Kein Licht! - The Headline in Berlin and the Communist News Network (CNN)

 

 One of these dogs is the derp.

The Atlantic is a magazine I avoid, but they sent me a link to their front-page story on the head of CNN - Licht. I was hoping it was spelled with the h - Licht. Then I could headline the story Kein Licht - No Light!

I was sure from the first page or two that this guy was cooked and soon to be served up to the masses. When the news makes the news, it is time to do another executive search.

I was going to post the link, but that was a NO! I thought, maybe a few thoughtful people would want to enjoy the roast. NO-o-o-o! The more I read, the more I realized that top drawer journalists had the vocabularies of gutter snipes, street-walkers, and illiterates in general. Punctuating an enormous story with f-bombs and the like - that is so obnoxious a Marine short on sleep would cringe.

Here is the cast of characters -

• Licht is a self-pitying moron so helpless he could be a district president, or worse, a seminary professor.
• The journalist who interviewed Licht sounded just like the raging feminist Kaitlan Collins, who blew all her circuits on the CNN open forum, because Trump easily stepped on her toes and the audience loved it.
• Licht replaced Zucker, who was suddenly loved by all the journalists upon leaving his post.
• Licht has been fired - as if it was intended for their network's Renewal Refuel Tribunal.

Weeds of the World

 

Poke flowers turn into poke berries with the help of flying insects.

Stalks of poke berries feed 61 bird species, and yet this tall, graceful plant is scorned by many. My rule is - cut at the base in the Rose Garden, let it spread in the back gardens.

Poke greens are usually boiled twice. 

When something is unusually expensive, it holds our attention. I found Weeds, Guardian of the Soil mentioned in another book and looked up the price. $600 - and that was when $600 was a lot of money.

I got a Dow Library copy and studied it, definitely a classic. Later I bought Weeds of the West to understand what was growing in my Arizona back yard.

By now I should know the weeds of my yard, but they have accomplices. Poison hemlock is easily found here, and I had one robust example, which I removed carefully.

Yesterday I found two somewhat familiar weeds growing like I planted them there - or even better. I put a few words in Google and "mullein" appeared. It has many nicknames, like Indian blanket. It takes a second year to send up its stalk of flowers, which go to seed. Birds must have brought it in, air express.

 Mullein also has medicinal uses.

A few more words indicated "wild grape vine," a prolific weed known for growing grapes and spreading its seeds via birds. My grass alley was already under siege and the bee balm up front was showing off a start of wild grape.

Wild strawberries are loved so dearly by birds that they plant them everywhere.

God's Creation must have a purpose, but many miss it. One Facebook friend said she was furious with the four dandelions on her property and called them weeds. I pointed out their nutritious greens, their flowers used for hummingbird nests, and their roots a substitute for coffee. They are herbs that escaped the colonial gardens and they only do good things for us. A yellow dandelion flower is free but a yellow daisy has a price - so we curse the no cost dandelion? 

Wine for the wine-bibbers, lining for the hummingbird nests, nutritious greens for salads, and Scotts Lawn and Gardens wants everyone to shrivel them enough so they can bloom every year.

A good rule is to leave mystery plants alone, especially since home garden culture is mostly stocked by no-nothings at Walmart and hardware stores. A true gardening center will explain plants and how they grow.

Birds enjoy sharing their favorite foods with us. They distribute poke weed and wild strawberries for me, yielding even more poke berries and strawberries. A neighbor disparages poke because it is so common in the South (and also loved as a salad, twice cooked). I enjoy poke as a domineering backyard garden flower and free bird feeder. Their berries feed more bird species than any other.

Wild strawberries also travel by air and find places to grow whether in shade or sunshine. They spread out looking for open soil and often get their start under tree branches or next to tree stumps.

Homely hollyhocks will always have women saying, "I made doll dresses out of them when I was a little girl!" They are another landing zone for bumble bees.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - "But the Nature of Unbelief Is That It Does Not Expect Any Good from God."

 

Link to Complete Sermon - First Sunday after Trinity, Luke 16:19-31. Examples of Unbelief and Faith. The Rich Man and Lazarus.

7. From this now follows the other sin, that he forgets to exercise love toward his neighbor; for there he lets poor Lazarus lie at his door, and offers him not the least assistance. And if he had not wished to help him personally, he should have commanded his servants to take him in and care for him. It may have been, he knew nothing of God and had never experienced his goodness. For whoever feels the goodness of God, feels also for the misfortune of his neighbor; but whoever is not conscious of the goodness of God, sympathizes not in the misfortune of his neighbor.

Therefore as he has no pleasure in God, he has no heart for his neighbor.

8. For the nature of faith is that it expects all good from God, and relies only on God. For from this faith man knows God, how he is good and gracious, that by reason of such knowledge his heart becomes so tender and merciful, that he wishes cheerfully to do to every one, as he experiences God has done to him. Therefore he breaks forth with love and serves his neighbor out of his whole heart, with his body and life, with his means and honor, with his soul and spirit, and makes him partaker of all he has, just like God did to him. Therefore he does not look after the healthy, the high, the strong, the rich, the noble, the holy persons, who do not need his care; but he looks after the sick, the weak, the poor, the despised, the sinful people, to whom he can be of benefit, and among whom he can exercise his tender heart, and do to them as God has done to him.

9. But the nature of unbelief is that it does not expect any good from God. By which unbelief the heart is blinded so that it neither feels nor knows how good and gracious God is; but as Psalm 14:2 says: he cares not for God, seeks not after him. Out of this blindness follows further that his heart becomes so hard, obdurate and unmerciful that he has no desire to do a kindness to his fellow man; yea, he would rather harm and offend everybody. For as he is insensible to the goodness of God, so he takes no pleasure in doing good to his neighbor. Consequently it follows that he does not look after the sick, poor and despised people, to whom he could and should be helpful and profitable; but he casts his eyes upward and sees only the high, rich and influential, from whom he himself may receive advantage, gain, pleasure and honor.

10. So we see now in the example of the rich man that it is impossible to love, where no faith exists, and impossible to believe, where there is no love; for both will and must be together, so that a believer loves everybody and serves everybody; but an unbeliever at heart is an enemy of everybody and wishes to be served by every person and yet he covers all such horrible, perverted sins with the little show of his hypocritical works as with a sheep’s skin; just as that large bird, the ostrich, which is so stupid that when it sticks its head into a bush, it thinks its entire body is concealed. Yea, here you see that there is nothing blinder and more unmerciful than unbelief. For here the dogs, the most irascible animals, are more merciful to poor Lazarus than this rich man, and they recognize the need of the poor man and lick his sores; while the obdurate, blinded hypocrite is so hard hearted that he does not wish him to have the crumbs that fell from his table.

11. Now all unbelieving people are like this rich hypocrite. Unbelief cannot do nor be different than this rich man is pictured and set forth by his life.

And especially is this the character of the clergy-, as we see before our eyes, who never do a truly good work, but only seek a good time, never serving nor profiting any one; but reversing the order they want everybody to serve them. Like harpies they only claw everything into their own pockets; and like the old adage runs they “rob the poor of his purse.” They are not moved in the least by the poverty of others. And although some have not expensive food and raiment, yet they do not lack will power and the spirit of action; for they imitate the rich, the princes and the lords, and do many hypocritically good works by founding institutions and building churches, with which they conceal the great rogue, the wolf of unbelief; so that they become obdurate and hardened and are of no use to anybody.

These are the rich man.