Tag: Dreams

The Evil Avatar of Bishop at the National Cathedral: Fighting back and taking our country away from them

When Bishop Marianan Edgar Budde from the Episcopal Diocese of Washington lectured Trump about progressive causes during the National Prayer Service at the National Cathedral, the only explanation for it was that a vast evil was at work and revealing itself through its earthly avatars.  For which people like her are.  This evil knows that people no longer respect it or are willing to give it a seat at the table in America and that it is losing power.  And it was upset about it.  It reminded me of what happened to Mike Pence at the Broadway play Hamilton after the 2016 election, where the cast there felt they had a right to lecture the incoming Trump administration to keep itself in the dirt and not to get any funny ideas about elevating humanity to any assumption of greatness, and otherwise to scare people away from following God’s commandments to a better life.  Mike Pence himself has shown a tendency to be one of these avatars of evil and it’s always the same demonic voice that pops up in different people.  Evil is not the same entity, but it spawns from the same type of voice that has always loomed in the background.  Only this time, there was a kind of Wicked Witch of the North sort of panic in it, and it came out that day in front of the nice and wonderful Trump family sitting there to have a national prayer before the Inauguration Day ceremonies.  Yes, Melania’s big hat that day was appropriate for the evil we are all fighting, but now, instead of hiding in the background, it shows itself with a sort of desperation we knew was always there.  It was utterly inappropriate but not unexpected.

We didn’t see the clips until later, the next couple of days after the National Prayer, and Trump had to call her what she was and dismiss her radicalism essentially, but I kept thinking of my favorite Akira Kurosawa movie, Dreams when thinking about that day.  It is something I’ve mentioned to my audience before, and I talk about it a lot when appropriate, but there is a fantastic scene in that movie that Japanese people seem to understand better than almost any culture in the world, and that is the nature of evil and how to manage it.  Three mountain climbers are lost during a snowstorm, and they can’t find their camp, and they are dying.  An angel comes to whisper in their ears to let go of this life and to join her in the next.  She is very beautiful and convincing, and to escape the pain of the storm, the leader of the group is tempted to follow her to death.  But while she gently nudges him, he remembers who he is and decides to fight back, so he begins to resist.  The angel starts to panic because she intends to take him away into the realm of death.  After several minutes of this struggle, the demon gives up, and its face reveals what it always was: the face of a skull, not a beautiful woman; it evaporates into the storm, and shortly, the skies clear, and it is revealed to the three dying climbers that they had found their camp.  It was always there, but evil kept them from seeing it.  It’s an excellent scene from a fantastic movie by an outstanding film director.  And it applied to that Bishop that day who thought she had a right and obligation to lecture Trump on how he needed to run his administration. 

Evil has been working through DEI and many other left-leaning practices to deplete our culture and send us all back into the realm of Hell, where they rule through broken people and low ambition.  When we notice in the Bible that the Hebrews have many rules against a dirty life, it is essentially to push back against this desecration of human achievement, and the cheerleaders are always these weak people who seem to have lost their minds because, in truth, they are being controlled by a vast evil that uses them for their magical practices.  In many ways, our country turned away from that evil by electing Trump, and we decided to push back against these evil creatures, one of which showed itself as a Bishop in a Church that the radical left tried to burn down just four years ago.  This is how people like this Bishop even get into those jobs to begin with, as the people who run the church feel they need to appease evil by giving them one of their own so that the vast evil that is always lurking in the shadows won’t try to destroy them again.  Appeasement is the game; we have been playing it as a country for far too long.  We are pushing back against their influence, and they aren’t happy about it.  They hide their intentions behind good causes, just as this bishop was hiding within the safety of the Church.  So, how many of these other evil creatures have been hiding behind DEI policies that mean to kill us all and convince us to give up a good life and follow manipulative demons into the world of death and destruction? 

Trump was right to demand an apology and not to accept her nonsense just because she was evil hiding behind the role of a church bishop.  Like those mountain climbers in that Akira Kurasawa story, Trump was pushing back at evil, representing us so that we could drive many of these evil characters out of the White House and our government in general.  To Make America Great Again means we must embrace the concept of greatness and not lower ourselves to assumptions of guilt and futility.  We are not going to build our society around the seductions of evil, to take advantage of our compassion for those less fortunate, and to be tricked into building our entire culture around weakness disguised as compassion while destroying, in the process, everything that is good.  And maybe for the first time from such a public person, Trump pushed back when otherwise everyone would have just shut their mouths because the person speaking was a bishop, and from an evil point of view, nobody in their right mind would criticize a person of God.  Except it’s all been a trick, and Trump, like that mountain climber, pushed back at evil and sent it on its way in frustration, which came out in the voice of the Bishop.  She was, like the seductress demon, rejected and now displaced.  The demons of Hell are confused as to what can be done now that people are aware of them and want to fight back instead of appeasing them with unearned guilt.  Saul Alinsky understood how to usher in this vast evil by the good nature of Christian people.  And it had been working; evil has been having its way with all of us.  Until now…………

Rich Hoffman

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Bill Coley and The Blizzard of Akira Kurosawa

Representative Bill Coley took out a half page ad in the Pulse Journal during the October 28th, 2010 edition to proclaim that looking to Ohio for tax increases to fund education is not the solution to the funding problems at Lakota, and public education in general.

I personally like Bill. But I don’t think he understands what I and others with similar concerns are talking about regarding the statements that funding is the responsibility of the state under constitutional mandate. And his comment that the state is financially broke, and has no money to give to education exacerbates the situation further.

I, like many others, sent money to the state. If the State of Ohio spent that money on the wrong things, then education wasn’t very high on the priority list.

And the money they did use for education, they spent on districts not friendly to republicans.  The way the funds were allocated show an attempt at bloc voting, using our tax dollars to buy democratic votes. 

Why is that important? After all, education should be politically neutral. Well it’s not.

Bill Coley stated in his tremendous ad that he did not want to surrender decisions for Lakota School to outsiders. Yet, it is the teachers lobby that creates the unfunded mandates that come back to all districts. And it is the teachers union that takes the money they collect from members, and spends money on democratic candidates. That is a bit of a problem.

The purpose of this No Levy campaign is not to raise taxes to pay for education. It’s not to have state control. But it is to get the costs of education under control, and to get Ohio to properly fund school districts the way the constitution of Ohio dictates.

Notes: From the State Supreme Court case of March 24, 1997.

Section 2, Article VI of the Ohio Constitution requires the state to provide and fund a system of public education and includes an explicit directive to the General Assembly:

“The general assembly shall make such provisions, by taxation, or otherwise, as, with the income arising from the school trust fund, will secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the State.”

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Statement from the Supreme Court decision:

“We recognize that disparities between school districts will always exist. By our decision today, we are not stating that a new financing system must provide equal educational opportunities for all. In a Utopian society, this lofty goal would be realized. We, however appreciate the limitations imposed upon us. Nor do we advocate a “Robin Hood” approach to school financing reform. We are not suggesting that funds be diverted from wealthy districts and given to the less fortunate. There is not a “leveling down” component in our decision today.

Our state Constitution makes the state responsible for educating our youth. Thus, the state should not shirk its obligation by espousing clichés about “local control.”

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The Supreme Court specifically addressed the Robin Hood scenario, and that is exactly what has been happening. And it is obvious that Mr. Coley and many others have aligned themselves with the many, many factions that have their hands in our collective cookie jars. And they want to encourage us all to just stay asleep while they continue to misappropriate our state taxes. And I will say that I expect those state taxes to decrease, not to increase while still funding education.

The strategy used by Mr. Coley and several others intent on maintaining the status quo in government reminds me of a film I love called “Dreams” directed by the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.

In this scene, four mountain climbers are exhausted from climbing a mountain, and they have lost their camp. (hint, in my mind the taxpayers are represented by the mountain climbers just trying to find their way home) I would encourage you to take the time to watch these three clips. Because I think it is a metaphor that directly applies to our national crises. Because we are lost in a snow storm, and people like Bill Coley are just wanting to lay down and die.

Here the leader is the only one standing. And he sees someone coming. But who is it? Only the strongest leader can see it. But his fellow climbers have given up the fight. And eventually, the leader is ready to give up too. The being that comes to him tells him that the snow is warm, and the ice is hot. She sings a sweet melody to him to usher him to sleep. And he slowly gives way to the being, until near the end of this clip where he begins to regain his will to fight.

Thats right, the being was a demon trying to steal away their souls with a sense of hopelessness. (In this example, the teachers unions are the metaphorical demon) And once the leader fights back enough, the demon’s true identity is revealed and it flies off in anger.

And the climbers find that their camp was always just right there.

If we’re going to fix all our trouble, we have to get rid of the soothsayers that are trying to usher us away to sleep.

And Mr. Coley, based on your comment in the Pulse, you are one of the climbers that have given up.

Rich Hoffman

www.NoLakotaLevy.com