but nothing actually took place. Yet, to hear the word, “sodomy,” one would believe there were explicit sexual acts at Sodom and Gomorrah. There were none. God disliked the violent rape, not the sexual acts.
Furthermore, the “traditions” at Sodom and Gomorrah were about deliverate violent homosexual rape acts with strangers visiting the area in order to discourage strangers from visiting. God had said those people should accept strangers in their midst, but they disobeyed God by promoting rape with strangers.
Glen Beck’s point about accepting civil unions, but not marriage, is not acceptable. Even when same-sex marriage is accepted, there is no church which can be forced to perform such acts, as long as the separation of church and state remains. No person should be forced or coerced into a same-sex union of any kind. Yet, millions upon millions of GLBT are coerced by tremendous societal / religious peer pressure and intimidation (how many times did we hear, “why are you not dating some girl?”) to marry someone of the opposite sex.
Jesus is about love and acceptance. He never turned anyone away, whether he/she might be a GLBT lay person, a pastor or priest, or a bishop. “There can be no peace without justice.”
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Florida Foreshadowing with the Bush Family and Charles Colson of Naples, FL, One of the Nixon Watergate Lawyers
As a historian, I consider what can be learned from history. Being an avid viewer of Murder, She Wrote, Perry Mason, and [Ben] Matlock, Poirot (Agatha Christie), Murdock Mysteries (produced and broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.), I often consider what it takes to research what is happening, both historically and during our current days. Actually, I have been doing research about much of what has been happening with political figures since I was a librarian working at a Florida corporation where Lawton Chiles (“Walkin'” Lawton who won his U.S. Senate seat after walking the entire state of Florida). While I spent most of my time researching environmental impacts of zebra mussels on hydro plants, nuclear energy and cold fusion as an alternative, alternative fuels, and self-insuring the corporation following losses due to Hurricane Andrew in 1992, I was also assigned projects by the CFO of the company who likely got the orders from “Walkin'” Lawton who was serving on our board of trustees after he departed the U.S. Senate and was preparing for a run for governor.
The assignment was to research the possible impact of Jeb Bush on our company should he run for governor. In the process, I discovered “Jebbie’s” interests were strong in gambling and attempting to make gambling legal in Florida. (“Jebbie” was the name used by a Republican in Florida whom I had known most of my life who had come from Newark Valley – speaking as if he knew “Jebbie’ personally; he may have; coincidence: once gambling happened in Florida, the guy spent a great bit of time at the gambling casino; the CFO of that company was related to the founder of the Publix chain which, along with “Walkin'” Lawton, stood firmly against legalization of gambling; another note: the one from Newark Valley was the widower of a former mayor of Newark Valley; both were in two different political parties, but at that time, I was still a registered Republican; that guy was also a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps of World War II). Apparently there were a number of us who were looking into Jeb Bush and in various arenas in Florida and who knows where else.
As a result, when Lawton Chiles ran for governor in 1994, his opponent was “Jebbie” Bush. “Walkin'” Lawton defeated “Jebbie” Bush in that 1990 election. It likely really angered “Jebbie” and I believe I have felt the target of vengeance, among many others. For during that time, there was an influx of Republicans beginning to work a hostile takeover of our company where I owned company stock. They were working with two that I know of. Kenneth Lay of a natural gas company based in Houston, TX (where possibly – speculative – a NV Baptist and former Democrat racist bigot turned Republican was employed – his family enemies to my mother). The other person was Charles Colson. Colson had bee released from prison and made his home in Naples, FL. Other we had not found as much about him in this regard. My bet is that he was far more involved than we knew.
If one reads the details of Charles Colson in a Wikipedia article, one discovers there is a great deal of connection to both “Jebbie” and George W. Bush. First of all, Governor “Jebbie” pardoned Colson and returned Colson’s right to vote, in spite of being a convicted felon. Hypocrite “Jebbie” later created a privatized prison system in Florida for the purposes of jailing black folk. The reason? To arrest young black folk on misdemeanor charges in which white fold were NOT arrested, putting those young folk in jail with hardened criminals. Once released those kids were often tied up with the criminals in jail and often got framed for crimes they did not commit and ended up back in jail. Eventually they became felons who could not vote. Do we know a church where the pastor was formerly imprisoned and framed after returning to society? Framing is a common way to put good people away and remove their rights as citizens entitled to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the land with “liberty and justice for all.” It was a device used in Florida quite frequently, especially with black folk. Our Peace & Justice Ministries, an ecumenical group, worked to fight that as much as we could. We had Protestants and Roman Catholics all working together to work in the name of Christ and top the BS being done by racists in Florida. People up here say, “why should we be concerned because it can never happen here.” Think again. THINK… as Thomas J. Watson would say.
While president, George W. Bush gave an award to Charles Colson. Did he deserve it? Not on your life did he deserve it.
Furthermore, “Jebbie” pushed for a law called “Stand Your Ground.” It was sold as a means to stop people with guns. It was actually a law to shoot down black folk. For example, shortly after the law was passed, a young black man in a car turned the volume of his rap music up to high levels. Some white guy shot the guy and killed him. The white guy gets off for murder based on that law in Florida. Yet, as with Renee Good of Minnesota, the young man never threatened the white man.
Another example. A black person in a theater was talking during the movie. He was shot to death by a white person. Another example. An inter-racial couple at a stop sign in Fort Lauderdale were shot dead by someone “standing his ground” because he did not believe that there should be inter-racial marriage.
If anyone thinks this “foreshadowing” of events could never happen here? You are mistaken and we need to be prepared for such.
One more issue with “Jebbie.” He joined the SAR at the same time I did. When some of us wanted to admit black folk descended from veterans of the American Revolution, “Jebbie” was opposed to such. That would mean that my black relatives (inter-racial marriages) in Binghamton would not be able to join the SAR, based on the same ancestors I have.
Oh, yes. Can I forget when I was at St. Mary’s Medical Center in North Palm Beach (where “Jebbie” was on the board of directors), I was blackmailed by some woman on staff there who had said she knew “Jebbie.” Hmmmmm. Her last name was Ellis. Do you know what JEB is? JOHN ELLIS BUSH – related to the Ellis family. She tried to blackmail me unless I expressed support for Donald Trump. That was 2018 during Trump’s first term. Furthermore, I am still wondering why I was carted a long distance by helicopter to St. Mary’s when there was a trauma center within a short driving distance from my home and that hospital was where my own primary care physician worked.
The question still remains. In the last month of “Walkin'” Lawton’s term as governor, as “Jebbie” was about to assume the office of governor, he suddenly died. There has been talk “on the street” that Bush and that family was responsible for the death of Chiles. But it has never been proven. After reading the article about Charles Colson of Naples, FL, I have to speculate, based on the number of times that Colson used poisons and LSD against people whom Nixon had a vengeance. One person was against a reporter named Jack Anderson who had released a defamatory story about Nixon just prior to the 1960 election. Nixon held a vengeance against Anderson, blaming him for losing that election of 1960. And even today, we still live with this bullshit with the Man-baby and the Kennedy Rose Garden and the Kennedy Performing Arts Center.
Do I have proof that Colson was involved with Governor Chiles’s death? No. I do not. Only circumstantial evidence and hearsay “on the street.” A huge part of the circumstantial evidence is the popularity of Governor Chiles so as to defeat “Jebbie” in 1994. It was widely known that the Bush family was scared of Governor Chiles as he had plans to run for president in 2000 and the governor of Texas was favored by the Republicans: George W. Bush. Chiles could have beaten Bush, for sure.
It is also said that many who would be good leaders have been frightened by these events and don’t want to get involved in politics. Is this true? I don’t know.
There is also evidence that Teddy Roosevelt may have had ADHD. In those days, there was no medications to curb ADHD, as today. The claim has been made that those today who are like Teddy Roosevelt with ADHD would be pushed off into a background job of accounting or technology and not seeking leadership positions at all. Is this true? I don’t know for sure. TR’s father, Teddy Roosevelt, Sr., like many people of wealth, had purchased his way out of the draft in the Union Army of the American Civil War. TR reacted to that by insisting, during a later stage in his life, joining forces in the Spanish-American War where he led forces up San Juan Hill in Cuba.
But in 2007, Democrat Lee Iacocca wrote a book titled, Where Have All the Leaders Gone? It was not conclusive, but did bring up many questions for consideration. Iacocca did mention the favored status of the Saudi government by the Bush regime as it exited members of that royal family out of the USA following Osama Bin-Laden’s 9/11 fiasco. And much of what was happening with the corporation where I was working – Kenneth Lay, etc. – was related to the Saudi Arabians. I have a suspicion that the attack on Iran is more than just Netanyahu and Israel. Here we are in 2026 and the same ones who gave us high oil prices under Nixon are likely still involved with what is happening today, one way or another.
Side note: I have discovered that Lee Iacocca was at Lehigh University at the same time that a former Tioga County legislator from Newark Valley was at Lehigh University.
One thing about J.B. Fletcher, the character in Murder, She Wrote, was that she had taught English in the Cabot Cove High School. She often used literary elements in her work as a mystery writer and in assisting solving murders. Often she mentioned the use of foreshadowing in literature and applied it to real life situations. In this case, I see Charles Colson with Nixon and others, plus Florida events from the 1990s until the present day as foreshadowing what we are seeing now. People must not be familiar with this idea of “foreshadowing.” Most of my writing for the past 20 years is meant to be a foreshadowing based on what we all experienced in Florida.
Instead, I got this. “Don’t talk to me about politics.” It’s not politics. Sometimes what happened in Florida had to do with murder , framing, and blackmail by people who have no morals, scruples, or ethics.
Rather than look at what I say as a “foreshadowing” and an environment to learn from history, as I pass the historical experiences and information to others, people shoot holes in the information before even considering it. Listening to one another? You have to be kidding.
The Democrats who ran the corporation where I worked often had us doing brain-storming. NO ONE was to shoot something down and all was to be like placing our cards on the table before even discussion and communication. But there was NEVER to be shooting at something as if some person’s ATTITUDE was that the idea was stupid. If that shooting happened, such a person was only thinking about themselves, how THE PERSON could win, and push their narrow part of the world. Such ones had no capability for viewing the wider picture.
There is too much shooting down of ideas and solutions among the Baby Boomers and younger. In brain-storming of the 1980s and 1990s, those in the WWII generation were less likely to do such a thing. They had experienced this nation going through quite a hassle in Europe and the Pacific, besides experiencing the Great Depression. They had witnessed how this nation had to solve the problems of those days so such WWII people knew what to do in brain-storming. The idea for researching self-insuring rather than relying on big corporate giants of insurance so as to protect against hurricanes came out of one of the quality circles brain-storming sessions. Before we could take it any further, the GD Republicans swerved in and shut us down. An example of how much those bastards only like big corporate billionaires, which was something I viewed in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Florida. In those years, the Republicans shut down R&D for cold fusion and the R&D moved to Europe where they have made progress in that area, even if it is still not solved. As with the treatment of Einstein and 19th Century “Clinton’s Ditch” builder, narrow-minded Republicans scoffed at the ideas as if they could not be used to solve problems. Of course they could not when Republican strategy is to destroy by sabotage, as they have done with forms of public retirement and retirement healthcare which could provide capitalist ROI for retirees. To Republicans. It is called “capitalism, stupid.” Capitalism with balance and profits which is not an evil thing. Meanwhile, the one-sided lop-sided bulging pockets of billionaires is NOT capitalism. The 1000% PLUS increase in CEO salaries is NOT capitalism.
Colson did quite a large amount of damage to this nation and then was pardoned with his rights as a felon overturned so he could vote, and then awarded a presidential award. Life is not about winning and being vengeful when not winning. Such actions are described in the Hebrew Scriptures with verses about vengeance such as “you must take an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” In this time of Holy Week, we need to remember that Christ overturned that Hebrew Scripture. Christ also would not have accepted the Machiavellian words of selfishness and greed: “the end justifies the means.” Colson and others all follow such a principle or else they would not have invaded the Watergate Hotel and then validated their actions by putting down those who challenged them on their evil actions because “the end justifies the means.”
And with Nixon and Watergate, we thought it was all over when Nixon resigned in 1974. It was not. Democrat turned Republican Ronald Wilson Reagan reared his ugly head and challenged Gerald Ford from the moderate wing of the Republican Party, setting up the path for the fascists in that party. And going back even further, fascist Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover of that political party. Taft had challenged Teddy Roosevelt and the party was split in 1912. The difference was that, in the 1970s, Gerald Ford did not know how to “speak softly and carry a big stick” when Reagan came on the scene. That was also the beginning of huge increases in CEO salaries for people who don’t know how to make money the old fashioned way – “to earn it.”
Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty has no idea what it means to “earn” money. And this was known before he even ran for president in 2016, but did people take it seriously? Nope.
There is more. Charles Colson and the Christian Nationalists. Another day. Maybe?
Charles Colson, Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson
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