Proverbs 31:6-7
Let beer be for those who are perishing,
wine for those who are in anguish!
Let them drink and forget their poverty
and remember their misery no more.
Discuss.
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So we’re all supposed to emulate Russia? “Just get drunk and forget about it citizen. We aren’t going to change anything up here but we’ll make booze and shit nice and cheap so you won’t have any money or the brains to challenge us.”
Some translations use the adjective ‘troubled’ in the first clause. Had to hear this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usl-h5f-8W0
Let beer be for those who are thirsty,
wine for those who contemplate!
Let them drink and toast their friends
and remember and celebrate the wealth of community
and the joys of jobs well done.
Let all who would, assist with the ferment, the brew,
for Saccharomyces is a Holy Gift from Me,
and you shall learn its magical secrets.
Let all toil at their specific tasks do so
to the fullest of their talents,
for toil and work enrich a soul.
Let the fruits of their labors be just,
for all in the community are precious,
and all shall share in the work and the rewards
of tasks seen and unseen.
All shall have shelter and food,
recreation and responsibility,
teaching and training until they are the teachers,
tasks that befit their gifts and challenge their mettle,
just laws and honest judges,
humble and able leaders who are not themselves
locusts or parasites or gropers or climbers.
Dissuade the fearful who would toil to the exclusion of all else, in pursuit of more stuff.
Celebrate and aid the compatriot who would toil in pursuit of the better, for herself and all.
Woe to he who steals the labor of another, for they steal from all, in pursuit of more for them,
for this is a grave crime in my eyes.
With every measure of toil, let there be
a commensurate measure of rest, for the
delicious nothing, the hammock, the road-trip,
the good book is precious to me and while work ennobles, it can break you. Everything in its measure.
Let there be time for talk, and contemplation
and argument, for a community needs to
examine itself and openly and honestly shape is laws and ordinances and leaders.
Let every voice be heard and none stifled.
Make no war, for wars are the playthings
of those who would steal,
and the poor sap on the other side with the spear
is just like you. Do not kill him
but invite him into your home – he would probably like a beer.
Treasure the fields and the forests
the rivers and the streams and the lakes –
they are not ‘yours’ but they Are, as I AM,
in their perfection there for you to cherish
and to nourish yourself upon.
Take a measure of your grains and in the manner
of the brewer sprout it and mash it
and from this ferment bring forth the beers – the lagers and the ales and the IPAs
and all the blessed diversity of brews
that your imagination may conceive.
Explore your lands and find the places
in which the vine thrives through adversity –
the Pinot in the fog
the Cabernet on the pebbles
the Zinfandel on the hot valley floor.
Tend these vines, nurture them, challenge them,
and in the fall harvest and crush the fruit
and bring forth through time in barrel
the youthful fruit and the ageworthy tannin.
Let beer be for those who are thirsty,
wine for those who contemplate!
Of course the tale does not end there.
Sex was the first drug, My invention.
The rest pales.
@4 extened cocaine changes brain physiology. Does extended sex use do that?
@3 “Woe to he who steals the labor of another, for they steal from all, in pursuit of more for them, for this is a grave crime in my eyes.”
This is it, the money quote; those who oppose raising the minimum wage are destined for Hell.
Clearly the FSM wrote this before the invention of the summer BBQ.
I’d go on, but I’ve burgers to flip, Brats to roll, delicious Yakama corn to roast and … grilling spirits to imbibe.
I was once lucky enugh to be given a bottle (brown glass, with a stopper, as I recall) of beer made by a competent home brewer. I don’t like beer very much, but that home-made beer was wonderful. I could drink more than one bottle, although not, certainly, at one sitting.
“Sex was the first drug, My invention.”
Given that revelation from on high, we can only conclude sex addiction comes from eating too many apples. Well, no more Galas or Fuji or Mackintosh for me! I don’t wanna end up like Mayor Bob Filner!
Sounds like some solid advice from the good book right there. Sadly there’s no mention of vodka or gin, though.
In other news it’s squirrels 2, Michael 0. I have a few squirrels that are taking way more than their share from the bird feeders and my garden and making a mess of things and I seem to keep missing really easy shots at them with my pellet gun.
@ Michael: If they’re Douglas Squirrels (our natives), trap ’em and bring ’em to me. There’s plenty of room here and they can make all the mess they want.
Chipmunks are good too.
If the they’re the grey invaders, keep shooting! Let me know if you need help.
One Lucky S.O.B.
A man walking on tracks near Michigan City, Indiana, listening to music with headphones apparently didn’t see or hear the Amtrak train that was doing 110 mph when it hit him. He sustained a broken arm, pelvis fractures, neck injuries, and contusions, but he isn’t dead.
“Boyd said that during his career in law enforcement he’s never heard of anyone living after a full-impact hit by a train while on foot. ‘It was absolutely amazing,’ he said. ‘I’ve seen a number of people get hit by trains and it’s never a good thing.’ He said See … was sitting up and was able to tell them what happened.”
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news.....z2cNIx4neQ
Roger Rabbit Commentary: I wonder if he was drunk? You bounce off hard objects better if you’re limp. That’s why drunk drivers often survive while their passengers do not.
@11
They’re the gray fuckers and I missed again. I think the front sight on my pellet gun must of gotten bumped or something. I really hope it’s the sight and not me as that third shot was embarrassingly bad.
We don’t have many chipmunks. I think the squirrels and crows (we have a lot of crows) out compete them.
@13 Sounds like Operator Error to me. The pellet goes wherever YOU point it.
Western States Offer Better College Tuition Deals
“Schools in the West don’t need to offer as much financial aid because their tuition doesn’t cost as much, says S&P. ‘This is likely due to strong competition with public universities there, which offer significantly lower tuition levels for in-state students,’ S&P wrote. ‘If students can attend a state university with similar or better-quality education than private university choices for a much lower cost, many families are encouraging this option.'”
http://www.businessweek.com/ar.....int#r=most popular
Roger Rabbit Commentary: The West has a strong tradition of public power, land-grant universities, and other socialistic public-supported services that make life better for the masses. You can bet Republicans would dismantle our public universities if they could — because they think only rich kids should go to college (so their stupid and lazy children don’t have to compete against kids with yellow and brown and red and white skin colors who have no pedigree but know how to work their asses off to get a good education). So why would anyone ever vote for Republicans?
“Flood damage in the world’s major coastal cities may top $1 trillion a year by 2050 due to rising seas and subsiding land, according to a new study.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/science.....6C10937608
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Shit, that’s nothing to rightwingers, a punk little war like Iraq costs more than that. A financial crash can cost 20 or 30 times that much. A trillion dollars a year? Fuck, we pay our CEOs more than that. Hell, by 2050, a trillion probably won’t even buy an NFL franchise. So we don’t need to do anything about climate change. The Rapture will come before it’s a problem anyway.
@14
The front sight can slip around a little bit if it gets bumped and that last shot really was bad. I love to have something other than me to blame. ;-)
I can’t say that the thought of a squirrel or chimpmunk wounded by a pellet, is a pleasent one. Perhaps they will have a paw severed, or will have a pellet-wound become infected, and die of that.
And to make light of, even brag about inflicting that kind of injury, to a defenseless small mammal? Hardly an attractive trait. I’m very sorry I saw it.