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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

the naming of things

Most people don't name their stuff so I have to do it for them, which they find annoying, but after awhile they get used to it.  Take Ronald Reagan (formerly known by the dull appellation of 'the tractor'), see how he takes to his name?  Doesn't he stand a little taller?  Doesn't he seem more eager to rev up and get to getting down with what is right?  And I'll wager the next time you steer him you will notice that he pulls a little to the right, and there is nothing wrong with that is there?

And for whatever gun that doesn't get the name Sarah Palin, may I suggest Michelle Bachmann, a newer, sharper, better-looking upgrade to Sarah? And Carly Fiorina, though I think that name is better suited to a handgun.  I think firearms are better with female names because we liberals know how attached you gun nuts get to your guns, and we know you don't want to get caught writing any love poems to Newt Gingrich.

The Anglicans were just Catholics with the king of England instead of the pope, so of course they would keep the saint thing.  And the Episcopalians obviously had to ditch King George come the revolution.  I don't think they replaced him with anybody in particular.  But I guess I didn't cling to the faith of the nearest protestant church long enough to know that you could call him just Paul.  Paul the Apostle (even though he wasn't an apostle), was that so that we wouldn't confuse him with Paul the guy who is always hanging out by the Seven Eleven?

The first church didn't have any saints, they didn't invent that for a few hundred years I think, about the time they were getting organized.  And at that time they realized that they didn't have any popes for those early years and they just made up these guys and stuck them in.  They are still there in the official church whatever even though everybody knows they never existed.  You can find it on wiki.

I believe a little bit of wiki research will show you that other religions do not urge their followers to hate their enemies.  Land sakes young fellow where do you get them fool ideas?

You know who turns the other cheek? The Amish.  There is a movie called Witness from 1985 where Harrison Ford goes undercover among the Amish to protect some witness, a hot young Amish babe natch, from mobsters or drug lords, or whatever, and at one point he gets in a dispute with one of The English (as I'm sure you know they call us) who is just ragging all over him because he thinks he is Amish and will turn the other cheek.  And Harrison looks around and notices there's nobody else around to blow his cover, and he pops him a good one, and the audience went wild I am sure.

See because even though Harrison Ford lived among the Amish and learned their simple and honest ways and cherished them he knew that the phrase turn the other cheek was not complete without the addendum, unless nobody is looking.

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