Pope Francis Named Man of the Year

Pope Francis was named Man of the Year by Time.  We all expected it and that it would not be Miley Syrus for her twerking.   Johnny Wendell calls her a gifted entertainer but basically she’s just a media freak.  Moe Kelly was in the studio with Johnny.  The other rumor I heard was that the man picked by the military junta that took over in Egypt was man of the year, and that wasn’t the case.  Pope Francis of course is the new villain of the tea party.  Glen Beck, strangely, will call Nelson Mandella a patriot, of which we need more in this country, and yet Pope Francis is second cousin go the Antichrist or something.  I think it’s dawning on the tea party what a threat Pope Francis is to their politics and the potential votes they will get next year.  I may throw in more philosophical stuff when I make a post out of this.  But there is one quote of Johnny Wendell that I got wrong because it’s a typo.   I intended to say that the American people when it comes to the Syria thing are turned off to the whole idea of war now.  But unfortunately I substituted the word “out” for the word “off” changing the whole meaning.  You know about all of the controversial stances the Pope has taken on social issues this year, even going as far as to say that being an atheist even isn’t such a bad thing.

I have discussed my seven cardinal moral virtues.  I do not have sexual purity at marriage as one of them.  For women being a Virgin just increases her material worth to her father, or to some mother trying to pimp her out to raise money.  For a man all they can say that "marriage is a spiritual union that last forever because marriage is a heavenly institution".  Unfortunately Jesus plainly teaches "In the kingdom of God you will not be married".  That should end the argument.  Remember?  The contract goes, "Till death do we part".   Compassion most certainly is a virtue.  But here again the Calvary Chapel freaks are ignorant.  Because they teach that the "highest form of love" is not mankind for mankind, but rather the love of a man of an object.  A woman may say she wishes to be valued like the Hope diamond, but in truth this is the last thing she wants.  Howard Hugues and others had their "stable of women" whom he would "acquire" and then use or not use at his discration.  They were posessions.  They were things.   Gene Scott has spoken many times of this "highest form of love" and you see it in his value system where he charishes objects and uses people.  The Pope rightly has spoken of the evils of the love or rather the lust for more and more money.   There are two of my cardinal virtues I'd like to change just a bit.  I'd like to change "Honesty" to "Integrety" and I'd like to change "perseverence" to "Dilligence".  The motive is the same in both cases.  In both cases the dimension of Responsability is added.  One can be persevering to the point of obsession.  One can be "honest" to the point of being tactless and self serving.   More importantly almost - - is the idea of "Integrety of your own Soul".  Your own Mind can be corrupted with falsehoods, and if it is- - said falsehoods and notions will taint every other decision you make.  The conotation here also is to "produce a product you can be proud of.   You should view the product's integrety as an extension of your own. There is another trait some would have me change.  They'd have me change "Prudence" to Wisdom.  But I won't do that.  Because prudence- - is what you CHOOSE to do with the knowledge you have.  People may acquire Wisdom as a byproduct.  But I don't think they should be condemned is they lack the "resources" shall we say, for instant Wisdom right now.  Wisdom will come in its own time- - if one behaves prudently.  On- - and by the way I don't like that word "Tollerence" either.  It's always sounded morally presumptuous - - either as the one required to BE tollerant, or else the unlucky recipient of the "tollerence" of other groups.   If I think I am just being "tollerated" by say, a Christian group, I've got enough personal pride, just to leave.  Johnny is right.  The word co exist is a better word here.   "You stay out of my face and I'll stay out of yours".  In terms of the virtue of Faithfulness - - the bottom line on this one just might be "Knowing which side your toast is buttered on".  There are times when I believe Loyalty is something that is owed.  It's not something you can "take or leave" depending on what mental rationalizations you care to engage in today.  It's mixed with gratitude and appreciation and a desire "not to let the loved ones we care about Down".    In terms of Justice, we have tagged it 'the pursuit of Justice".  Here we raise the axiom of being true to your moral calling and your higher ideals.  One can if one wishes, say that one is "Obeying the commandments of God" if one wishes.  One's desire should always be to see the spread of fairness and equity and to fight against abuse and oppression and corruption, whereever they crop up.   In terms of Courage - - - I thought of changing this one to "Moral Fortitude" but Courage about says it all, and you know "deep down in places you don't talk about, where the sun doesn't shine" as Jack Nichelson says, whether you posses this trait or not.

Once upon a time there was a legalist congregation pastored by Neil of KFI, who believes that "Actually, man can forgive a sin, but God is so perfect that he cannot in good conscience forgive ANY sin just like that.  Well these parishenors were "rewarded" for their peculiar faith in that each was punished according to the sins they had committed in their life.  It's no surprise that many sexually frustrated menopausal ladies, were guilty of listening to gossip and passing it on.  So they all entered heaven deaf.  But never to fear because Fredrick Price was there "signing" for them.  Unfortunately Freddy Boy was signing gibberish.  When asked by deaf people who had been healed why he did this, Fred said "Look - - it's a gift- - I can turn it on and off at will.  Isn't that wonderful!"   They all looked at him like he'd just fallen out of the paddy wagon.

I want to praise both Johnny Wendell and Moe Kelly for the way they handled the racial profiling situation today.  Apparently there is some Echo Park Latino gang they want to issue special injunctions against, targeting individual members.  This doesn’t seem out of place to me, but the measure had legal challenges.   But they used the Highway 95 analogy, which I would never know, since I have never lived or even visited the East Coast.   (I’ve never been east of the Appelations)  Anyhow they say that one seventh of the dope that passes along that corridor is from Black motorists, whereas one seventh of ALL motorists along that rout or Black.  So in targeting the one seventh who are Black, they are only harming themselves missing out on the 75% that are White.  Or one could look it as going to the supermarket such as a Ralphs with the specific intent to buy Ralphs milk.  You didn’t buy the milk because you sampled it and liked the taste.  And you made the decision to buy it even before you saw the posted price, and it’s not like you were swayed by the design of the carton.  But when you go to an Albertsons you aren’t “profiling” Ralphs milk in this matter.  Whatever you buy at Albertsons is because you looked at the product and made price comparisons and such.  That’s the difference.  When you have it in your mind that you are “going after” any group such as Latinos or Arabs based on basically no hard evidence but it’s “just the way you do things in that department” then we have a problem.   Clearly if a Black woman calls the police who is really in distress, response times will be longer than say – Beverly Hills.   As to the notion of "Black people lacking the mental capacity for higher management positions" I think we're all smart enough to see through this one.  The same thing was said of women - - and gays, for that matter.  It's been proven wrong by some simple disciplined socialogical research and isolating of the proper variables.  If you don't know what that means maybe YOU "Lack a certain reasoning capacity yourself!"

We had a chef’s salad for lunch with corn chowder and a banana for desert.  For the most part I slept through Randy Rhode’s commentary.   She doesn’t seem to take that many callers these days.  This was true both at noon and at two.  Teresa on the soap opera is attempting to blackmail Jack Junior into both doing drugs with her and paying for her supply himself.  She’s nuts.  I think he’s smart enough to know now to have nothing more to do with her and if she calls him to hang up.  Meanwhile Samantha and Elvis continued their strange conversation- - and I guess are proof positive that a relationship needs more than good sex to survive, because it’s all they have.  I just don't think personally I could sexually warm up to a woman who fanticizes about comitting revenge murders while she's climaxing.  She's really worse than a slut.  She's like a slut in that she seems to be a complete slave to her sexual impulses.  But she's as hypocritical as a blue blood lady singing in a Baptist Church choir.