November 17, 2020
In case people who see themselves as Bible believers support this firing, I have a few verses for them to read from their scripture (it’s mine, too - bet they can’t chant it in Hebrew - from Parashat Mishpatim).
They probably think this applies to people who agree with me. Well, just trying to beat them to the punch in quoting chapter and verse(s).
I applaud this responsible person, yet another one who has been fired, who tried to stem the tide of rumors coming from the administration.
Exodus Chapter 23
1 You must not carry false rumors; you shall not join hands with the guilty to act as a malicious witness: 2 You shall neither side with the mighty to do wrong—you shall not give perverse testimony in a dispute so as to pervert it in favor of the mighty....
7 Keep far from a false charge; do not bring death on those who are innocent and in the right, for I will not acquit the wrongdoer. 8 Do not take bribes, for bribes blind the clear-sighted and upset the pleas of those who are in the right. 9 You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt.
November 18, 2020
438 new cases of COVID-19 in Dona Ana County, NM. Wow. We are wearing our masks, staying home, and, if we do go out for essentials, it will be a very quick trip!
It ENRAGES me to hear about health officials and health care workers who are receiving death threats for doing their jobs and trying to keep people safe, patients in ICUs who are dying of COVID-19 who don’t believe it because “it is a hoax” (so sorry to hear of their illness and deaths), and the adminsitration’s press secretary saying that some measures intended to keep case numbers down are Orwellian.
If you believe in God, what would you do if God told you to follow these measures?
Well, God already did that.
“Choose Life.”
Let’s do our best.
Condolences to the families of the 250,000-plus Americans who have died during this pandemic.
Wishing strength and wisdom for our health care workers.
Hoping for insight on the part of legislators to be able to provide people with the proper financial support and assistance to get through this challenge.
November 19, 2020
All of you lawyers, along with most of one party, trying to undermine one of the most secure elections ever (which is so because everyone was watching and being extra careful): go ahead, do your thing, and if you/your party win based on your alternate reality constructed for the benefit of your leader, REAL REALITY is going to come back and hit you right in the face - and, maybe, a few other places, too. I am concerned for what will happen to the citizens of our country, but, you don’t seem to care about that. Just know we haven’t believed you much before —not for lack of trying — but we most certainly will never believe you again. You may think you don’t need the affirmation of someone like me and people who believe like me. You are mistaken. We will make sure that your history of falling in line in this campaign of sabotage will be recorded for decades to come, and beyond.
November 24, 2020
As some people are trying to build up, attempting to find a variety of partners in their efforts, others, following a force that has overtaken their perspective, seem to want want to try to burn down at least part of the house, hoping to shake faith in our participation in choosing our leaders, so that we will never take part again, or, at least, we will think twice before we do.
I, for one, won’t let them do it.
I have faced lies on picket signs on a daily basis, some with my name (or the name of my congregation) on them.
The lies are no longer on picket signs. Do I liken the messages on the picket signs I saw in my past to the current posts bearing untruths that are driving people to continue believe in and spread conspiracies and baseless accusations?
Yes. I do.
As I have said recently, I come from a people who has had to endure prejudice, discrimination and murder as a result of baseless accusations and unfounded claims that have persisted not only for years, but for centuries.
My people’s history is instructive for our current situation.
Let’s find a way back to truths and facts that more and more people will accept together.
PS - See Thomas Friedman’s column now linked to my post.
I add my gratitude to people with integrity.
November 26, 2020
I would like to ignore the tidal wave of disrespect I just heard coming from an incumbent lame duck leader....
The disrespect was aimed at...
Voters and their competence.
Poll workers and vote counters.
Secretaries of State.
Early, in-person voting.
Mail-in voting (yes, still).
The incumbent’s opponent, who “couldn’t have received that many votes.”
Mathematics.
Voting methods that Secretaries of State, state election officials, and intelligence officials have said worked like a charm, because of good preparation.
The truth.
Honest dealings between people.
Moral and biblical standards that decry bearing false witness, spreading rumors,
Rules about evidence, whether in personal statements or in a court of law.
Sadly, I was unable to ignore it, as I heard it in its entirety.
Just another day in November 2020 America.
Yet, on this Thanksgiving Day, I am thankful for
Poll workers and vote counters.
Voters who voted.
Government officials who have worked hard to count votes with timeliness and accuracy, despite harassment of all kinds.
Honesty among all of the above and among public office holders.
Truth-tellers.
People who see that the greater national good goes well beyond one person.
May we remain steadfast in what America means to us.
November 28, 2020
Watching a program on television that is recounting the Birther movement with regards to President Obama, where businessman Donald Trump perpetrated a conspiracy theory that was only that, and NOT TRUE, it is obvious to me that, with the tweet today from the incumbent that “BIDEN NEEDS TO PROVE HE GOT 80 MILLION VOTES” — because, says the incumbent, WITHOUT PROOF, that the election was rife with fraud — that businessman IS PERPETRATING YET ANOTHER CONSPIRACY THEORY similar to the birth certificate claim, where he says, over and over, something that is NOT TRUE without proving it and claims that the burden of proof rests on the his target.
Well that run-on sentence/paragraph, in the style of author Frank McCourt, was certainly a challenge. Wish I didn’t have to write it.
I am thankful for people who dismiss conspiracy theories, and those who once accepted them and realize, before it is too late, that someone totally ideologically hoodwinked them.
December 2, 2020
We need leaders who treat poll workers and public officials as dedicated public servants to the country, not as lackeys in a diabolical plan to bypass election result so that the resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue can remain out of reach from the REAL law and order people.
Democrats are standing up to support these election officials, WHO DID THEIR JOB.
Many Republicans are not standing up, implying that people who did their job that led to a result that the Republican Party did not desire must have been part of some conspiracy. No, that’s not the problem. It’s you who have no backbone, no moral center, to really stand up for democracy, because you fear that the people who don’t honor honest election officials will, ultimately, not honor or respect you.
I pray that this was not our last free Democratic election.
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