Filthy socialists living in nasty encampments! Hippies, anarchists, freeloaders!
To hear the likes of Rush and Hannity, it's enough to make me want to puke. Oh, not the OWS folks. The hate mongers and apologists for the one percent.
If socialism is a threat to "our way of life," why then is it that our government's primary source of revenue comes in the form of money created out of thin air and backed by mega loans from a communist country, i.e. "Red" China. Some os are old enough to recall a time, not all that long ago, when the predominent "red(?)-blooded American" mantra was:
Then there was: 
And the ubiquitous:
And by the way, why do they call them "red" states when reporting election results?
And what does any of this have to do withbeing posted on my ordained ULC ministerial blog?
Like it or not, who I am is informed by all that to which I have been, with and without personal volition, exposed for some 63 odd years to date. Even though I have outgrown the need and constriction of believing in the invisible guy who lives in the sky and the "apples of his eye," not the least of which includes the "only beggoten" who he allegedly "begot" out of wedlock with someone elses virgin fiance, so the kid could grow to be a man and take away the "sins of the world" through allowing himself to have the shit beaten out of him, have 9" nails driven through his wrists and ankles--all because he went about performing magic tricks and telling folks about how his non-custodial parent (he's invisible, but he handmade the all that is, and he loves you, and he's wiser and stronger than everybody put together, and--this is the cool part--just like Santa, he's everywhere at the same time, always, he know's if you've--according to his rules--been bad or good, and if you don't believe in what I tell you, you're going to die and burn forever in a special place me and dad created that we call hell), appear to die and not stay dead, and will one day come back to suck all his dead believers out of the grave along with those "who are alive and remain," slaughter this rival gang leader we've all come to know and love as "Satan" (this guy is so cool, any and everybody who doesn't choose to posse up with the invisible guy and his son, by default, belongs to the anti-invisible guy's crew and will be slaughtered accordingly), so we reprobates will go on the eternal barbie, while all the Republicans get mansions in the invisible dude's magic kingdom called "the New Jerusalem" in the 66 volume IPO it's stakeholder's refer to as "the good book."
Despite the lengthy rant, I still find useful ideas in that prospectus. As so I do in the literature put out by the other mutal hedge groups under such titles as The Tao te Ching, The Dhammapada, The Qur'an, the writings of the Fourth Way School, The Velveteen Rabbit, Stranger in a Strange Land, Hayduke Lives, the poetry of Whitman, Yeats, Rumi, Dickinson. Ferlinghetti, Wallace Berry, Richard Brautigan, and Stevie Smith, and film clips of Sasha Grey.
I wonder, has anyone ever been ex-communicated from the ULC?
To be continued. . . Next Time: Things Start to Get Weird
