Franklin Graham: Charlatan

We'll have sunshine today... for at least a bit.  Depending upon which weather forecaster you're turning to for information, afternoon highs will either be in the high 60s (F) or low 70s (F).  Of course, rain will be moving into the picture.  Isaias, by then a tropical depression with wind gusts of 38 mph, is supposed to start raining on us a little afternoon, though those winds will be arriving a bit earlier.  Oh, and the rain is supposed to hang around for 3-4 days.  Now, isn't that ducky.

Howie's been pulling the stuffing from his pink pig.  He doesn't seem to understand that I got the squeaker out before he could get a hold of it.  There's something about dogs and squeakers in toys, they like to run around with them in their mouths.  Because they're plastic, it's not good to chew them up and swallow them, so I get them out before they become fodder for his intestinal system.

Things were done yesterday.  Laundry.  I made chicken stew for dinner.  Oh, and when slicing an onion I nicked the forefinger on my left hand... and, of course I was in the kitchen and my bandaids are upstairs... and Howie kept trying to lick it and make it better.  It was an "oh, shit!" moment that lasted about 2 minutes.

And with all the anger and outrage about the Orange Anus deciding we were going to have a public execution, I began wonder if Frankie Graham had made a comment.

For those who don't know, Frankie's dad Billy was an advisor to 13 presidents.  Frankie's not been so lucky.  I've talked before about how I feel this gives him Daddy issues.  In fact, the only president who has given Frankie the time of day has been the Orange Anus.  In return for that, Frankie has thrown his support behind Orangie.  With so many religious leaders, bishops, pastors, ministers, rabbis, expressing outrage of the "execution" announcement, I wondered where Frankie stood on the matter.  Well, Frankie has stayed silent, that means he has no problems with it.  Frankie has always been a failed Christian seeking prominence.  He wants to be the supreme leader of Evangelicalism.  However, Frankie is a charlatan.  I knew this in the early days of Covid.  Frankie used his group Samaritan's Purse to set up a hospital in Central Park to help nurse all of the sick and dying in New York City.  Then Frankie announced that if you were gay, or lesbian, or trans... you could not help, you could not nurse, you could not care for all of those people who were suffering.  He passed judgement.  It was like a punch in my gut when I saw that, and the first words that went through my head were, "Jesus weeps, but not for him."

Executioner's Style

As I type here in Central PA, our outside temp is 45 (F).  This after our temp will be in the low to mid 70s (F).  Nice.  We're supposed to have full sunshine, too, that also is nice.  However, that is going to be changing tomorrow.  Isaias is tracking straight towards us.  Seriously, that hurricane's path is almost directly over my house.  We really don't need anymore rain.  Having it fall over the weekend is bad for the retail business.

Work was fine yesterday.  I spent much time in the aisles, cut a bunch of blinds, in fact, that leads to an amusing blind story.  A very pregnant woman came into the department looking for blinds.  She had her measurements and told me that she needed to have 7 cut.  No problem.  The machine we use to cut blinds is computerized, so once we have the measurements keyed in, all we have to do is hit the repeat button to cut the next blind.  While making it easier to cut the blinds, it does not speed up the process, so it takes about 3-4 minutes to cut each blind.  I had just cut her first blind when a middle-aged couple came up to me with a cellular blind.  They told me they hadn't measured, they'd brought in their old, broken blind instead. I wasn't going to change the parameters already keyed into the blind cutter and politely asked them to wait.  They had no problem with that, so they went and pulled their new blind from the shelf and waited for me to cut the remaining 6 blinds.  When finished, they gave me the old blind, as well as the new blind, once again telling me they hadn't measured, just brought in the old blind.  So, I pulled out my handy, dandy measuring tape and measured the old blind.  I then looked at the new blind, and handed it back to them saying, "this doesn't need to be cut."  A surprised little "oh" popped out of his mouth.  Just think, if they had taken the time to measure their old blind, they wouldn't have had to wait for 20+ minutes for me to tell them their new blind did not need to be cut.

And I made chili yesterday! And it is scrumptious!

And we're going to have public executions again in this country.  This is what you get with authoritarian regimes, and the Orange Anus is a wannabe authoritarian.  Watching the internet explode in anger was amazing.  I sent a text to my brother saying this was barbaric, and he agreed with me.  He said he hoped Frankie Graham would step in and stop this insanity.  I didn't tell him Frankie's a failure, I did, however, tell him that Kegsbreath has his own pastor, an extremist named Doug Wilson.  Dougie has a BA and an MA in Philosophy, no religious training what so ever.  He has never been to a Seminary, never been to a school of Theology, he is a self-taught, self-proclaimed minister of God.  Dougie's also super big on Christian Nationalism.  Under Dougie's guidance, Kegsbreath is enjoying the biggest boner of his life.  Everyone who voted for the Orange Anus is responsible for this.  They must all be held accountable.