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March 28, 2005:

Rabble:
The rabble are not rabble because they want to be. They are rabble because they lack leadership. The fact is, the power brokers want to keep them in the rabble mode. They are easier to control and con that way. It is easier to pander to rabble that it is to appeal to man's nobler instincts. Still, there is something inside each of us that rebels at the attempts to pander to us. Deep inside, the pandering galls us. The republicans and the democrats gall us.

This resistance to pandering needs to be drawn out. It seems in history, there were a few people who were able to do that. For sure, George Washington managed it. Winston Churchill did it for Great Britain. Truman managed it to some extend. I think Kennedy was on his way to doing it. After that, we have had nothing of value in leadership. Inside each of us there is an abiding wish to be better than we are. To coordinate that and draw it out requires much better leadership than we currently have.

Some Sunday Morning:
Someday, in the near future, I expect the faith police to knock on my door. They will demand to know why I was not in church that morning. They checked the roll and I was not present. I will be turned over to the faith truant officer who will give me a long and firm lecture about my duty to God. He will also give me a warning. If I am truant again, I will have to attend special daily morning sessions for one month wherein I will listen with the other sinners to the taped lectures of Graham, Robertson, and Fat Jerry.

When I have completed the training, I will receive a list of approved churches in my neighborhood. Then I must select one, register, and attend regular services. Catholic, Buddhist, or Muslim temples will not do. I must attend an approved evangelical fundamentalist Christian church. There are no options.

Think it won't happen here. That's what they though it England too. When it did happen, many of the victims fled to the colonies. They hoped to have freedom of religious practice here. Guess what?

Girl Scout Cookies:
What a great con for the cookie makers. They can exploit kids to push mediocre cookies at inordinate prices on a bemused public. I wondered how much of that money the kids actually get? I wondered if the big time scout leaders who cut the deal get something? There should be some kind of substantial reward for a betrayal like that.

Just to check out my thoughts, I went to a grocery and bought some cookies. Honest, that's the only reason. I bought a box of cookies that were similar to one of the Girl Scout cookies. Here are the facts. I bought the cookies for $1.03. The box contained 18 cookies as opposed to the 15 cookies in the Girl Scout box which cost $3.00. In addition, the cookies were much bigger and every bit as tasty. So I got cookies for less than 1/3 the cost of the Girl Scout cookies.

Later I went to the scouts website and discovered the cookie makers have a sweet deal with the scouts. There are only two makers and they have no bid contracts to sell the cookies to the Girl Scouts at retail prices. They get 30 percent of the 3 dollar sale price. That's retail prices with no marketing or distribution costs. Not bad. I intend to look further into this and find out where the rest of the money goes. The tragedy to me is the girl scouts are made to believe they are doing good things, but they are actually being exploited to act as hucksters conning the public. What are they really learning here? Is the lesson adults are easy to con?

Cardinal Bertoni:
What a moron. He says, don't read "The Da Vinvi Code." This after it has already sold millions of copies worldwide. The Detroit News had a photo of this dude holding up a couple of fingers giving some kind of sign. He looked to me like a mafia don giving the sign to approve a hit on someone. Who is he kidding anyway? Can he really pretend to think this book will do more damage to the church than the pope who murdered Bruno? Can he really pretend this book is more dangerous to the church than the pope who tried to cover for pedofile priests in America? Can he pretend that this book will do more damage to the church that the pope who presided over the children's crusade? Let's get serious. The church is and always has been its own worst enemy. Dan brown is an amateur when it comes to maligning the church. The popes do a much better job.
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