Trust Not In Idiots

So, have you noticed?
Forget Putin/Ukraine.
Forget the Obamacare fiasco.
Forget Syria and Iran and North Korea.
Forget the dozen myriad chaos inflicted upon this world daily.
Please.
Instead, focus on Global warming, income inequality, taxing the rich so that they will begin to pay their fair share.
Help your President out-focus on problems which don't exist, and ignore the very real
troubles facing the world.
Because why?
Because President Obama's ego, his self-image is founded upon the idea that he is a winner.
He would prefer to fight against shadows rather than face issues of consequence and be seen as weak
when he cannot succeed.
In shadow boxing he never loses; his self esteem is safe and secure from all alarms.
So focus on global warming, please. For his sake.
We used to joke that he was Jimmy Carter-lite. Right now Carter looks like Reagan by comparison.
(In case you aren't sure, that is a compliment...for Carter).

No Trace Of Bitter

Just saw the news that Westburo baptist leader Fred Phelps has died. The interwebs mock crews have been cheering for this to happen the past few days. Not me.
Life is precious. If you hate him for all the hate that he and his group have spewed, how are you better?
Sure, they are a vile group. He was not a good guy. But right at this time I will not cheer for anyone's death, not even Phelps. 
Life is precious. The picture above is titled "Our Lady Grace" and I like it. If confronted by something ugly, look for beauty.

No, This Was A HAD TO Repost

I missed an opportunity to crack wise about "Beware the ides of March", but that's okay. Consider this a free post to comment on Bert Lahr's snappy chapeau.
I won't write (today) about the persistence of memories from childhood getting a new layer of introspect due to seeing iconic movie players as themselves but partially dressed as we remember.
Margaret Hamilton is not dressing as "Ghostface". And exactly who Frank Morgan is looking at we will never know.

Another Old One From PCD

IF YOU
GO SEARCHING THROUGH THE WORLD
LOOKING HARD TO FIND, TO SEE
ANY REMNANT OF GOOD
IN A LOST HUMANITY
KEEP SEARCHING.

DIGGING THROUGH THE RUBBLE-
ANY KINDNESS THAT YOU FIND,
YOU WILL TREASURE MORE.
ANY FORGIVENESS FOUND IS GOLD
WORTH DIGGING FOR.

KEEP SEARCHING-THIS WORLD
IS NOT ALL DROSS.
THERE ARE DIAMONDS IN THE CLAY TO POLISH
LAY BEFORE THE CROSS.
ANY SIN STRUCK SOUL BEFRIENDED-
MET WITH CHRIST BEFORE ALL CHANCE IS ENDED...
CAN BECOME A PRECIOUS STONE IN HIS HOUSE.
KEEP SEARCHING.

FOR YOU WERE TAKEN FROM THE MUD-
REACHED WITH WORDS YOU KNEW WERE SPOKEN IN
A SPECIAL CHRIST-LIKE LOVE;
YOU MAY HAVE BEEN UNLOVABLE
TO ANYONE BUT GOD,
BUT HIS LOVE SENT SOMEONE SEARCHING THROUGH THE WORLD,
AND YOU WERE FOUND.

Scarier Than Putin

Oh sure, thing looks scary. Black Flying Fox, also known as the "Fruitbat". Saw this online and the common tators noted that the AUSTRALIAN man with the stick is holding the fruitbat closer to the camera for a bit of forced perspective fun.
But still...the fruitbat of nightmares. I've been having some doozies lately, and this thing might join the shade population of my sleeps.
They LOOK scarier to me than Putin. He is just a man. No matter what troubles he brings on our world, his power is finite, and his day will end just as surely as Hitler's did, Napoleon's did.
See if this little epitaph fits Putin and the others like Hitler who so troubled the world:
"Those who see you will gaze at you, 
 They will ponder over you, saying,
 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
 Who shook kingdoms, 
 Who made the world like a wilderness
 And overthrew it's cities,
 Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?'"
Isaiah 14:16-17

That verse wasn't talking about Putin, of course, but about satan, who raises up such Putins and
Hitlers to trouble the earth.
In "Despicable Me" terms, satan is "Gru" and the Putins/Hitlers his minions.

So don't fear Putin. Pray, as I do, for the return of Christ to set this world right, to end the dominance of Man, pray that every heart prepare Him room, and Heaven and nature sing when He rules the world with Truth and Grace and makes the nations prove the Glories of His Righteousness.

Okay, How About This?

Oncet uponish a time, I was given grief for comparing President Obama to Adolph Hitler.
How about this? In the config of 2014 current events, Vladdie Putin is casting himself in the Hitler role, invading Ukraine as Hitler did Poland.
This is President Obama's moment to shine as a world leader. He can do the right thing and champion the people of Ukraine who are threatened with subservience...or he can follow the example of Neville Chamberlain. 
Chamberlain was the dovish PM of Great Britain who, in the name of world peace, caved like a mountain climber rather than a speleologist. That is to say, this dove's weak action, winning a peace accord from Hitler as meaningless as a basilisk's smile, made it necessary for hawks to take to the skies.
But Wars Will happen in this shoddy cosmos where Man acts up and causes grief to the world.
Such will be the case until we all sing, "Joy to the world, Our Lord has come! Let earth receive her King!"