The New Chosen People?
A couple of months ago, I rode down to Austin for the ROT rally. A friend and I rode down I-35 on Friday night. The skies threatened to dump a deluge on us for most of the last 2 hours we were on the road. As we neared Austin, traffic was really starting to get heavy as well. Road construction had the pavement very uneven, wind gusts were near 30 mph and the traffic lanes were shifting randomly.
Just north of Georgetown, there is an exit for a new toll road that runs parallel to the interstate. My friend Jennifer had told me about this road before I left and it seemed like a perfect option right when we neared it. We slid onto the exit ramp for it and the world changed.
There were no cars on it for the 20 miles or so that Ardy and I rode south on it. Ok, the liberals in Austin are fundamentally opposed to paying tolls, so that wasn't so surprising. But the rain showers stopped as soon as we got on it, too. We saw lightning bolts descending from the skies on both sides of us. Sheets of rain were pounding down there as well; we could see the curtains of them illuminated by distant city lights and the sun's rays beyond the horizon. But not a drop of water fell on us until we exited the toll road and got on the free portion of Mopac below 183 in north Austin.
This morning, there was heavy rain all around Dallas/Fort Worth. I could tell that it had rained on the Bush Tollway just a few minutes before the other commuters and I were traveling down it. But not very much rain was falling on us. It actually only began to rain south of Belt Line Road, which is the free portion of Hwy 161. Hmmm.
In the Old Testament, the story of the Jewish people is told. Commonly referred to as God's Chosen People, this is really a messed up bunch of people and the stories are those evidence of it. Incest, infraticide, adultery and warring factions are all laid out right there. Most of them involve a single disfunctional family. I believe they were so messed up that God figured they REALLY needed His help.
Which brings me to the new ones....
Claiming a special relationship with God that makes their position uniquely rightgeous, maybe the right wing fundies of the Republican Party are the new messed up people needing His intervention. Evidence? Well, riding on their favored toll roads I didn't get wet.
Enjoy your day.
Just north of Georgetown, there is an exit for a new toll road that runs parallel to the interstate. My friend Jennifer had told me about this road before I left and it seemed like a perfect option right when we neared it. We slid onto the exit ramp for it and the world changed.
There were no cars on it for the 20 miles or so that Ardy and I rode south on it. Ok, the liberals in Austin are fundamentally opposed to paying tolls, so that wasn't so surprising. But the rain showers stopped as soon as we got on it, too. We saw lightning bolts descending from the skies on both sides of us. Sheets of rain were pounding down there as well; we could see the curtains of them illuminated by distant city lights and the sun's rays beyond the horizon. But not a drop of water fell on us until we exited the toll road and got on the free portion of Mopac below 183 in north Austin.
This morning, there was heavy rain all around Dallas/Fort Worth. I could tell that it had rained on the Bush Tollway just a few minutes before the other commuters and I were traveling down it. But not very much rain was falling on us. It actually only began to rain south of Belt Line Road, which is the free portion of Hwy 161. Hmmm.
In the Old Testament, the story of the Jewish people is told. Commonly referred to as God's Chosen People, this is really a messed up bunch of people and the stories are those evidence of it. Incest, infraticide, adultery and warring factions are all laid out right there. Most of them involve a single disfunctional family. I believe they were so messed up that God figured they REALLY needed His help.
Which brings me to the new ones....
Claiming a special relationship with God that makes their position uniquely rightgeous, maybe the right wing fundies of the Republican Party are the new messed up people needing His intervention. Evidence? Well, riding on their favored toll roads I didn't get wet.
Enjoy your day.
posted by Kurt at 8:18 AM
3 Comments:
You do realize that these favored ones are also so blind and obtuse they'd never see the tongue in cheek as the tale was related?
Why, yes. Yes, I do fully realize that. Which makes it all the more humorous to me.
And do you also realize that their counterparts on the left find themselves sputtering and spitting over essays like this, filled with malevolent thoughts towards both you and the chosen ones?
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