Derry, Northern Ireland

Derry, Northern Ireland
A book I'm working on is set in this town.

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Maybe not so bad...

Doesn't look like a full five weeks coming up. We sent off a quote to one last-minute job that has to be done now-now-now...and catalogued, by the way, as you pack, something we may not have mentioned until today (which they didn't)...but I doubt they'll go for it. I halfway think they were just shopping around for a deal and I wasn't in the mood to give one. So there it stands.

Another job I thought was settled may not be; the client hasn't actually agreed to it, yet. They talk like they have, but no official OK has been forthcoming...and there's a sneaking suspicion they're trying to fish information from us on how to do this then go off and do it for themselves, cutting us out. Which would be cheap-assed, cheesy and stupid, but some people are.

So I spent the rest of the day finalizing the 4 jobs I do have and making sure I have the paperwork needed for them. Then I spent half of this evening howling on Facebook and Twitter about the GOP and their diseased actions towards immigrants seeking asylum...tearing children away from their parents and putting them in concentration camps. It's horrific how many so-called Americans think this is fine and good. Sickening.

I've been using this quote from the King James Bible against these people, who claim to be Christians; it's Matthew 25:31-45 (emphasis added):

31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

I've read the Bible from cover to cover. I'm not a scholar, but I know it well enough to call hypocrisy on those who wrap themselves in it to excuse their hate, fear and prejudice, and the Republican party is the epitome of this. That anyone supports their diseased actions shows how depraved some people can become.

It's times like this I wish I believed in hell so I know they'd burn in it.

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