BALTIMORE, Maryland, United States of America, Friday, January 4, 2019 - Whether someone in the GOP hierarchy - might it be our President? - or just one of those things that happen because of dumb luck, but there, in bold mid-January colors, was the queen of the legislative corral, back in the saddle again. Yessiree, the legendary, near mythical Nancy Pelosi had come east in the dead of winter to once again assure all Americans that something almost all of them want (a Southern Border Wall) will not be provided thanks to those wiley Democrats, ensconced in a leadership role once again in the auguste United States House of Representatives.
On Thursday, the third day of the new year, those witless, er, ah, wiley Democrats, voted Queen P. back into the role of Speaker of the that House. Just so you know, Queen P is now third in line to the Presidency.
We who are so wise. We, who have belittled others for witless and foolish decisions. We have done this.
Just so you know and can now sleep soundly. Next thing you know, that delightfully brain-dead representative from the same intellectually gifted Western State, Ms. Maxine Waters, will be placed in charge of a very important committee. Couldn't happen! Not even Queen P will allow such a travesty.
Remember back when Queen P last held the role of Speaker of the House? She had instructed the Air Force to provide her a fully equipped jet plane capable of transporting her and her entire staff of fools back and forth to California. And so the Air Force had to take the mega-expensive jet off active duty, along with its entire crew, to shuttle the Queen back and forth to Western Cuba (California).
You don't think anyone in the Air Force would follow such a foolish order again? Would the Queen even try to implement such an outrage?
Hard to say. I have wondered just how many federal legislative districts would elect the Queen to represent them in Congress? Can you think of any be other than the one she actually ran in? I cannot. Have any of you heard the public service spot the federal forestry folk have been running in their attempt to get more people to come to the many beautiful USA National Forests? In the spot, the wonderful flora and fauna that live in the forests so enjoyed the visit of a young boy to their environs that they came to the joint conclusion that one of their own needed to be dispatched to the boy's home to tell him to visit again. The creature selected for the mission was a banana slug, which the boy mistook for a booger. Once the lad gets over his revulsion, he follows the advice imparted by the good booger slug and beseeches his mom to take him again. We learn during the commercial that it took the poor banana slug many months to make the trip from the forest to the residence of the young hero. I know I took up a lot of space retelling the story of the slug, but I thought maybe, just maybe, Queen P could be prevailed upon to adopt a similar urgency (as well as a similar means of transportation) for her ventures back to her legislative district.
Well, it is a nice thought.
Some Parting Thoughts: The Ravens will be playing the Chargers on Sunday. It will be a rematch of a game played just a couple of weeks ago in California. The Ravens won the game because the Chargers - with one of the NFL's most prolific offenses - could not so much a budge the Raven defense. By the 4th Quarter, the Chargers weren't even calling for pass plays that called for their offensive line to provide all-Pro QB Phillip Rivers more than a second or two to throw the ball. The poor man spent most of the game on his back...After a horrific start in the Premier League Campaign, Burnley has won two matches in a row and given the faithful at Turf Moor some hope of avoiding relegation. The two wins - 2-0 over West Brom and 2-1 over Huddersfield - put the Claret in a virtual tie for 17th on the table. They will need to move out of the tie to avoid the relegation tag. Of course, they have until May to do it...Back in the autumn the weather had turned so cold that the internet started to fill with conjectures concerning a coming ice age. For those who aren't fans of the Mid-Atlantic's confounded warm winter stretches, that autumn cold weather was just wonderful. There were days when the mercury never reached freezing, and this was only November. Well, anyway, my Accuweather App has a setting that allows you to look 30 days into the future. That shows that the weather will start acting like winter once again come about the 20th of this month. Wow! More winter!
The Bible says this in the Old Testament Book of the Prophet Malachi, Chapter 2, at Verse 10: "Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
This is what the Bible says in the New Testament in Saint Paul's Letter to Titus, Chapter 3, beginning at Verse 1: "Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for any honest work, Verse 2: to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all men. Verse 3: For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another; Verse 4: but when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, Verse 5: he saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit, Verse 6: which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, Verse 7: so that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs of eternal life. Verse 8: The saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who gave believed in God may be careful to apply themselves or enter honest occupations. These are excellent and profitable to men. Verse 9: But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile."
These are well worth contemplating during a time when the secular Ultra Left seems to delight in doing everything it can to stir up hatred. Is it merely a coincidence that most of the Ultra Left's leaders supported the idea of constructing a wall on the Southern Border only a few years ago. I don't suggest that the Good Book is speaking to them. I am suggesting that the words and thoughts here are very useful when we contemplate these issues.
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