Beech Tree News Network

The Ruling Order in the New Testament of the Bible were the priests, Levites, the scribes, and the Pharisees: the people of that ilk in that day; the regulating rule-members; the enforcers (without due process of the law) who couched their skullduggery in the terms that John and Public couldn’t understand.
That spelled power – still does. They converted their power. They didn’t want John to understand. Still don’t.
A good trick by our own Kentucky legislature in railroading a proposition through on an election ballet is to make it sound like good butter and molasses until you get down to the last sentence in the last paragraph, then the butter turns rancid and the molasses turns green. Why? It’s pretty well-known that most of the time people fail to read the last paragraph. They’re where they can hide the deceptive stuff. The first part always sounds good – the last part is where the lies are hidden – keeping in mind a deception is as good as a lie.
Once a couple of friends and I were reading a legislative proposal – “This sounds ok,” one said. “Have you read the last paragraph and the last sentence?” I asked them. They had not. They then did. Their first reaction was cuss-words: “No way I’d vote for that”, both said, and said loudly, “That’s crazy.” Craziness couched in the secrecy of mumbo-jumbo. Who can you trust? Sad. Nearly everybody else is a suspect.
Sail on O ship of the state – may it keep sailing and not flounder.
Kindest Regards…