Letters: An obvious puppet; Why doesn’t the U.S. stand up for decency?
An obvious puppet
Harkening back to the infamous bumbling statement by Donald Trump during a presidential debate with Hillary Clinton: “Puppet ... no puppet.”
Fast forwarding to the current day, in my opinion it seems evident that Trump has become quite the puppet to the demands of his richest-man-in-the-world roommate Elon Musk, an unelected person now pulling his puppet strings.
Why doesn’t the U.S. stand up for decency?
There is so much inhumanity to bring us to tears right now — the invasion of Ukraine and the murder of their people, our President-elect’s support of authoritarian governments and disdain for our democratic allies are only the tip of the iceberg. But our continued support by both Democratic and Republican parties of Israel’s obvious attempted genocide of the Palestinian people should be frightening.
As Nazi Germany began the systematic murder of Jews, right wing factions in the U.S. caused our country to sit on the sidelines until we were attacked at Pearl Harbor. Now, as Israel is systematically wiping out Palestine as a country and Palestinians as a people, we are not only holding back criticism but even continuing to send weapons to Israel used to kill Palestinian women and children.
Trump has identified Mike Huckabee as his, our country’s, ambassador to Israel. Huckabee has in essence approved the genocide of Palestinians. Don’t people of color and/or of non-Christian religion in our country and worldwide realize that they are next? Do U.S. Christians truly approve of this genocide? Is that WWJD?
I have no doubt but that certain factions will label this perspective as anti-Semitism. That’s totally crap. There’s no anti-Semitism involved here.
What have we learned, where are our values? Why doesn’t the U.S. stand up for decency?
Reflecting through Christmas carols
Reflecting on the meaning of Jesus’ birth as presented in the traditional Christmas carols.
From “Hark The Herald Angels Sing”:
born that man no more may die, born to raise the sons of earth,
born to give us second birth.
From “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”:
To save us all from Satan’s power
When we were gone astray
From “What Child Is This?:
Why lies He in such mean estate
Where ox and ass are feeding?
... Nails, spear shall pierce him through,
The Cross be borne for me, for you;
The lyrics communicate the Good News of God’s love.
“… for while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8
Finding astronomy’s objects
Science insists that, as astronauts in the space station see, the Earth is a planet in space.
Where then is the planet?
In Baroque theory the universe is both isocentric and isotropic.
But I say, the universe’s objects are placed from the sun at the center of the solar system, the sun is placed from these ground’s home here, and this ground is actualized as man faces the open future and morally acts.
The act there at the crux deploys up and down, back and front, left and right, which only then makes cosmology possible.
Where then ultimately are astronomy’s objects?
They are found from here where we cross the public square and cordially take each others hands. In that grip the good is in play and this shows the directions of the stars within the grounded world of which man in the great hero.