Day 30

Evil is a part of our being human but the word is often wrongly used as an adjective rather than a noun.  A person is not evil but every person has a degree of evil intent.  Wikepedia defines evil as “the opposite or absence of good.  It is an extremely broad concept but in everyday usage is used more narrowly to denote profound wickedness”.  However, that which is profound wickedness to one of us may not be so defined by all of us.

   

May I suggestion one possible broad ranging definition.  Evil is an action on our part as an individual or a group that demeans and limits our own birthright as humans.  Evil is a sin against ourselves, it has everything to do with God and nothing to with religion.  This may sound abstract but this definition is being played out in our current politics.
  

The Godless collective of the political left is advocating for the mother being the sole decider as to which of us live and which of us are destroyed.  The well being of the mother, whatever that means, is their only concern.  Motherhood is now a divine right and the mother is God, according to Governor Cuomo of New York and the Governor of Virginia.  

Can there be a clearer expose'?

G. Goslaw

Landers, CA   

Day 29

These are my favorite TV commercials.

1     1.     Geico camel .. Wed. hump day

       2.    Serovital gal … interested?

       3.    Cascade  What does a dishwasher do?

      

       G. Goslaw 

       Landers, CA

Day 28

Super bowl weekend is again upon us.  How can anyone figure that the Patriots are only 2 1/2 points up on the Rams, something is amiss.  There are two football philosophies that are played out every Sunday during football season.  The Belichick philosophy states that defense wins championships, while the Rams believe that an explosive offense is the best defense.  We shall check out the wisdom of these two philosophies on Sunday but look for Belidhick to blitz the heck out of LA.

This contrast in philosophies also occurs in politics.  The Republicans are defense minded stupidly letting the opposition set the agenda.  Democrats always go on the offense to hide their vulnerabilities, keeping the public and the voter distracted.  The Democratically lead Russia probe of President Trump, illegally enforced by a special prosecutor, is such an offensive distraction to hide the crimes of Hillary Clinton and the collusion of President O’bama with the Russians.  

This is an unavoidable evaluation of our now three-year-old political sporting event that we have been forced to endure.  Only the stupidly Democratic could believe otherwise in view of all the facts exposed to date with more goodies waiting for a just Justice Department. 

G.Goslaw
Landers, CA

Day 27

I spit in the tube for ancestry .com last year.  This was both a test of their DNA testing expertise and a test of my understanding of the Goslaw family history.  I don’t trust round numbers, when used they usually indicate an informed guess.  I want more.  The results of my DNA test came back saying that I am 60% English, Welsh and Scottish.  Great, that is the Spaulding ancestry on my mother’s side of the family.  This is no surprise.

Ancestry. com also said that my DNA showed I am 40% western European, close but no cigar!  I am a Polack, is Poland western or eastern European?  How do I know that my ancestors came to America from Poland?  My last name is Goslaw, which is also a small town in northwest Poland.  The Goslaw family or person migrated from Poland to Canada and America in the late 1800’s, there are some records of the Goslaw name in the Quebec area and grave sites in upstate New York but did the original migrants identify themselves by the name Goslaw?

The first adventures of my family to the new world probably had another Polish sounding name.  I’m guessing of course.  I would like to engage them or him in a conversation and ask, why did you make a name change in the new world, or did you?  Did the change make sense because another sir name would sound not so Polish?  Was the change intended to make getting along in the new world more comfortable because of the racial identifies of that era?

If this was your motive for the name change to Goslaw, then you caved to the negative racial attitudes of the time.  The change seems to us to be a denial of who you were and by extension, a denial of our family history.  The Polish people have a proud history, why weren't you proud of it?  I would like to have heard your response to that accusation, I’ll bet it would have stirred a fire in your belly.

 

Would you have shot back, ask me another question, why did I choose my hometown in Poland as my new sir name?

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA

    

Day 26

In the light of what happened to Jesus on the cross, there were and there are no good guys, certainly not the religious communities that put him on the cross.  Even the spiritually hungry who flocked to hear his words turned on him at his hour of crisis.  This is who we are, either we are stuck in a prideful box canyon of religious dogma or we run scared from exercising the faith that is fundamental to spiritual growth.  So, we can ask, who is righteous?  Since there is a God of love, the broad stroke of humanity must have some spiritual meaning, both for the rich and poor, the successful and the failures, the believers and the agnostics, the socially acceptable and the despised, the folk in the church pew and the folk in the bars, the have’s and the have not’s.  The love of God has been extended for everyone, for all.  All is a little word that brings clarity to the scriptures, at least, for me, check it out.  Our drive for spiritual authenticity has always been a part of our shared character as humans and is present in every culture, more often than not, however, religion of every strip, just gets in the way.

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA  

Day 25

The millions of Americans who live on the financial margins are the underbelly of capitalism.  This weakness must be addressed before it is much too late.  The low commitment bar of socialism is increasingly attracting the younger generations with false promises and free stuff for all.  In a few years, America will no longer be the economic engine that built our country.  

This is a certainty unless the capitalistic power brokers become proactive in their politics.  It is no longer acceptable to depress the wages of the middle class by exporting jobs and facilitating the influx of cheap labor from South America.  President Trump is working for the change required to keep capitalism relevant but you are not supporting his efforts and doggedly fight Trump capitalism.  By your stubborn selfishness you will empower the socialists in spite of getting your cut in the corporate tax rate and the go away regulations.

The socialist agenda cannot be out rightly defended but the Democrats will ride the Health care train to bring us socialism in 2020, unless the Republicans have an answer to our national health care dilemma.  Healthcare is not working and the status quo will loose on this issue.  I have made this suggestion before but I seriously underestimated the revenue stream.  Democrats and Republicans can both compromise on this issue and fix our healthcare.  

Washington could unite and tax buy trades on the NY Stock Exchange, one dollar per share purchased.  Math is not my thing but it looks to me that this may bring in 40 trillion dollars a year to fund all or part of a new healthcare system.  That seems insane and such a solution seems unrealistic so please check my numbers.  ggoslaw@gmail.com  

G. Goslaw

Landers, CA. 

Day 24

Evil is an infectious human disease.  Evil is an infectious disease that separates the individual, the family, the neighborhood and the greater community.  Evil is the opposite reality of what Jesus identified as love for our neighbors.  Evil is an infectious disease that separates human life into those who are and those who are not worthy of the human label.  The worthy are then not responsible nor to be concerned about the unworthy who deserve to be trashed.  Evil as an infectious disease cannot be treated with alcohol, narcotics, or a hospitalization.  An effective vaccine will never be produced to rid us of this infectious disease.  Evil is in the bones of we humans.  Evil can only be confessed, therefore, there is One to whom confession can be made.  Shall we?

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA