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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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Monday, January 5, 2015

Coach Cal's radio call-in show 6PM on WLAP Lexington Mondays

Coach Cal's radio show is always entertaining for us crazy Cat Fans.  I particularly enjoyed Randall of Fairdale callikng in and reminding Cal of a comment he made a few years ago.  He met with the team before the seasion and asked ecah player to say how many points he averaged in High School.  He had numbers like 32, 33, 37, etc.  They totaled the individual scoring and you told them:  You realize we won't average 175 points a game.    Great eye-opening for high school starts coming into college.

Cal said this team would have to average around 250 a game at the individuals' averages.  Great eys-openers for all of us crazies!

SamKat  aka Sam Kegley

Staten Island - Garner ... Thanks Judi C!



It turns out that almost everything bleated out by the race-mongers and the low-information media about the Eric Garner tragedy has turned out to be wrong.

Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six, is dead. This is a tragedy, regardless of the circumstances. We rightly mourn with his wife and children. They will never see their husband and father again, and that should break everyone's heart.

When we witness a gut-rending tragedy like this, we want to know who is responsible. Who is to blame for depriving this family of its husband and father? As the facts emerge, it becomes increasingly clear that, as tragic as this situation is, in the end the culpability for Eric Garner's death rests with Eric Garner.

To put it as simply as possible, if Mr. Garner had not broken the law and then resisted arrest, he would be alive today.

While protesters are trying to make this about race, it must be noted that the police showed up in response to complaints from black business owners. The arrest was ordered by a black officer, and the arrest itself was supervised by a black officer, a female sergeant.

A crackdown on the sale of illegal, untaxed cigarettes - called "loosies" since they are sold in singles rather than in packs - had been ordered just days before Garner's arrest by the highest ranking black police officer in the NYPD, Philip Banks.

So a black officer ordered the crackdown, black business owners called for the arrest, a black officer ordered the arrest, and a black officer supervised the arrest itself. It's also worth noting that the 23-member grand jury which refused to indict the arresting officer included nine non-white members. Ask yourself how many of those facts you have heard from any member of the race-obsessed, low-information media.

Garner had been arrested 31 times, and eight of those had been for selling loosies. His rap sheet goes back decades and includes arrests for assault and grand larceny.

At the time of his death, Garner was out on bail after being charged with multiple offenses, including illegal sale of cigarettes, marijuana possession, false impersonation and driving without a license.

So he certainly knew the law, knew he was in violation, and knew doing it again would likely lead to his arrest, a drill he'd been through dozens of times before.

There were 228,000 misdemeanor arrests in New York City in 2013, the last year for which figures are available. All of them put together led to precisely zero deaths.

Garner, all six-foot, three inches and 350 pounds of him, clearly resisted arrest, swatting away the arresting officer's hands while loudly exclaiming, "Don't touch me!" After he was taken to the ground, he growled, "This ends here!" That could be taken any number of ways, but in the heat of the moment it certainly could be read reasonably as a declaration that he was going to fight arrest until he was subdued by compelling force.

The patrolman who wrestled Garner to the ground, Daniel Pantaleo, did it by the book, using a takedown maneuver every policeman is taught at the academy. He did not, in fact, use a chokehold, which is defined by the NYPD as "any pressure to the throat or windpipe, which may prevent or hinder breathing or reduce intake of air." Now Garner was clearly able to breathe, since that's the only way he could repeatedly say, "I can't breathe."

The autopsy explicitly declares that there was no injury to Garner's windpipe or to his neck bones. This was a wrestler's headlock, not a chokehold. (As a sidenote, chokeholds, while contrary to police policy, are not in fact illegal in the state of New York when an officer uses one to restrain a resisting subject. They are not even illegal in New York City, at the insistence of liberal mayor Bill DeBlasio.) Patrolman Pantaleo was not indicted for the simple reason that he did nothing wrong.

Garner's death likely should be attributed to the fact that he himself suffered from severe asthma, something the arresting officers had no reason to know. According to Garner's friends, his asthma was severe enough that he was forced to quit his job as horticulturist for the city. He wheezed when he talked and could not walk so much as a city block without having to stop to rest. Garner "couldn't breathe" because of his asthma, not because of a chokehold.

In addition, he suffered from heart disease, advanced diabetes, hypertension, obesity and sleep apnea. Contrary to public perception, he did not die on site, nor did he die of asphyxiation. He suffered cardiac arrest in the ambulance and was declared dead about an hour later at the hospital.

So it turns out that almost everything bleated out by the race-mongers and the low-information media has turned out to be wrong. As the wisest man who ever lived wrote 3,000 years ago, "The one who states his case first seems right until the other comes and examines him" (Proverbs 18:17).

Eric Garner and Michael Brown both fought the law, and the law won. In the end, they have no one to blame but themselves.

New York Post columnist Bob McMcanus concluded his column on Eric Garner this way:

"There are many New Yorkers - politicians, activists, trial lawyers, all the usual suspects - who will now seek to profit from a tragedy that wouldn't have happened had Eric Garner made a different decision.

"He was a victim of himself. It's just that simple."

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Where  did "piss poor" come from?

If  you're young and hip, this is  still interesting.

NOW  THIS IS A REAL  EDUCATION  
     
Us  older  people need to learn  something new every day...

Just  to keep the grey matter tuned up.

Where  did "Piss Poor" come from? Interesting Story.

They  used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot.

And  then once it was full it was taken and sold to the tannery...

If  you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor".
But  worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a  pot...

They  "didn't have a pot to piss in" and were the lowest of the low.

The  next time you are washing your hands and complain because the  water  temperature
Isn't  just how you like it, think about how things used to be.

Here are some facts about the 1500's

Most  people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May,

And they still smelled pretty good by June.. However,  since they were starting to  smell,
Brides  carried a bouquet of  flowers to hide the body odor.

Hence  the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.

The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water,

Then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children.

Last of all the babies.

By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.
Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water!"

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath.

It  was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals  (mice,  bugs) lived in the roof.

When  it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off  the  roof.
Hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs."
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.

This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings Could  mess  up your nice clean bed.

Hence,  a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection.

That's  how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.

Hence  the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery  In  the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help  keep their footing..

As  the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, It  would  all start slipping outside.  A piece of wood was placed in the  entrance-way.
Hence:  a threshold.

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over  the fire.

Every day they lit the fire and added  things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables  and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner,  leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day.

Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while.

Hence  the rhyme:

“Peas  porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old."
Sometimes  they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.

When  visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off.   

  It    was  a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon."

They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the  fat.

Those with money had plates made of pewter.

Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing  lead  poisoning death.

This  happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were  considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status..

Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle,

And guests got the top, or the upper crust.

Lead  cups were used to drink ale or whisky.
The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days..
Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.
They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather  around
and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up.

Hence the custom; “holding a wake."

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people.

So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave.

When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on  the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.

Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift) to listen  for the bell; thus, someone could be,
“saved by the bell" or was "considered a dead ringer."

And that's the truth.

Now,  whoever said history was boring!!!

So get out there and educate someone!
Share these facts with a friend.
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering,
"What the heck happened?"
We'll be friends until we are old and senile.
Then we'll be new friends.

Smile,  it gives your face something to do!

Street side of Michael Brown ... Thx Ramey H!

Parenting in the Animal Kingdom ... Thx Ramey H!

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