Losing Faith in an Icon is Sweet Misery

Tell me it is not true.

When I was a kid I had a half dozen things I loved.

My Mother of course.

My dog Rocky.

My Daddy.

Santa Claus (the Coke Version)

Baby Jesus

Coca Cola (with peanuts)

As I grew older of course I added and subtracted things on the list but Baby Jesus and Coca Cola stayed on it.

One of the greatest days in my life was when I went down to the Earl's Gas station in town and found them selling KING SIZE COKE!



One of the saddest days was when Coca Cola got rid of real sugar and added corn syrup to Coke.
My uncle Alley, a corn farmer, thought is was great however. We just raised wheat and cotton so it didn't help us none. Recently, I was really happy when a large Mexican Mercado opened down the street selling pure cane sugar Coke in bottles. Of course being a diabetic my consumption is strictly limited.



As I grew up my understanding of Jesus did too. Unfortunately my concept of Coke did not change fast enough.
Jesus became Grace.
Now Coke has become Greed.
How much is enough?
Coke wants the Health Reform Bill killed and is putting $$$ millions in all sorts of places to do so.
Why? How much money do you need? You can double the cost of a coke and they would still sell. But if it is in tax, Coke won't get any of it. Is that it?



My faith in Jesus is still intact, how be it somewhat more mature than when King Size Coke was introduced. But my admiration for Coke is diminished by their stance that profits are more important than the health of our Nation. Seems short sighted to me. The longer people live the more Coke they could drink. I thought about buying some stock and then telling them about my long term idea, but then I found out it was a family owned outfit?

Sad.

Diet Dr. Pepper is my can of choice these days.
(No, No, Dr. Pepper is not bottled by Coke, No NO!)

Being Anti-Hispanic is not Being Anti-Hispanic, Old White Boys Contend

Update:

Sonia Sotomayor is now the first Hispanic, the third woman, and the third person of color ever to be appointed to the SCOTUS. Vote was 68 to 31. Both Oklahoma Senators voted against her. Both Arizona Senators voted against her. Those 31 boys and girls voting against her will be remembered come November 2010. Indeed they will even be remembered, even if they are not running. Their endorsement of others in the House will be an anathema to Hispanic voters. They will try to explain away their sin, but it won't work. The 31 Senators were very stupid to do this. In the next 14 months they may be a whole lot more Hispanics become eligible to vote than they have guessed there would be. This is a culture that does not take insults easily and does not forget those who give them.

As an extra observation, with this obtuse Republican anti-Obama vote on a SCOTUS appointee, Obama is now completely free to appoint whomever he pleases next time. He owes bi-partisanship no more lip service or deference. It is a waste of time. Within two years, bi-partisan will mean working with and between the blue and yellow dogs to get stuff done. The Republicans are slipping into Whigdom.

Senate poised to make history with Sotomayor vote

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS (AP)

WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor stands on the verge of making history as the Supreme Court's first Hispanic justice, despite staunch opposition from Republicans who call her ill-suited for the bench.

The Democratic-led Senate is set to vote Thursday to confirm President Barack Obama's high court nominee, a 55-year-old appeals court judge of Puerto Rican descent who was raised in a New York City housing project, educated in the Ivy League and served 17 years on the federal bench.

Sotomayor picked up more GOP support Wednesday even as nearly three-quarters of the Senate's 40 Republicans said they would vote "no" and contended she would bring liberal bias and personal sympathies to her decisions. With all Democrats expected to back her, she has more than enough votes to be confirmed, barring a surprise turn of events, in one of the Senate's last actions before it breaks for the summer...."

Poised to make history, in many more ways than one.

How to f... away five States: 30 Republicans in the Senate just don't get it. After watching two Senators talking about Sotomayor make racist fools out of themselves while trying to at the same time say I am not a racist fool, I have to say , DUFASS! Do they think that the Spanish Language stations won't trot out the video tape of them voting against a Hispanic next election cycle? Have they no shame in saying how much they admire the lady and then basically calling her a racist, and proving that they are one?

Basically what they are saying, and what the population of color in America is hearing is that only a white male can make racial pure judgements. They are saying, that if you are an ethnic judge you should not encourage others of you race to aspire to the bench or you will be a racist.

Then the grey haired old white fools point to her work for the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund. The last I heard Puerto Rica was part of America. Would they be upset if she had served on the board of the Texas Legal Defense fund?

These actions alone will cost four or five Red States their Republican status. Lord how dumb can you get?

So Why Does He Rub

Yesterday I watched Glen Beck give an anti-Obama tirade on Obama's own birthday.

Yes, I know Glen is crazy and getting more so. People go nuts when they have to take their weekly salaries to the bank in wheel barrows. It just works that way. Poor boys who had nothing to lose and now have everything to lose, well they just can't stand the pressure. Of course I'm jealous, but that's not what I'm writing about.

What I want to know is why does Glen Beck rub his nipples on the air and make faces like he is in ectasy? I was watching a segment with the sound muted while I took a call, and I begin to see that he was doing that. Good Lord I thought, surely not! So I went to the site and watched the first few minutes of several previous episodes. Yes, it is true.

So why does he rub his nipples on TV, and what does that say?

Senate Republicans: Please Take Your Recess W/O Acting on Clunker Bill

Let me extend my complete support and encouragement to Mitch McConnell and Jon Kyl the number one and number two Republicans in the U.S. Senate:

WASHINGTON — Republican opposition is stalling Senate efforts to keep the popular "cash for clunkers" program alive. The program, which gives consumers who trade in old gas-guzzlers for more fuel-efficient models as much as $4,500 each, is likely to end by the weekend unless the Senate approves additional funding.

Senate Republican leaders railed against it Monday, calling the program a model of government inefficiency and out-of-control spending.

The program originally got $1 billion, but all but exhausted that funding last week, its first. The House of Representatives approved another $2 billion on Friday, but the Senate's balking.

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., the Senate's second-ranking Republican, said Monday that "I don't care about the political risk. I'm concerned about the process and about how the government is going to pay for this . . . $4,500 is a lot of money to give somebody to buy a car who was already going to buy a car."

You are absolutely correct to filibuster this bill and keep Obama from giving away our tax dollars to those Joe Six-Packs and Red Neck Mothers who are trading in their gas guzzling pickup trucks for fuel efficient Ford Focuses. How will we be able to recognize this element on the road if they look like everybody else? This transfer of wealth and melding of social classes needs to be stopped NOW!

Kill this bill before you go home. Please, please kill this bill and show that you are a Party of principles. Don't be worried that selfish self serving hecklers who may have lost out on the deal at the last minute will bother your town meetings. Don't worry about those way too small car dealers for whom a half dozen sales means survival. Kyl is correct it is worth the political risk. Go home and shit on the Health Insurance Reform Bill , if you pass the Clunker Bill that will distract from your efforts to kill the health bill. Americans are satisfied with the health care they have and they should be happy with the cars they have. In the name of Democracy, please kill the Clunker Bill. Do it, I double yellow dog dare you.

C Street Has Attracted Dooms Bury

Long ago Doonesbury had a series of cartoons about The County Commissioners in Oklahoma.
He was of course "just" following the news of the corruption investigations about these guys, but it was interesting how much more attention was paid to the investigation once it made this "comic" strip.

Check out the Doonesbury strip for today:

To many this may seem to be a story about Washington D.C. and

the corruption inside the beltway. But for Oklahoma it will become a local story

about how a series of our leaders were seduced into a pseudo-christian

sect promising them a better world, a special place in Christ's court on earth, and recognition of their own special nature in the Universe. Good men are easily seduced by the promise of a better world.

No telling where Doonesbury will take this, but I hope someday to see a cartoon cell with the little brick duplex at 4809 S GUM AVE BROKEN ARROW, OKLAHOMA 74011 which is owned by the INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION a wholly controlled element of C Street and that particular residential zip code shows $30 million dollars in assets on last years NFP report.

Southern Baptist don't really take to secret sects wielding power over them, nor do most other Oklahomans. We kind of like things up front and open, and don't much think Jesus is in need of people sneaking around to get the things done in this world that He wants done.

So brother Doonesbury, you rock! Go for it!

Now if we could just get James Bond interested in C Street because of its plan for WORLD DOMINATION we would have a real story.

One of Them There Pastoral Metaphors

Visa, that's the name of my calico cat, Visa, I said as she sat on my lap while I sipped my first morning latte, you sure do smell funky. Have you tangled with a skunk? Did you sleep under the house last night?

Finally, I said, Visa why don't you get down so as to let me drink my morning's caffeine in olfactory peace? So she left, but the funk remained.

Then I had an epiphany. My wife has been gone for about five days so the level of debris around my easy chair has grown as it is wont to do. So sure enough there in the pile right in the middle of a clean dirty paper plate was a dead mouse in the middle stages of ripe. It was obvious a sacrifice and gift from Visa to me as homage or just in case I got hungry.

As I pondered this, it occurred to me that our little sacrifices to the Lord must sometimes seem to Him like that ripe little mouse. I recall that such was said in the Bible somewhere, maybe in the OT, that "their" sacrifices were as a stench in the nostrils of God.

I don't remember what God did about that, but I threw out the sacrifice, poured out my coffee, and aired out the temple.

Back of the Book

I've spent a long session
Preparing for the final test
I've read and studied the entire text
I've done the experiments and recorded their results
Then swept up the remains
I've tried to commune with those gone before
But they don't respond or give me the answers
I've spent all semester seeking
Looking for the Teacher's Edition of the Text
I suspect the answers are in the back of the Book
Cause they most surely aren't up front
Soon my whole class will take the exam
Each have to pass or fail on their own
If I don't muster my private rapture and fail
If I don't pass
Do I have to repeat

--William Sandia