Gravestone

Such is Life, there are winners and losers. Most of us just have to keep trying for it is useless to reason why.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Plan

Wait one minute, like always, President Donald Trump has a plan! 

Maybe it’s a New Years plan. Landers is a long way from Washington but shall we guess? The Trump plan could be to combine the $2000 checks to low income citizens with the long standing Republican election reforms that have been repeatedly trashed by the Democrats. Could any politically sensitive lawmaker of either party oppose this legislation and still survive? This could get interesting.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.    

Home

One can always go home, no matter what. It will not be perfect, it never was, but it will be home.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Wonder

Some of us wonder, at what speed would 3I/Atlas have to be making to be captured into an orbit around our sun as another planet? Is it all about speed?

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Helpless

God is on the side of the helpless. If there be God justice in eternity as some of us believe, the party will celebrate the earthly helpless.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Absolutes

What does it mean to be moral? How do we know if a particular action is right or wrong? If you think you know and you have your absolutes, you are a fool. If you knew that by killing one person, millions of lives would be saved, would you do the deed? That was the question that drove German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer to participate in a plot to try to kill Adolf Hitler. Was this action moral?  

Bonhoeffer had a neat ethical system and then he had to live it. Any logical absolutist system will be crushed in the troubled waters of life. Dietrich escaped Germany with his family as the failed plot was being investigated but the justly moral Dietrich made another decision. Returning to his German homeland alone, he was imprisoned and then hanged until dead in the closing days of WWII.

Was this action moral or false guilt? 

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.    

Other?

Sean Duffy was questioned by Finnety on Newsmax about 31/Atlas. Mr. Duffy our Transportation Secretary, has oversight authority to include the National Space Agency. Mr. Duffy said all the right things but some of us detected a lack of confidence. Was the shutdown responsible for NASA’s lack of transparency? Why no NASA pictures? We all will find out very soon, natural or something other.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.   

I. D.

They are trotting everybody out these days. You know, the old Republican establishment guard and the likes of Newt Gingrich. The hero of Republican conservatism of 30 years ago has tried to stay politically relevant by running for the Presidency (2012) and writing books about or in support of President Donald Trump. Only to a point however, if he had a vote, which he does not, Newt says, no go on the proposal that the Republican majority of the U. S. Senators discard the 60 vote filibuster rule (60 out of 100).

Mr. Speaker, have you not heard? The old Republican traditional politics is dead, almost as dead as you and I, Mr. Speaker.  Maybe, we should both sit in our rockers and shut up. You can’t and I can’t so let’s have a tussle to the finish line. You have all the credentials, a Doctorate in history, a College professor, a political career in the U. S. House of Representatives and the House Speakership. The tussle would seem to be a mismatch. Not so says this BoBo.

Let’s start from the beginning. Newt, please answer one question. Who first broke the U. S. Senate “gentlemen’s filibuster agreement”? The rule of the Senate is intended to ensue that either party will not make unilateral radical changes to the political status quo based upon a thin majority. This is the spirit of our politics. 

Neither party has broken the agreement you answer. Wrong again. President Biden ungentlemanly broke the spirit of the 60 vote rule when he opened the gates of American to upwards of 25 million potential Democrat voters who would vote Democrat by hook or by crook. The Senate after the 2020 election was split, 50 Democrats to 50 Republicans, Vice President Kamala Harris gave the swing vote to Biden for his disastrous immigration policy. There was no across the ale respect given to Republicans, no considering of half way measures, zero respect was given and all our niceties have been trashed.

This was not an official Senate vote but this one sided decision landed with just as much force upon the other half of the American people, the consequences in lives lost are immeasurable. What do you say Newt? This BoBo really doesn’t know how a reasoned opposing argument can be made. They (the vast majority of radical left Democrats) are not playing nice and we are monumental saps if we remain stuck with our heads in the sand.  

Pass voter I.D. or our Republic is finished.

G. Goslaw

Landers, CA.  

 

 

 

Christmas

Republicans this is no time to relax. The Democrats didn’t cave, only eight democrats caved in the Senate. The vast majority of radical left democrats will never be persuaded to become moderates.  Our American politics needs a one two punch combination, the first punch has landed, now for the knockout punch.

Congress should put up a simple bill requiring citizenship I. D. for all voters in federal elections. Even the Democrat moderates in the House, if there are any, need a check on the radicalism in their own party. Pass it in the House, send it to the Senate now.

If passage is blocked by the filibuster rule, dispense with the filibuster agreement and save America for Americans.

This could be the best Christmas ever!

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.     

 

Flyby?

Slow down 31/Atlas, hit the speed brake, 150,000 mph is a bit to much. If you are something other than a wandering ice rock, slow down. 

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Vote

Let’s take a vote! Senate Majority Leader John Thune, let’s take a vote. That is why you are there in our big beautiful city, is it not? Do your job. Don’t give us that subterfuge about not having enough votes. The folks back home want to know how each Senator is thinking or not thinking. 

No one says that there can be only one vote, let’s keep voting as long as the Democrats keep our government shutdown. Let’s take a vote on the supposed wisdom of that Senate “filibuster gentlemen’s agreement”. Let’s take a vote!

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Simple

Senator Kennedy, you are not being honest. What no cute quips today? What is it going to take for you to be cornered into a come to Jesus moment?  The truth is before all of us. If the Republican senators’ continue to play dumb and lose this shutdown battle, our America is dead. Are you afraid of a bullet from the new Democrat party? To be concerned is appropriate but Kennedy being afraid is cowardly.   

President Trump makes a good argument for busting the filibuster but you somehow know better? This isn't your daddy's America. You didn’t give us your argument because you don’t have one and may just be taking orders instead of thinking. At least you had enough courage to put a face to your ignorance, as un-American as it is. America is at war at home, it is that simple, it is them or us.

Please tell Suzy Collins to come out of hiding.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Goat

Some of us remember when Republican politico Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa was elected in 2015 to the U. S. Senate. Mrs. Ernst was touted as a fighter for everyday Americans and a conservative force to be reckoned with in Washington. Instead, she disappeared for 6 years, maybe she was looking for a hairdresser that could do a proper fix.

Where did she go? Joni got in bed with the Rino deep state to do their bidding. Only in the last few years has she become visibly political, why? Maybe, the anti-Trump Rinos are running out of talking heads. President Trump has beaten the Rinos senseless. President Trump has us on the verge of a booming future for all Americas. President Trump is working his ass off for your America and each of us.  

Senator Ernst, do the honorable thing and join the growing chorus of Republican senators who have spoken out saying that now is the time to discard the Senate filibuster. Now is the time to pass critical across the board legislation. You, Senator Ernest will be retiring soon, don’t go away as one of the goats who hid when their country needed their heroism.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Objects

Update: November 6 @ 5 AM

Object #1 is over 29 Palms but only 10 degrees above the horizon. Object #2 is over Goat Mountain, pulsating like no other star, 40 degrees above the horizon????

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Pioneer

“God is the beyond in the midst of life.  The church stands, not at the boundaries where human powers give out, but in the middle of the village. How this religionless Christianity looks, what form it takes, is something I’m thinking about a great deal, and I shall be writing to you again about it soon.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), Letters and Papers from Prison, Touchstone Edition, 1997. P. 282.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Niceties

One might assume from the election results last night that Republican Senators playing nice doesn’t work in certain places. Obama played the shutdown strategy quite well, infuriating the small thinking voters in New Jersey, Virginia and New York City to punish those supposedly hard hearted Republicans. Virginia has Washington government workers who are sitting home without pay. New Jersey insanely voted against its own self-interest, more big expensive government to further burden the homeowners. New York City is the ultimate American divide between the rich and the poor, hungry people living in the midst of wealth do not play nice.

Obama is playing hardball so, Republican Senators, are the niceties still on the table?

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca. 

 

 

Blessings

Grieving for all of us is a tough sled. Each of us handle it differently, there is no right way. Sooner or later, we who grieve move on to rejoicing in the certainty that the missing have joined that great eternal party. There comes a time to put away the tears and laugh again. Mrs. Kirk, some of us wish that for you and your aching heart. Blessings.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Update: 31/Atlas

They are here. Our petty human life and death squabbles are soon to become ancient history in their importance. I am a morning person who watches the morning night sky. In July a star appeared in the east, rising steadily over Goat Mountain, three hours later, as the morning glow begins to pierce the darkness, this star is 45 % above the horizon. All the normal array of stars have disappeared but this star keeps shining brightly, to finally disappear as the sun peeks over the horizon.

Now, in November this star rises to the south over 29 Palms. Is it a star or what? Another unusual star has appeared over Goat Mountain. This apparent star also keeps its shine until the sun rises above the horizon. This morning star, if my eyes do not deceive me, blinks red at times. What is going on in the heavens?

Could these two unusually appearing stars be planes, balloons, satellites or space stations? Or what? Could we be under surveillance from another world? Object 31/Atlas is getting stranger as it heads our way, soon to pass through our solar system in December. 31/Atlas has been a concern to astronomers because one day it has a tail but not every day. Now it also has a flashing blue light. The experts tell us that we will know, comet or other worldly explorers in the next few weeks.

Place your bets, the odds are about 50%!

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.   

 

 

 

Panentheism

The eastern sky is beautiful this morning as the sun came up. There are high cirrus clouds everywhere and one thin cumulus cloud rising from the horizon shaped like funnel or a staircase to the heavens. The temperatures must be right for there are jet trails everywhere, crisscrossing the heavens like checkerboard. One might ask, are we to take the beauty in this world solely as a natural occurrence or is there more going on here on earth?

I have been digging into what the philosophers have to say about our world. It is a slow dig because so much of what is said is couched in the language of the intellectual community. However, it is never too late for an old dog to learn new tricks, particularly when one’s days are so unencumbered. Pantheism says that Gods are all around us in this world. The historical church has almost equated pantheism with the devil or as evil. Traditional theism (God understanding), says that God is located above and beyond our earthly reality yet pulling strings in our world. To this observer, this is one of those bedtime stories.

Panentheism is the philosophical alternative to these two types of theisms. Notice the “en” that is added to pantheism. What I know of philosophy I have learned via the google search engine. Maybe if google had been around fifty years ago, I would have been a better student? Getting the terms down is a lot easier with the computer. Anyway, panentheism says there is a little bit of God in everything in our world and that God is also living, invisible, untouchable and largely silent in our midst.

Panentheism works for me, it gives credit where due for the beauty in this world and opens up our lives to the true friend who knows our troubles, shares our pain and is the giver of healing hope/joy.

What more could we ask of God?

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.   

  

White folk

If God is our protector, why have 50,000 Christians been slaughtered to death in Nigeria by Muslim terrorists? God as our protector is a lie. A major grey haired TV preacher touted this lie to his grey haired white congregation this Sunday. The Bible can be made to say whatever you want it to say. 

Meanwhile, the blood flows as the world's religious and political elites play dumb. President Trump is right once again. How many of our brothers have to die to get God’s attention? Or, does God only protect we, American, white folk? The jig is up. 

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca,

 

Valued

The baseball Gods were with the Dodgers this post season. For some strange reason, the twists and turns of the game of baseball allowed them to win the World Series, congratulations you Dodgers. You were out played, out hit, out homered and except for a few games out pitched. Your defense was at times sloppy and at times miraculous but the tide always turned just enough.

Allow me to make an application. Our lives are like the game that is not a game. Life is for real. There are times when the mojo is working and times when everything seems to be a great disappointment. We have all been there, at these bad times, despite our sloppiness at life, if we listen for the voice of God and that gentle nudge that is bigger than all our disappointments, God will reassure us we have value to God in the game that is not a game. 

Travel on my friends.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.    

   

Birds

Every morning at first light I wander out to check out the owls roosting in the big Eucalyptus. The females are hiding high up and behind as much foliage as possible. On the rare occasion there is a male owl, they roost on the blower branches and look you straight in the eye as if to challenge, this world is mine.

One could easily assume I am making a value judgement between male and female but that is not the point. Among we humans there is room for adjustments considering personality and capabilities but the point is that we all have a roll to play in life and most all of us are naturally better equipped to stay in our natural, God given lane. Travel on you birds.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Power

Doing the right thing is so very hard to do. Have you not found it so? Washington knows so. Our politicians cannot avoid doing the wrong thing at the right time or the right thing at the wrong time. The easy stuff such as spending our tax money is a joy ride for these gutless wonders. Throwing money around is good back home. When the chips are down, however, when it really matters, they jump ship and go home for Halloween.

This time we are talking primarily about the “good o’ boys” of the Senate. The Peoples House, with the narrowest margins, has done their job and passed a clean temporary funding bill to keep the government running, a funding bill that was written by former President Biden.

So why have the Democrats of the Senate suddenly voted no on the Biden CR after voting yes 14 times previously? Why do the Democrats now want federal employees, including the war department, federal law enforcement and air traffic people, insanely working without pay? Why do the Democrats want federal benefits like snap and child care to cease? Why are the Democrats putting the lives and well-being of so many people at risk? The Democrats are now starving the very people that they count on as Democrat clientele.  

It is all about Washington power. Republican Senators, do you not know who you are dealing with? Politics is no longer a gentleman’s game. The world wars of the last century were nothing compared to our present fight from within, these are also deadly times. You and I cannot play nice with those who want to kill us. Playing nice with a gun to the back of your head is more crazy than the crazies who are pointing the gun.

Republican Senators, please join the all-out fight for America. The Democrat party, as presently constituted, will quickly trash the “filibuster rule” when and if they should win a majority in the future. Common sense would say, let’s be a real democracy now. Send the power grabbers home. Join the lead of President Trump who has laid it all on the line for America. To do otherwise will be recorded as the beginning of the end.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.