Gee, it's the last day of the convention, and I was surprised that we didn't have threads on the convention. I woke from my pre-convention nap this afternoon, and was going to start a thread titled "Mysteries of the Republican Convention." Alas, I found two threads now, both on very limited aspects of the convention. So, do I start another thread? I dunno.

I guess I can say what I want to say in this thread. Although I liked Melania's speech, I found many of the speeches truly frightening. Most frightening of all was the one from Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a master at twisting the words and acts of Hillary Clinton. The guy sounded demented - and hateful.

Another scary speech came from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who seems to want Trump to make him Attorney General so he can indict Hillary Clinton in a kangaroo court - with all the convention delegates shouting, "Lock her up!" and "Guilty!"

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Equally scary was the speech from the token Christian in the group, Dr. Ben Carson. The speech from Carson was so weird, then he immediately made it into Snopes.com. Carson really sounds like a nice person, but it's hard to believe that a neurosurgeon can sound so incredibly stupid.

Here's the memorable excerpt from Carson's speech:

Now, one of the things that I have learned about Hillary Clinton is that one of her heroes, her mentors, was Saul Alinsky. And her senior thesis was about Saul Alinsky. This was someone she greatly admired and that affected all of her philosophies subsequently. Now, interestingly enough, let me tell you something about Saul Alinsky.

He wrote a book called "Rules for Radicals." On the dedication page it acknowledges Lucifer, the original radical who gained his own kingdom. Now, think about that. This is a nation where our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, talks about certain inalienable rights that come from our creator, a nation where our Pledge of Allegiance says we are "One nation under God." This is a nation where every coin in our pockets and every bill in our wallet says, "In God We Trust." So are we willing to elect someone as president who has as their role model somebody who acknowledges Lucifer? Think about that.

Read the Snopes story - it's a good one. While it's true that Alinsky called Lucifer ""first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment," Alinsky doesn't express any admiration for Lucifer. So, it's true that Alinsky acknowledges Lucifer. So did Dante, who makes Lucifer a major character in his Inferno. Interestingly, Lucifer is not mentioned in the Bible, but that's another story.

I think Carson's purpose is to make the Christian right think that Hillary Clinton is allied with Lucifer, thereby making it important that Americans vote for Trump, despite his less-than-Christian attitudes toward immigrants and other moral issues, and his opposition to the Pope.

There's more weird stuff about Hillary and Alinsky here (click). Of course, about the worst thing he can say about Alinsky is that he was a "community organizer" - like Barack Obama was later. Oh, hey, did I mention that I'm working as a volunteer community organizer myself?

So, anyhow, there have been some fascinating Mysteries of the Republican Convention this year. One would write a book about it.

-Joe-