The Weather Up Here:: In the Matter of Thomas S. Kenan III and Betty Kenan of North Carolina

My mother, Ruth Anne (Meyer) Kenan of Raleigh, NC in 2009.

>>> FIRST, SOME NEWS:

1. This morning, I called Mom to let her know what I've been wanting to do for a few days, but felt it wise to sleep on at least twice, first. You see, I just have NO MORE ANGER nor FEELINGS OF ANIMOSITY toward ANY of my immediate family. I must have scoured out my soul a week ago when I made the drunken rounds of calls to them all.

When Mom told me (when I called her two days later to explain but NOT apologize), in what I recognized is her truthful voice, "I understand completely," THAT WAS ALL I needed to hear.

So today, I told Mom I am now completely comfortable with her and I did NOT bring up any specifics -- I had NO URGE TO -- and that is credit to us BOTH. As I said, I'm healthy and rebuilding my life. I am in NO WAY permanently harmed, and if ANYTHING, I feel younger and more expectant of a GREAT POSITIVE LIFE going forward. I am INFINITELY wiser and more experienced -- CONFIDENT that I can handle whatever comes my way.

Connor Michael Kenan

I learned that my nephew Connor DID make a lot and save a lot at his last job, and is traveling for an indefinite period, rarely contacting his parents and siblings -- and his travel now in S.E. Asia may only be the beginning of places he goes. Connor got his degree in Biology at UNC Chapel Hill, with a Junior year abroad in MY favorite city in the world, Florence, Italy, studying food and wine for a year. Maybe there will be a restaurant in his future, no???

But what is important to me is that I said what I intended, which is that I am no longer angry at my siblings, and ask NOTHING of them, but am not comfortable having a relationship with any of them until I see signs of their UNDERSTANDING something of what I've been through -- and some empathy. I have BOTH those for them, knowing the childhood we shared with daily beatings, Swastikas, Rabid Catholicism of the HATE-GOD kind.

I dare say that my Mom might have actually HEALED FROM THIS, but it's too early to say that, really.

And while it is TRUE that my sister Jane did MANY things that were helpful to me in terms of giving me a usable computer, household items, more money than any of the others of them ($150.00 or so total), AND shepherded me through the process of Disability Benefits approval, she ALSO gave a three-inch stack of my emails and blog posts to Disability, to PROVE I am mentally ill, which coupled with her comments to me show she BELIEVES, or did, that I'm crazy, claiming none of those things I claimed were true.

So I'm sure TIME is the key factor going forward, but I hope the message that I'm "over it" gets through to my siblings, but that I must know that they have at least a RUDIMENTARY understand of MY side of the story before I can actually resume any relationships with them -- no apologies, explanations, or restoration of what they ALL helped me lose are necessary.

2. REGARDING CNN's VERY RECENT CONVERSION TO TOTAL CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK:

Top result of image googling "CNN goes totally Christian".

Bad enough that the nighttime Heads (the ones most likely to have influential viewers), Blitzer, Cooper, Burnett, and Morgan ALL repeatedly sound mostly sane and logical, but ALL OF THEM eventually have led viewers to their STRONGLY PRESENTED SUPPORT OF THE NAZI ASPECTS OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, and RIDDLED with transparent lies. In the last two weeks I have seen SEVERAL guests on CNN accuse them DIRECTLY of trying to be Fox News, so that has helped to LIMIT THE DAMAGE to those too stupid or drug-addled to THINK and SEE the BOLD-FACED LIES that each of these hosts have CONSCIOUSLY tried to pull off.

For years now, I trusted Don Lemon, as he seems MOST "post racial" and logical of ALL CNN's Talking Heads, but first, he SUPPORTED "Stop and Frisk" in New York City, when the TRUTH IS that OF COURSE one watches people looking like typical criminals more closely, but TOO MANY black folk, especially, who did NOT look like criminals at all -- just happened to have dark skin -- have been arrested, and this is NOTHING NEW.

But interrupting these people's shopping experience AT ALL WITHOUT CAUSE, is ABJECT RACISM.

But last night I put Don Lemon immediately below President Obama (followed by most white American "Christians"), as a GOD-DAMNED NIGGER -- but NOT also a self-hating FAGGOT, like Barack Obama, because Don is OUT GAY. He kept running a video of storm damage in the Midwest that featured an individual reciting The Lord's Prayer AND a Hail Mary -- the first time Don ran this of FIVE TIMES within a twenty minute period (which actually bled into the next Head's Show), it was RAW, and understandable to run it so long, although one only needed a few seconds to GET THE MESSAGE of the power of the storm in the background and the emotional experience of the man who shot it.

After that, to show so much is just promotion of SNAKE OIL (I mean that the man reciting did so by ROTE, not "believing" -- if his voice can be trusted) !!!

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I should make CLEAR that The Lord's Prayer (the "Our Father" to Catholics), like Psalm 23, "The Lord Is My Shepherd", are essentially PERFECT PRAYERS, and the latter would actually be great in times of storm peril, but the Lord's Prayer is not the most appropriate choice -- unless it gives you special comfort.

See in this blog a couple of years ago where I go through each of these two prayers line-by-line to explain -- in MODERN, metaphysical terms -- what these prayers MEAN, as few people today have an understanding of the hugely symbolic language.

Also, I keep forgetting to mention that within the last several years, Bible scholars who read widely in what survives from the time of Jesus, learned that MANY of his parables used then-slang that was irreverent, with multiple meanings that ridiculed those he could not speak out directly against, and even at times contained sexual suggestiveness.

They found the MOST of these type references in The Sermon on the Mount, and "mustard seed" had special significance, although the one most people NOW think of was also true. You see, Jesus was a rip-roarin' FUN and ENTERTAINING GUY -- when he had the right audience -- and TOTALLY MULTI-DIMENSIONAL in his speaking.

Jesus was an ARTIST, and calls YOU to be one TOO!!!

You might think of him as a sort of "Pre-Mr. Berman". (Now let's watch to see what swells . . .)

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Of course MOST Americans believe in forms of Christianinity that DISAVOW Jesus's actual Teachings, so it is no surprise that they think "Prayers mean SO MUCH!!!" -- and they are RIGHT, and I encourage ALL in similar situations of immanent peril to pray to ANYONE or THING that gives them comfort. It is from this place of PSYCHOLOGICAL COMFORT that RATIONAL IDEAS and ACTIONS are accessible to the conscious mind, and THAT is what actually saves anyone.

Today, Chris Cuomo is out in Indiana using the expression "Thank God!!!", which I think is simply an Americanism with no Religious meaning anymore, so NOT promotion of Christianinity, although HIGHLY UNPROFESSIONAL. But CNN is ALSO making BIG HAY of Ted Turner's saying he sometimes prays. They seem to think that means Ted in now on board with the NAZI ORGANIZATION CNN has become under TIME/Warner. They are wrong, and have NEVER understood Ted's views on spirituality, Ted usually referred to as an Atheist or Agnostic.

I'll MISS trusting Don Lemon, but I ALSO SALUTE the WOMEN of the Day Crew, who remain PROFESSIONAL and MOTIVATED!!! (And most of the men in that time period too -- especially Mr. Berman, who in his little, short dark suits with 1964 updated-Brylcremed hair, seems like he just popped OUT of my Mother Mary Austin's 8th Grade Class at Sts. Phillip and James, Exton, Pennsylvania -- and then when he opens his mouth, he SNARKS!!!

Mr. Berman can ALWAYS sit near ME!!!

Please remember, that ALL those folks in the Midwest RAN FOR SHELTER when they saw a tornado coming -- THEY DID NOT PRAY UNTIL LATER!!!

God's gift of our RATIONAL MIND is FAR MORE IMPORTANT to Life and Loving than ANY prayers, but rather than just criticize, let me craft a SUITABLE PRAYER for such circumstances for AFTER shelter is found:

God and God's Love is GREATER than anything now apparent, and nearly everyone affected always survives these storms. I DECLARE that I and my family will come through fine, regardless the loss of any property and harm to others, whom I ALSO see as protected by the LOVING GOD. Couched in this Love that is Infinite, I relax knowing that even if I DIE, life is Eternal, so my mind is ENTIRELY OPEN to suggestions from the Infinite on what practical thing to do next. I release this prayer knowing it is absolutely true, and turn my attention to helping those whom I love -- and strangers in need who cross my path. Amen.

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>>> NOW, SOME COMMENTS ON MY WEALTHY KENAN RELATIVES:

1. There is NO QUESTION that the wealthy branch of the Kenan Family of North Carolina are some of the MOST POWERFUL WHITE SUPREMACISTS in the world -- in fact lawyer/writer Gregg Loomis of Atlanta made that PERFECTLY CLEAR to me, and he is VERY close in the Family to Tom and Betty Kenan.

You can google in this blog to find the details and sources, but the Kenan Family, who had a number of properties with over 300 slaves, were probably the wealthiest family in the South before the War, and their influence in BOTH Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Florida Legislatures CAUSED THE SOUTH TO SECEDE.

The Duplin Rifles earned the distinction of being the BEST sharp-shooters in the entire Confederate Army, and ALWAYS were half made up of Kenans, THIS young man becoming MOST FAMOUS:

William Rand Kenan, SENIOR

This is NOT the only photo of Mr. Kenan which makes him look a tetch psychotic, and it was HE who was the ONLY Confederate credited with penetrating Washington, DC defenses and taking a clear shot at President Lincoln. Later, as an ELDER of First Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, he and the Pastor caused the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Insurrection_of_1898 .

And THAT led to the passing of ALL JIM CROW LAWS across the South within two years, and is the PROOF POSITIVE that White People should ARM THEMSELVES TO THE GILLS so they can (soon enough, now), MURDER all people of color, gays, etc., AND SUFFER NO CONSEQUENCES FROM THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AT ALL!!!

In FACT, this incident is USED NOW BY REPUBLICANS and other gun nuts to ENCOURAGE WHITE PEOPLE to get ready for the upcoming GREAT RACE WAR, which a FEW of them don't even know is sponsored by the NSA/CIA narco-trafficking NAZIs -- continuing to get President Obama, Diane Feinstein, and others' FULL SUPPORT!!!

That said, I'd like to remind ALL that my great-grandfather, Murphy Kenan, saved up several years before the war and bought two slaves so he could immediately free them, then was quick to enlist to fight for the Southern Cause of RESPECTING CONTRACTS, as opposed to the Yankee Cause of MIGHT MAKES RIGHT, the beginnings of today's NAZI UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.

My great-grandmother, Julia Kenan, became the Oldest Confederate Widow in North Carolina, my fourth cousin Allen Gurganus, also a Gay Rights Activist, writing THE OLDEST CONFEDERATE WIDOW TELLS ALL, very loosely based on their lives, and a 1989 several-Emmys-awarded TV Film.

Rev. Ernest Thompson III

Today, Rev. Ernie Thompson, with Rev. William "Pete" Brown and Rev. Charlie Lee AGGRESSIVELY make certain that NO NON-WHITES attend services at First Presbyterian, Wilmington, Ernie having once BRAGGED TO ME how he chased off my friends, a retired US Army Colonel and his wife (both black), by telling them HE SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE (black Christians being RELIABLE GAY-HATERS), Ernie's gay marriage support MANY in the congregation told me but said they try to keep it a SECRET from the rest of the congregation, or he'd be SACKED!!!

WORSE, now deceased Rev. Jim Holderness BRAGGED TO ME that the ministers there are PROUD to protect narco-traffic-protecting and Civil Rights Destroying District Attorney Benjamin R. David, by MAKING HIM A DEACON, recently.

And before I shook things up there a tad in early 2011, Ben David and Family were the ONLY people to sit in the in-facing small pews flanking the podium in Kenan Chapel -- PROOF POSITIVE that Ben David's protection of Sen. Thom Goolsby's Republican narco-trafficking is SANCTIONED BY THOMAS S. KENAN III and his step-mother, BETTY KENAN.

Photo-collage of The Breakers

Preparing for Christmas at The Breakers

>>> That said, it is important to note that Tom and Betty Kenan's wholly-owned THE BREAKERS HOTEL in Palm Beach -- for WHATEVER REASON -- STOPPED advertising ALL OVER (or at all), on FOX NEWS ONLINE several weeks ago . . .

Maybe this will ALL SORT ITSELF OUT, sooner than later, no???

HAPPY MONDAY, EVERYONE!!!

Wilmington City Officials should expect to hear from me very soon about COMPENSATION.

Scott