Blue Truck, Red State: No Red Wave, Just a Puddle

Thursday, November 10, 2022

No Red Wave, Just a Puddle

The outcome of the midterm elections wasn't great, but it could have been worse. Republicans will probably have a small majority in the House, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed the Dems will retain control of the Senate.

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2 comments:

Frank said...: We were hoping for a bit more solid blue...but I guess there were a few messages being sent to both parties.; November 11, 2022 at 5:38 PM
Russ Manley said...: Even though the repubs might get a tiny majority in Congress, it seems to me the needle hardly moved at all. The country is STILL divided almost 50-50 like it was the last time.

I don't understand this. Why is it 50-50 and not, say 55-45, or even 52-48? Seems very odd to me.

And Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada need a serious kick in the ass. Their election-counting systems are fucked up. We were waiting on them the last time to decide the balance of power. There is no good reason for all this delay in counting, when the other 47 states have got their shit together already.; November 11, 2022 at 11:01 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu