Jacob's ladder. Remember the Bible story? There are many interpretations, but I prefer to think of the struggle between Jacob and the angel as the fight for humans to live the right way, to be or attain the rank and aspects of angels, to fight for good and resist the temptation and ease, yes, ease, of living life the wrong way, immoral, evil, just plain nasty.
Jacob won, but I fear that many of us have preferred not to take advantage of that victory and instead live life under the axiom of evil is as evil does. And that evil flows from the top right down to the little and minor minions of evil leaders.
Yet another school shooting and 17 dead with others in danger of loss of life due to wounds. Already, in a year scarcely begun we have had EIGHTEEN school attacks and all we give the kids are crocodile tears, sympathy as such, while not doing a damn thing to limit the availability of AR-15s. Gun control? Nah!! Angels 0 Evil 1+.
And who decides on this perverted policy? Why the political leaders who give in to pressure from gun nuts who cannot see the difference between a personal handgun allowed after a thorough background check and an assault rifle available to all, mentally ill as well. And so life continues - though not for so many kids and teachers.
The lies among the ruling class and yes, I purposely use that word - ruling - for we are coming to that society where there is a distinct separation of citizens of rank from the plebes. Anyway, they lie through their damned teeth with their forked tongues and bleed crocodile tears for those among us who need and deserve help. Their ladder only leads downwards, way down.
So immigration compromises, bad in their own way, are reached, and yet some refuse to see the justice, refuse to look at others as fellow human beings, fail to understand that life is to attempt to climb that ladder, not slide down as quickly as one can. So Trump threatens and others cower and crap rains down on us all.
Hypocrisy reigns. Immigrants are bad; they take the jobs of "Americans" - so tell me, why of 100 jobs at Trump properties were all foreign workers other than one given the jobs under the visa program. There goes that Trump and is that a tail I am seeing? Perhaps, but I do love the view of his bald head as the wind blows his pathetic hair apart! Small head, no brain room. Aha!!
We have an administration where 100 staffers in the White House are still without permanent certification - all the better to accommodate the needs of Putin? Who the hell knows!! We have a lawyer who does what no other lawyer has done - supposedly pay $130,000 for a payoff because once again Trump cannot keep his zipper zipped - and never asked for a repayment! Believe that? Want the bridge or the tunnel?
Yet another tell all book, this one by Reince Priebus and I salivate to read it. Each time the truth comes out we find that not only are we not climbing that ladder, but we have sawed off some rungs, making it even harder. We have a President now who has decided that in his madness of huge budget deficits he knows how to get money - and yes, it will hurt his unseeing base. Another 25 cents tax per gallon on fuel. So the poor dude or dudette trying to get to the low paying job will now have to pay a whole lot more to reach it - so just cut the food budget, I guess. We can all stand to lose a few pounds. And the kids going hungry? Oh, what a great story they will have to tell their kids. The sounds an empty stomach makes, the ache in the gut, the lack of fuel for the mind. But what the hey! Just another glorious day in the Trump reign.
And the hypocrisy and uncaring continue into all levels of government. We have a particular problem here in CV WPB. We have a man who is under the delusion that some Being seems to have appointed him Leader for Life. Is he related to the Kims or other Leaders for Life? Who knows and what is more, who cares. All I know is that nasty is as nasty does and trust me, the nasty is here in huge amounts.
He claims the authorship of any and all advances made in the Village when so many others were the ones who suggested these changes and carried them out or got them started. Or prevented his disasters from fruition. He claims he benefitted the Village and yet here we are now cutting up large sections of the main road and having to repave them piecemeal, even as he denied through his lying teeth that the job stunk to the nth degree. So yup, more money down the toilet after we flushed $5 million plus down the toilet, a flush of Dave's instigation.
We are supposedly 'halfway' done on an Atlantic Broadband installation yet no one has seen any work at all and the company needed a delay on a reporting session. Hmmm - yet another debacle for which we Villagers will have to pay the piper. I guess tough on those who are already squeezed. Just refer back to the previous paragraph of going hungry.
He has taken credit for a clicker system that others pleaded for, suggested over and over again for years, but when the reality of the holes in the paper slip voting was too much to cover up anymore - now the clickers and now, without training for those zombie delegates who only attend the election assembly, for those who cannot figure out how to separate the voting for positions - suddenly it will be a clicker vote. Smell something? What about the timing? What about those people who sign in but then walk in a bit later to the assembly? Do they miss their vote? Is this done on purpose to cut out those Jews who are praying at that time and find it extremely difficult to make the timing? Hmmmm- David or G-d? David or G-d? Make your choice.
He has his stooge, Lanny, write whereof he knows not, just parroting what David tells him to write. We have the same kind of praise comments similar to Trump's adoring group of administrators. Guess the fear of losing a bit of power is universal. And then, any opponent or one who disagrees with his statements are blocked, yes BLOCKED, from a return comment. Oh, the fear that lives within the hearts of dictators. So the man writes a nasty, untrue large paragraph demeaning and insulting a candidate, Ed Grossman, who has committed the cardinal sin of calling David on the carpet myriad times and forced him to fix some of his egregious errors. For that, even as Ed climbs the ladder, he has earned the eternal hatred of David Israel and his coterie of hanger ons. And yes, full disclosure, David hates me too and has stated in open meetings that I may never fulfill my duties as a member of a committee for I spoke negatively about him and evidently he feels that 200 million people read about him on my blog. Wow!!! I do have foreign readers, though how they find me I know not, but 200 million! Wow!! Gotta tell my grandchildren. They will be so proud!!
In any case, are we going to climb the ladder or block that climb for others or worse, go the other way. Did Jacob fight a pointless battle for humans or not? We see the glory of mankind in those who fight for the rights of others, in those who sacrifice for others, in the lives of the brave journalists who face prison and even death for their coverage of the truth, in the beauty of the German pair skating last night, in the love of a mother for her child ad her desperate situation as she is chased by those who hate her because of her religion or ethnicity.
The ladder is there. WE need to make that choice. Now.
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