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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!

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Saturday, December 20, 2014

Greatest team he was ever on ... Thx Ron Walters!

When asked to name the greatest team he was ever on,
Ted Williams said, "The US Marines".
Ted Williams was John Glenn's wingman flying F-9Fs in Korea.
I didn't know this about Ted Williams...............
 
The Boston Red Sox slugger who wore No. 9 as a major leaguer, would now be
assigned to an F-9 Panther jet as a pilot. Ted flew a total of 39 combat
missions in Korea. He was selected by his commander John Glenn (later the
astronaut, senator, and 'septuagenonaut') to fly as Glenn's wingman.
 
While flying an air strike on a troop encampment near Kyomipo, Williams'
F-9 was hit by hostile ground fire. Ted commented later: "The funny thing
was I didn't feel anything. I knew I was hit when the stick started
shaking like mad in my hands. Then everything went out, my
radio, my landing gear, everything. The red warning lights were on all
over the plane." The F-9 Panther had a centrifugal flow engine and
normally caught fire when hit. The tail would literally blow off most
stricken aircraft. The standard orders were to eject from any Panther with
a fire in the rear of the plane. Ted's aircraft was indeed on fire, and
was trailing smoke and flames. Glenn and the other pilots on the mission
were yelling over their radios for Williams to get out. However, with his
radio out, Williams could not hear their warnings and he could not see the
condition of the rear of his aircraft.
 
Glenn and another Panther flown by  Larry Hawkins came up alongside Williams and lead him to the nearest
friendly airfield. Fighting to hold the plane together, Ted brought his
Panther in at more than 200-MPH for a crash landing on the Marsden-matted
strip. With no landing gear, dive brakes, or functioning flaps, the
flaming Panther jet skidded down the runway for more than 3000 feet. Williams got out of the aircraft only
moments before it was totally engulfed in flames. Ted Williams survived
his tour of duty in Korea and returned to major league baseball.
 
Pssst: Ted missed out flying combat missions during WW II, because his
flying and gunnery skills were so good that he was kept as an instructor
for much of the War. During advanced training at Pensacola, Florida Ted
would accurately shoot the sleeve targets to shreds while
shooting out of wing-overs, zooms, and barrel rolls. He broke the all time
record for 'hits' at the school. Following Pensacola, Ted was sent to
Jacksonville for advanced gunnery training. This is the payoff test for
potential combat pilots. Ted set all the records for reflexes,
coordination, and visual reaction time. As a result of his stunning
success he was made an instructor at Bronson field to put Marine aviation
cadets through their final paces.
 
By 1945 Ted got his wish and was finally  transferred to a combat wing, but weeks later
the War was over. He was  discharged from the military in December of 1945. Seven years
later, in  December of 1952, Ted was recalled to active duty as a Marine Corps
fighter pilot.

My brother, Jim's Article for Christmas week's "The Scioto Voice with some KY basketball


High Notes 12-24-2014
Here’s is some sad news to report:  Tommy Dale, the 85-year old professional musician, born December 30, 1928 in Gallipolis, Ohio, and who played trombone with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, along with local saxophonist, Gary Billups, in many local concerts in Oho and Tracy Park in the summertime, died on Wednesday, December 10 in Columbus.  Tommy had played music professionally since the age of 16, and eventually formed his own band, the Tommy Dale Orchestra as well as playing with the Jerry Kaye Orchestra for many of the Broadway musicals and other music events travelling to Ohio.
He also taught instrumental music in the Columbus Public Schools from 1949 to 1979 and retired as band director of Columbus North High School in 1979.
Mr. Billups, the semi-retired Scioto County music teacher, and professional performing musician, reported that a special Celebration of Life for Tommy will be held on Sunday, January 4, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. in the ballroom at the Aladdin Shrine Center, 3850 Stelzer Rd., Columbus, Ohio, according to Mr. Billups, a long-time friend of Mr. Dale.  Interment took place at Sunset Cemetery, Galloway, Ohio, with arrangements by SCHOEDINGER NORTHWEST CHAPEL.
An extensive obituary was published in “The Columbus Dispatch” Dec. 13, 2014 edition.
Way back in the 1950’s in what I call the Adolph Ruppazoic period of college basketball, I was able to listen to Kentucky Wildcat basketball as Cawood Ledford, soothed me to sleep with his wonderfully mellifluous, and indigenous-to-Kentucky, voice.  The word “mellifluous” broken down is interesting…mell in Latin means “honey”, and Ledford’s voice would flow like newly collected honey on a hot Kentucky afternoon.  His tonetic regional dialect was at once exciting, entertaining, and nearly hypnotic to an impressionable teenage Ohioan who loved the game, and Wildcat basketball.
I grew up in Portsmouth, Ohio, on the point where the Scioto River pours into the mighty Ohio River, and which historically the Shawnee Indians lived and made forays into their Kentucky hunting grounds.  In those 1790’s post-American Revolutionary War days, the Indians were still using the shores of both states to maraud against the thousands of pioneers who were floating down the mighty Ohio to settle.
Portsmouth, and for that matter, all of Ohio loves the game of basketball, but nobody, anywhere in the entire U. S. A., can match the intensity of the citizens of Kentucky, and the fondness for the U. K. Wildcats.  Oh yes, I remember when one of Portsmouth Ohio’s great basketballers, Mike Haley, after helping his 1961 high school win the Ohio State Championship, attended Ohio University at Athens, and in the mid-sixties played on a Bobcat team that upset the Kentucky Wildcats in the NCAA tournament.  I attributed that victory to Haley as pay-back for the fact his Portsmouth Trojan team lost to the Ashland, Kentucky Tomcats, in 1961.  Ashland, also won their state’s high school championship that year.  And, the Cincinnati Bearcats, without Oscar Robinson, defeated the Jerry Lucas, John Havilicek led Ohio State team to win their first of two straight NCAA tournaments over the Buckeyes, in 1961 and 1962
The Buckeyes won the NCAA tournament in 1960..
1961 is the year my brother, Sam, got his metallurgical engineering degree from the University of Kentucky, at Lexington and since that time, Sam has been a well known Wildcat fan, who now boasts his own computer blog with a decided round-ball bent.  If Ohio has a more ardent Kentucky Wildcat basketball fan than Sam, I don’t know who it could be.  Of course, Jeanette (Weddington) Sam’s wife, who has been with him since he met her at the Ohio Theatre (late 1940’s) in New Boston, goes to the games, and is nearly as passionate about Kentucky basketball as he.
I love Kentucky Basketball, but I consider myself a true tri-state fan, because I follow the Cincinnati Bearcats, the Marshall Thundering Herd, Miami at Oxford, OU, Xavier, OSU, Morehead, and West Virginia too.  It is a great year to be a Buckeye and a Wildcat fan, they are both top teams, and they both have great coaches. 
Because of the early deadline for the holiday newspapers over the next couple of weeks, I am writing this column early so it can be submitted by Monday, December 22.   It is Friday evening, and I am looking forward to both the OSU, and North Carolina, and Kentucky and UCLA games Saturday, the 20th.  I’ll keep this paragraph in if they both win, which I do expect to happen.
 Go Cats!
 Go Bucks!

Christians and college childrens' questions

Christian families face such as this situation: Thx Billy Graham!

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Q:

Our son will be coming home from college for the Christmas holidays, and the last time he was here he let it be known that he didn’t believe in God like he used to. We ended up in a big argument because we couldn’t answer his questions, but we don’t want that to happen again.


A:

I’m thankful for your concern for your son’s spiritual life, because the most important legacy we can ever pass on to our children is our love for God. Even if they choose to turn from it for a time, they will never forget that God was real to us, and our lives were centered in Him.
What your son is going through is common–but that doesn’t make it any less serious. Perhaps he’s away from home for the first time in his life, and the temptation is strong to spread his wings (so to speak) and assert his independence. He also may be surrounded at college by people who think religion is only for uneducated people (which isn’t true), or are infected with intellectual pride. They also may reject God because they want to live without any moral restraints.
What should you do? First, pray for your son, that he will realize his own need of God and make his own personal commitment to Christ. Then let him know that you love him, and that you always will love him–just as God does.
Avoid arguing with him, however; as the Bible says, “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger” (Proverbs 15:1). Instead, tell him that even if you can’t answer all his questions, others do have answers–if he’s willing to find them. Your local Christian bookstore can help you with this.
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  Conundrum

 
Free people are not equal.  Equal people are not free. 

"A gun is like a parachute.  If you need one, and don't have one, you'll
probably never need one again." 

The definition of the word Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or
confusing.



Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America:

           1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population
is subsidized.

     
             2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think
they are victims.

 
        3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives
run the government.

           4. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep
getting poorer.

       
        5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that
people in other countries only dream about.

           6. They have things that people in other countries only dream
about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.

           Think about it! 

And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century. 
Makes you wonder who is doing the math.

       
   These three, short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our
current government and cultural environment:

     
     1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few
lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a
few lunatics.

           Funny how that works.  And here's another one worth onsidering...

   
       2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run
out of money.  But we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of
money?  What's interesting is the first group "worked for" their money, but
the second didn't.

       
   Think about it.....and Last but not least:

   
       3. Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans, no pay raises for
our military and cutting our army but we are not stopping the payments or
benefits to illegal aliens.

       
   Am I the only one missing something?

No

Conundrum - Today's Democrats ... Thx Ramey H!

  Conundrum

 
Free people are not equal.  Equal people are not free. 

"A gun is like a parachute.  If you need one, and don't have one, you'll
probably never need one again." 

The definition of the word Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or
confusing.



Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America:

           1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population
is subsidized.

     
             2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think
they are victims.

 
        3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives
run the government.

           4. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep
getting poorer.

       
        5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that
people in other countries only dream about.

           6. They have things that people in other countries only dream
about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.

           Think about it! 

And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century. 
Makes you wonder who is doing the math.

       
   These three, short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our
current government and cultural environment:

     
     1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few
lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a
few lunatics.

           Funny how that works.  And here's another one worth onsidering...

   
       2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run
out of money.  But we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of
money?  What's interesting is the first group "worked for" their money, but
the second didn't.

       
   Think about it.....and Last but not least:

   
       3. Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans, no pay raises for
our military and cutting our army but we are not stopping the payments or
benefits to illegal aliens.

       
   Am I the only one missing something?

No

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