“And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies:
      but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
      and they know not me,
            saith the LORD.
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour,
      and trust ye not in any brother:
for every brother will utterly supplant,
      and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
And they will deceive every one his neighbour,
      and will not speak the truth:
they have taught their tongue to speak lies,
      and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit;
      through deceit they refuse to know me,
            saith the LORD” (Jeremiah 9.3-6)
 
I know that it is all very dizzying, but let’s see if we can get this straight.

First, the man has a psychotic break, accompanied by delusions, and makes clearly false and easily refutable slanderous accusations.

“Obama wiretapped my palace.”

“The Martians are coming.”
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Then, with a cynicism unparalleled in our national history, he doubles down on his fantasy, and calls upon congress to waste its time and money investigating his obvious delusion.

Everyone knows it’s a lie.

When it is clear to everyone but fools that there was no wiretapping, well, “it’s in quotes.” Even fools should understand that when something is placed in quotes, it is an indication, apparently, that it is not meant to say what you think it says.

Are you keeping up with this? Well, it gets better.

Rather than admit that he is simply out of his mind, the president accuses our closest international ally of doing the dirty work for Obama!

Where is Kafka when you need him. It is all absurdity. It is madness. One hardly knows where to put the exclamation points!

I am sorry, but the man is an idiot. That’s not anger speaking. It is a simple unassailable fact. The world is round (unless you are a certain NBA player), and the man is a sick, sick man. Totally mental. The latter is as certain as the former.

But, it gets better. He is not yet finished with this delusion.

“Oh, no evidence that the British are coming? Well I heard it on FOX. I’m just reporting what I heard them say. Go take it up with them!”

The madness here is simply too deep to plumb.

“You’re not a blasted reporter, (read expletive here). You’re,” gulp, “President of the United States of America. Act like it!”

First, get on some medication to stop your delusions. Second, stop lying. Third, be a man and learn to say, “I was wrong.” Fourth, learn your lesson and stop being duped by the money grubbing cynics over at FOX. It is not a—I was going to say “legitimate news source,” but that is giving it too much credit. It is not a news source at all. It is a source of traitorous lies.

Now, one might say, “This is a small thing. Stop picking on him over trivial matters. Let’s see what he can do with the things that really matter.”

Well, that’s just it. There are, in fact, much more important issues: health care, immigration, regulation, global warming.

But, if he cannot discern reality from fantasy in this small matter of wiretapping, how in the world is he to be trusted with these more important matters?

He can’t.

If his judgement is so poor in discerning a news story from a traitor’s tale, how is he to be trusted with the big, important stuff?

He is not.

If he doesn’t understand what is appropriate behavior and what is inappropriate behavior in a small matter, how can we place our trust in him?

We can’t.

If he is such a loose cannon as to make incendiary accusations against an ally, what kind of trouble will he get our nation into with those who are our enemies?

Disastrous.

Besides, we have already seen him in action in relation to important things. Look what he’s done with immigration. It is downright evil… in the Christian sense. Lucifer inspired and directed. Then, devoid of conscience, he lies to the courts about his intent.

He is about to rape the poor, the immigrants, the elderly, the climate…

Oh, we could go on.

Though perhaps the American electorate has earned his obvious contempt for its intellectual and reasoning capacities, still, the nerve of it all is breathtaking. How long will the electorate choose, consciously choose to believe whatever they darn well please to believe? To heck with the facts!

It is all simply astounding!! Surely I am asleep. Dreaming a nightmare. It can’t be real, can it? American can’t have fallen so low. Gone so stupid. Become so darkly evil.

The worst of it all, of course, is that his voters have committed themselves to a man that should be committed—as in institutionalized. Knowing his every word is a lie, they will willingly choose to believe his blatant and obvious lies and willfully reject the truth.

We are in some deep, deep trouble here. We have a madman leading a nation of madmen.

FINALLY!!!

I see that CNN’s Don Lemon cut short an interview with one of that man’s lying lackeys, Paris Dennard.

Good job, Don! This is a good first step. But, before cutting him off, Lemon had already given him several minutes to belch forth his lying propaganda. Lemon had attempted two or three times to engage him in reality. The media needs to take the next step: “One strike and you’re out.” One lie and the mic goes off.

When this doesn’t work—and it won’t, the lying of that man and his propaganda machine is instinctual and sociopathic—the next step is simply to stop interviewing them. Don’t give them a single minute, not one question. They are not allowed back on until they make a commitment to stop their incessant lying.

Now, while we congratulate Mr. Lemon, we must shout profanities at his and all the other networks. They devote seventy minutes of airtime to carry that man’s “fake press conference”! They ask him questions that they have to know full well he will not truthfully answer—not because he won’t, but because he can’t. He has no conception of reality and truth. He is utterly and completely delusional. He is a disciple of the “Father of lies.”

Then they do one worse. They televise his damned Florida rally.

WHY???

We all know why. People will watch. It will make the networks and their sponsors money. As I have charged before, that man is president today, in no small part because of the news media’s love of money over love of country. Report on the absurdities the man spouts—like the… whatever it was he imagined happened in Sweden. But don’t put him on T.V., for crying out loud.

Just for the record, I no longer watch you, network and cable news organizations, so I did not actually see any of this. I practice in my own life what I am preaching to reputable news agencies. Cut him off! He can’t survive without you. Stop giving him oxygen.

I only read. When I go to the gym with the cable news channels doing their all trump all the time from dozens of T.V.’s, I keep my head down. I simply cannot risk having to look at that man. I will not watch him perform his sociopathic act of lying hypnotism. I will not watch the deviant marionette manipulate his naïve and silly puppets. I will not watch him twist the media and their viewers around in his grubby little hands.

Oh. Sorry. I forgot. His hands, like his other body parts, are of normal size.

I am going to offer a little free advice to the American press. First, a little history.
 
In 2003 when the duplicitous and warmongering administration of George W. Bush foolishly sent the U.S. military into Iraq under false pretenses, Iraqis received their information concerning the American invasion from one, “Bagdad Bob.” Even as the American bombs dropped all around, and American forces entered the city, he assured his audience with a straight face that there were, in fact, no American military personnel anywhere to be seen… and even if there were, well, the elite Iraqi Republican Guard had them in full-fledged retreat.

Eventually, much to the dismay of the comedic world, the U.S. military turn off the power, thus silencing poor old “Bagdad Bob.”

I suggest that the American press turn off the power to their cameras and mics, and leave the press room each time Sean Spicer—A.K.A., “Bagdad Bob”—stands to defile the presidential pulpit by conducting one of his absurdist misinformation sessions. Please stop subjecting us to his sickening and smug hubris and his incessant and damnable lies. These people have no shame.

You people in the press, as you were during the election, are being used. Made fools of. Putty in that man’s filthy hands. Putting your addiction to profit before the interests of the nation, you gave free airtime to that man’s clown show—and yes, unlike my fellow Americans, I turned you off every time you did it. Day, after day, after day, you gave him and his lackeys airtime during which they spouted their lying mumbo jumbo. It was then, and is now, not enough to have them on and attempt, a time or two, to challenge the constant flow of their insidious lies. You should have then, and must now, cut off the mic and pull the plug on their air time.

Stop it. Grow up. Get a spine. Please, please be the liberal press so many falsely think you are. Report, report, report on the evils of this administration. But do it without giving them airtime. What Spicer is doing is not a news conference. It is a cynical absurdist and vile misinformation campaign in which you are manipulated by a brilliant demon behind the curtain, while the nation is placed in peril. What you have done, and continue to do is not good journalism. It is embarrassing puppeteering for the sake of destructive profiteering.
 
Yes, I am aware that FOX—or, better, RBC, The Republican Broadcasting Company—an organization without conscience, and filled with cynics only interested in ratings and mammon, will keep the lights on and broadcast “Bagdad Bob’s” lies. And, yes, they will, make a ton of money murdering the truth and telling the American people, as Bagdad Bob did for Iraqis, exactly what they want to hear and nothing but what they want to hear, so help them God. And yes, much of the American public will enjoy every drop of slop that they splatter into their disgusting trough.

Though you may not experience the joy of hearing the single of money in your pockets, at least you can have a clear conscience, and begin to make amends for your past sins.

​If I had a penchant for prophesy, I would predict that the Republican house and senate will end up “repealing and keeping” (I know it makes your head spin doesn’t it!) so-called “Obama-care,” while loudly declaring that they have won a dramatic victory against the forces of evil.

The regular visitor may have noticed an unusually long period of inactivity on this site. I have, here, been very quiet for the past several weeks. The outward quiet is the result of an inner disquiet—a disquiet brought on by a disheartening unannounced LDS policy in regard to gay men and women and their children. It is a disquiet that has stymied and immobilized me, silencing and bringing my muses to a halt.

In my disquiet I have counted. I have counted to ten—counted to ten over and over and over again—fearful of what may come out if I give voice to my disquiet. .

At some point, after I have counted to ten many, many more times, I may very well give voice to my disquiet. But, not yet. The wound is still too raw..

For now, the Christmas Season is upon us. I am so very grateful for the Christmas Season; a Christmas Season that seems, this year, divinely timed to quiet my disquiet and reawaken the muses; a Christmas Season that whispers its invitation to do as I have always done—take refuge in, hide in my Jesus; a Christmas Season during which we reopen the pages of this site, and, together, follow the invitation of the Psalmist, “taste and see that the LORD is good” (Ps. 34:8); a Christmas Season during which we bear witness to the majesty that is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, to whom be glory forever and ever.