march 2022
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March 31, 2022:
America has entered into the age where politics is reigning as a form of entertainment...where the "Me's" fight the "You's" and vice versa... where the role of who is "Me" and who is "You" is interchangeable. Sadly, that is usually decided by who gets the TV/Internet/CSpan camera time......leaving anything that politics should address as not entertaining enough..and instead seeking for the politics of nothing. For a brief news cycle Chris Rock and Will Smith were more important a topic than Ukraine....so, the way I see it I could care less about Rock and Smith and my choice for who lost is the intelligent folks who had to endure the news cycle that touted the events of Rock and Smith.
Rodney Kennedy, a New York Pastor and Preaching instructor at Palmer Theological Seminary expands on the "politics of Nothing":
The politics of nothing is performative rhetoric, not policy-making legislation. Lights, action, cameras roll — the performance begins. In the 1990s, the situation comedy The Seinfeld Show was dubbed the “show about nothing.” Closer examination determined that the show actually was about quite a lot.
There is, however, a show that really is about nothing: The Republican Congress starring Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Louie Gohmert of Texas, et al.
Sen. Cotton attempts to deny federal funding for the New York Times 1619 Project. He rails about the “loss of civilizational confidence” among white people.
Gov. DeSantis of Florida presents a bill designed to make sure no history teacher teaches Critical Race Theory or anything that might make white people uncomfortable. Somehow, he managed to have the word “freedom” in his bill. How odd that the people of Florida would need a law that gave them the freedom to be comfortable. One would think that the land of sunshine, gated condos, lounge chairs, flip-flops, ill-colored shirts, margaritas, eye-popping bikinis, orange juice and beaches would be basking in comfort.
The new “Do Nothing” Party in D.C. does have some activity, but like the business end of a bee it’s got a lot of stings and no value. Greene and Boebert between them have filed five bills to impeach President Joe Biden. Here the revenge motive glares back at us as if we were watching reruns of The Godfather.
Greene has introduced 17 bills in Congress — four to impeach Biden, one to present the Congressional Medal of Honor to Kyle Rittenhouse, one to eliminate the ATF, one to remove Maxine Waters from the Committee on Financial Services, one to fire Anthony Fauci, two to give Americans more freedom with guns, and one to congratulate the University of Georgia on winning the national championship in football. There’s nothing in any of those bills of benefit to American citizens.
Boebert has introduced bills such as “Stop AOC Act,” “Protect our Kids from Harmful Research,” (but don’t provide free hot breakfast at school), “We’re not paying you to break our laws” act, impeach President Biden for high crimes and misdemeanors, impeach Vice President Kamala Harris for the same reasons, Stop the Biden Caravan Now Act, and the No Mask Mandate Act.
Sen. Cotton has introduced a bill to defund Critical Race Theory called the “Stop CRT Act.” He also has introduced the Saving American History Act, which would prohibit federal funds from being used to teach the 1619 Project curriculum.
Media coverage of the politics of nothing has inspired people to run for Congress on a “Do Nothing” platform. South Carolina Republican candidate for the House Katie Arrington has said her top priorities include dismantling the Department of Education, impeaching President Joe Biden and completing Trump’s border wall.
The politics of nothing wantonly imposes poverty, lack of education, fear of public education, ill-health and a truncated social safety net. Dragging its collective feet on the COVID pandemic, the ranting anti-maskers, “Fire Dr. Fauci” wingnuts, the anti-vaxxers, and the “we can’t shut down the nation” railers, we have managed to kill almost one million of our fellow Americans in the name of something called “freedom.”
His article in its entirety is at Baptist News Global
America has entered into the age where politics is reigning as a form of entertainment...where the "Me's" fight the "You's" and vice versa... where the role of who is "Me" and who is "You" is interchangeable. Sadly, that is usually decided by who gets the TV/Internet/CSpan camera time......leaving anything that politics should address as not entertaining enough..and instead seeking for the politics of nothing. For a brief news cycle Chris Rock and Will Smith were more important a topic than Ukraine....so, the way I see it I could care less about Rock and Smith and my choice for who lost is the intelligent folks who had to endure the news cycle that touted the events of Rock and Smith.
Rodney Kennedy, a New York Pastor and Preaching instructor at Palmer Theological Seminary expands on the "politics of Nothing":
The politics of nothing is performative rhetoric, not policy-making legislation. Lights, action, cameras roll — the performance begins. In the 1990s, the situation comedy The Seinfeld Show was dubbed the “show about nothing.” Closer examination determined that the show actually was about quite a lot.
There is, however, a show that really is about nothing: The Republican Congress starring Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Louie Gohmert of Texas, et al.
Sen. Cotton attempts to deny federal funding for the New York Times 1619 Project. He rails about the “loss of civilizational confidence” among white people.
Gov. DeSantis of Florida presents a bill designed to make sure no history teacher teaches Critical Race Theory or anything that might make white people uncomfortable. Somehow, he managed to have the word “freedom” in his bill. How odd that the people of Florida would need a law that gave them the freedom to be comfortable. One would think that the land of sunshine, gated condos, lounge chairs, flip-flops, ill-colored shirts, margaritas, eye-popping bikinis, orange juice and beaches would be basking in comfort.
The new “Do Nothing” Party in D.C. does have some activity, but like the business end of a bee it’s got a lot of stings and no value. Greene and Boebert between them have filed five bills to impeach President Joe Biden. Here the revenge motive glares back at us as if we were watching reruns of The Godfather.
Greene has introduced 17 bills in Congress — four to impeach Biden, one to present the Congressional Medal of Honor to Kyle Rittenhouse, one to eliminate the ATF, one to remove Maxine Waters from the Committee on Financial Services, one to fire Anthony Fauci, two to give Americans more freedom with guns, and one to congratulate the University of Georgia on winning the national championship in football. There’s nothing in any of those bills of benefit to American citizens.
Boebert has introduced bills such as “Stop AOC Act,” “Protect our Kids from Harmful Research,” (but don’t provide free hot breakfast at school), “We’re not paying you to break our laws” act, impeach President Biden for high crimes and misdemeanors, impeach Vice President Kamala Harris for the same reasons, Stop the Biden Caravan Now Act, and the No Mask Mandate Act.
Sen. Cotton has introduced a bill to defund Critical Race Theory called the “Stop CRT Act.” He also has introduced the Saving American History Act, which would prohibit federal funds from being used to teach the 1619 Project curriculum.
Media coverage of the politics of nothing has inspired people to run for Congress on a “Do Nothing” platform. South Carolina Republican candidate for the House Katie Arrington has said her top priorities include dismantling the Department of Education, impeaching President Joe Biden and completing Trump’s border wall.
The politics of nothing wantonly imposes poverty, lack of education, fear of public education, ill-health and a truncated social safety net. Dragging its collective feet on the COVID pandemic, the ranting anti-maskers, “Fire Dr. Fauci” wingnuts, the anti-vaxxers, and the “we can’t shut down the nation” railers, we have managed to kill almost one million of our fellow Americans in the name of something called “freedom.”
His article in its entirety is at Baptist News Global
Every war is a defeat for humanity, because men and women endowed with reason should be able to resolve their differences without mass violence. Reason, however, can be corrupted by ignorance, passion, ideology, pride, and innumerable other vices. And the distortion of reason can make the slaughter of others, including innocents, seem not only permissible, but even imperative. Thus within his own warped frame of reference, Vladimir Putin’s barbaric assault on Ukraine makes sense—to him. -George Weigel; First Things
I stand with Ukraine - Zorek Richards
Tragically on so many levels, close monitoring of local government by skilled, interested, conscientious journalists is largely a thing of the past. Published articles, when they exist, are most likely to contain only brief, undetailed, often poorly written highlights and to run on Page 6.
For millennia, free countries have depended on the Fourth Estate as a fundamental guardian of governmental transparency and integrity. That responsibility begins with conscientiously covering even local governments and holding them to account. Not all reporting is exciting or flash-bang career-making. But all of it is vital, at every level. --Dona Clements;Amarillo Globe News 3.28.22 |
Along with many people over recent weeks, I have been greatly inspired by Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Even before becoming president, he had numerous fans as a highly successful and charming actor, comedian and — yes — winner of the Ukrainian version of “Dancing with the Stars”! (These clips will melt your heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlJywp7E3Gw ). When he became president, however, expectations of his abilities in this new role were fairly low.
Ironically, he once acted in an eerily prescient sitcom called “Servant of the People.” In this he played a high school teacher who rails against corruption. And, after a student’s film of him goes viral, ends up elected president! Then he actually did become president! I don’t know if he’s still playing a role, acting “as if” he has the power of the Holy Spirit with him. I do know that he is bravely and self-sacrificially standing with his people and up to the Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin. He appears ready to lay down his life, if need be, for his friends (John 15:13). --Sabrina Falls; Sisters of Providence 
“I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox...I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion. But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.” -Chris Wallace to the New York Times on why he left Fox News
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