Obama's 100 Days

King of the Communists

Much has been made of President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office, including the public display of an utterly inappropriate depiction of Him wearing a crown of thorns. The image posted here carries the absurdity to its logical conclusion: that Obama is the Savior. Barack Obama, Rex Marxismus.

Here is is my short summary of our President's three biggest accomplishments since taking the oath:

1. The exacerbation of the stock market crash. It started when the Democrats took control of the Congress and got worse after the inauguration. The US stock market is a capitalist machine; the fear of Marxist thought becoming official policy is, in my opinion, the cause of the crash's enormous depth. Of course, the downturn owes something to the mortgage mess, but I believe that was also caused by the leftist Congress with some help from Bush II's spineless capitulation and collaboration.
2. The unbelievable increase in US government spending and concomitant borrowing. The current Congress has spent more money than ever before, partly out of rampant fears induced by the 'accomplishment' listed above. We now face generations of onerous taxation and the threat of runaway inflation. The automobile industry bailout, the stimulus packages, with their embedded pork-barrel imprudence have spent America into the poorhouse. Obama managed to create such a panic in Congress that the passed legislation they didn't even have time to read.
3. The Fear. Our national posture has changed from one of a mighty force for righteousness in the world to one of helplessness, weakness, capitulation and inaction. This has made the people feel fearful and insecure. I don't think this is accidental or an 'unintended consequence' of the Obama plan. The President seems to want to raise the level of fear and the sense of uncertainty among Americans more every day. An example is the recent scare caused when Obama, as Commander in Chief, had the jumbo jet and fighter planes buzz New York City recently.

I believe President Obama is using the tactics of Saul Alinsky to effect an American Communist Revolution by stealth. There, I said it. You don't have to agree. Not yet.
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photoshop by ptg

Feedlot Garden Report

Summer Squash

The feedlot garden took a beating during the Big Blow we had on June 27th. I couldn't feel too badly about the damage; it was small potatoes compared to the widespread suffering and expense caused by that ill wind. The squash pictured above grew new leaves to cover up the ones riddled with hail holes. I'm eating these little yellow delicacies every day now.

Green Tomatoes

The tomatoes didn't look very good after the storm. I hadn't staked them up yet, and it looked like they might not recover. After giving them a few days to heal, I propped them up and put some wire mesh around them. All the tomato plants but one recovered nicely and have set lots of fruit. The one that didn't survive was replaced by a volunteer from last year's detritus.

The hot pepper plants are tough as nails. All of them are doing well. The jalapenos and cayennes (which I love to eat green, like a cajun) are producing enough to keep my eats as hot as I want. It looks like there will be plenty for pickling and drying. The traditional chilis and the red habaneros are always slower to mature. My banana peppers had fruit set, but the storm knocked them off. Now they are laden with fast growing replacement fruits.

I have faith that there will be a bountiful harvest.
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I could never understand why folks insist on reading Jesus' parable of the sower as if it were an allegory. It isn't, unless you believe the disciples interpretation. I've never trusted Jesus' disciples very far; one reason is their explanation of many parables as allegories.

A parable touches upon truth at one point only. The parabola in geometry is a curve drawn equidistant from a point and a straight line. Only at one single point on the parabola does it come the closest to the point and the straight line. In an allegory, each aspect of the story has a corresponding point of truth which it represents.

The disciples allegorize the parable of the sower by making the seeds be the "word", the different soils into the "hearers of the word", etc. In my understanding of the message of Jesus, this is a grotesque corruption of Jesus' message. Read as a parable, the story of the sower promises a bountiful harvest, punto final. I find this reassurance in keeping with the main "don't worry, be happy' line of Christian faith as expressed in many of the parables of Jesus.
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BTW: As these pictures I took today show, the corn is all silks and tassels here.

Pope pours it on a Mohammedan apostate for Easter

Pope Benedict baptises Magdi Allam

At the Vatican, Pope Benedict kicked off the Easter weekend today by babtizing a well known Italian journalist who converted to Catholicism from being a born Mohammedan. There are many ways to read this story. I like this one. Anyone for rejoicing?