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A Kickin' Kluxer?...Is this the real Rick Perry?

Well, it's really hard to say...for Rick Perry is an enigma wrapped in inconsistency. Some time back he was a supporter of Al Gore. So, Rick was actually a "blue dog democrat"? Well, you don't say. It kind of reminds me of the time Sammy Davis, Jr. with overflowing ebullience ran out and hugged Richard M. Nixon from the rear...shocked the hell out of Nixon. 

We do know Perry has been in a state of transition since taking over for "GW" down in Texas. Like I said most Texans are considered your ordinary, everyday, rambunctious sh*tkickers...just a bunch of good ole boys.

However, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, will go down in the history books for referring to the KKK as "just a bunch of good ole boys" after they lynched a young black man in Mobile...my former home.

Therefore, I believe it's crucial that we give Rick close scrutiny. I believe in his heart, he's a sh*tkicker. I believe in his soul, he's a right wing Christian nut job. Lastly, and this is where we have to be especially carefully, I believe in his political aspirations he's going to reveal some "kluxer" tendencies.  

Strange Bed Fellows

Changing Water to Wine

Back when I was nine or ten years old and an altar boy at our parish, on Saturdays a couple of altar boys would go to the rectory (priest's residence) to prepare for Sunday's series of Masses by filling the "cruets" (small glass containers) with wine and water.

This particular Saturday, it was mine and another buddy's to carry out the assignment. Being that it was a Saturday, the priests were out and about as well as the housekeeper. We went in through the back door which was generally left unlocked for this purpose. We got four sets of cruets (two in a set) and opened the refrigerator and started the pouring process.

We were just about done, when my buddy asked if we could take a sip of the wine? I didn't know if it would be a sin or not, and in all my sheer stupidity said, that might be a sin that we would have to confess...and would get into trouble with the parish priest.

He assured me it wouldn't be a sin. Curiously I asked, how would you know? He said follow me. We went to the upstairs which was considered off limits to the commoners, for it was the domain of the priests. Sure enough, a lavish layout, recliners, a big television, thick carpeting, and what turned out to be the priests' liquor cabinet.

He opened it and there was almost every brand of liquor one could ask for with bottles of scotch, gin, rum, bourbon, vodka, and various wines. So that slight stagger in father's climb up the altar's steps wasn't some sort of regular dizziness but possibly just drunk? And when he came over to change the water to wine with the cruets we were holding, you could smell alcohol before he even took a sip of the wine from the chalice.

Anyway, my buddy and I went back downstairs and both took a swig from the bottle of wine, put it back in the fridge with none being the wiser. Oh, I never confessed it...I might have been stupid, but I wasn't crazy. 

Penance, Molestation and Mortal Sins

The above article causes me to reflect a little bit more, about all of the sins of which the Catholic priesthood is guilty. It has managed to go unscathed for generations until the confessions by those molested surfaced over the last two decades, around the world. 

Speaking specifically about the Catholic sacrament of Penance, which is required before receiving the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist (communion as shown in the Pope's photo above), that supposedly  clears one of their sins in order to avail oneself to receive the sacrament of communion, causes me to have even less faith in the Church than ever before...why?

The priests committing this molestation of children were required by right to confess to another priest, bishop, cardinal, or whomever in the echelon. Upon that confession, the one hearing the sins of those predators, had a holy obligation to intercede in behalf of those being spiritually destroyed by these wolves in sheep's garments.  Evidently they did not or would not...which means they were all mutually culpable in these ongoing transgressions.

Yet, they continued with these sacraments as if nothing was wrong, until they were caught, of which I say screw the entire facade, for allowing them to screw over the children without batting an eye...until they were caught in the headlights of modern day criminal and civil justice.

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Medici aka Vatican's Bank  

History has shown such acts of human idolatry not to be ingratiaing in extolling the virtues of universal and spiritual appreciation. Pagans, lacking a true understanding of the "Universal Power" of a timeless divine, were most notable for the building of images of themselves and even animals to denote their sought-after significance during their brief human existence...and all for naught.

This monument to honor King's memory smells of and is tainted by commercialism of over a hundred million dollars, with approximately $800,000 of it going to the King Family Dynasty. King clearly stated how he should be remembered, and that was with continued service to the betterment of humanity. As with those monuments already in DC, corporate greed has entered the picture, and tampered with the legacy of a great but humble soul with human failings...cast in stone and looking down upon the tourists like some god.

Just for the record, that more than one hundred million dollars could have produced a heck of a lot of educators, doctors, scientists, engineers, and other builders to advance civilization.

Just Can't Keep A Good Man Down...   

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