Little is known about last night’s volley of fire at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner other than the shooter is in custody and there is little in his background to indicate he would do such a thing. But then he is from Southern California where Trump hatred is thicker than the smog. This marks three attempts on Donald J. Trump’s life in a relatively short period of time – and not that long after someone shot up a freaking Congressional baseball game. The last time I can remember a grouping of so-called “political violence” like this was the late ’60’s. I think it indicative of massive social/cultural change, which defined the ’60’s and the Civil War when Lincoln as assassinated. But why do people struggle so with such change?. . .
In recent weeks a picture is emerging out of Southern California that is actually quite disturbing. I have assumed that all the anti-ICE, open borders nonsense was simply reactionary – that it was born of simply doing the opposite of what Trump wanted because “Orange Man Bad.” I am not so sure anymore.. . .
It is extremely difficult here in East Tennessee to get people to understand just how nuts California was during covid. I tell stories and they simply look at me in disbelief. I keep trying to explain to people that they banned church and it took the Supreme Court to stand them down, but people here think such things somehow impossible. The worst thing about it was, the powers that be in California thought they were righteous. They were operating with fine intent – to save lives – but they failed to understand that killing freedom in that fashion would cost far more lives than covid could dream about taking in the long run. But worst of all, despite massive emigration, severe SCOTUS spankings and a disastrous loss in tax income – they have not learned their lesson.. . .
Everybody with any common sense whatsoever knows that there is nothing real about “reality television.” It may be unscripted, but that does not make it real in any reasonable meaning of that word. It is produced, staged, edited and packaged. It is made far more interesting, far prettier, and far more engaging than reality will ever be. Even a reality show featuring raw footage, like “Cops,” culls hundreds of hours of recording to get a 30 minute program and the encounters are heavily edited. But I wonder if people can tell the difference anymore?. . .
Roll Call yesterday carried a story about a case SCOTUS is about to hear. The essence – “AT&T and Verizon have contested determinations by the FCC that they violated consumer privacy rules and owed $57 million and $47 million, respectively. They argued that the FCC process, which Congress created in 1960, violated the constitutional right to a jury trial.” You bet your bottom dollar it did!. . .
The very latest, “As the nation prepares for its 250th Independence Day celebration, a decades-long California Fourth of July fireworks tradition that has raised millions for local children’s programs is going dark this year after the California Coastal Commission rejected a final effort to keep it alive, citing environmental concerns to protect the bay.” Immensely unfortunate, but terribly unsurprising.. . .
The Sermon On The Mount – as preached by Jesus in Matthew 5-7 – is one of those passages of scripture, often cited, but rarely explored in depth. It is quite long and contains parts everybody loves (the Beatitudes) and warnings no one wants to really hear because they are hard. One of those less explored and harder to hear parts came to my mind this morning,. . .
The title quotes 1 Thessalonians 5:21, but it seems so apt after Thursday’s show. That show featured interviews and clips of remarkable depth and insight. Let’s examine.. . .
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