They come and they go. Some stay longer and others go faster.
I'm talking about Latin American strong men and dictators.
The latest to arrive on the scene was Hugo Chavez; a devotee of Fidel Castro and a convinced marxist.
But it is astonishing how quickly a man's view of life and his demeanour changes with a bout of cancer.
Three months ago this Venezuelan master of bombast travelled to Cuba.
News eventually seeped out that he had had part of his large intestine removed and that he is due to return to Cuba next week for chemo therapy.
Now his fellow marxists have called for prayer and masses to be said to "The God of all Fraternity".(Quote from Daniel Ortega)
Ah! This is so far removed from Marx who declared religion to be the opiate of the masses.
Apparently in hospital Hugo ditched Das Kapital and called for his Bible.
He has found like so many others that if religion is the opiate of the masses, communism is the opiate of the asses!
Stay well.
Ian
When I was in Peshawar on the Afghan border in 1989 there were a number of warlords under the pay of the CIA. Ian Wilson was there to preach the gospel; Charlie Wilson was there to dish out millions to the Mujahaddin( killers like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Dostan Mohammed, Wali Karzai and the like)
Spin the clock forward 22 years to yesterday.
Two seemingly unrelated events took place.
1) Wali Karzai, a warlord and brother of the Afghan President, was gunned down.
2) President Obama said unless the U.S. debt ceiling was raised America would not be able to pay its bills.
Where is the connection?
Currently the Afghan war is costing 2 billion dollars a day.
Untold amounts of this money are being funnelled in kick backs, bribes and pay offs to local thugs and militias and to Pakistan who sheltered Bin Laden.
All the while wonderful young people from our forces are paying the real cost of the war with blood.
MADNESS. But moral corruption always leads there!
The world would be a better place if everyone took their blankets, had their milk and cookie, listened to a story about Jesus and went to sleep for an hour every afternoon.
Ian
An ongoing case in Bountiful British Columbia has thrown the civil courts into a tail spin.
Here the state has attempted to prosecute the elders of the Bountiful Commune with the charge of polygamy.
But since the Federal Government, wandering for years in a fog of moral ambivalence, legalized homosexual weddings, nobody can define what constitutes a "family".
Of one thing the courts are certain. Girls as young as thirteen are being married to men twice their age, thus exposing them to moral hazard.
It is this charge that may stick.
But who is to blame? The men who take advantage of lax laws or the legislature that banned the 10 commandments from our law courts and the Gospel from our schools?
Welcome to our Brave New World.
Ian
I live near Hogtown (Toronto).
Imagine with me that thirty years ago the Lord's prayer was outlawed from all public schools in Ontario, in the name of fairness to all religious groups.
Now it comes to light that the Valley Park Middle School in Toronto has been allowing Imams to come onto the premises to hold Friday prayers with the Muslim students.
What were the Christians doing when the Lord's Prayer was mandated out of all public schools?
Snoring!
Who is spearheading the opposition to Friday prayers in the Valley Park Middle School? The Hindus and the atheist's league of human rights.
What is the Christian population doing? Snoring.
They were in supine silence when the Lord's Prayer was removed from classrooms. They are serenely asleep today.
Not even this glaring contradiction to their rights has disturbed their slumber.
2000 years ago Paul the Apostle said to the Corinthians
"You let false teachers seduce you and defraud you, and me you don't even pay!"
I guess nothing has changed.
Ian
