I recommend this book.

Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. Print. 

Among other things, it relates how for many years Poland only recognized marriages contracted by the Roman Catholic Church.  This made the children of Jewish marriages bastards.  One could pay a heafty fee to authorities to have the child legitimized by the state. 
How kind.

A Tale

... A tale told by and idiot 
Macbeth V:v

Yes, for Macbeth surely it must seem.  Witches had prophesied.  Or had theyt?  Instead may one not say that they instead read the depths of Maribeth's ambition.  Did he, Macbeth allow himself to even  acknowledge on a conscious level this ambition.  The ambition to rise in power.  The ambition for kingship.  

But, at this point in act five scene five when Macbeth pronounces on life, he has followed the trail of his ambition to it's end.  Given that all has turned upside down from where Macbeth thought he would have it one can see his point.   But, one might also see The playwrights point.  That the vanity of this world fades and does so fast.   It leaves us with the taste of ashes in the mouth.   

We have those stolid time honored sources of wisdom as guides.  They warn us away from ambition for vanity.  They tell us that life may have no meaning or purpose.  But, that, if that be so, it then falls to us to crate our own and do so wisely. 

Wisdom -- Pay attention now y'all

     I recently heard a W. F. Buckley type conservative on NPR speculate on 

Trumps appeal.   The appeal comes from a kind of nationalism.  

     The nationalism does not resemble the fiscal small government conservatism of Buckley and Goldwater.  It has strog elemts of jingoism and chauvinism it it.   It relies primarily on emotion and  fear as opposed to reason and responsibility.   

     Pat Buchanan has indulged in this kind of spin since the early ninties.  Whether it's anti-migrant rhetoric resembels the anti-antisemitism of depression pre-war Germany remains to be seen.  For my part it does.  

     Trump will say anything to get attention.  He will do anything without considering the consequences.  Like any other American business person, he only considers the short run.,   Like John M Caines, "... in the long run we're all dead."

Bored? Here's an answer.

Are you bored?  

Looking for something to do.  

Well here's and idea.  

Help infiltrate and disrupt this 

White Nationalist 

organization. 

Maybe the phrase white nationalist isn't quite clear.  It means racist.  They have a personal bias against people who do not hail from North European extraction.  Mind you, Arabs and Turks who have lived for generations in Paris or Berlin don't count.  You got to be white.

What to do.  Join the NPI.  Infiltrate their meetings.  subtly disrupt their operations, directions and goals.  And, by all means document your findings.  Report your findings to entities like Mother Jones, The Village voice, Rolling Stone,  and your local progressive periodicals.  

Check it out 
Select (  we don't click on this blog  ) the link cited below.


http://www.npiamerica.org/

Giving up

I'm not praying for tomorrow.  

I've given up. 

If we lived through the utter stupidity of Harry Trueman and Herbert Hoover 

we'll make it though 

Trump.  

Spring is here.

Spring has come again. Friends of mine now labor in the soil planting gardens. So I feel compelled to relay this. 

A while back, three bus routes  passed by this garden.  The gardener planted corn every year.  The garden set next to the high tension power lines  on La Vista road.

The only thing missing were the white washed tractor tires.

leviticus 18: 22. Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind:

The short version:

Homosexual behaviour is normal.  It was so prevalent that it threatens the breeding patterns and family structure of the Hebrews. The  Hebrews surrounded by   hostile groups  had to breed like crazy.


Background
What does this mean?

First, all the rules in Leviticus at the heart of the matter deal with  questions of identity.  The Hebrew tribes have the task of differentiating themselves from the tribes around them.   This task feell to them before and after the Babylonian captivity.

Captive in Babylon, the elders set about to write down what had hitherto lived in memory and recitation.  The focus on identity took on an overwhelming facit of Hebraic existence.  After all, they lived among a people who had conquered them.  The Bab ylonians possessed wealth and power which the Hebrews did not. This surely must have shamed the Hebrews:  Left them  with the taste of ashes in their mouths.

So the Children of Abraham write down their scriptures. And, every step of the way, they reinforce the us vs them paradigm.  This included their sexual habits.

Now, to the point,  instead of male homosexual behaviour occuring only rarely in the larger non-Hebraic community, it could very well have run rampant.  And so, the Habraic elders in Babylon felt the need to say in loud and clear terms "... They do that.  We don't..."   This has special import if one seeks to grow the tribe to a strength sufficent to accomplish a reconquista.
 
In fact, chapter 8 of Leviticus seems devoted to reguloating sexual behaviour.  It only lacks the admonition to keep a stud book   The rest of the book seems to guard against inbreeding.

Behavioural health people aver that forcing a person to look outside the immediate family builds character strength.  The person has to venture into the unknown. 

Homosexual behaviour gets in the way of breeding.  But, it also disrupts family life.  It interrupts the attachment of one partner for the other.  It does take two minimum to raise kids.  This argument lacks something, though.  That something is that heterosexual mates who go looking for it outside marriage disrupt family life just as much as if they sought homosexual contact.  So Thgere.  

Now Paul.  Poor old Paul.  Bad press.  He's been deconstructed out of  existance.  Here goes.

Paul lacks the  capacity to see that two men or two women can hae a solid bonded relationship.  He also does not realize one thing. The external genitalia are not the priciple sex organs.   The brain is. Few in his day could have seen that. 

Paul may had one thing right.   Rampent promiscuity does little or nothing good for us.  It only encourages us to treat each other as objects instead of peopple.  In engaging in promiscuous behaviour we deprive ourselves of the opportunity to know one person deeply and hence ourselves deeply.

But wait, I hear you say, this applies to heterosexuals as well as homosexuals. Yes it does.