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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!

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.











Monday, June 29, 2015

The Haircut ... Thx Marge R!

 
THE HAIRCUT
Blessed are those that can give 
without remembering,  and take without
forgetting.
One day a florist went to a 
barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber
replied, 'I cannot accept money from you, I'm doing community service this
week.'
The florist was pleased and left 
the shop.
When the barber went to open his 
shop the next morning, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen roses waiting
for
him at his 
door.
Later, a cop comes in for a 
haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill , the barber again replied, 'I
cannot accept money from you, I'm doing community service this week.' The cop
was happy and left the shop.
The next morning when the barber 
went to open up, there was a 'thank you ' card and a dozen donuts waiting for
him at his door.
Then a Congressman came in for a 
haircut, and when he went to pay his bill , the barber again replied, 'I can
not accept money from you. I'm doing community service this week.' The
Congressman was very happy and left the shop.
The next morning, when the 
barber went to open up, there
were a dozen Congressmen lined 
up waiting for a free haircut.
And that, my friends, 
illustrates the fundamental difference between
the citizens of our country and
the politicians who run it.
 
 
BOTH POLITICIANS AND DIAPERS 
NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON!
 
 
If you don't forward this you 
have no sense of humor.
Nothing bad will happen, 
however, you must live with yourself knowing that laughter is not in your
future.
 
 

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Surreal Artist, Thx, I think, Lyle S! I Cannot fully comprehend.

Crabby Old Man ... A most deserving and real repeat for us seniors ... Thx Gary and Jill I !





CRABBY OLD MAN
When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in North Platte, Nebraska, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value.
Later, when the nurses were going through his meager possessions, They found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital.
One nurse took her copy to Missouri. The old man's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas edition of the News Magazine of the St. Louis Association for Mental Health.  A slide presentation has also been made based on his simple, but eloquent, poem. 
And this little old man, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the author of this 'anonymous' poem winging across the Internet.
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Crabby Old Man
What do you see nurses? . . What do you see?
What are you thinking . . . . when you're looking at me?
A crabby old man, . . . . . not very wise,
Uncertain of habit .  . . ... with faraway eyes?
Who dribbles his food . . . . . .. and makes no reply . 
When you say in a loud voice . . . . "I do wish you'd try!"
Who seems not to notice . .. . the things that you do.
And forever is losing . . . . . . . a sock or a shoe?
Who, resisting or not . .. . . . lets you do as you will, 
With bathing and feeding. .. . . the long day to fill?
Is that what you're thinking?  . . Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse . . . you're not looking at me..
I'll tell you who I am.  . .  as I sit here so still, 
As I do at your bidding, . . . as I eat at your will.
I'm a small child of ten .  .. with a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters . . . . . . who love one another.
A young boy of sixteen . . . . with wings on his feet 
Dreaming that soon now . . . . . a lover he'll meet..
 
A groom soon at twenty .. . . .my heart gives a leap.
 
Remembering, the vows . .. . that I promised to keep.
At twenty-five, now . .. . . . I have young of my own. 
Who need me to guide .  . and a secure happy home.
A man of thirty . . . . . .  My young now grown fast,
Bound to each other .. . . With ties that should last.
At forty, my young sons . . . have grown and are gone, 
But my woman's beside me . . .. to see I don't mourn.
At fifty, once more,  . . babies play 'round my knee,
Again, we know children . .. . My loved one and me.
Dark days are upon me . . . .my wife is now dead. 
I look at the future  . . . . ..  shudder with dread..
For my young are all rearing . . . young of their own.
And I think of the years,. and the love that I've known.
I'm now an old man . . . . . and nature is cruel. 
Tis jest to make old age .. . . look like a fool.
The body, it crumbles ... . grace and vigour, depart.
There is now a stone . .. . where I once had a heart.
But inside this old carcass . . . a young guy still dwells, 
And now and again .. . . . my battered heart swells.
I remember the joys . . . . . I remember the pain.
And I'm loving and living . . . . . . life over again.
I think of the years, all too few . .. . gone too fast. 
And accept the stark fact . . . that nothing can last.
So open your eyes, people .. . . ... . open and see.
Not a crabby old man.   Look closer .. . see ME!!


Remember this poem when you next meet an older person who you might brush aside without looking at the young soul within ... . . . we will all, one day, be there, too! 
PLEASE SHARE THIS POEM 
The best and most beautiful things of this world can't be seen or touched.. They must be felt by the heart.

God Bless All who read this Poem
 
and send it to those on
"YOUR"
 mailing list

Father (This one is priceless) ...Thx Lyle S!

FATHER (This One Is Priceless!)
 
 
A little boy got on the bus, sat next to a man reading a book, and noticed he had his collar backwards. The little boy asked why he wore his collar backwards
The man, who was a priest, said, 'I am a Father..'
The little boy replied, 'My Daddy doesn't wear his collar like that.'
The priest looked up from his book and answered, ''I am the Father of many.'
The boy said, ''My Dad has 4 boys, 4 girls and two grandchildren and he doesn't wear his collar that way!'
The priest, getting impatient, said. 'I am the Father of hundreds', and went back to reading his book. 
 
The little boy sat quietly thinking for a while, then leaned over and said,
"Maybe you should wear a condom, and put your pants on backwards instead of your collar.

Words & expressions archaic ... Thx Clay V!


          Gone with the wind...
 
About a month ago, I illuminated old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology. These phrases included don’t touch that dial, carbon copy, you sound like a broken record and hung out to dry. A bevy of readers have asked me to shine light on more faded words and expressions, and I am happy to oblige: 
  
Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie. We’d put on our best bib and tucker and straighten up and fly right. Hubba-hubba! We’d cut a rug in some juke joint and then go necking and petting and smooching and spooning and billing and cooing and pitching woo in hot rods and jalopies in some passion pit or lovers’ lane. Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat! Holy moley! We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley, and even a regular guy couldn’t accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China ! 
  
Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when’s the last time anything was swell?   Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pedal pushers. Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here, but he isn’t anymore. 
  
Like Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle and Kurt Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim, we have become unstuck in time. We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, “I’ll be a monkey’s uncle!” or “This is a fine kettle of fish!” we discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards. 
  
Where have all those phrases gone? Long time passing. The milkman did it. Think about the starving Armenians. Bigger than a bread box. Banned in Boston .  The very idea! It’s your nickel. Don’t forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Turn-of-the-century. Iron curtain. Domino theory. Fail safe.  Civil defense. Fiddlesticks! You look like the wreck of the Hesperus.   Cooties. Going like sixty. I’ll see you in the funny papers. Don’t take any wooden nickels. Heavens to Murgatroyd! And awa-a-ay we go!   Oh, my stars and garters! It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter had liver pills.
  
This can be disturbing stuff, this winking out of the words of our youth, these words that lodge in our heart’s deep core. But just as one never steps into the same river twice, one cannot step into the same language twice. Even as one enters, words are swept downstream into the past, forever making a different river. 
  
We, of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeful times. For a child each new word is like a shiny toy, a toy that has no age. We at the other end of the chronological arc have the advantage of remembering there are words that once did not exist and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. It’s one of the greatest advantages of aging.  We can have archaic and eat it, too. 
                         

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Because I fly ... Thx Ramey H!

Because I Fly

Because I fly
I laugh more than other men
I look up an see more than they,
I know how the clouds feel,
What it's like to have the blue in my lap,
to look down on birds,
to feel freedom in a thing called the stick...

who but I can slice between God's billowed legs,
and feel, then laugh, and crash with His step
Who else has seen the unclimbed peaks?
The rainbow's secret?
The real reason birds sing?
Because I Fly,
I envy no man on earth.

— Grover C. Norwood

Investment tips ... Thx Ramey H!

  
Investment tips for 2015

With all the turmoil in the market today and the collapse of Lehman Bros and Acquisition of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America this might be some good advice. For all of you with any money left, be aware of the next expected mergers so that you can get in on the ground floor and make some BIG bucks.

Watch for these consolidations later on this year:

1.) Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W R. Grace Co. Will merge and become:
     Hale, Mary, Fuller, Grace.

2.) Polygram Records, Warner Bros., and Zesta Crackers join forces and become:  Poly, Warner Cracker.

3.) 3M will merge with Goodyear and become:  MMMGood.

4.) Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and Dakota Mining will merge and become:   ZipAudiDoDa.

5.) FedEx is expected to join its competitor, UPS, and become: FedUP.

6.) Fairchild Electronics and Honeywell Computers will become: Fairwell Honeychild.

7.) Grey Poupon and Docker Pants are expected to become: PouponPants.

8.) Knotts Berry Farm and the National Organization of Women will become:  Knott NOW.

  


                 OH, YOU KNOW YOU ARE GOING TO FORWARD THIS ONE!


Look west June 30 for Venus and Jupiter becoming apparent double star

: FW: Venus and Jupiter in the west
Something to share that might be interesting and fun!
Hope you all are having a good Summer!
Marjorie
 The two brightest planets are gliding closer together in the early evening sky, and their celestial dance culminates with an ultra-close pairing on June 30th.
Anyone who pays even cursory attention to the evening sky has surely noticed that the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, have been drawing closer together in the west in the evening twilight. At the beginning of June, the two planets were 20° apart in the sky, about twice the width of your fist held at arm's length. Week by week, Jupiter and the stars behind it have gradually slipped lower in the evening twilight. But Venus, due to its rapid orbital motion around the Sun, has stayed high up.
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Here's the scene overlooking the town of Terrella in Valencia, Spain, as captured on June 20, 2015. Venus is at right and Jupiter above center.This didn't require fancy equipment — just a DSLR camera on a tripod and a zoom lens set to 85 mm.
José J. Chambó Bris
The resulting slow-motion convergence is setting the stage for a dramatic sky sight. The warm-up act came on June 19th and 20th, when the planetary duo was joined by a thin and lovely crescent Moon. Farther to their upper left, and fainter, was Regulus, the alpha star of Leo. (I was texting all my friends: "Go outside. Now. Look west!")
But now the spectacle is taking an even more dramatic turn — one you just can't miss. For eight nights beginning June 27th, these two bright planets will be within 2° of each other — close enough to cover both with the thumb of an outstretched hand. In the midst of that weeklong run, on June 30th, Venus and Jupiter will appear so close together — just 1/3° apart — that they'll look like a tight, brilliant double star in the evening sky. You'll be able to cover both with the tip of an outstretched pinky finger. Amazing stuff!
Surely, this spectacle must be some kind of omen. Well, yes, it's a sign from the heavens to get outside and look! As my S&T colleague Alan MacRobert points out, a spectacular conjunction like this often gets people started in our wonderful pastime. "These planetary groupings in the sky have no effect on Earth or human affairs — except for one," he says. "They can lift our attention away from our own little world into the enormous things beyond. That's what amateur astronomers do all the time."
In early evening on June 30th, all eyes will be on Venus and Jupiter, which create a dramatic "double star" in the western sky after sunset.Sky & Telescope diagram

In early evening on June 30th, all eyes will be on Venus and Jupiter, which create a dramatic "double star" in the western sky after sunset.
Sky & Telescope diagram
In fact, such conjunctions, or close pairings, of these two planets are not particularly rare. The orbit of Venus is tipped just 3.4° with respect to Earth's, Jupiter even less at 1.3°. So these close conjunctions are destined to occur. For example, the two appeared slightly closer together (though not as high up) before dawn last August 18th, and they'll be separated by about 1° before dawn on the morning of October 26th.
Sky & Telescope Contributing Editor Fred Schaaf brings up a very interesting point: this current trio of Venus-Jupiter conjunctions closely resembles a similar series in 3-2 BC that has been suggested as the Star of Bethlehem. "As has been the case in 2014–15," he explains, "the first two conjunctions back then were extremely close, the last one separated by about 1°, all three occurred not far from Regulus, and all were similarly high up in the sky."
Have a telescope or binoculars handy on June 30th. Both planets will crowd into the same telescopic field of view, Venus appearing as a fat crescent and round Jupiter accompanied by its four largest moons. The two planets will appear nearly the same size — but Jupiter, though much larger in reality, is also much farther away. On the 30th Venus is 49 million miles (78 million km) from Earth, and Jupiter is more than 10 times farther out at 564 million miles (908 million km). Their globes will also contrast dramatically in brightness, with Venus's crescent appearing dazzlingly white compared to Jupiter's duller, striped cloud deck.


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