Oh, Fig It
A group in Mississippi took it upon themselves to be very funny about the new law allowing discrimination against gays.
Little know fact: Jesus did curse figs.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
April 06, 2016 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
A group in Mississippi took it upon themselves to be very funny about the new law allowing discrimination against gays.
Little know fact: Jesus did curse figs.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
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Now Louisiana on the other hand is chock full of fig trees. They made terrific windbreaks as well as shady fruit trees. My late husband’s people were always a little unsure about that passage in the bible. They simply couldn’t figure out why the Son of God who knew all things wasn’t a better botanist!
1He cursed one fig tree. Just one. Not all figs.
2Little known fact…neighbor…. means the dude next door that believes the same as you….Kill the Amalikites!!! they pissed off our gawd!!! For isLame it means kill everyone for we can have PEACE!! and quiet!
3Yeah, Jesus cursing the fig tree for not having figs when they weren’t in season always struck me as a toddler tantrum, or like that scary kid in Jerome Bixby’s “It’s a Good Life.” And telling his followers that if they have enough faith they can tell a mountain to throw itself into the sea and it will happen…. Setting them up to fail, don’t you think? “You just don’t have enough faith, Jeremiah.” “Well then, YOU try it!”
Jesus said to love your neighbor as yourself. When asked, who is my neighbor? he told the Good Samaritan story, and asked who was a neighbor to the mugged guy? The law expert said, the one who helped him, and Jesus said, Go and do likewise. (Luke 10:25-37) So forget the selfish buggers, even if they’re priests, and just love the nice helpful people, even if they’re foreigners. Or figs.
LOVE the billboard.
4The wingnuts have chosen to cherry pick only those passages which condemn, found most often in the Old Testament. They have consciously chosen to ignore that the main message of the New Testament was love thy neighbor. That is why some very astute member of this salon dubbed the KKKristians.
5Responding to hate with love — AND wit! Gotta love it!
6Wingnuts are like that little guy in a fight who refuses to stay down despite that being his best option. They end up still swinging punches at ‘foes’ nowhere within striking distance with the only result being that they knock themselves off their own feet much to the entertainment of saner folks.
Wingnuts lost on the right for women to vote, Civil Rights in the 60s, and are now jousting with windmills over “gay” rights. They could make this easy on themselves by recognizing that equal rights are human rights. But no. They’ll keep dragging themselves into courts and legislatures, until they finally tire of being the objects of laughter.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0GRLZi95xPI/VwGhECpxYyI/AAAAAAABbDo/T3Wb7FCPZiY_BKt21AFrBwuBI424RsseA/s640/gay%2Brights.jpg
7Amendment XIV
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Seems clear to me. Section3 is good, too. It should be required reading for _itch McConnell, Tom Cotton and their KKK brothers.
8Or run out of money and voters, PKM.
9charles r. phillips, good ideas. They’ll run out of money sooner, if the excess profits tax is restored to slow down the money flow from the Koch bothers and other oligarchs sponsoring ALEC and other Stink Tanks. Taxing the churches would slow down those who are inclined to create a breeding ground for future wingnut voters.
10E Moon, that’s right. He cursed one fig tree. Maybe he’d had a long hard day and just wanted a handful of figs really bad and just said “CURSE YOU” like we all are inclined to do occasionally. I mean, when I say OH DAMN, does that mean I want whoever/whatever to shrivel up and die? For that matter, calling someone a fool is a really bad thing too. I have those days.
11Mississippi humor. No not really.
(He goes away grumbling how Gen Grant should have HUNG every damn rebel in 1865.)
12I listened to a decent Mississippi legislator (yes, they do have a few) on NPR. It was part of his speech on the floor regarding this piece o’ crap. Apparently he thought so too. He implored the legislators, saying [paraphrase] “Can we please not once again make our state the laughing stock of the country? Can we not prove Mississippi to be the most backward, ignorant state in the union?”
He definitely did use the words “laughing stock” and “backward.” I wish I had caught his name.
13Why didn’t he just faith himself some figs?
14I believe you is talking about Senator John Horhn, a Black Democrat. Ms Debbo.
15Great billboard.
16Ha and here we have another example of the Bible being mostly a piece of spiritual garbage and would help explain why there are so many screwed up Christians.
A spiritual master would not curse figs. That’s basic Self Help/Spiritual Progress 101.
How do I know?
Because they would say, “Poor fig tree having trouble producing? Maybe I can help you heal and produce many fine figs for the benefit of me and the many.”
For a more spiritual look at Christ’s life I recommend ‘The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ’.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/agjc/index.htm