"More Bricks, Less Straw!"
Ex 5:18
"Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks."
As is now becoming my morning habit, I listened to the Daily Audio Bible broadcast early in the morn. The broadcast basically takes a methodical word-by-word and page-by-page approach to reading through the Scriptures.
There is great value in doing so. Even things like the endless genealogies and the Levitical law readings show the complexity of human ancestry--cause and effect, decisions in one generation, for good or for ill, rippling out like a rock in the lake of time--and how law is ascertained and administered. Those who dismiss the lessons of the Old Testament as merely primitive myth-making quite honestly are unwise. The Bible presents these stories as actual real history. And, they are. In the end, a myth can be dismissed. History has to be dealt with.
Back in the 1970's and 1980's Miller ran a series of commercials of Lite Beer "Great Taste, Less Filling" with mostly retired sport stars . See one of the funnier ones here . Good to know that America still makes the cleverest beer commercials now in 2010 (and the worst beer, at least "major" brands). We might be getting crushed in all sectors of our economy by foreigners, but we still remain supreme--as far as I know--in our beer commercials. Although, it is a little dismaying to note that the iconic American brand--Bud--is now owned by a Belgian conglomerate. Hopefully, the castrated horsey swill will improve.
The "Great Taste, Less Filling" campaign basically tried to convince that if one took a below average beer (Miller) and added water, that the beer would still tingle the tastebuds while lessening the gut. Why anyone drinks "Lite/Light" beer is beyond me. Drink seltzer, and if you want to get jiggy, add some natural flavoring. One New Year's resolution I have kept thus far is "Drink Less, Drink Better." And, we went on a pilgrimage to Dogfish Ale last weekend to demonstrate our piety. It is always helpful to have the support of brothers in our spiritual quests.
One good thing to consider is that at least the Islamic empires will never own alcohol companies. They might blow them up, and chop off some heads and hands in the process....making our Prohibition look like child's play. Maybe then the average sluggard American male will rise up and fight, roused to battle by the Shariah Law ban on alcohol.
When Jews were enslaved in Egypt for about 400 years after Joseph's death, Pharaoh got all ginned up and told Moses to shut his trap about taking His people to the desert for a three day sacrifice unto the Lord. Pharaoh then decided that if Moses had the cajones to ask for that, maybe the Jews didn't have it quite hard enough making bricks with the straw. "More Bricks, Less Straw." His animus laden version of "Tastes Great, Less Filling."
So, Pharaoh took away the straw in a maneuver that has modern day parallels to the corporate and governmental poobahs who preach sacrifice buy they ain't pushing away from the trough as their former employees walk out the door dejected and "downsized." The elites in government and corporations are both on the serious take, with their accomplices, and use each other as punching dummies publicly (like professional wrestlers) but behind the scene it is a big put-on and a joke.
Who lards up the left-wing think tanks that inform government policy? You got it, corporate America. Follow the money man...I am convinced that this Red/Blue distinction is not on the political party side...like the NFL, they may wear different uniforms and compete, ultimately both sides are on the same side.
God allows oppression to rise, but just like the empires that are built brick-by-brick, they fall-apart brick-by-brick too. Though Rome was not built in a day, relatively-speaking, it did collapse historically as a world-dominating empire pretty quickly. Rome has fallen, Christ is risen.
Sad to say, modern Rome, is America too consumed by clever beer commercials to see it? The time for P.C. needs to end...whatever happened to Free Speech? God is not mocked, what we brew, we will drink. Divine water-boarding. We are not there yet. I am not prepared to see Islamic attacks as diving retribution yet. God is a God of grace. Yet, God is not a sucker either, like a senile grandpa giving us blank grace checks to put in our willing sin accounts.
There is still much good in the land, and the organic food movement gives me hope that once we can wrestle the food supply back into healthy practices, we can start to do elsewhere.
"Let my people go!" And since we are on a road trip, I'd really like some beer. Make it Dogfish or Ommegang please. Hey Belgians, you can keep your Bud...I'll take a Belgian-styled American brew any day. Gosh, it would really stink if Ommegang was owned by "Egyptians." I intend to find out (just emailed the money guy there).
"Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks."
As is now becoming my morning habit, I listened to the Daily Audio Bible broadcast early in the morn. The broadcast basically takes a methodical word-by-word and page-by-page approach to reading through the Scriptures.
There is great value in doing so. Even things like the endless genealogies and the Levitical law readings show the complexity of human ancestry--cause and effect, decisions in one generation, for good or for ill, rippling out like a rock in the lake of time--and how law is ascertained and administered. Those who dismiss the lessons of the Old Testament as merely primitive myth-making quite honestly are unwise. The Bible presents these stories as actual real history. And, they are. In the end, a myth can be dismissed. History has to be dealt with.
Back in the 1970's and 1980's Miller ran a series of commercials of Lite Beer "Great Taste, Less Filling" with mostly retired sport stars . See one of the funnier ones here . Good to know that America still makes the cleverest beer commercials now in 2010 (and the worst beer, at least "major" brands). We might be getting crushed in all sectors of our economy by foreigners, but we still remain supreme--as far as I know--in our beer commercials. Although, it is a little dismaying to note that the iconic American brand--Bud--is now owned by a Belgian conglomerate. Hopefully, the castrated horsey swill will improve.
The "Great Taste, Less Filling" campaign basically tried to convince that if one took a below average beer (Miller) and added water, that the beer would still tingle the tastebuds while lessening the gut. Why anyone drinks "Lite/Light" beer is beyond me. Drink seltzer, and if you want to get jiggy, add some natural flavoring. One New Year's resolution I have kept thus far is "Drink Less, Drink Better." And, we went on a pilgrimage to Dogfish Ale last weekend to demonstrate our piety. It is always helpful to have the support of brothers in our spiritual quests.
One good thing to consider is that at least the Islamic empires will never own alcohol companies. They might blow them up, and chop off some heads and hands in the process....making our Prohibition look like child's play. Maybe then the average sluggard American male will rise up and fight, roused to battle by the Shariah Law ban on alcohol.
When Jews were enslaved in Egypt for about 400 years after Joseph's death, Pharaoh got all ginned up and told Moses to shut his trap about taking His people to the desert for a three day sacrifice unto the Lord. Pharaoh then decided that if Moses had the cajones to ask for that, maybe the Jews didn't have it quite hard enough making bricks with the straw. "More Bricks, Less Straw." His animus laden version of "Tastes Great, Less Filling."
So, Pharaoh took away the straw in a maneuver that has modern day parallels to the corporate and governmental poobahs who preach sacrifice buy they ain't pushing away from the trough as their former employees walk out the door dejected and "downsized." The elites in government and corporations are both on the serious take, with their accomplices, and use each other as punching dummies publicly (like professional wrestlers) but behind the scene it is a big put-on and a joke.
Who lards up the left-wing think tanks that inform government policy? You got it, corporate America. Follow the money man...I am convinced that this Red/Blue distinction is not on the political party side...like the NFL, they may wear different uniforms and compete, ultimately both sides are on the same side.
God allows oppression to rise, but just like the empires that are built brick-by-brick, they fall-apart brick-by-brick too. Though Rome was not built in a day, relatively-speaking, it did collapse historically as a world-dominating empire pretty quickly. Rome has fallen, Christ is risen.
Sad to say, modern Rome, is America too consumed by clever beer commercials to see it? The time for P.C. needs to end...whatever happened to Free Speech? God is not mocked, what we brew, we will drink. Divine water-boarding. We are not there yet. I am not prepared to see Islamic attacks as diving retribution yet. God is a God of grace. Yet, God is not a sucker either, like a senile grandpa giving us blank grace checks to put in our willing sin accounts.
There is still much good in the land, and the organic food movement gives me hope that once we can wrestle the food supply back into healthy practices, we can start to do elsewhere.
"Let my people go!" And since we are on a road trip, I'd really like some beer. Make it Dogfish or Ommegang please. Hey Belgians, you can keep your Bud...I'll take a Belgian-styled American brew any day. Gosh, it would really stink if Ommegang was owned by "Egyptians." I intend to find out (just emailed the money guy there).
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