Scott Walker wins Win. Recall--Not a Referendum on Obama

CNN now projects incumbent GOP Gov. Scott Walker will retain his seat despite a massive recall effort launched by Wisconsin Democrats.  Despite the analysis of many pundits, there is no evidence to indicate that the Wisconsin recall election is in any way a referendum on the prospects of President Obama's re-election campaign.  Obama still leads in state opinion polls and exit polling still suggests that Obama has the majority of support among recall election voters.  State Democratic turnout was lower than usual and the election was dominated by single-issue politics (i.e. unions).

This election was less about a rejection of Democrats and more about a rejection of unions.

More to come soon...

Oldest Bible Printed in US Goes on Sale

Hello World,

I would like to dedicate the first post of Black Casanova by re-affirming my belief in God and Jesus Christ and the written Word of God.  To those who will notice a stark contradiction between believing in the Bible and advocating open sexuality, I will defend my views in a post sometime in the future.
I just want to take a moment and bless each of you who read this blog and I pray that you experience lasting love and satisfaction.

 ²⁴(May) The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
 ²⁵The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
 ²⁶The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

Numbers 6: 24-16

Yesterday, the Washington Post reported on the oldest English-language Bible printed in the United States going on the block at Bloomsbury Auctions. It was printed during the American War of Independence by Robert Aitken, a Scottish immigrant who wanted to compensate for a British trade blockade that included Bibles. (It is unclear whether the British wanted to deprive us morally or already considered us morally deprived due to our republican insurrection...)  The Old Testament version of the Aitken Bible seems to have been lifted from the Original King James Bible while it seems as if the New Testament edition was newly translated from the Greek  Scholars aren't sure. (Go figure)


Technically, the Aitken Bible wasn't the first to be printed in the Colonial US as there was a German language Bible and an Algonquin language Bible already in circulation.  What's Algonquin?  That would be the Native American language indigenous to the Northeast.  Puritan preacher John Elliot printed it to reach out to the Iroquois.

*sigh*

There was a time when Bibles weren't simply historical trophies to be absorbed into personal collections.  There were historical pillars of communities, akin to such moral documents as the Emancipation Proclamation, the Declaration of Independence, or even the US Constitution.  Could you imagine any first editions of those publications going on auction to a private bidder? How is it that celebrating the Bible has become taboo? The Bible is every bit as responsible for shaping our moral values as the Declaration of Independence.  Isn't it time for us to stop marginalizing its impact and promoting ignorance of its content?