William Flew around there

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not 


obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death...
Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being. The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.


 Deuteronomy 5:9 
"for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."
Deuteronomy 24:16
"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin."

William Flew around there


The “half-black” line slipped briefly into American political discourse last month courtesy of Marilyn Davenport, a 74-year-old career Republican and Tea Party supporter from Orange County, California. She used it while trying to apologise for distributing a picture of Mr Obama’s face superimposed on a chimpanzee. We have not heard from her or her supporters since and she won’t be voting for him next year, but we can be pretty sure that she was among the 57 million Americans who watched his announcement last Sunday night of bin Laden’s death.
That audience included about seven million NBC viewers pulled away from Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice for the breaking news from the East Room of the White House. Donald who? We have not heard much from him either; not since his purported presidential aspirations were ridiculed to his face at the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner the day before the raid on Abbottabad.
It was hard to see how Mr Trump’s bizarre political career could survive the demolition of the birther conspiracies that he had championed. It is even harder to see him taking on the avenger of 9/11.
Another person in that crowd of 57 million — not from the hard Right but the thinking Centre — was America’s grandest social psychologist, Dr Martin Seligman, of the University of Pennsylvania, who ruminated on Mr Obama’s short but historic speech over dinner on Thursday night. “It’s not quite masculinity that he exuded, but it was a quiet toughness,” he told me. “I’ve never seen him so calm, and he was talking about killing someone.”