{"id":13631,"date":"2015-05-22T04:53:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T09:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13631"},"modified":"2015-05-22T05:28:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T10:28:27","slug":"vengeance-is-mine-saith-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13631","title":{"rendered":"“Vengeance is mine…saith the Lord”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been meaning to write this post since about an hour after posting the last one but then Claudia and I decided to go to lunch and take in a movie. Ex Machina<\/strong> had a pretty high Rotten Tomatoes score. When we got home I read from Dead Wake out loud to Claudia on our sun porch. I even told Art Johnston that as much as we had to talk about yesterday morning I really needed a little R & R from the Board.<\/p>\n

“Vengeance” was the wrong word to use in my tightrope metaphor. I’m not really so Old Testament. Except that, just now, I discovered that this famous saying comes from the New Testament. I didn’t read enough to provide any exegesis on the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Romans, Romans 12:19 KJV<\/strong><\/a>, but when he precedes it by saying “It has been written” he must be quoting the Old Testament for the sake of authority. I have an expert asleep downstairs but I really don’t need to wake her. The point is that I chose a word for that metaphor which really does not apply. It was such an obvious contrast to the word “magnanimity” (which, by the way, I misspelled) that I pulled it down from my mental thesaurus and popped it in without enough thought.<\/p>\n

I don’t like to make serious contextual changes in posts after 24 hours or so lest my readers start thinking I change old blog posts willy-nilly to hide my original intent. I will change an obvious typo when it glares out at me. If I go back and find that I wrote “don’t chare a white” I’d have no problem dropping the h in what was obviously meat to be “care” or drop the e in that was meant to be “whit” or for that matter add an n to this sentence’s word “meat.” The last was obviously meat to be “meant.” <\/p>\n

But even the word I should have used, “justice,” does offer up some of the same sort of ferocious resolve that I meant<\/em> to convey. Our Board has treated a member unjustly. It has attempted to assassinate his character and force on him a huge legal bill to defend himself. Now that’s<\/em> what I call vengeance. Our meeting to withdraw ourselves from a court hearing to remove him from the Board was much worse than a Rosanne Roesannadanna<\/a> “Nevermind.” Had it been a simple rescinding I wouldn’t be harping on about it. Instead, the Board majority wrapped their execrable denunciation around their naked butts as if to say: the last eleven month’s were Art Johnston’s fault – don’t blame us.<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’m not interested in vengeance. I’m interested in letting the truth be told. That’s justice not revenge although it may feel the same to folks trying to cover their naked butts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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