Archive for April 2009
Steynian 343
~ PALM SUNDAY, 2009– the first day of Holy Week, also called Passion Sunday. It’s a reminder of the fickleness of human politics– “Hosanna!” on Sunday becomes “Crucify!” on Friday.
Everyone in the scene thinks they understand what’s going on– but Jesus alone understands he marches as a humble King to his own death, not as a general and conquest, or as a false messiah and false promises to fulfill all our worst desires.
Even his chose 12 apostles do not rightly understand what he speaks of with dying and the third day: they sense his set purpose, and that he has spoken of dying– what sense that makes in light of a new kind of Kingdom is not yet clear– yet Jesus prepares them for that, too. They will not understand until he has risen again, what he goes up to a new Passover, himself the lamb, his own the blood, by which God’s people will be delivered– once for all– from sin, and death, and hell.
Another war? Wars never cease. Another politician? Promises, promises. Unlike any other claimant to Messiah, before or after, the Carpenter of Nazareth would not fight to the last drop of his follower’s blood. This is a different Kingdom, run by eternal and highest rules, and seeking no passing utopia, or the slaughter of enemies.
Not Dead…
.. just slowed down for a day or three. Meatspace is tracking sub-optimal at the moment.
Plus, my awesome mouse (MS Trackball Explorer) is dying. Wahh.
Anybody out there want to contribute towards raising $1K (flight, hotel, incidentals) so we can get Ezra to visit/ Book Tour in Nova Scotia for Shakedown? Just let me know:
binks.webelf_at_gmail.com.
Binks
Steynian 342
Need Mo' Money? Just Print It!
Back In The USSA
~ STUPID DEM ECONOMICS: The rapine, pillage & plunder of the American economy & corporations continues, as the world looks on is stunned silence. Obama is a usurper, and now becoming a destroyer. He is the embodied wrath of liberal politics turning itself against America.
Where are we? Well, just like the unsecured mortgage crisis, where people bought houses with money they didn’t have, now the American Government is trying to prop up the economy with money it does not have. The Obama-solution? Print more money.
What does this mean? America’s economy is officially on life support, and the Fed is now printing imaginary money to pump into the U.S. economy (to the tune of $1 Trillion) almost two weeks ago. Imaginary. Hyper-inflationary. Unthinkable monetary suicide.
One Trillion, plus...
