#What I Learned Today or Brush (wired bristled brush) with the Rich and Famous.

I will warn you now there are some things in this post not for the whole family….

In the course of work today, I was listening to the Morning Blaze on IHeart radio as I do most mornings.   It can be very funny and libertarian slanted, as I have become.   One if the topics today was Ashley Judd and her op-ed about the foul and disgusting tweets she received after she made some harsh criticism of the Arkansas Razorbacks style of play in the SEC tourney.   While she criticized the Razorbacks, she in no way deserved the backlash their fans gave her.    I would never justify what was said to her, but as we know if you are famous and put it on social media, you are going to take it on the chin by some people.

Ms. Judd’s op-ed was basically calling these guys out and making herself the next martyr for women’s rights against the sexist pig men...  Again the response to her initial comments about the Razorbacks was not warranted and really WAY out of line.   She later went on some news program to discuss her opinion piece and stated that she was pressing charges against these people who called her all sorts of lovely things and described in detail where they wanted to do with their daddy parts.   Doc and Skip, the host of the Morning Blaze, was going on about how over blown her response was.    I TOTALLY agree them on this. 

They close out the show with a segment call “What I learned today.”   This is where the host and staff of the show tell what they learned during the course of the show.     The overwhelming thing learned today was Ashley Judd’s twitter handle is @ashleyjudd.   So being the smart ass I am I tweeted:

The whole point was to let Ashley know that I thought she needed to get over herself.   While what was said about her on Twitter was awful, did it really have any consequences on her life?   After I tweeted it, I though no more about it…. Until this afternoon.

I was getting ready to leave work when my phone vibrated.   I looked to see what it was and someone responded to one of my tweets.    I looked at it and Ashley tweeted me back.   Not believing that it happened, I opened it up to find this:

“Well that escalated quickly” I thought to myself.   So I thought I would let Ms. Judd know my intent of my original tweet, so I responded.   Now remember you only have 130 characters so you can’t be too in depth.

 

Well that didn’t settle too well with Ms. Judd.   She basically told me I was the same as a rapist or a woman abuser:

 

I may not smarter than your typical Hollywood actor, but I think she called me as bad as a rapist.    Well that wasn’t enough for her; she had to get her last dig in:

Did she say I wasn’t a man too?!?!?!   I hate to tell Ashley, but it is really hard to tell what a person believes in 130 characters.   Disparaging a person’s character on Twitter is part of what her original op-ed was about wasn’t it?

After this Ms. Judd blocked me from Twitter and that was it… for her.   Others of her followers wanted to bash me proceeded to block me when I attempted to defend my position.   That’s a typical narrow minded person.

While I probably should have chosen not to address Ms. Judd in my original tweet, I do this with lots of famous people.    Whether it is giving famous people a S/O or dogging them, I reach out on Twitter all the time.   So when I put myself out there, I expect that I sometimes will take a hit or two.   As I told Ms. Judd, it is the nature of the beast.   When you are famous, as she is, you are a bigger target.    I am a little fat guy conservative libertarian from Cleves Ohio of course I am not going to take the heat she does.   She is a famous, liberal, movie star who tweets a lot.   She also says things that piss people off (I know the feeling Ashley).   You’re either ready to take the heat or get off social media.   This is what I was trying to express in my Tweet.

I think of the ungodly things that conservative women like Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter have to take on social media, in the media, and in blogs on a daily basis.   It is downright disgusting.   It is every bit as crappy as the stuff that Ashley Judd heard from the Razorback fans.  Do you hear them bitching, moaning, or writing op-eds about it?   Nope they generally ignore it.   They may make a smart ass comment about it and go on.   Again, this is what Ms. Judd should have done.

I am sorry women have to hear the crap they hear.   Misogyny should not happen today.   Neither should Christian bashing, gay bashing, race bashing, fat bashing, physical/mental challenged bashing, or any other bashing.  That being said, life isn’t fair.   You have two choices: 1) you can run, hide, and cry (I have done that), or you can have thicker skin and ignore them.   If you can’t have thick skin, GET OFF SOCIAL MEDIA!

What I learned today….   Me and Ms. Judd have a lot to work on.

In closing, my opinion about Ms. Judd hasn't changed.   I think is is a fantastic actress, amazingly beautiful, and a principled woman who is very dedicated for her causes.   I will not let this have any determining factor for me seeing her movies.   I also wish her nothing but happiness and joy in her life.   This is just another thing she and I will not see eye to eye on.

Truths and Lies...

I have been struggling a LOT lately with my perspective on things and people, and then I heard 2^nd Timothy chapter 3.   It was a light bulb moment for me.   

It seems the world has been upside down for me.   Today it seems what is wrong is right, and what is right is wrong.   Truths are now lies, and immorality is freely accepted and encouraged.   We have a “religiosity” but not a true faith and relationship with God.  I say true faith because why we say that we love God, we don’t feel the need to keep his laws.   People will rationalize away what are moral truths and look down on those who hold on to them.  

Reading this was great comfort to me, because we were told this is the way it was going to be.   It shouldn’t be a surprise or cause us stress.    We know and hold these truths, we also know the end game.

Lord:

Draw me nearer to you.  May your truths be evident in my heart.   Let me live like you would have me live.   When I fail at this, please make it abundantly clear to me so I ask forgiveness and can make a mends to those I have offended.   

When I see others not living your natural truths, please let me not judge them.  Rather remind me to pray for them.  Pray that they recognize their faults and that they turn to you.   Lord let me also show them love and kindness.   The kind of love you have shown me.

Amen.

2 Timothy, chapter 3

1)      But understand this: there will be terrifying times in the last days.

2)      People will be self-centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious,

3)      callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious (promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters), brutal, hating what is good,

4)      traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

5)      as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power. Reject them.

6)      For some of these slip into homes and make captives of women weighed down by sins, led by various desires,

7)      always trying to learn but never able to reach a knowledge of the truth.

8)      Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so they also oppose the truth—people of depraved mind, unqualified in the faith. 

9)      But they will not make further progress, for their foolishness will be plain to all, as it was with those two.

Boy if this doesn't sound like the world today, I don’t know what does!

God Bless and peace out!

"You Shall Not Kill"

One of the mass readings today was taken from Ex 20:1-17.   They were the 10 commandments.    Most of us know what they are.   We have heard those hundreds of times and almost to a point where they almost fall on deaf ears.   Today was different for me.   While I heard them all one rang true and fell on my heart…  “You shall not kill.”  There is no ambiguity there.   No room for interpretation.   No guessing what God meant by that statement.   “YOU SHALL NOT KILL.” God was very clear about this.   Yet in this country we kill every day.    We have drug dealers killing drug dealers over turf.   We have men killing woman out of anger and/or jealous rages.   We have kids killing others due to whatever has twisted their minds.   We have taken this very plain, very simple, and very direct scripture and told God where he can shove it.   We have taken the sanctity of human life and thrown it out the window.

As a society if people kill, we say that we are going to apprehend the accused and bring them to justice.   If we capture them, we give them a trial.   If they are found guilty, we send them to jail.   Depending on the mitigating circumstances we let them back out after time is served to go about their way.  But we say that justice has been served and society has been made whole.   We do this all because killing is wrong.   It is an ill that has to be stomped out!   We cannot stand by and allow senseless murder to take place… yet we do it every day.   Not only do we allow it to occur with reckless abandon, we have even made it legal.  

 

Since Roe v. Wade over 57.6 million innocent souls have been terminated in the US due to abortion.   How does this compare to other tragedies in History:

• ·         9.6 times more babies killed due to abortion than people killed in Hitler’s concentration camps.
• ·         19,348 times more babies killed than innocent souls killed in the 9/11 attack.
• ·         48,937 times more babies killed than people killed at Pearl Harbor.
• ·         342,857 times more babies killed than people killed in the Oklahoma City Bombing

All of these events were tragedies.   All of them were avoidable losses of life.   All of these events were man made events that the American people demanded justice for.   Yet we allow multiple millions of children to be murdered every year in America’s hospitals, abortion mills, and Planned Parenthood clinics.   Very little outrage, very little protest, and very little even said about it anymore.   We have become conditioned in this country to say killing of innocent children is a woman’s acceptable choice.   Yet we didn’t stand by letting Hitler make a “choice” of who could live in his country.   No righteous indignation, no call for ending the practice, and no call for justice.  It has even become so bad that the Government even demands that abortifacients be made available in all health care plans no matter the religious beliefs of the business owners.

We as Americans have lost our spine.   We have lost our will to stand up for what is right.   We have become eunuchs who sit back and allow this tragedy to continue.    We do this because we cannot trample a woman’s “right” to reproductive health.    A farce and lie because an abortion is counter to a woman’s physical and mental health.   Yet we believe the lie and continue to allow this to happen.

I sit back no more.   I don’t keep my mouth shut any longer.   I will not stand against a decision that people make legitimately for a woman’s life, but I will stand against abortion on demand as a form of birth control.   No more will I stand silent in the shadows keeping my big mouth shut.   I run it about all sorts of things that are meaningless.   It is time that I stand up for what is right and let my voice be heard.   I am not sorry if it offends you.   I am not sorry because you shouldn’t be offended by truth.   You can argue back with me.   The unborn cannot stand up for themselves, so I will in my corner of the globe.    I challenge you who believe as I do to stand up and take up the cause of the unborn.

Mother Teresa said at the National Prayer Breakfast in February 1997 – “What is taking place in America is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another."

“You Shall not Kill.”  It is plain, simple, and true.  Not an option, not a choice, but a command.  

By the way… nearly 4,000 children were aborted worldwide during the time it took me to write this blog.