The Mosque Debate… Dr. Laura & Sarah Palin

Being of Jewish origin during the revival of the Nazi movement the whole Mosque debate stirs up great emotion for me. When I was a 3 year old my mother put me in a cooking class at the local JCC (Jewish Community Center – which is very much the same as this proposed center which will be primarily a community center with Muslim religious affiliations) and while I was taking the class there the Nazis actually lit a bomb at that center. Luckily, no one died. However this act of terrorism took me out of my connection to my roots and made my mother fearful of having me and my brother participating in our culture of origin.

I actually lived in the area where the Nazis in the 70s marched through, a mini-series of the event was called “Skokie.” The same polarization that exists now between the Muslims and the Tea-Bagger McShaggers, are the same sort of people who participated in the anti-Semitism I experienced as a child against the Jews in the Chicago area where I grew up. Those idiot Nazis where actually given a permit to have a rally and parade through Skokie (an entirely Jewish area of Chicago at the time.) However, back then, during my childhood it appeared we as Americans knew what our forefathers had fought and died for – the rights that are part of our constitution. The 2 great wars were but a couple of generations away and we seemed generally to tolerate one another in a way we don’t anymore. Those who were the Nazis back then were marginalized and given no power and were the butt of people’s scorn and jokes – there’s actually a reference in the Blues Brothers movie which sums up the general feeling people had for those sorts of intolerant jerks, it goes something like, “Nazis, I hate Nazis” and they run the Nazis parading on a bridge off and into the water.

We have always had those who were scared sick of the “pinkos,” or the anarchists, the witches or whatever other version of silliness people felt threatened by. This mentality leads to the believe that all people who participate in the Muslim religion – a giant organized religion (1 of the 3 largest in the world) are all terrorists. It’s as stupid as thinking  Catholics are equivalent to all Christians, and they are all evil tortures due to the abhorrent and evil deeds done during the Spanish Inquisition by the Catholics (who killed about 25% of all women during the middle-ages, serious genocide there.) If one were to say that would be beyond absurd, yet it seems to be the mantra of the extreme right. All organized religions have different sects and operate under a generic umbrella.

Christianity for example can be preached to by someone who has no formal education about the bible and has been ordained through the mail, drinks poison and lets snakes bite him while talking in tongues oppose that style with a Christian who sits tidily in a row of austere wooden benches and is preached to by a minister (with a doctorates degree in religious studies) about the abstract meaning of some remote passage of the bible. Those are pretty different experiences of the “same” religion. The same could be said of the orthodox or Hasidic Jewish people compared to those who uphold the religion as more of a cultural experience and/or are reformed Jews.

I personally am not fond of any sort of religious zealotry no matter what color or shape it comes in, as it always seems to include violence – the natural antithesis of spirituality.  I believe the enemy of any religious or spiritual system is intolerance of others belief systems as this leads to hatred, violence and ultimately away from God.

If I were the people who were starting the community center however my fear would be that some horrible zealot would do what happened to my JCC back in the early 70s in some sort of bizarre retaliation for 9/11 – despite the fact that there is NO relationship. This property isn’t actually even that close to the actual site, the whole thing is just a bunch of right-wing racist, fascist scare tactics and we as Americans should stand against this disgusting behavior of the far right nut jobbers.

It’s really getting old our tolerance for allowing these idiots to have such a huge cultural impact on our America. Their America resembles Nazi Germany and if I could build a time machine and send them back there, I’d do it. They seem to think the past was where the glory days lie. I think they’d find that it was really not too glorious, especially for the moronic women of the right who would find their collective voice of stupidity silenced, relegated to the jobs that perhaps befit them best, being home makers and child bearers and nothing more. I think this is where Dr. Laura (Dr. of physical education that is) should be, she should go back to being a mean gym teacher and practice the BS she preaches. Why are we listening to what she has to say? Or the narcissistic, quitter Sarah Palin?  After all they have lady parts which make them inferior according to the line they supposedly tow.

One can not be a patriarchal woman of power without being a hypocrite and a moron, both of which disqualify them for giving advice. Oh, and Dr. Laura is Jewish and I doubt very much she’d like it if someone repeated the word Kike repeated over and over again at her while the other person pretended that they didn’t understand the difference between trying to take the piss out of a word by those who are called that name and those who say those words with hatred and violence in the context of a history of murderous hatred. And if she doesn’t get that, I just feel sorry for her inferior intellect.

We all know Dr. Laura is a “morally inferior person” (by her standards) who yells at other people for her own perceived weaknesses – being that she’s had at least one known affair while married and has herself been divorced and I believe has been estranged from her mother and has done everything she has railed on against on her show while presenting herself as if she were an expert on morality and a trained psychologist. She is a despicable human being whom I’m happy to see leave the public specter.

But going back to the debate about the community center several blocks away from ground zero. If I were in the position of running that organization my main concern would be for the people who would be serviced by my organization. Frankly, I would be worried about their safety which is ironically a form of terrorism! And I would point this out in the public sphere, explaining in the most rudimentary way how the right-wing crazies are stirring the hatred pot and are in effect doing the very thing we were supposed to be against – terrorism.

The right-wing are trying to block people’s rights like gay marriage, blocking this community center and taking federal law into their hands in Arizona illegally – kind of like having to wear a star of David on your outfit at all times, and countless other insane and uncompassionate policies, including trying to make it seem like “taking back America” is anything more than an anachronism for having only white presidents, or the evil thing of trying to disallow a person’s right to citizenship when they were born on this soil.

And where were all these right-wing fruit cakes when the boarders were opened and they could exploit the truck loads of illegal immigrants, creating a new slave class? Oh, yeah they were all for that. They’ve used propaganda, hatred, racism and all the awful things we supposedly have fought for, and turned it back around onto other innocent people.

Who is going to use that community center? Primarily children and are they expected to be responsible for what some idiot zealot did before they were even born? We have to stop the madness of grouping human beings together as a unit based on color, creed or religion – because we are all individuals – isn’t THAT the AMERICAN WAY? And how can one fight for pulling oneself up by their own bootstraps if we can’t even agree that we are individuals with the potential to think, feel and move apart from our class, race, color, creed or religious affiliation? It’s all just so insane and ridiculous.

I ask only this – When will we evolve into human beings? Because right now those who show no tolerance or empathy are nothing more than shadow people.

May the light prevail through our darkness,

Denise

Reader’s Comments and Questions…

Hi everyone,

Tonight I tried to catch up on a bit of news.  It was just confirmed that the bones of Caylie Marie Anthony, found about a block and a half away from where the toddler was living were indeed the remains of the little girl. I watched the news in horror. And noticed that this was in Orange County. I had to roll back the DVR to make sure, because Hope and A Plan had posted this after the orange light incident/poltergeist activity:

hopeandaplan

Hi Denise,

I just saw in the news that there was an earthquake in S Carolina, early this morning. I had a thought about the orange garage light experience you had last night. Sometimes when I get signs they are literal. Do you think its somewhere called Orange? Orange county Florida, California, or Orange the city in different areas??? And, Do you think there is anything to worry about with the Soviets doing naval excercises in the waters off of Venezuela? Thanks for keeping up the blog!

I wondered if this was a visitation from the little girl, trying to get a message through. I was after all alone with my  11 month old daughter. Child murders are always extremely upsetting, but this one in particular always made me sick to my stomach, its not like Casey (the mother and talk about some narcissism with the name freakishness of Casey, grandma Cindy, I mean come on) was having a psychotic break like Andrea Yates which was horrifying, but at least she was out of her mind, this woman Casey is clearly just a sociopath. Every time I’d see her disgusting face on the news my stomach would turn. She just oozes manipulative, sociopathic, self-centered, self-indulgent slime bag. The pictures of that poor daughter are just heart breaking especially after having a daughter myself. Anyway, perhaps this was an attempt by the child’s spirit to communicate, or just a total coincidence. Either way it’s weird.

prabhat

dear sir, i went thru your analysis about -india pakistan war.i agree with you. transit of mars and rahu in capricorn –interchange of sun and saturn and presence of transit mercury in capricorn……indictions are horrifying….may lead to ANTHRAX BOMB and other such inhumane attacks. destiny cannot be altered. thnx and regards,and… see u in the dreams. bye http://www.astrokhare.com

Hi Prabhat,

It’s fascinating how both Vedic/Sideral astrology and Western/Tropical astrology use completely different systems, calculations, even planets and both come to similar conclusions. As my readers can see that Prabhat says, “destiny cannot be altered,” this is a common theme in Vedic astrology although westerners who practice Vedic astrology will argue that, Indian astrologers will not. I have studied both systems and I find that they are both accurate, however in the west we do have more ability to exercise our free will and therefore have more control of our destiny. The reality is that in India, marriages are arranged, and people are tracked toward a particular career, and although the cast system is outlawed, it still exists. People born in India do have to contend with fate in a much different way then we do in the west which is why I think Vedic astrology is so accurate for people in that part of the world, but less so for westerners. And why western astrology is much more accurate for us on this side of the globe.

They are both equally accurate and important despite the entirely different viewpoints, calculations, house systems, aspects, including planets, even the signs are different for example if you are an Aries in western astrology, unless you were born at the very end of that sign you’d be a Pisces. Pretty different yet both are accurate. The universe sure is complex and amazing.

grace43

Funny, my husband and I were talking about places he had lived that we would like to go back to. He has been longing to return to Italy for several days now. My kids also have an annoying toy that plays the alphabet song that’s been going off a lot lately. Unlike your baby’s toy, this one goes off at the drop of a hat. An interesting thing is that this fall before the election it was another toy that plays Peter and the Wolf went off constantly. Just out of curiousity, my 2 year old got out a deck of cards and completely crumpled the 8 of hearts, King of Diamonds and the Jack of Diamonds. What do these cards correspond with in the tarot? I thought she was destroying face cards because her older sister and I were playing Slap Jack earlier. Then I remembered, she thinks every card is a “slap jack”. She also pretty much destroyed a joker, but we give her the jokers to play with while we are playing other games, so I didn’t think much of it. I’m glad you’re feeling better. Congratulations on the book deal! Happy Holidays!

Hi Grace,

The 8 of hearts is the 8 of cups in the tarot. It means so many options that the person can’t decide what to do. Often there is an element of illusion involved in this card. The King of Diamonds is the King of Pentacles, and this is a tricky one because in order for Rider/Waite to publish the first tarot deck and honor their vows to the magical order they were involved in they had to switch certain cards to get around things. The King of Pentacles, most books will tell you, is an earth sign man, but according to the Brotherhood of Light, which is where I really learned the craft of reading (rather then just using them as clairvoyant jumping off points) the card is actually a Gemini male if it is right side up, and a Gemini woman if it is reversed.

The Jack of Diamonds is the Page of Pentacles which would actually be an Aquarian male right side up or an Aquarian female if reveresed. Again a book would tell you it was an earth sign, but it really isn’t. This little switch-a-roo is evident when you actually look at the cards, there are clues built into the illustrations.

 

Sag1999

Sorry, Denise, Sept. 7, 1630, from the blog I cited before was a more accurate date for the founding of Boston (not 11/17/1630). Please use the Sept date if you are doing the chart.

Hi Sag,

There are two charts I ran for Sept. 7 because I guess back in 1630 they were using a different calendar and my computer compensated for that putting the actual date at 9/17/1630 but just in case it was already compensated for, I ran a chart for Sept. 7, 1630 as well. The compensated chart has some tension with Mars conjuncting the part of fortune in Aries in the 8th house inconjuncting the Sun and Mercury. However you must bare in mind that these are both just solar charts so there maybe things going on in the chart of Boston that are hidden from me since we don’t have an exact time. In general though neither chart looks terrible. Hope that helps calm your fears. Below are the two solar charts.

Also I saw a few things I wanted to make sure no one missed, Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol’s, future mother-in-law was arrested for crank. That can’t be good for Mrs. Palin’s career – karma anyone? There has been a minor auto industry bail-out which I thought would happen earlier then this, they really dragged this one out. And there is an investigation that has been started by congress here’s a passage I found about it:

A bipartisan Senate report, issued on December 11, accuses Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials – including Condoleezza Rice – of being directly responsible for the abuse and torture of prisoners at Guantanamo and other US prisons. It is the result of a two-year investigation conducted by the Senate Armed Services Committee under the direction of Democratic Senator Carl Levin and Republican John McCain, the former presidential candidate.

Although the report remains confidential, a 29 page summary was made public. It states that the source of the CIA’s resort to methods of “aggressive interrogation’ of terrorist suspects lay in Bush’s decision on February 7, 2002 that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to Taliban and Al Qaida prisoners. This opened the door for water-boarding (simulation of drowning), nudity, tying prisoners in stress positions for long periods and, of course, “extraordinary rendition”, that is to say the practice of sending prisoners abroad to be tortured in foreign countries on behalf of the United States.

Another critical report – not yet published but circulating among top officials in Washington – is a 513-page history of America’s lamentable yet highly-expensive failure at rebuilding Iraq after the devastation it caused in overthrowing Saddam. Entitled Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience, the report was compiled by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, led by Stuart Bowen, a Republican lawyer.

Also I’ve heard that Rumsfeld can’t go to certain countries because there are warrants for his arrest to be tried for war crimes. It has long been my prediction that this administration will be tried for war crimes by an international court, and that many, if not all will end up in prison. I’ve been saying that since we went into Iraq, and of course no one believed me. My friends and family have heard me rail on about this prediction for a long time now. So lets all do something positive and imagine the Bush administration and all their lacky’s behind bars. They deserve that times a billion.

All the lives lost, the death, destruction, tearing apart a soveirgn nation for what? Imbalancing the power in that region so that Iran has become a real threat, and making the Muslim population of the world hate us ten fold?

We know how many of our people have died. But how many innocent Iraqi people, men, women and children have died due to this arrogant, disgusting and perverted, vile, administration? They have been more like a gang of greedy psychopaths then a group of leaders.

Let’s not lie to ourselves and pretend the Bush administration is the first and only vile administration. There were others, one that springs to mine was old Hickory – Andrew Jackson, a real horror show with his trail of tears, or what we would now call ethnic cleansing.

It makes me angry that we Americans somehow think we are always the good guys, and that’s exactly how we become the bad guys — we forget to look at ourselves, that’s when we get into trouble. This is exactly why the patriotic BS after 9/11 was so destructive, as if criticizing the government was somehow anything other then those among us with a moral compass trying to keep our government on the straight and narrow.  

My great hope is for those out there who we have hurt or wounded, trampled on with our mighty power, or abandoned in their time of need, just know it is not us the people of the US, it is and has been our lame government. There are people here who care about the world, who understand we are not perfect and who believe we should rectify the mistakes we’ve made.

It’s important to remember there are good and bad people everywhere, and terrorism hurts only the innocent. It accomplishes nothing and is just an empty egomaniacal gesture and vein attempt at fleeting self-importance and world attention that leads directly to the dark side. There are no virgins awaiting you in paradise. Terrorism isn’t martyrdom. It’s the way of cowards killing innocent people because those terrorists are too small, cowardly and weak to take up arms against the real people in power who oppress them.

Martyrdom is serving, and helping your fellow human beings, feeding the hungry, saving the broken, not murdering innocent people. Mother Teressa was a martyr. Bin Laden was a (I have a strong feeling he’s dead now or  is in the process of dying) maladjusted lost soul looking to be important because his ego was weak, and just being wealthy wasn’t enough for him, he had to be important, even if that meant killing innocent human beings to feed his pathetic ego.

OK, sorry I got very angry there thinking about people who do such evil deeds in the name of religion or God. It literally drives me nuts. It’s absolutely the most vile thing, justifying murder via God. Horrible.

Anyway, on a lighter note, hope all are having a good weekend, and hopefully nothing crazy will happen over the next few days.

Best wishes and many blessings to all of you good and wise readers,

Denise