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Let The Leader Lead
Garrison Keillor 10/14/2008
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The Scripture reading in church Sunday gave me a jolt -- Exodus 32, which refers to the Chosen People wearing earrings, men as well as women, and I twitched when the lector read it. Yikes! Moses got his ears pierced? What else didn't we know???

And then a bigger jolt. God is so furious at the C.P. for worshipping the golden calf (forged from their earrings) that He talks about consuming them with fire, but Moses talks Him out of it, which sort of dents one's faith in divine omniscience, does it not, the Lord taking a sharp turn like that? ("Oh, I hadn't thought about that -- OK, cancel the thunderbolt!") But I didn't jump up in my pew and point this out -- we like to keep things moving along in church, recite the Creed, confess our sins, pass the plate, sing the doxology, not stop for questions along the way -- so I just brood over it, as I do about more and more these days. Walk at night down misty streets through yellow leaves and question everything and keep it to myself.

I let other people carry the conversational ball when it comes to religion, or politics, these days. I've known enough old bores to want not to be one of them. Old honkers with ratchety voices who hold everyone hostage and make their point sixteen times and lay waste to the dinner hour. Not me, dear hearts. As I write this, the sun is
coming up over the Mississippi Valley, and in the orange swashes at the horizon is a long string of clouds that one could imagine are mountains. It rises on people facing challenges far beyond anything I've known in my rackety life. A beautiful cheerful woman of 26 has been handed a jagged diagnosis of cancer like a big wet albatross on a necklace. A friend struggles with severe depression, slogging through the day, wishing the meds would kick in. And then there is Patrick, whom I met on Saturday, a very bright boy who lies speechless on a gurney, a trach tube in his windpipe, a pump humming softly on a shelf below. His parents explain that he was stricken by a rare neuromuscular disease and that's all they say about that. They're both animated, buoyant, jokey, and Patrick smiles and raises his eyebrows -- and suddenly one's own tiny troubles aren't worth mentioning.

The existence of human suffering seems to me to affirm the Christian faith. It's the sacred duty of the faithful to uphold the Patricks of the world and their heroic parents against the prevailing Darwinist forces, but a Patrick shouldn't be asked to sit by the roadside waiting for a kindly Christian motorist to stop -- he is entitled to mercy as a basic human right, and it is merciful of Christians to expect government to carry out this duty.

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Posted By: michaelsz  on Tuesday, October 14, 2008

This state of the, "economy",...OR,...Should I say, the "state" of The,..."Virtual Economy",...Has been truly more, than a "Smoke & Mirrors",...Of a virtual economy,...It truly been, a virtual gameshow, of "Follow the Leader",...Where the voters, of a democratic nation,...Have seen fit, to elect, an official makeshift, of a real national statesman,...Who bears, a truly strong resemblance, to a "Green Acres", character,...To occupy, the Oval Office,...Where, his has left, his truly & ever rememerable,...And truly indelible mark on the state of the union,...So he could have the leaders of the,..."G7" leaders of the World,...Get a firsthand & upclose look, at his truly remarkable,..."Handiwork",...But, before his using,...His "real" "free ticket",...To his back on,... "Home on the Ranch",...In Texas,...He declares, that the people, the taxpayers, of this once, great nation, have simply to wait,..."Wait a little LONGER",...So, he get out of town,...For the proclaimed,..."Bailout",..."The Losers Program" to,..."WORK",...


Posted By: fencerider rob  on Tuesday, October 14, 2008

What has BHO lead before, nothing. So why do you declare him the best leader we have to pick from? BHO is nothing but a socialist in moderates clothing. Ready to lead us over the cliff with the lemmings (sheeple) right behind. Wake up America and realize where we are headed, not forward but over the cliff. Roosevelt thought he was the "one" also and did everything he thought would help the masses but only kept us in financial ruin for the entire time he was POTUS (except when WWII pulled our economy out of the gutter). Roosevelt=Obama, their programs are one in the same. BHO will only lead us into greater economic turmoil and prolong the rebound. And as for Matson's cartoon of MLK holding up BHO's insignia, what a crock and I apologise to Mr. Kings spirit and family for this misrepresentation of MLK's own ideologies. MLK was never for the big brother government that BHO advocates, he was a staunch conservative who believed in one's self. Shame on you Matson for this horrid representation, anyways according to the MSM, 97% of blacks are already voting racist and need no further coaxing.


Posted By: Jeff  on Tuesday, October 14, 2008

(Rob:  Such a Little Man are you!) Change of subject;  Last night I viewed an advance screening of "W."  It was good.  Very.  And highly accurate for those few of us who are studied upon the Bush Family.  It displays Dubya in his true lifetime of drunkeness, pickled brain, incompetence, and psychopathicities.  Excellent for "family" viewing.

Too bad they waited so long to release it.  But git on out there and see it!  Yeah, even YOU - Joe SixPack!


Posted By: Art W.  on Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Michaelsz . . . Just wondering . . .Why do you . . . Write all of . . . Your posts . . . Like this . . . When I read . . . Them I feel like I  . . . Am on the Cyclone at . . . Coney Island . . . Park and I feel . . . Like I am going . . . To puke on . . . My keyboard.



Jeff: "And highly accurate for those few of us who are studied upon the Bush Family."



You should studied more upon writing sentences gooder.





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Posted By: michaelsz  on Tuesday, October 14, 2008

If, you truly are oblivious, to the fact, of "First person, narrative",...Or in your case,..."No Person",..."Narrative",...!?!


Posted By: Art W.  on Tuesday, October 14, 2008



LOL :)


Posted By: fencerider rob  on Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Jeff, I will not attack you personally, only your ideals. And other than your personal attack at me you said nothing. Please tell me what BHO has done to warrant your adoration? What accomplishments has he endeavored? Again I say NOTHING!! Other than some community organising, which we now are finding about in greater detail is nothing to be proud of, and a short stint in the private sector as a lawyer (I thought you were to only trust your lawyer not others) NOTHING!! Please enlighten me, I am repulsed by the republican candidate and would love some good reason to vote for your man, do you have any other than "It feels right"?


Posted By: John Handforth  on Sunday, October 19, 2008

Neither party put forth the best that they had to offer, but, for better or worse, these two men were the choice of the American people.  Both of the current candidates have character flaws.  McCain left his semi-disabled wife for a rich younger woman.

Obama, on the other hand, lost $7,000,000 for the City of Chicago on a low income housing project that eventually left many people homeless because the construction was so poor that they couldn't get a Certificate of Occupancy.

The old joke about how to tell when a lawyer is lying applies to Obama.

He's lying if his lips are moving, but he is a very impressive speaker and a very intelligent, well educated man.  He is well known for having trained with and represented ACORN many times in the last fifteen years.

Senator Obama should be thankful that John McCain has told his people that not to bring up the subject of "Reverand" Wright.  You know, Mr. "God Damn America" himself.  Senator McCain doesn't feel that there should be any question brought up about Senator Obama's religious views.  It is too bad that Obama's people don't feel the same way when it comes to Sarah Palin.

I will not vote for, or against, either man due to his race.  I served with many good black men in the military, as well as a few sluggards, but sluggards come in all colors, too.

If you look at Senator Obama's election history, you will find that he ran unopposed because Mr. Obama won a seat in the state senate in 1996 by the unorthodox means of having surrogates successfully challenge the hundreds of nomination signatures that candidates submit.  His Democratic rivals, including Alice Palmer, the incumbent, were all disqualified."  Hmmm.  Isn't that the same tactic that he is accusing the GOP of doing?

His election to the U.S. Senate was similarly blessed.  "In the Democratic primary, he was a long shot. But a month before the election, his main opponent, Blair Hull, a wealthy Chicago futures trader, was forced to publish divorce papers that revealed, among other charming details, his wife's claim that he had once threatened to kill her.

In the general election, lightning struck again. His opponent, the engaging Jack Ryan, had run a campaign as a different sort of Republican. But a few months before the election, his divorce papers revealed that, while he might have been a different sort of Republican, he was from precisely the same stable of Obama political opponents. He had, it turned out, once tried to force his former wife to go with him to sex clubs in Paris."

I'm waiting for the "October Surprise" where John McCain will be forced to withdraw...




Posted By: jack sprat  on Monday, October 20, 2008

"Onward, America. We've all seen plenty of the worst -- the sly cruelty, the arrogant ignorance, the fascination with trivia, the cheats, the weaselish and piggish and the buzzardly --"

Oddly I saw that on SNL where they, "the drug rehabed" elite pointedly showed complete bias toward a fellow citizen, in the NYT a scathing hit piece on the qualified candidate's wife, and the weekend sour apple throwing fest at the "plumber", just a regular guy of any description, who had the ordasity of asking a question that revealed BO's true obsession of his quest to "spread the wealth around" "from each according to their ability, to each according need", for that "gaff" of BO's being taken out on someone who had the nerve to question the left's anointed.

If you like his geese herding so much, buy him a whole "herd", but if you want him to "run a country", let him run the little country of Canada, but then they've always been "prejudiced" of thier neighbors.


Posted By: Good Life  on Monday, October 20, 2008

It always amazes me that conservatives will argue against "survival of the fittest" in biology, but say that "survival of the fittest" in economics is the way to go.  Which leads to "survival of the fittest" in human biology.

Maybe we should start giving out titles like in England.


Posted By: jack sprat  on Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Good Life

"Maybe we should start giving out titles like in England."

Gee does Calypso Louie Farrakhan calling BO the "mess-iah" count?

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