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For Christian American readers of this blog:


I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.











Tuesday, March 18, 2014

American heroes died and lived wounded lives for this: UNaffordable coffee ... Thx Ramey H



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Old and rare photos ... Thx Ramey H!


1. Born 110 years ago, Red Grange carries the ball in his professional debut for the Chicago Bears in front of 39,000 people on Thanksgiving Day 1925. (average game attendance was about 5,000 up to that time).

http://i.imgur.com/AlVWX9y.jpg
 

2. The face of an NHL goalie before masks became standard

equipment.  Terry Sawchuk, Detroit Red Wings goalie.  NHL Hall of Fame retired by Detroit.
 
http://i.imgur.com/luJApQO.jpg
 
 
 
3. The first ever team photo in baseball history, 1858.

http://i.imgur.com/iwowmte.jpg
 
 
 
4. Members of the Stealth Bomber football squad at Gallaudet University, 1920. It was the first university for the deaf and they started the concept of the football huddle so other teams couldn't see their signs.

http://i.imgur.com/PqVu9oD.jpg
 
 
 
5. U.S. chess prodigy, Bobby Fisher, playing 50 opponents simultaneously at his Hollywood hotel on 12 April 1964.  He won 47, lost 1 and drew 2.

http://i.imgur.com/TRE80Dw.jpg?2
 
 
 
6. The very first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, 1931.

http://i.imgur.com/88xOxRl.jpg
 
 
 
7. Old Cincinnati Library, looking at one of the large cast-iron book alcoves that lined the Main Reading Hall, circa 1900.

http://i.imgur.com/iuNJz5m.jpg
 
 
 
8. The Hindenburg successfully landed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, May, 1936.
   
http://i.imgur.com/hUHo6f4.jpg
 
 
 
9. This is what Mount Rushmore was supposed to look like if they hadn't run out of funding in 1941.

http://i.imgur.com/CiIxrSB.jpg
 
 
 
10. Last public execution in USA, 1936.

http://i.imgur.com/J5E5oQO.jpg
 
 
 
     
 

 
 
 
12. Suburbia: move-in day 1950.
 
http://i.imgur.com/RF80TnE.png
 
 
 
13. Children in an iron lung before the advent of the polio vaccination.  Many children lived for months in these machines, though not all survived, 1937.

http://i.imgur.com/gx38C1P.jpg
 
 
 
14. Androussimoff (Later known as the Giant) Cannes, France, 1967.
     
http://i.imgur.com/0LIjF.jpg
 
 
 
15. An aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, one year after the atomic bomb detonation, taken July 20, 1946.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_20/w05_60720069.jpg
 
                                                               --- END ---

 
 

Make it a great day. You never know what tomorrow brings.
 

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Funny Video ... Thx Ramey H!


Archie Bunker And The Doctor ... VIDEO
 
Start  your day off with a good laugh! 
 
http://biggeekdad.com/2013/08/archie-bunker-and-the-doctor/


O-Bumb-O quote from Czech Premier ... Thx Paul C!


Subject: Photo from Mar 1, 2014 Czech Premier


Yep double yep!

"Don't blame O-Bumb-BO, blame the idiots that voted him into office, not once but twice!"

I hate to hear accurate quotes like this from the EU or any other place in the world.
 

Interesting from the World Health Organization ... Thx Judi Cole!




INTERESTING....but they have machetes and knives........wonder when we'll try to ban those, too.
From the World Health Organization
 
The latest Murder Statistics for the world:
Murders per 100,000 citizens per year.
 
Honduras 91.6 (WOW!!)
El Salvador 69.2
Cote d'lvoire 56.9
Jamaica 52.2
Venezuela 45.1
Belize 41.4
US Virgin Islands 39.2
Guatemala 38.5
Saint Kitts and Nevis 38.2
Zambia 38.0
Uganda 36.3
Malawi 36.0
Lesotho 35.2
Trinidad and Tobago 35.2
Colombia 33.4
South Africa 31.8
Congo 30.8
Central African Republic 29.3
Bahamas 27.4
Puerto Rico 26.2
Saint Lucia 25.2
Dominican Republic 25.0
Tanzania 24.5
Sudan 24.2
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 22.9
Ethiopia 22.5
Guinea 22.5
Dominica 22.1
Burundi 21.7
Democratic Republic of the Congo 21.7
Panama 21.6
Brazil 21.0
Equatorial Guinea 20.7
Guinea-Bissau 20.2
Kenya 20.1
Kyrgyzstan 20.1
Cameroon 19.7
Montserrat 19.7
Greenland 19.2
Angola 19.0
Guyana 18.6
Burkina Faso 18.0
Eritrea 17.8
Namibia 17.2
Rwanda 17.1
Mexico 16.9
Chad 15.8
Ghana 15.7
Ecuador 15.2
North Korea 15.2
Benin 15.1
Sierra Leone 14.9
Mauritania 14.7
Botswana 14.5
Zimbabwe 14.3
Gabon 13.8
Nicaragua 13.6
French Guiana 13.3
Papua New Guinea 13.0
Swaziland 12.9
Bermuda 12.3
Comoros 12.2
Nigeria 12.2
Cape Verde 11.6
Grenada 11.5
Paraguay 11.5
Barbados 11.3
Togo 10.9
Gambia 10.8
Peru 10.8
Myanmar 10.2
Russia 10.2
Liberia 10.1
Costa Rica 10.0
Nauru 9.8
Bolivia 8.9
Mozambique 8.8
Kazakhstan 8.8
Senegal 8.7
Turks and Caicos Islands 8.7
Mongolia 8.7
British Virgin Islands 8.6
Cayman Islands 8.4
Seychelles 8.3
Madagascar 8.1
Indonesia 8.1
Mali 8.0
Pakistan 7.8
Moldova 7.5
Kiribati 7.3
Guadeloupe 7.0
Haiti 6.9
Timor-Leste 6.9
Anguilla 6.8
Antigua and Barbuda 6.8
Lithuania 6.6
Uruguay 5.9
Philippines 5.4
Ukraine 5.2
Estonia 5.2
Cuba 5.0
Belarus 4.9
Thailand 4.8
Suriname 4.6
Laos 4.6
Georgia 4.3
Martinique 4.2
And ............................................
 
The United States 4.2 !!!!!!!!!!!!
 
ALL (109) of the countries above America have 100% gun bans.
 
It might be of interest to note that SWITZERLAND is not shown on this list because it has
NO MURDER OCCURRENCE!
 
However, SWITZERLAND'S law requires that EVERYONE:
1. Own a gun.
2. Maintain Marksman qualifications regularly .
 
                                            Apparently gun restrictions don't work very well....   ;o)

Jerry Mann- (PHS 57) ... thx to my brother Jim Kegley!

High Notes 03-27-2014 – Jerry Mann art
Jerry Mann’s senior ambition, read in the Portsmouth High School yearbook for 1957 that his ambition was to become “Editor of The Portsmouth Times”; at that time Jerry’s part time job was “Circulation clerk” at the newspaper.
That was a pretty lofty ambition for a teenager.  Did he make it?
No.
But Jerry’s innate ambition to succeed was intact as he pursued education at both Ohio University at Athens, and Ohio State University at Columbus.  Jerry has his B.S., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, finalizing his university education in 1967 with his doctorate at OSU.
Jerry rose to the top of his major profession, with the Eli Lilly Company, Inc., as a senior vice president, and was partially responsible for the company’s expansion into manufacturing in South America, Ireland and Europe.  At one time he was CEO of Elanco SA (South America) out of Geneva Switzerland, which he refers to as his “Best job.”  His Lilly career was from 1967 to early retirement in 1992.  His last assignment was as Managing Director of Dista, located in Liverpool, England.
Not too bad for the son of an Ideal Milk Truck route salesman, eh?
Jerry’s Dad, Urby E. Mann, and mother, Anna M. Mann, lived at 3103
Scioto Trail, Portsmouth.  Jerry’s brother, Carl, was 17-years older and graduated PHS in 1939, before going into the U. S. Army for the duration of WWII.
Jerry’s Dad, Urby, and a friend partnered as housing contractors on the side, and are responsible for constructing several houses in the area.
Jerry’s career accomplishments are truly monumental, however, Jerry’s second profession seems to be the one for which he is most vocal, and proud…he owns, operates, and is responsible for stocking an art gallery in Taos, New Mexico, and becoming an award winning “visual artist”.  He has exhibited his art around the country at National juried shows and has won various recognitions and awards.
During two consecutive years Jerry’s acrylics won “Best of Show” awards at the “East Coast Art League” show in Stuart Florida, a show that featured all kinds of art, including paintings and sculpture.
“I enjoy immensely painting with other artists and attending lectures; not just for knowledge but for the energy generated when artists come together.” He said in his website.
His internet web site is: http://www.artofmann.com
It reads:  “I began painting and studying art as a “fringe” artist while at Ohio University in the 1960s.  The subsequent pursuit of a scientific international career afforded me the exceptional opportunity to experience beauty from the jungles of Brazil to the soft gray environs of Ireland.  My paintings reflect these windows.  Still painting in Europe, Georgia and New Mexico, my main themes alternate from the villages of European life to the mountains of New Mexico to the savannas of Georgia where I currently reside.”
The Jerry Mann studio-gallery is at 136 Bent Street, one block from the Plaza, in the historical Casa Flores, which is listed on the National Registry of Historical Homes, in Taos, New Mexico.
Taos is noted for its art, and Jerry related a story about one of his fellow painter/gallery owners who said she had a painting tagged $1,700.00.   A well-dressed man wanted to buy it and made out his check for $17,000.00, and she explained the mistake and the man, disgustedly, tore up his check and left the studio. 
Jerry paints rapidly and mostly in acrylic…he says, “And I like to carry initial emotion of expression to excite and involve the viewer.  Painting is a journey of emotion and fulfillment as the work develops.  Starting with darks and cools, excitement in composition and focus becomes apparent as warms and value are added.  I don’t believe in (just) recording a subject but rather interpretation is the essential expression of my art.
Jerry and his wife, Sue Johnson, originally Minford, Ohio, have a permanent residence on St. Simons Island, Georgia.  Ms. Johnson also has her B. S. from OSU and MSc. from The University of Ireland while they lived there.  They also have a home in Taos, New Mexico.
 

Dogs ... Thx Ramey H!


The sixth photo about compassion for animals is certainly true.  I've never known any man who had compassion for animals to be a mean person.  And I have also known some men who were cruel to animals and they were also considered to be mean men.

   
     
  
  
"Dogs Welcome"
A man wrote a letter to a small hotel in a Midwest town he planned to visit on his vacation.  He wrote:  "I would very much like to bring my dog with me.  He is well-groomed and very well behaved.  Would you be willing to permit me to keep him in my room with me at night?"
  
An immediate reply came from the hotel owner, who wrote:

SIR: "I've been operating this hotel for many years.  In all that time, I've never had a dog steal towels, bedclothes, silverware or steal pictures off the walls or use them as a coloring book.
  
I've never had to evict a dog in the middle of the night for being drunk and disorderly.  And I've never had a dog run out on a hotel bill.  Yes, indeed, your dog is welcome at my hotel.  And, if your dog will vouch for you, you're welcome to stay here, too."

 
      
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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