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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.











Friday, September 6, 2013

The butler form another planet ... Thx Pat A & Lyle S!


 
Subject: The Butler from Another Planet - Michael Reagan -
 

 


Interesting comment from President Reagan's own son about Hollywood's production, "The Butler" by   Michael Reagan!  AAAAHHHHH Hollywood, !!!  or should it be UUGGGHHH Hollywood again? 
8/22/2013 8:57:00 AM - Michael Reagan
There you go again, Hollywood.
You’ve taken a great story about a real person and real events and twisted it into a bunch of lies.
You took the true story of Eugene Allen, the White House butler who served eight presidents from 1952 to 1986, and turned it into a clichéd “message movie.”
“Lee Daniels’ The Butler’” stars Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, a fictional character supposedly based on Eugene Allen’s real life.
But let’s compare the two White House butlers.
Guess which one grew up in segregated Virginia, got a job at the White House and rose to become maître d’hôtel, the highest position in White House service?
Guess which one had a happy, quiet life and was married to the same woman for 65 years? And who had one son who served honorably in Vietnam and never made a peep of protest through the pre- and post-civil rights era?
Now guess which butler grew up on a Georgia farm, watched the boss rape his mother and then, when his father protested the rape, watched the boss put a bullet through his father’s head?
Guess which butler feels the pain of America’s racial injustices so deeply that he quits his White House job and joins his son in a protest movement?
And guess which butler has a wife (Oprah Winfrey) who becomes an alcoholic and has a cheap affair with the guy next door? (I’m surprised it wasn’t the vice president.)
After comparing Hollywood’s absurd version of Eugene Allen’s life story with the truth, you wonder why the producers didn’t just call it “The Butler from Another Planet.”
Screenwriter Danny Strong says he was trying to present a “backstage kind of view of the White House” that portrayed presidents and first ladies as they really were in everyday life.
Well, I was backstage at the White House -- a few hundred times. I met and knew the real butler, Mr. Allen, and I knew a little about my father.
Portraying Ronald Reagan as a racist because he was in favor of lifting economic sanctions against South Africa is simplistic and dishonest.
If you knew my father, you’d know he was the last person on Earth you would call a racist.
If Strong had gotten his “facts” from the Reagan biographies, he’d have learned that when my father was playing football at Eureka College one of his best friends was a black teammate.
Strong also would have learned that my father invited black players home for dinner and once, when two players were not allowed to stay in the local hotel, he invited them to stay overnight at his house.
Screenwriter Strong also might have found out that when my father was governor of California he appointed more blacks to positions of power than any of predecessors -- combined.
It’s appalling to me that someone is trying to imply my father was a racist. He and Nancy and the rest of the Reagan family treated Mr. Allen with the utmost respect.
It was Nancy Reagan who invited the butler to dinner – not to work but as guest. And it was my father who promoted Mr. Allen to maître d’hôtel.
The real story of the White House butler doesn’t imply racism at all. It’s simply Hollywood liberals wanting to believe something about my father that was never there.
My father’s position on lifting the South African sanctions in the ‘80s had nothing to do with the narrow issue of race. It had to do with the geopolitics of the Cold War.
But facts don’t matter to Hollywood’s creative propagandists. Truth is too complicated and not dramatic enough for scriptwriters, who think in minute terms, not the big picture, when it comes to a conservative.
Despite what Hollywood’s liberal hacks believe, my father didn’t see people in colors. He saw them as individual Americans. If the liberals in Hollywood -- and Washington -- ever start looking at people the way he did, the country will be a lot better off.
 

National Anthem backlash from a Marine ... Thx Sarah R!

AMEN TO THIS
 
 
 
  
With the start of the NFL season, perhaps all team owners should be sent the following:
 
 From a Marine Corps Colonel in Afghanistan .

"So with all the kindness I can muster, I give this one piece of advice to the
next pop star who is asked to sing the national anthem at a sporting
event: save the vocal gymnastics and the physical gyrations for your
concerts. Just sing this song the way you were taught to sing it in
kindergarten - straight up, no styling.

"Sing it with the constant awareness that there are soldiers, sailors, airmen and
Marines watching you from bases and outposts all over the world.
Don't make them cringe with your self-centered ego gratification.
Sing it as if you are standing before a row of 86-year-old WWII vets
wearing their Purple Hearts, Silver Stars and flag pins on their cardigans
and you want them to be proud of you for honoring them and the country
they love - not because you want them to think you are a superstar musician.
 
They could see that from your costume, makeup and your entourage.

Sing 'The Star Spangled Banner' with the courtesy and humility
that tells the audience that it is about America, not you.
 
And please remember, not everything has to be sung as a Negro spiritual.
We're getting a little weary of that.

Francis Scott Key does not need any help."
 
Semper Fi

No support for obama ... Thx Pidge F!





















Carol Vice update by her husband, Clay



SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW THIS, SOME MAY NOT. THIS IS A UP-DATE ON MY WIFE CAROL.


CAROL HAD A DOUBLE MASTECTOMY ON TUE. OPERATION WENT WELL BUT HEMOGLOBIN IS LOW AND HAS HAD 2 UNITS OF BLOOD SO FAR, NORMAL IS 12 TO 18 AND HERS HAS DROP TO 6.9. THE FIRST UNIT GOT IT UP TO 7.7. I AM TRYING TO GET THE MEDICARE TO LET US ENTER HER IN TO HOSPITAL REHAB UNIT AND IT IS BEING WORKED ON. A THERAPIST CAME IN YESTERDAY TO EVALUATE HER. THEY REMOVED THE AUTOMATIC PAIN KILLERS YESTERDAY AND SHE SAID SHE FELT OK WITH OUT THEM, SHE CAN HAVE PAIN KILLER BY MOUTH IF NEEDED. THANKS FOR ASKING, I WILL TELL CAROL THAT YOU HAVE MADE CONTACT ABOUT HER.
                                                                                                       C.V.    

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