Blue or Brown?

The Blue eyes/Brown eyes social experiment,

now We are the guinea pigs.

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Disdain in man is a fickle tide

Careful how you dole it out

Careful who you decide to despise

For Tomorrow

That tide will turn.

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"Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast, many believed in His name [identifying themselves with Him] after seeing His signs (attesting miracles) which He was doing. But Jesus, for His part, did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew all people [and understood the [a]superficiality and fickleness of human nature], and He did not need anyone to testify concerning man [and human nature], for He Himself knew what was in man [in their hearts—in the very core of their being]."

-John 2:23-25

"One day they're crowning you king, the next day they're crucifying you."

Racism or Terrorism?

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Our problem,

(as we've been led around by the nose of late to believe)

is not

  Racism

Our problem

is 

Terrorism

Racism is merely the Trojan Horse,
the fox we've all been chasing around,

like chickens with our heads cut off

While our country and countrymen, black and white, are under attack

While our government turns a blind eye

While we go on ignoring The Man behind the curtain,

Our heads too easily turned by shiny objects 

bright tv screens

smoke and mirrors

bells and whistles

and the like

If the atrocities committed on our country's soil beginning

in Dallas,
in Broad Day Light,
in Cold Blood,

had been perpetrated by any other terrorist group,

we would have declared war on them,

not offered them a tea party at the White House,

much less funding 
much less press time.

Newsflash: Terrorists' lives don't matter.

Ours do.

The problem's not getting solved
Because we're solving the wrong problem.

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"Leaders should never bury a problem; you can be sure it will eventually rise from its grave and walk the earth again."

-General Colin Powell

I Dare You. (Re-post of 7/21 - Bears Repeating.)

"Let us Dare to think, read, write, and speak!"

-John Adams

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil 

is for good men to do nothing." 

-Democratic President John F. Kennedy quoting Edmund Burke

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Our fear until recently, was of terror from without: terrorist groups like Isis and the Taliban, and the threat these groups posed against Americans.

Now there is a new terrorist group - and Isis must be laughing up a storm - as cowards who call themselves Americans, claiming to represent an entire demographic, willingly enslaved themselves to agendas of others who care nothing for them and began Thursday, July 21st, to terrorize their own country, 

and the lives of their own countrymen, black and white,

all the while insisting,

that their lives matter.

(This begs the question: To Whom?)

Isis doesn't need to send terrorists into America anymore; 

with the support of these pawns and puppets, 

a pandering media, 

a mute public,

 and an anemic government, 

they will likely, instead,

 simply send their regards.

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"They had lives to live and families to take care of...they needed to feel safe crossing town...More than anything they needed a sense of security and the knowledge that someone was in charge -- Someone in charge of keeping ministries from being burned down, museums from being looted, infrastructure from being destroyed, crime from exploding, and well-known sectarian differences from turning violent."

-General Colin Powell, 

regarding the Iraqi citizens after Houssein's regime had been dismantled

"Bad ideas don't die simply because they are intrinsically bad.  You need people who will stand up and fight them, put themselves at risk, point out the weaknesses, and drive stakes through their hearts."

-General Colin Powell

Soak

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I seek not Rote and Rhetoric,

Tedious Recitations,

Tired, Tiring Prose...

I crave a Companion,

Like David,

Earthy, Amateur,

Unprofessional, Unpolished,

Who was after My Heart,

Not only My Hand

I tire of jots and tittles,

i's dotted, t's crossed...

I search for one

who would trade dogma for Deity

Who would know Me

not just what is said about Me

I long for one

with whom I can walk,

A sponge I can soak

and saturate

in Spirit

Through whom I can be wrung out

into this,

My beloved world...

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"Here am I, Send me"

-Isaiah 6:8

Remember.

I wrote this six years ago, a tribute to the day we all remember, and to the ephemeral unity the destruction paradoxically brought to our country, its leaders, and their constituents, when, for an all too brief and beautiful moment, congress stood together on the steps of the white house, actually holding hands, and there was a fleeting forgetfulness of differences and division, a trading of the self-serving status quo for one of self-transcendence, a laying down of the vitriol that too often trademarks our government, and a taking up of the standard,

 - may it be said of us again -

"United We Stand"

Two towers fell today ten years ago

Two lives torn apart and ten million more

Two parties came together and cried out to One God

Dual towers downed ending duality on our sod

But oh what ephemeral unity

Was born of death that day

That Tower fell so swiftly

So silently gave way

To ambivalence and bickering

To answers we could not find

To forgetfulness of heroes

To the novocaine of time

The best of human nature

Could not stand the test

But sadly deferred

Humbly bowed

And laid itself to rest.

 

-E.A.A. "Hindsfeet" 9/11/10

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"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity...For there the LORD commands the blessing"
-Psalm133:1,3