DeSantis Clause

Ron DeSantis. 

I don't know how people can like this guy. I thought Republicans were supposed to be pro-free market, and anti-governmental regulations when it came to big business.  

But because this guy is against a boy wearing a dress he is putting all the power of his office into a battle against one of the biggest money makers and employers in the state.

Think about it. He is willing to put the economy of his whole state at risk for a problem that is hardly a problem at all. 

Imagine if Governor DeSantis was so focused on the American terrorists problem of mass shootings instead. Imagine if he was willing to put the whole economy of Florida at risk to save the state from further mass shootings. 

Nah, I can't imagine him doing it either. He's doing the math. Why should he fight for only a couple scores of dead children, when he could fight over restroom wrongs of less than a score  of trans children.

Ron DeSantis.

I don't know how people can like this guy.

Star Trek Discovery Guesses

Ok, haven't yet seen pt.II of Discovery's season two finale, here are a few the Great Andrew Predicts thoughts:

Since Spoke is still with the Discovery crew, it will be him in the unexploded Photon torpedo tube stuck in the Enterprise's hull.

If time traveling is possible, why not go back to the past to stop Michael becoming an orphan. This could also help with the Red Angel and/or the Red Angel suit.

If this happens spock will never have met his sister.

The Discovery short where the ship has been abandoned in the future foretells a Voyager like tale of the crew finally getting home(but not Discovery itself) as a show finale. WoWzer!

Come on, Captain Pike is just to damn good. And earlier interation of the Star Trek Enterprise with Pike as the captain would be a massive hit with the TOS crowd.

As of now, my favorite Star Trek captains- in order- are Pike, Janeway and then Kirk.

There must be a Pike/Spock Enterprise series.

I wonder what I will think after next week?

Comrade Trump

I do not call presidential candidate Donald Trump comrade lightly. But asking Russia to expose Hillary's e-mails and then they magically appear just before he election seems dubious at best. And all those memes you've been reading on Facebook that are anti Hillary Clinton most are made in Russia.

Notice that comrade Trump does the opposite of denouncing these he runs with them... if you believe Hillary's emails are bad then it has to be assumed that these discoveries must seem traitorous.

Don't believe me just look at these links below. Oh silly me, these must be from the lamestream media trying to affect the outcome of the election.


https://youtu.be/OauLuWXD_RI

https://youtu.be/gNa2B5zHfbQ

The Apocalypse, or The Book of Revelation

The Apocalypse,or The Book of Revelation,was originally meant to be a book of hope.It was originally written,probably by St.John(or one of his disciples),in a time of strong prosecution of Christians by the Roman empire(circa. 100 A.D.).The followers of Christ were being burnt alive at the stake,crucified,put inside cast iron images of bulls and roasted,feed to the lions,etc...well,you get the idea.

Suffice it to say,it was allot harder being a Christian back then.And hope was waning.Many followers were questioning what good did it do following the Lord.

The book gave many hopeful answers.It foretold of those persecuted as attaining heaven and becoming warriors of Jesus.It told that in the future all the suffering would be rewarded by the ultimate victory of Christ over the evil of the world.

Imagine how comforting that had to be to people who were suffering death of loved ones for Christ.Could a greater hope been asked for?Hardly.

But recent interpretations of the book have mostly been centered on the symbolic language of the book.People are now using it as prophetic 'End Of The world' literature.

And it well may be.But the trouble with prophecy is that it can only be proven true after the fact.I hear good solid Christians calling the Catholic Church,'The Great Mother Whore Of Rome'.This is probably,not so much because they are convinced that the Catholic Church is evil,but more probably because they can not think what else this prophecy could mean?

Then they twist the rest of the book to fit into this too simple theory.

This really gets my goat.I tell these people that while they very well maybe right,that there is a danger in interpreting The Book of Revelations this way.I tell them that I could give them an interpretation of the book that fits all of their criteria and at the end they will go to me,"No Way."

So,the game begins.

I ask,'What is the number one thing that most people associate with the anti-Christ?'Some say that he will be the head of Rome.'Well,then,'I say,'It can't be the Catholic church.It is not in Rome.Vatican City is it's own private country.Offically,then,it can not be part of Rome.'They say,'Aaah,you are nit-picking.Rome is symbolic.'I say,'Very good,then,we can agree that the book deals in relatively symbolic terms?'They usually then have to say,'Yes,that there is really no other way to decipher the book.'So,I then reply,'So Rome can be seen as the world power of it's day?'They say,'Yes.' 'So when we are talking of Rome,Rome could mean that the anti-Christ will come from the world power of the day?'They say,'Of Course.'I ask ,'Who is the world power of today?Whose culture does the whole world follow?'They usually shake their heads,not wanting to understand.'Let me put in another way.In how many countries are there McDonald's?In how many countries do people watch M-Tv?Dress in blue jeans and watch Hollywood movies?Well,the whole world.'

But still not getting my point,it usually comes down to the numbers 666.I then ask what the numbers stands for.They say a name.I ask,'Whose name?'They usually don't know.I go[holding up one finger at a time],'Ronald Wilson Reagan.'

This is when they first go,'No way.' But I push on,'Not only does his name add up to 666,but so did his California address.That was until he chanced the last number to an eight .Before then he lived at 666 St. Cloud Road.'

'No way,'they gasp.Then I say how the anti-Christ was supposed to die and come back to life.That happened to president Reagan.On national Tv,Dan Rather pronounced Reagan as dead,only to recant it moments later.

I then go on to say that one head will die off only for another to appear....George Bush[losing re-election],and George Walker Bush.

The people are really going ,'No,no,no,' now.They say that I got all the facts wrong,and refuse to believe me.For a caper,I claim,'And who could the symbol of the dragon be,but China?'

By this time,I have made my point.They don't believe.They say it is just too preposterous to believe.

I go,'Why?Because it is our country?'And they go,'Yes.'Then I say that Christ said that even the true followers would be deceived if it were possible.Why couldn't it be America?

By this time,they are almost ready to fight me.Then I say,'See,I told you that you would say it wasn't possible eventough all the signs are right there.That is the danger in putting too much credit in the 'prophecies' in The Book Of Revelations. Our lives should be based on the love and mercy and teachings of our Lord Jesus,not on a book that was originally meant as a book of hope,but is now being used perhaps wrongly to spread fear.

I truly believe that I don't do much more then rough a few feathers,but perhaps I have also planted a few seeds of love,forgiveness and compassion along the way.

Now,if only I could erase that nagging doubt that I have planted along the way in my own brain about my own country...

G.O.P. In A Tuff Spot

I am not of the opinion that Mr.Donald Trump is a lonewolf political outsider. Mr. Trump has either bought or borrowed some of the best right wing talking heads that money and power can purchase.

In a country divided by the FOX/ Limbaugh propaganda hate machine  ( come on, even you have to admit that the country is divided exactly between the 'You Deciders' and the 'Lame Main Streamers'), which I like to refer to as the : Pontius Pilate line.

The truth? What is the truth?

Granted, I myself, at first, was quite befuddled why the Bible would allow Pilate to imply that the truth could be politically manipulated just after Jesus vowed to be the truth.

It seemed such a contradiction. If Jesus was the truth how could He be anything but?

And then it hit me. It wasn't exactly reading between the lines. It wasn't deciphering hidden messages. It was rock bottom.

The truth of Pontius Pilate was that of deception. Any junkie would know that. 'I can handle just one more drink.' 'I'll repay Grandma just as soon as I get back on my feet.' 'I'm just saying this little lie to save their feelings.' 'I can quit at any time.'

What is the truth? Whatever you want it to be.

But everybody that has hit rock bottom knows the deeper truth that Jesus was talking about. The truth that if you keep bullshitting yourself, you are going to die.

But that is only half the trick. This truth brings clarity. When lies and deception are dissolved away, to paraphrase the Bible  there are three things that remain: hope, faith & love.

For someone that has none, it can be argued that there is nothing better than hope. Hope against hope. If you don't believe you can make it, man, hoping you can make it to  the next moment can be a life saver.

Surviving enough of these hopful moments can lead to something beyond hope. Faith. I've survived this before, I have faith that I can do it again.

I'll leave it up to you to discover how this links up to love. Suffice it to say, that believing in a higher power than yourself can ultimately expose the higher truth.

Which brings us back to the Pontius Pilate line. The way I see it the addict in us all wants to buy the bullshit that makes us comfortable. At this point we have to ask if the dealer is our friend? The way I see it while the dealer does seem the make us feel good, in reality he's cutting the product with junk and poison.

What we think is comforting us is in in reality poisoning us.

God damn the pusher man.

Now, let me make this plain as day. I am talking not about the lower echelon pusher. I am talking about the kingpin... the creme La Creme: FOX News and it's second, Rush Limbaugh.

God damn the pusher man.

FOX News is the god damn kingpin. It's Tv ratings nearly double it's nearest competitor, and its radio network has no competition. And expecially powerful in their main demographics, Which is far as I can see in my limited capacity that demographic skews to a younger audience.

And they are hooked on this junk. This stuff has been sliced clean. The truth? What is the truth? Do the junkies know? Do they even care?

Most junkies don't.

Let's take a jab at a story of a atypical heroin addict.How does this junkie get started on the down hill journey?

Either through bad luck or bad life choices our victim gets addicted to oxycodone, perhaps even overmedicated enough to need the medicine after the medicine was actually no longer needed.

And then it is cut off.

Some people say that we are all only three bad choices away from ruin and our friend here has just struck out. To find his supposed comfort zone bad luck turns to criminal intent and bingo, we have a junkie.

While not a perfect analogy for the FOX News junkie, as with any user the fix becomes more important than the quality of the high, the bum-Rush ,the FOX fix. Any lie is accepted as an excuse to partake.

Complete 180° turns in opinion are acceptable...yea ol' bait and switch...every thing against those they preach against all the time is the norm. Dissenters are marginalized. This maybe ok when you are just hitting the bottom dweller, but when the junk starts moving up the food chain, larger problems occur.

When the user relies strickly on the dealer, anything the man sells the addict starts buying. Those that oppose any ideas other than the pusher's are cut out. 30 year congressmen that have the audacity to agree with the opponent is cut off of their stash. Thanks to their ever expanding territory, gerrymandering expands the cartels power. Funding is cut off, and Congress gains a T-party stooge guaranteed to win the primary, thus an easy victory in the firmly controlled general election.

 Power is solidified and only the cream of the crop have true power. Only the upper 0.1% have true say. America be damned / god damn the pusher man.

And Pontius Pilate has his day.And instead of a democracy, we have an oligarchy...and the complacency junkies shout out prayers-worshiping their fix masters all the way up the food chain no matter how bad things get.

Suddenly, as often happens with Pontius Pilate truth,when the lie becomes the truth, things start going south. In the search for rock bottom things get mucked up in the stirred up mud.

The higher truth becomes the biggest liar. Conditions become ripe for the king of lies.

Hello...Donald Trump.

Buyers keep selling because without their products main customers, the powers that be would start losing all, and slowly realize that they have to get in line or lose everything.

This is the Republican party right now. Sinking slowly, and now power junkies themselves heading willingly towards rock bottom.

How do I know this? Because Donald Trump does not and will not play their game. He is selling a better product, and the people are buying.

There is a new kingpin in town & they all know.

Perhaps, I am wrong and Mr. Trump will surprise us all and cut the junkies and their pusher masters off at the tit and bring sobriety back to the land.

But the only way I see him doing that is by sinking America to to the absolute rock bottom. All signs seem to point that way. His opposition has already been gathering into the fold.Not thinking about tomorrow, not even of today, but only the next fix.

I don't know, maybe this the only way that America is now ever going to be able to cross over the Pontius Pilate line onto the real truth, the real light, the true way of which Jesus spoke.

I hope and pray that it is not.

As for me and my house, we will serve The Lord.

If Trump Attacked Trump

Now, people are saying...I'm not saying, but I hear things. Donald Trump says he wants to make America great again...right?!? Like America isn't already great...right? Am I right?

And yet oldie Donald ...come on, admit it, I mean he tries to hide it, but he's really,really old...comes right out...comes right out and says that Vladimir Putin is a strong leader.

Humph, oldie Donald sounds like a Russian spy to me. Can you imagine George Washington calling the king of England a strong leader?

It just ain't happening. Right? Am I right? Ooh, King George is great.

People are claiming only a traitor would say such things. I'm not sayIng...but it does look like a traitorous thing.

How do we know oldie Donald isn't in league with these Soviets?

Come on, I mean, I'm not sayIng, but I can see how oldie Donald could be having the KGB plant these pressure cooker bombs  in Jersey...he's from Jersey? Right?

I mean, how come only the Democratics got hacked? Am I right?  Is it just me?

I won't deal with the communists. I wouldn't. I won't.

I sure wouldn't be letting them place pipe bombs on American soil. Trust me.  It ain't happening.