McSame’s Top 76 Flip Flops

From The Carpetbagger Report: National Security Policy 1. McCain thought Bush’s warrantless-wiretap program circumvented the law; now he believes the opposite. 2. McCain insisted that everyone, even “terrible killers,” “the worst kind of scum of humanity,” and detainees at Guantanamo Bay, “deserve to have some adjudication of their cases,” even if that means “releasing some of them.” McCain now believes …

The Gods Must Be Crazy: Update

The karma principle of causality continuity is, again, very close to the truth of the repercussional synthesis of all time-space actions in the Deity presence of the Supreme. – The Urantia Book Looks like the pray for rain camapaign by Focus On the Family, aimed at dousing Obama’s acceptence speech in Denver last night, may have triggered a karmic backfire. …

The Lost Sheep

Dr. James Dobson exposing gay troubadour and inanimate object, Sponge Bob. James Dobson cannot speak for me. Before God, as we all are, he may only speak for himself. If one thing could be clear about our relationship with God as a Father, it should be that he loves us as individuals, and he judges us as individuals. When Dr. …

War is God’s Way of Teaching Americans Geography

Representative government presupposes an intelligent, efficient, and universal electorate. The character of such a government will ever be determined by the character and caliber of those who compose it. –The Urantia Book Boy, are we in trouble. Five plus years into the Iraq War, only one in seven Americans can find Iraq on a map. Only two out of five …

The Obama Zeitgeist: UPDATE

In my post, The Obama Zeitgeist, I wrote: Barack’s message of Hope and Change found greater resonance in the Democratic electorate than Hillary’s message of Experience and Leadership. I suggested that this turn to hope and idealism found resonance in the teachings The Urantia Book re its depiction of The Seraphic Planetary Government, and in its distinction between ideas and …

The Strange Universe

As readers of The Urantia Book, you’d think we might occasionally search “teh internets” to see what’s out there that speaks of it. Well we do— occasionally. Recently we found a segment on The UB from a TV series called “Strange Universe,” circa 1996. The mildly galactic, silly-subliminal strobe-fest, complete with a shot of the alien autopsy stuffed in for …

AMERICA’S SHEET MONKEYS

      The scene from O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?— a comedy— depicts a Ku Klux Klan gathering where a black man will be lynched— in a base and brutal attempt to “preserve” the backward “cultural heritage” of racism.  Such events occurred in the United States with regularity as recently as the 1950’s.  You may be thinking to yourself …