living in their promised land

People are people, some are good, some are not.  There are good and bad people in the USA and there are good and bad people in middle east and the proportions of each is approximately equal in both areas.  I say this in terms of goodness being measured in their observation of the golden rule.  Beagles' general definition of good and bad is how well they ally themselves with the USA, and by that they are not so good. 

A week or two ago I brought up the concept of our souls being in some sort of line waiting our turn to inhabit a body.  Since things are changeable here on earth the waiting soul does not know what body it will inhabit.  If Beagles' mom had had a headache as he was at the head of the line, he could well have been born in Iran, and he would likely hate America too and think that it was a moral cesspool and that there was nobody good there.


Christians can build a church wherever they please, but for Jews of antiquity there was only one temple and it was in Jerusalem.  They were pretty headstrong and the Romans didn't like that so they destroyed the temple and Jerusalem and the Jews were scattered through the world.  I think they were promised the land of Israel in the days of Moses.  Anyway they still considered Israel the promised land in their exile.  In the early days of Zionism a few other places were considered the promised land but their hearts belonged to Israel.

So if America was the promised land, as Beagles' revelation told him it was, they would want to come here, and they would want it to be a Jewish state, and other people could still live here but they would have to obey the rules they made, and if they wanted Beaglestonia they would take it, and there would be no mention of a fair price.


Nancy is playing a bad hand well.  When things are not going your way you welcome a disruption of any kind, and this was one.  It upset the big baby and made him more adamant about a circus trial, and by circus I don't mean a bad thing, but one with witnesses.  A few days ago it looked like there might be some dissenting rep sens, and with Bolton sticking his big pink toe into the waters it looked like she was having some success.  But now Moscow Mitch appears to have the senate locked up and Bolton isn't saying nothing, so for the nonce it appears that Nancy's gambit is not working out.  On the other hand the dems are no worse off than if they hadn't done it, so nothing ventured, nothing gained.