Donald Trump (l) President Obama (r)
Along with all that is happening on the world scene minute to minute two occurrences stood out for BU last week. There was the Royal Wedding and the challenge by Donald Trump to President Obama to produce his birth certificate to prove he is a bona fide American. The fact that both matters have hogged the media space confirm surely we live in times where news is greatly influenced by its celebrity nature, that is fluff over substance. News reports suggest 12,000 media workers were assigned to cover the royal wedding. Most of the USA Cable Networks gave the Donald Trump Obama birth certificate Obama story top billing this past week.
The UK Telegraph reported that the royal wedding will cost the UK economy the unconscionable sum of £5billion. Bear in mind the UK economy is still in the throes of a severe economic depression. The large expense possibly speaks volumes to the importance the English still regard he monarchy. What else could it be?
After the pomp and ceremony was done at Westminster Abbey on Friday, April 29, what resonated for the BU household was the compulsion to reflect on the institution of marriage between a man and a woman. It is a traditional institution which has seen its diminution in a world where cultural relativism has taken deep root. Perhaps the lesser role now played by the Church in modern day society and the bastardization of the institution of marriage has been a natural consequence. If there is one positive BU hopes prevails out of the royal wedding would be to reinforce the importance the institution of marriage plays in building strong family units.
To the other event:
As if Sarah Palin was not enough the US political system has conspired to suggest that US celebrity Donald Trump would be a worthy Republican presidential candidate, thus giving the possibility that he could potentially become president of the USA. A strategy the publicity seeking Donald attempted last week was to resurrect the birth issue which has dogged President Barack Obama since assuming the presidency. Surprisingly there is still a healthy number of Americans who do not believe that Obama is an American and therefore eligible to take up residence on Pennsylvania Avenue.
What was distasteful about what Donald Trump did was to insinuate that Obama benefited from affirmative action to gain entry to Ivy League Harvard. Bear in mind Obama graduated magna cum laude from what is regarded as the most prestigious law school in the USA and he was named editor of the Harvard Law Review, the institution’s highest student honour. The fact that the US media would give currency to this bout of stupidity by Trump speaks volumes to how minorities are regarded by the White elite in the USA. How the hell did Obama become president any way? No doubt Trump is hoping to piggyback on the rising sentiment fuelled by the Boston Tea Party et al coat tail.
Some in the USA have pulled the race card regarding how Trump has treated with Obama issues in his early foray to be the Republican nominee for president. BU believes though he has demonstrated a level of stupidity, which causes one to seriously question how he was able to accumulate the significant wealth he is reported to have. Obama was able to have the last laugh at the Donald last night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
The logic as to why why Donald got the airplay he did. The logic as to why the British government would outlay such a significant sum at a time when people are being sent home. Both explain the illogic of many things currently wrong with the world we live in today.
Make that two!
@ BU Bloggers
Salutations
Love & Light to you all!
So I guess that was too much, TRUTH overload?
Prove All Things And Hold Fast To That Which Is Good & True!
what a beautiful principle that is!
TRUTH never needs defending but is cursed or edified by our words or actions!
A belief is a contract that must expired as being True or False. The world is very old in the teeth…..and that expiration date of many of those beliefs is upon us.
We’re entering the Galileo effect, so, who wants my head?
There are many humble individuals who truly wants to change this world for the better, not just for this misguided generation, but for the generations to come.
The emancipation from mental slavery requires courage of will and the yearning for the unadulterated TRUTH!
We can have our fill of tonsil tennis and become worlds greatest world smiths or be the change we truly want to see in the world.
LOVE IS THE ANSWER……It is time we love the TRUTH!
Because the TRUTH will set us free! (from a great book)
WHO ARE YOU?
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Take care of yourselves and each other!!
@ BU Bloggers
Salutations
Aah Yes, The purging has begun!
THE THREE STAGES OF TRUTH
1. First, it is ridiculed
2. Second, it is viciously attacked
3. Thirdly, it is accepted as being self-evident
I see some of you are displaying stage ONE and TWO…..
Well done, stage THREE is a lot closer ahead.
By the way, ONLY a FOOL attempts to stop the “turning wheels” of wisdom!
Love and Light to you all!
Take care of yourselves and each other!
@ BU Bloggers
Salutations
Bring on tomorrow let it shine
Let the sun coming up on a beautiful day, It’s yours and mine
We can make a difference, it’s not too late
Bring on tomorrow, we can’t wait
I sat in an audience tonight watching my two boys performed the FAME musical at the Belgrade Theatre; one cast in a lead role and the other supporting.
The above were lyrics to one of the songs. Apparently the Fame cast made it up for the show.
I was immediately inspired.
I was so proud of my boys and their performances.
Because of them I know the world must change.
“We can make a difference it’s not too late, bring on tomorrow we can’t wait”. (Fame Cast)
Change Is Coming!
Take care of yourselves and each other!
@Myturn2speak
MAD???
If ya ask a madman to count de number of mad people in the village he wud tel ya it is too difficult a thing to do an that it wud be easier to count de sane wuns.
Write on ‘Mytern2speak’
In an abundance of water the fool is thirsty…
Alas a thirsty animal would quench it’s thirst from dirty waters
Write on ‘Mytern2speak’
Gibran Kahlil Gibran tells us in one of his stories about two people meeting in a mental institution. After conversing for some minutes’ one asked the other:
Why are you in here?
The man replied: “It is like this; my mother wanted me to be an engineer like her brother, my father wanted me to be a Doctor, my auntie wanted me to be a lawyer and my uncle wanted me to be a politician so I came here where I can be myself.
Then the one asked the other why are you in here?
The other said: Oh no! I do not belong in here…I am a visitor.
And the the man commented: ‘So you are from the madhouse outside these walls.’
(The story is not retold verbatim but it is to the nearest account)
The moral of the story is that it is: all the r*ssole people on the outside that are responsible for the people in the asylum…there are in there to be protected from the lunatics on the outside. In fact, there’s a theory in physicians circle that the ‘incarcerated’ are not the ‘mad’ per se but usually someone in the immediate environment of the ‘victim’.
Don’t leh dise BU buggers get to you yeh
Take care Coventry man.
FrankTalk | May 8, 2011 at 9:56 AM |
@Myturn2speak
MAD???
If ya ask a madman to count de number of mad people in the village he wud tel ya it is too difficult a thing to do an that it wud be easier to count de sane wuns.
Write on ‘Mytern2speak’
In an abundance of water the fool is thirsty…
Alas a thirsty animal would quench it’s thirst from dirty waters
Write on ‘Mytern2speak’
@Franktalk,
That is quite insightful. I honestly know at least one individual, who is as you describe i.e. in the madhouse on the outside, functioning in society, to all intents and purposes successful, but I have most serios doubts as to their sanity, having witnessed some extradordinary displays of behaviour, both subtle and hysterical.
And note that I said…at least one……Lol
Life is an interesting thing.
@David
It seems the US went into Pakistan, a sovereign country, with the objective to assassinate bin Laden if we accept the report. We have learned that bin Laden was unarmed. Any comment about a country built on laws but would operate in the matter they did?
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I missed some of the earlier comments because I was at the Home Office visiting those near and dear to me and seeking for some R & R but instead I got the R word “Rain” (this is supposed to be the dry season isn’t it?) but I didn’t let it dampen my enjoyment.
When Obama was on the campaign trail he said that he would pursue OBL even if it meant going into Pakistan to do it and he lived up to his word. No one succeeds like a politician who keeps his promises. What should he have done?
David, would you let us know how you would have resolved the issue
By acknowledging that this whole thing is based on a lie. Asshole
@ Crusoe
“…I honestly know at least one individual, who is as you describe i.e. in the madhouse on the outside, functioning in society, to all intents and purposes successful, but I have most serios doubts as to their sanity, having witnessed some extradordinary displays of behaviour, both subtle and hysterical.
And note that I said…at least one……Lol”
Yes the ‘effect’ is called ‘Driving you mad.’ Don’t let the buggers get to you…you know what to do.
@Sargeant
The unusual rain which Barbados experienced is now explained, good to know you still were able to enjoy home base.
To you question, don’t you think having hunted bin Laden for so many years that some attempt should have been made to allay the kind of doubts which are being raised? Obama and his cohorts would be in the best place to answer your very good question.
Frank Talk
How is it that there are individuals like yourself who are quite prepared to sound intelligent on peripheral points but prefer to remain mute on the important issues..?.
There are functional drunks as well as functional Lunatics. Many are found in leadership roles in the private and public sector.
@ BAFBFP
Is sounding intelligent and being intelligent mutually the same?
Sounds like I am not living-up to my name eh
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. Well brother! on the important issue of Osama bin Ladin’s death; I made my point clear here: FrankTalk | May 4, 2011 at 9:30 AM and as far as I am concerned that is my firm unalterable belief and there’s no point in getting in to any other debate with others who holds opposing views. I Will add this however: Any system or government that is established on fraudulence and aggression has to be maintain by fraudulence aggression until such time that it is brought to its knees by its own sickness…that is, when its people reach the point where they are sickened by ‘their’ own sickness and yearn for change.
The system/government in question that I am talking about, (USA) almost reached that stage two years ago when the world breathed a sigh of relief as the young and reasonable hearts of that nation voted for a ‘Candidate’ who spoke eloquently about ‘CHANGE’ a candidate whom they thought would give his best at remedying the ills of the nation.
A revolution took place in the United States of America…a revolution like none other that had previously occurred on the planet. Americans, causation (white) Americans put a ‘black’ man in the white house…hoping that he would blacken it up, at least, a little to bring to the nation ‘Some of that ‘Good ole-time spirit and inspiration that help the broken and down-trodden people (Slave people) to pick themselves up and march-onward to the present. They wanted it…wanted it badly to exorcise the daemons of slavery-guilt that were haunting and turning their American dream into a nightmare
What happened is plain to see. Time and space would not permit me to continue much further.
Hardly a glance or a gesture was cast at the appalling disparity that crippled and is still crippling many, many African American.
If you don’t know how to take care of your own house how can you seek to take care of other’s?
And by that statement I am not singling-out African American house but I am referring to the general ‘American’ house.
James Baldwin – the African American novelist and essays says – (and he should know) (without disrespect to him) ‘…Any compromise a man makes to a system that he does not believe in, that man loses some his masculinity’. The boy in the white house seem to be “DRIVING FOR MISS DAISEY” Do you know the film, where a black chauffer sits in the front at the wheel taking instructions from the white lady in the back? That was in the days when black people in the USA were referred to as ‘Boy’
Alas it was clear from the inception, when he re-appointed Clinton’s old team that it was going to be Government ‘anew’ but not new.
I feel sorry for the good-hearted and young people of the United States of America – unless another miracle happens between now and the next two years – I say the people of the United States of America; for the rest of the world who depended on USA for leadership are seeing now that there no reliable leadership to depend on there.
BAFBFP there’s a maxim that says better to remain silent and assumed to be stupid than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt. I am looking to you to hold my back.
Afta all it is you that cause me to open me mout.
@ islandgal246
What about dysfunctional drunks and lunatics in leadership roles?
DAVID @ BU
IS ALEX JONES* JUST BLOWING OFF IN THE ABOVE VT OR IS THERE SOME TRACTION HERE?
Well no one can’t say that “The Donald” is stupid. Unlike many patrons of his Casino he certainly remembered the line from this song:
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You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run
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He has abandoned his run for the Presidency, I had penciled in his debates against Obama as a must see in 2012. Here’s hoping Palin is a go.
This is one time I’m in favour of cruel and unusual punishment