By the time you read this, Detroit might be waist deep in that fluffy-sticky white stuff and this whole post will be entirely theoretical until the spring. Click here to read on, my friend.

About a week ago I had occasion to use a little dab of my wood putty … the white filler stuff with the little glass balls in it, not the tan looking stuff made of wood dust and who knows what else. This was before I launched into a major project in the basement that I am still working my way through. Click here to read on, my friend.

Then how is it that the Bible calls him ‘a priest forever’?

http://peterdray.blogspot.com/2008/11/our-priest-forever-hebrews-7.html

This link came to me in a surprising way. I tracked an ‘iffy’ comment down to see if it was from a spammy source, as Akismet claimed. The source is a ‘blog’ only in the sense that it trawls the web looking for other blogs to plagiarize … I found tons of links, but nothing that resembled original material. Likely the whole process is automated. I have decided to leave it as ’spam’ because linking to it is Google suicide … it would look like a “link farm” to Google and my link would make it appear as though I approved of it. I appreciate the inbound link, but I dare not reciprocate.

But, while I was nosing around, still trying to make up my mind whether to permit the ‘comment’ or not, I happened across the above link, which makes the compelling argument for Jesus’ non-Levitical priesthood.

I was already familiar with the argument, and at least a few of its implications. In choosing these two permanent priests from extra-Levitical sources, God has signaled a rejection of the Levites as leaders of his chosen people and of the the Jews en-masse to the extent that they are followers of the Levites. Previously welcomed as a nation, they are still invited to be among God’s favored people — as individuals. But they must acknowlege the new priestly arrangement by first fully abandoning the old and then fully embracing the new. The distance between the two is a gap to be bridged by faith. Gentiles who abandon the worldly viewpoint to come to Jehovah must also cross this same bridge.

I just to try out the WordPress function on Jott to see if I can get a transcribed copy of what I’m dictating now. Thank you. listen

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Lot’s of ‘rah-rah’ at the school board lately, but little traction on the things that would seem to be important? There might be a reason.

“With the relative opulence of today, it would be simple to fill teaching slots with accomplished men and women if that were a goal. A little adjustment in what are rationally indefensible licensing requirements would make talented people, many performance-tested adults in their fifties and sixties, available to teach. That there is not such fluid access is a good sign the purpose of schooling is more than it appears. The year-in, year-out consistency of mediocre teacher candidates demonstrates clearly that the school institution actively seeks, nurtures, hires, and promotes the caliber of personnel it needs.”

The Fresco At Herculaneum – John Taylor Gatto

Click here to read on, my friend.

America has now elected an African-American to the office of President. It has come a very long way down a thousand paths from the attack on Fort Sumter that marked the start of the American Civil War. It has come a long way from the lynchings of even the 1950’s. It has come a long way from the first Civil Rights act of 1963 … less than a century after that civil war which divided the majority in securing the freedom of the minority. Each of those things foreshadowed the coming of the next even as generations were born, danced their brief dance, and shuffled off the stage into that long sleep to await the resurrection.

It has come a long ways, but dare not rest.

Have we, as individuals made the same journey? Are we willing to cast off our biases long enough to consider each man, woman and child we meet as an individual? Perhaps.

Those biases run deep. Our parents were taught by their parents, who learned from their parents who fought in that war and toiled in those fields. And then our parents taught us. Those biases are not easy to shake, being, as it were, ingrained into our very being.

Do I blame Blacks for being angry about the former slavery? No. I am Irish and I hold resentments against the rest of Europe for the genocide against my people between 1845 and 1849.

I can see that Ireland now enjoys the highest standard of living in Europe. Minimum wage runs around $11 an hour and workers stream from all over Europe to take these lesser jobs. Likewise, Blacks can see that Africa is no place to be now — slavery, religious wars and general insurrection are the rule; safety and prosperity are the exception.

We both need to focus on ‘today’. The highest post in this nation is now held by a Black man … and Whites and Hispanics put him there. The demographics allow no other interpretation. Blacks are not yet 15% of the population … they can’t elect a dog-catcher on their own.

The “Rainbow Coalition” has happened.

Those familiar with the Bible will know that Acts 10:34, 35 outlines a principle … that of accepting our fellow human beings at face value until they should have the opportunity to demonstrate what sort of person they are inside. Those whom God accepts, we should accept also.

And that’s the point of this posting: accept others for who they are, fellow sojourners on spaceship earth and children of the same God.

The only way to raise ourselves up is to raise them up.

So, welcome, Mr. Obama. We’ve been waiting for you. Please, take a seat, and show us what is noble in man.

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According to my wife and judging by the fireworks I can hear outside my home, Barack Obama is now the President-elect of the United States. That is all well and good, I suppose. Click here to read on, my friend.

Just on the remote chance that the recent dip in fuel prices was politically motivated, you might want to fill up your gas tank well before the polls close.
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To be honest, I no longer care who gets elected to any office. I’ve yet to see a President make good on the promises that got him elected. I’m cynical enough to believe that the person elected is simply the better liar of the two. Click here to read on, my friend.

I just pasted a quote in the quote rotator (on the right) and I’d like to discuss it here, too.

The quote goes like this: “There have been wounds in all the communities, not just in the black community. There are plenty of wounds to go around.” It was uttered by Valerie Jarrett, a black Chicago real-estate developer and ‘up and coming’ politician. Click here to read on, my friend.