Change For A Nickel

This week we just crossed the horrible milestone of 4000 service members who have been killed in the Iraq war. As you all know, I have been speaking against this war from the very beginning. Frontline just re-aired the documentary Bush’s War. It is an in depth analysis of the events which led to the war in Iraq. This is totally worth your time to understand what led to the war and the series of subsequent failures. After you watch the documentary you should ask yourself. Four thousand of our finest were killed for what again?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/

I’ve been working so much overtime and had so little time to write but it’s Friday night, I’ve had a couple glasses of wine and I don’t have anything better to do!  So Barack’s pastor said some highly charged stuff at a couple of church sermons.  And?!  I fail to see what the big deal is.  Though I spent most of my formative years in the Lutheran church I have spent more than my fair share of time in Black Baptist churches.  One of the main differences I’ve noticed between the two is that in Lutheran or Catholic (OK, let’s just say white) churches is that the pastor has a well prepared sermon before hand.  He/She has probably practiced it before Sunday service and you know what points he/she is trying to make.  You can pretty much set your watch to the length of the service!  Not so much in a Baptist church.  It’s like getting on a Chicago CTA bus that you didn’t know was being detoured and to make it worse, the driver isn’t sure what the route is so they start turning every which way to try and get to the end of their route!  I guess what I’m trying to say is that you are guaranteed to hear some crazy ass shit come out of the typical Baptist preachers mouth because he has NO idea where the hell he is going!!

I’m almost positive the reason I can raise my right eyebrow so high is from hearing crazy ass shit in Baptist churches.  I’ve heard pastors go off on the congregation because they didn’t handle his anniversary the way he wanted, I’ve been in church when the pastor locked the door and said we need to take another collection because they didn’t get enough the first two collections!  I’ve heard them go off on gay folks which makes no damn sense because we all know the choir director is the biggest queen in the church.  I could go on but you get the idea.  Barack’s pastor said some highly charged stuff but it is nothing worse than what Pat Robertson and crew have said and continue to say.  I actually think what they say is worse.  I think Mr. Obama said it best in his speech.  Dr. Wright is like family and family members say crazy stuff but you don’t get rid of them.  Wow, talk about hitting home!  Hey Dad, are you reading this???!!!!

Listen to this crazy ass shit from a Baptist preacher!