CHRISTIAN SEX GUIDES

If the Teaparty can advocate to get the government out of our lives, I feel entitled to ask that the Christians get our of my sex life.  "The second Christian “sex advice” book to be lavished with attention this month for allegedly being edgy and oh so sexy. “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together,” written by pastor Mark Driscoll of Seattle’s Mars Hill Church and wife Grace Driscoll, similarly sings the praises of sex as a form of communion with God."  Read more by clicking here

The Driscolls wrote a first book:  “Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting Intimacy With Your Spouse.”  I, for one., would like to know where their authority (other than their own copulations) give them the authority to give such advice?

If you want to know what people who thought the world was flat thought about sex and the Bible, the Holman Bible Dictionary offers an interesting perspective.  There is no indication that, if the majority rules on it, it is likely to get laughed out of the 21st century..Oddly, there are still many people, mostly men, who are trying to keep the 10th C values on sex alive.  That was when women were chattel and the law required that they submit to their husband's 'pleasure' and demands..

A vestigial left-over of that view can be found today in FDLS (The Fundamentist Church of the Latter Day Saints).  Preserving a series of compounds where a madman, now in prison, is still trying to control his leadership of polygamous communities.  Here women are brainwashed, have no say about to whom they are married or even and what underage they marry.  They are there to breed more females for the community.  Male children don't seem to be encouraged to stick around there long.  I suppose these virile, young men are too threatening to the old geezers who pick off the twelve and thirteen year old virgins.

If anyone thinks that Christian sex is 'doing it' in the missionary position,  perhaps they might buy one of the Christian sex books, or better yet, find themselves some of the literature on sex from India where they were far more creative and rumor has it that both partners enjoyed the act more. 

THE CNN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE:1/2012

Sometimes I wonder at my willingness to endure experiences similar to a chalk squeaking across a blackboard.  I'm not really sure I could locate my hackles but I am sure they go up when I listen to these four left standing.  The group seems like they're playing musical chairs.

From a much lager group, all of who were sure (and many wrote books about their future presidencies) they would build a better world for us in the US.  The major problem is that none of them really had any concept of what the majority of US citizens want or need.  They were biased by the people who were invited or made an attempt to get out to hear them.  With such a self-selected audience you might not get to hear the broader views.

During this debate, Gingrich said Planned Parenthood was the biggest abortion provider and no one contradicted him though the facts are that abortion is only 3% of what Planned Parenthood does.  For anyone who checks out facts and knows the truth, it is terribly frightening to realize how little these candidates know about any of the things they talk about.  They all know what should happen but few have come up with realistic solutions.  The major imperative is to defeat Barack Obama, only.  Otherwise, to have students clean the bathrooms and firing the union janitors as though that is their only job is insulting to janitors and should be embarrassing to Gingrich who attempts to belittle every group, depending on when he is speaking to another group with different values.

After my flesh stops crawling, I want to yell, "Liar, Liar, pants on fire!"  (Though I never called anyone that even when I was a kid.)  Actually, when I talk to myself in my brain, it is usually in English but I like the few profanities I know in Greek and those are the real messages running around in my brain as I hear them, the liars, the hypocrites, the zealots, the self-servers, (these are the nicer English names I can come up with).

It ended with Gingrich in a snit saying he is tired of the elite media attacking Republicans for Obama....not the exact words but pretty close. Santorum began smelling rosy because he made a case for why he is the best contrast to Obama. 

HOBBY: GROWING AFRICAN VIOLETS

In the 50s, suffering abject poverty, I discovered a free hobby.  I took dirt from the yard, cuttings from my friends' plants, and containers from the attic (my father-in-law never threw ANYTHING away).  I found no use for the little paper rolls of salt and pepper left over from his American Airlines meals, nor for his cigar bands, but his topless sugar bowls, creamers, gravy boats and teapots were great for growing the plants that those cuttings grew into.  I had very simple horticultural rules which worked for me for many years.  (keep the leaves clean so the plant can breathe, keep it watered with occasional added nutrients like calcium from egg shells or a bit of tea or coffee, and appropriate natural lighting).  All this worked for me for many years.  Joining an African Violet club convinced me I was an inadequate parent for African Violets. 

There are no animals in my house because having raised several children I wanted nothing that would take too much of my time.  I learned that I mustn't use yard soil but must have a proper balance of organic soil, perlite, charcoal, sphagnum moss, fertilizer, and a lot of other things I had never known existed.  I had managed without pests and viruses, other than spider mites (which I discovered should make one avoid bringing in Impatiens from the yard at the end of the growing season), I now have found that I must learn to treat my plants with the equivalent of a PhD degree in plant medical care if I expect to have them live through a season.  Fungus gnats, thrips, mites, are but the tip of the iceberg of microscopic monsters I must learn to avoid. 

My house has been turned into a plant hospital, complete with intensive care and isolation units.  No longer is ignorance bliss.  Straying from The African Violet Commandments kills plants.  It is frightening, but the aesthetic results and gratification of success cannot be equaled by other hobbies, and I have tried many. 

INACCURATE HOSPITAL BILLS CAN BE TERRIFYING

I'm not known for reading fine print or pages of disclaimers and legalese because too much of it is put before our eyes in our world today.  Service is denied us if we don't click an OK.  I believe I have more agreeable ways to spend whatever is left of my life. (I don't do well with manuals, either, and wonder often how people can be paid for such undecipherable explanations).

I have had an American named electronic piano, owned by an Italian company, built in Japan...or the reverse of that, I've never been sure.  The person who wrote the manual clearly did not have English as a first language.  Thus my fourteen year old piano has seldom been touched as I could never master more than about 2% of its astronomical number of functions.

A few years ago, shortly after my husband died, I received a bill from the hospital he had been in briefly, for $28,000 dollars with a note as to where I could send the check.  Not being in the top 1% of income earners, that was not an amount I retained in my checking account.  Since insurance companies are known by their shortened version of initials, it took careful study (not my usual style in reading bills) to see that they had billed the wrong medical insurance company (same initials in different order).  I checked dates carefully to see that he had been properly covered when in hospital and after much angst and time spent, (cursing the unknown clerk who had made the error) it was finally straightened out. My spiked cortisol level  probably took as many years off my life as I would have had I been a smoker.

Thus, when I saw this article, my empathy level blew the top off its gauge.  When the bill should have been $300, this unemployed man received a bill for $45,000,000.  (Yes, the zeros number accurately.)  He understandably later cautioned that bills of that size could cause someone to have a heart attack.  Apologies and corrections can never undo what the body has experienced in those brief first moments.  Fortunately, the stress undergone by those experiencing these 'human' errors usually blamed as computer glitches.cannot compare to military service in combat zones. Those of us who have used computers for years remember the old saying, GIGO (garbage in, garbage out).  Computers don't yet think for themselves.  It would be desirable to have data entry personnel who do. 

THEY EAT THEIR OWN AND OUR OWN

The Republicans candidates have sunk to a new low which I wouldn't have thought possible a few days ago.  Remarkably, they talk about running positive, not negative campaigns after which they immediate say the worst about their fellow candidates;  Most of the pundits, as I do also, cheer as these candidates are doing Obama's job for him.

Rachel Maddow brought up that Romney was beaten in 2008 by McCain and McCain was beaten by Obama.  It does make one wonder, doesn't it.  Is there a reason really capable people aren't running in the Republican party this year?

Emergency Financial Managers new law, for example in Michigan, has governor Snyder functioning as though the state is his autocracy.  Doesn't that make us all want more Republican governors?  Not hardly!  He now wants to take over Detroit.  Shall we all wave a hearty goodbye to American Democracy?  Reverend David Bullock called the law odious and draconian.  I would say that he was being overly tactful.

Where are our citizen groups with some legal clout?  How can our Constitution be violated so blatantly and leave poor people believing their vote has no meaning?  Who appointed Governor Snyder God of Michigan?

Indiana Lunch Pail Republicans say we should not have to choose between our party, our right to work and our guns.  Watch this video fighting the right to work campaign.in Indiana led by Governor Mitch Daniels.

WHEN WILL PEOPLE LEARN THAT LAWS AND RULES DON'T STOP BEHAVIORS?

Melissa Gina Grant wrote an article on one of the dumfounding ways that police deal with prostitution.  They take away condoms.!  That is as sensible as taking away food to take care of malnutrition.  Pay attention.  If you starve someone they cannot suffer malnutrition any longer, right?  We all know that laws are only as good as their enforcement and you don't live on this planet if you don't know that very few countries can afford to strictly enforce all their laws.  Drive through you nearest city and see how many people go through traffic red light with no consequences.

Taking away condoms will just create more babies, AIDS, STD's, and (collateral damage) wives with vaginal infections.. Man has always had an urge to plant his 'seed', hasn't he?.  We read about it all the time. I'm not speaking of farmers in the fields.

The Teaparty wants to get government out of our lives.  This does not strike me as a particularly good start but those who keep protesting that government is too much in our lives refuse to stop working for the government and taking their living from the rest of us.  This particular group in power not only takes their pay and all they can squeeze out of us, they are also dedicated to serve us by not paying attention to anything we want. There go the 'jog creators'?  I think rather not.  They are taking away jobs for those have little to sell but their bodies, for the most part because the cream of the crop does not take to the street.

WATCHING FOOTBALL OCCASIONALLY

I watch football coward-style.  What I mean is, as long as my team is ahead, I watch.  When the game is tight, I may nail bite while hiding out in the other room, listening, then peek when the decibels rise.  I love watching it when it is going well for my team.  You might guess accurately, I watch very few games. Playoff games usually attract me because they are the games most talked about (at least around me, it seems...or maybe I just listen more carefully). They are also a short commitment.  (I am TV commitment phobic and don't like long series.)

My use of  spectator sports comes out of my determination to live the rest of my life as stress-free as possible. I have a choice as to whether I want to be stressed, at least in recreational choices.  I am an emotional sponge and identify with emotions emanating from the field.  Naturally the vibes I pick up are more often from my team since they are the ones I watch most closely.

1/14/2012: Bronchos vs Patriots.  I have been hearing about religious Tim Tebow as though God was watching out for him alone. I believe, if God is watching over any of us, it would be all of us because we are equally created in his image, right?  Thus, I believe God uses the law of averages and parcels things out randomly.  I doubt if God wants to be accused of playing favorites, even if they don't pray to him today but might tomorrow.  Even Newt Gingrich got religion, after all..  It wouldn't look good for God to have pets, now would it?

Tonight, Brady broke records, and his whole team broke a record for most points in a playoff game.  There were other records out of that game, as well.  The truth of it, as I see football, is like Hillary Clinton had written about It takes a village to raise a child.  It takes a whole team to win games.. A team is like a chain and includes all the players and the coaches. One weak link and the chain breaks. As Tom Brady quotes his coach, "It's all about winning."  They did: 45 to 10, another record for most point spread in a playoff.