Auction of Roy Rogers, memoborelia Thanks Jack P and Keith B!

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From: keith brooker

Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 07:26:31 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: Fw: Fwd: Roy Rogers Museum has closed



...  the down town square of Portsmouth, Ohio is “Roy Rogers

Square” I met Roy and Dale in Saigon one morning (1967) at the Rex

Officers Club, Roy is from Duck Run, Ohio, he worked at Selby Shoe in

Portsmouth. The Toyman’s family had a country place where Roy’s

relatives lived there and the uncle ran a country store….



THIS A VERY NICE ARTICLE, THE MUSEUM WAS ORIGINALLY AT Knoxberry Farm

in California.



Toyman, Portsmouth change much in in 70 years? I thought like this



The Roy Rogers Museum has closed its doors forever:



A time in History, never to be seen again, but what a ride it was…….

HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU! THOSE WERE THE DAYS, MY FRIENDS!



The Roy Rogers Museum in Branson , MO has closed its doors forever.

The contents of the museum were sold at a public auction. Roy Rogers

told his son, if the museum ever operates at a loss, close it and sell

the contents. He complied. Note the follow-on article truly the end of

an era.

Here is a partial listing of some of the items that were sold at auction...

Roy's 1964 Bonneville sold for $254,500, it was estimated to sell

between 100 and 150 thousand dollars.



His script book from the January 14, 1953 episode of "This Is Your

Life" sold for $10,000 (est. $800-$1,000).



A collection of signed baseballs (Pete Rose, Duke Snyder and other

greats) sold for $3,750.



A collection of signed bats (Yogi Berra, Enos Slaughter, Bob Feller,

and others) sold for $2,750.



Trigger's saddle and bridle sold for $386,500 (est.100-150 K).



One of many of Roy 's shirts sold for $16,250 and one of his many

cowboy hats sold for $17,500.





One set of boot spurs sold for $10,625. (He never used a set of spurs

on Trigger).



A life size shooting gallery sold for $27,500.



Various chandeliers sold from $6,875 to $20,000. Very unique and

artistic in their western style.



A signed photograph by Don Larsen taken during his perfect game in the

world series against the Dodgers on Oct. 8,1953, along with a signed

baseball to Roy from Don, sold for $2,500.



Two fabulous limited edition BB guns in their original boxes with

numerous photos of Roy, Dale, Gabby, and Pat sold for $3,750.



A collection of memorabilia from his shows entertaining the troops in

Vietnam sold for $938. I never knew he was there. His flight jacket

sold for $7,500.

His set of dinnerware plates and silverware sold for $11,875. The

Bible they used at the dinner table every night sold for $8,750.



One of several of his guitars sold for $27,500.



Nellybelle sold for $116,500.



A fabulous painting of Roy , Dale, Pat, Buttermilk, Trigger, and

Bullet sold for $10,625.



One of several sets of movie posters sold for $18,750.



A black and white photograph of Gene Autry with a touching inscription

from Gene to Roy sold for $17,500.



A Republic Productions Poster bearing many autographs of the people

that played in Roy 's movies sold for $11,875.



Dale's horse, Buttermilk (whose history is very interesting) sold

below the presale estimate for $25,000. (est. 30-40 K).





Bullet sold for $35,000 (est.10-15 K). He was their real pet.



Dale's parade saddle, estimated to sell between 20-30 K, sold for $104,500.



One of many pairs of Roy 's boots sold for $21,250.



Trigger sold for $266,500.



Do you remember the 1938 movie "The Adventures of Robinhood", with

Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland? Well Olivia rode Trigger in that

movie.

Trigger was bred on a farm co-owned by Bing Crosby. Roy bought Trigger

on a time payment plan for $2,500. Roy and Trigger made 188 movies

together. Trigger even out-did Bob Hope by winning an Oscar in the

movie "Son of Paleface" in 1953.



It is extremely sad to see this era lost forever. Despite the fact

that Gene and Roy 's movies, as well as those of other great

characters, can be bought or rented for viewing, today's kids would

rather spend their time playing video games. Today it takes a very

special pair of parents to raise their kids with the right values and

morals. These were the great heroes of our childhood, and they did

teach us right from wrong, and how to have and show respect for each

other and the animals that share this earth.



You and I were born at the right time. We were able to grow up with

these great people even if we never met them. In their own way they

taught us patriotism and honor, we learned that lying and cheating

were bad, and sex wasn't as important as love. We learned how to

suffer through disappointment and failure and work through it. Our

lives were drug free.



So it's good-bye to Roy and Dale, Gene and Hoppy, The Lone Ranger and

Tonto. Farewell to Sky King and Superman and Sgt. Friday. Thanks to

Capt. Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers and Capt. Noah and all those people whose

lives touched ours, and made them better.





It was a great ride through childhood.

HAPPY TRAILS MY FRIENDS


Jack P.

o and auchwitz - 1967 Israeli borders -Netanyahu- NO!

WAR ON YOU FORUMS

Pat Anderson

Moderator

Hero Member


In Response to Obama, Israeli Settlers Reject the ‘Auschwitz Borders’ of 1967



By ROBERT MACKEY and ELIZABETH A. HARRIS



New York Times
May 19, 2011

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/israeli-settlers-reject-the-auschwitz-borders/?partner=rss&emc=rss



The editors of Arutz Sheva, an Israeli settler news organization...reported on Thursday that Mr. Obama had “dramatically changed U.S. foreign policy” by suggesting that Israel should eventually withdraw to what the settlers called the “Auschwitz borders” of the 1967 state.



That resonant phrase, which suggests that Israelis would face genocide should they withdraw fully from the land they have occupied since the end of the 1967 war, is based on a mangled version of a remark made by the Israeli diplomat Abba Eban in 1969. According to Haaretz, Mr. Eban told the German newsweekly Der Spiegel in that year: “We have openly said that the map will never again be the same as on June 4, 1967. For us, this is a matter of security and of principles. The June map is for us equivalent to insecurity and danger. I do not exaggerate when I say that it has for us something of a memory of Auschwitz.”



Israeli leaders have frequently used some version of this phrase to invoke the existential dread of the Holocaust when pressed to withdraw from the occupied territories as part of a peace agreement.

In 2002, Ariel Sharon told William Safire that a proposed Saudi peace plan was unacceptable because, “Israel cannot return to the ‘67 borders. Abba Eban long ago called them ‘Auschwitz borders’; Israel would not be able to exist.

”

A decade earlier, when another Israeli leader, Yitzhak Shamir, expressed his outrage when the administration of President George H. W. Bush called for a freeze on Jewish settlements in the occupied territories — in exchange for $10 billion in American loan guarantees — The Times reported that a senior official in the prime minister’s office, a young Benjamin Netanyahu, complained that Israel was being asked to accept, “the borders of Auschwitz.” (End quote from the New York Times)



From the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, May 18, 2011:



"Israel makes capital out of the six million to justify policies of destruction and expulsion not just in the past, but in the present and future. As the state which claims to be the heir of the Holocaust martyrs, Israel crowns itself as the winner in the global, historical competition of victimhood." --Amira Hass (end quote)



Auschwitz! Auschwitz! Auschwitz! Why this Eternal Mantra?



By Michael Hoffman



Holocaustomania, the perpetual Auschwitz of the mind, raises its morbid, tiresome, head again and again and again. Outside of the edifices of Churchianity, the eternal Auschwitz mantra finds its most fertile soil among the gentiles of the Republican party and Fox network television news, who are forever telling Medicaire and Social Security recipients, African-Americans and any U.S. worker who has lost a job to "Free trade" -- "Stop your whining and your sense of entitlement and get over it!"



But when the Zionists trot out their Auschwitz idol, and their pain, and their entitlement, and their whining - not only have they not "gotten over it” after 67 years, they've made a formal religion (“Shoah”) out of it -- then it's okay; indeed, more than okay -- just observe the Republican right wing automatically genuflect in pious, tearful, humble obeisance when any Judaic shouts "Auschwitz!"



The American right wing never tires of Auschwitz. Dresden February '45, Nagasaki August '45, Beirut August '82, Gaza January '09 and dozens of other cities holocausted by the noble Allies, or the holy "Jewish state," don't count or qualify as mantras of victimhood. The German, Japanese and Arab victims of those holocausts are expected to shut up, forever. They are not entitled to the same victim status.



Why? Because Germans, Japanese and Arabs don't have souls equal to that of the "Jews" who, their holy books inform them, possess the highest soul, the "Neshama HaElyonah," which gentiles do not possess. And now you know why the cry of "Auschwitz!" drowns out the invocation of every other holocaust.



What is lost in the scramble to validate Judaic whining and entitlement, is the fact that Palestinians must have the 1967 borders for their future state because without them they will have "Gaza borders" and die like flies, as fifteen hundred of them did in Gaza, at the hands of the Israeli army and air force, from December, 2008 through January, 2009.



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We always know, we always know, which is the right way to go, and which is the wrong way to go. Sometimes, the wrong way is easier to go, or more satisfying, and so we choose that way instead of the right one and we justify it with complicated wordplay and such; but we are only kidding ourselves.– Bill Cooper





Quote from: Raven on December 22, 2010, 08:14:21 PM

I stated it before and I will again, people who think within the parameters given to them or familiar to them are not being realistic. There are no parameters in real life. Our enemies outsmart folks all the time because they have no restrictions or morals. They are the pragmatists from hell.



I firmly believe and I live my life according to this: that I owe my first allegiance to my God and Jesus Christ, my second allegiance I owe to the Constitution of the United States of America and my third allegiance to my family. And the reason my allegiance is in that order is because God endowed man with unalienable rights. The Constitution protects those rights, and the family is thus able to survive and be protected and thrive. And the family is the basic unit of civilization, period. And I further believe that any man or woman without principles that they are ready and willing to die for at any given moment that they are called upon to do it, are already dead and are of no use or consequence to anyone -- not even themselves. Understand what I just said. -Bill Cooper



My blog: Deceived World

A poem worth reading... Thanks Sarah Rapp!

Subject: Fw: A Poem Worth Reading







Maybe this is your grandpa, your Dad, or your husband, a friend ,or you! Something to think about







A Poem Worth Reading



He was getting old and paunchy

And his hair was falling fast,

And he sat around the Legion,

Telling stories of the past.



Of a war that he once fought in

And the deeds that he had done,

In his exploits with his buddies;

They were heroes, every one.



And 'tho sometimes to his neighbors

His tales became a joke,

All his buddies listened quietly

For they knew where of he spoke.



But we'll hear his tales no longer,

For ol' Bob has passed away,

And the world's a little poorer

For a Soldier died today.



He won't be mourned by many,

Just his children and his wife.

For he lived an ordinary,

Very quiet sort of life.



He held a job and raised a family,

Going quietly on his way;

And the world won't note his passing,

'Tho a Soldier died today.



When politicians leave this earth,

Their bodies lie in state,

While thousands note their passing,

And proclaim that they were great.



Papers tell of their life stories

From the time that they were young

But the passing of a Soldier

Goes unnoticed, and unsung.



Is the greatest contribution

To the welfare of our land,

Some jerk who breaks his promise

And cons his fellow man?



Or the ordinary fellow

Who in times of war and strife,

Goes off to serve his country

And offers up his life?



The politician's stipend

And the style in which he lives,

Are often disproportionate,

To the service that he gives.



While the ordinary Soldier,

Who offered up his all,

Is paid off with a medal

And perhaps a pension, small.



It is not the politicians

With their compromise and ploys,

Who won for us the freedom

That our country now enjoys.



Should you find yourself in danger,

With your enemies at hand,

Would you really want some cop-out,

With his ever waffling stand?



Or would you want a Soldier--

His home, his country, his kin,

Just a common Soldier,

Who would fight until the end.



He was just a common Soldier,

And his ranks are growing thin,

But his presence should remind us

We may need his like again.



For when countries are in conflict,

We find the Soldier's part

Is to clean up all the troubles

That the politicians start.



If we cannot do him honor

While he's here to hear the praise,

Then at least let's give him homage

At the ending of his days.



Perhaps just a simple headline

In the paper that might say:

"OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING,

A SOLDIER DIED TODAY."





Pass On The Patriotism!

YOU can make a difference

FW- Looking forward to old age... Thanks Judi Cole!

Subject: Looking Forward To Old Age ?
















"Sixty is the worst age to be," said the 60-year-old,







"You always feel like you have to pee. And most of the time nothing happens."







"Ah, that's nothing," said the 70-year-old.







"When you're 70, you don't have a bowel movement anymore. You take laxatives, eat bran, you sit on the toilet all day and nothing happens."







"Actually," said the 80-year-old,







"Eighty is the worst age of all."







"Do you have trouble peeing too?" asked the 60-year-old.







"No, I pee every morning at 6.00. I pee like a racehorse; no problem at all."







"Do you have trouble having a bowel movement?" asked the 70-year-old.







"No, I have one every morning at 6.30."







Puzzled, the 60-year-old said,







"Let's get this straight. You pee every morning at 6.00 and poop every morning at 6.30. So what's so tough about being 80?"



"I don't wake up until seven!!!!."

More good of Jim Fout by his good friend Jack P.

Sam, Just talked with our buddy, Jim Fout. He reports that all is well. He feels good. spirits are up. He is getting around well. certainly ebulent(Sp.) I thank the giver of all" good and perfect gifts" and appreciate your intercession with the almighty.The son-of-a-gun is already planning his first tennis match. I told him that if he died before I did, I'd never forgive him. Thanks again Sam. Jack P.

Tomorrow world ending Thanks Bob Looney!

Well, are you going to be around tomorrow?


According to Harold Camping, of Family Radio,

there is a chance you might not. Harold and

his followers believe that the world is going

to come to an end on May 21 2011. He is the one

who put up all those bulletin boards announcing

that the world was going to end soon. This is not

the first time he has predicted that the end is

near. So, are you prepared? heheh. I figure

this is a good time to call my creditors. "Hey

the check is NOT in the mail. Harold says everything

will stop tomorrow. So you won't need the money."

Wonder how well that would work?

Go figger.

Butler coach says faith is something to practice not preach.

This is from a Kentucky Sports Radio link today.  Obviously, I like it!  Our great minister friend, Myron Taylor (retired in LA), is a Butler graduate who preached these things.



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Butler coach believes faith is something to practice, not preach



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The Rev. Kent Millard of St. Luke's United Methodist Church greets Brad Stevens before the coach's remarks at Sunday services. Stevens spoke April 10 as part of his church's capital campaign. / Charlie Nye / The StarTwitterFacebookShare

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When Tony Dungy coached the Indianapolis Colts to a Super Bowl win in 2007, he used the winner's podium almost as a pulpit.



He talked about the detours on which the Lord had taken his team, about being a Christian coach and winning while doing it "the Lord's way."



That's not Butler University's Brad Stevens, the city's newest coaching icon, the guy who has led his basketball team to the NCAA Championship Game the past two years.



Stevens -- who says he considers himself "about one-millionth" the person Dungy is in terms of character -- has always thought faith should be something that's lived out, rather than talked up. And, at 34, he feels like he's someone who still has a lot of personal growth ahead of him.



"I've always said that part of growth is just doing it every day," Stevens said in a recent interview about the faith that underlies his coaching and his life.



"Don't talk about it. Do it. Be it."



As Stevens' and his team's successes mounted, fans and media observers began to look beyond his mastery of X's and O's to his focus.



They began to wonder how such a young coach could seem so content at a small school, even though bigger paychecks lay elsewhere. And they wrote of his unflappability, even in tight spots.



Stevens talked about being happy at Butler and about the school's values, which have come to be known as The Butler Way -- selflessness, hard work, servanthood and humility.



But he never inserted his personal faith into the conversation.



Growing up attending Zionsville United Methodist Church, Stevens said, the most profound influence on his faith wasn't a sermon or a church service. It was a weeklong youth mission trip to Texas and Louisiana.



"I don't think we did anything earth-shattering, to be honest," he said. "We got a lot more out of it than any of the physical or manual labor that we did for somebody else."



Stevens found the work to be inspiring. But, he said, he realized the challenge was to continue to make a difference after returning home.



Stevens and his wife, Tracy, have actively supported the American Cancer Society, including hosting a basketball tournament last week at Butler. And they have financially supported the Interfaith Hunger Initiative, which feeds hungry children locally and in Africa.



But both say they need to do more.



"We have a sense," Tracy said, "that to whom much is given, much is expected."



Agreeing on a church was no easy task for the two of them. Brad was Methodist. Tracy was Catholic.



As marriage looked more certain, they tried several churches on for size -- Lutheran, Episcopal, Methodist, Catholic. Eventually, they came to St. Luke's United Methodist, a Northside church that's one of the city's largest, and they just wanted to go back.



"We had some pretty heated discussions about what our faith would look like," Tracy said. "Looking back, I'm really proud of the way we handled it."



Stevens said he considers the values that underpin the Butler basketball program to be "faith-based in their origin." But when it comes to faith and his players, Stevens said, "I don't think we preach, but we support."



Player Ronald Nored, the son of an African Methodist Episcopal minister, said he has exchanged Bible verses with Stevens a few times. But he says his coach is hesitant to bring such things to the team. Even so, the example Stevens sets as a coach, father and husband has made an impression.



Said Nored, "I think he is the most genuine person I have ever met in my life -- ever."



In that sense, Stevens is just being true to his faith, said Judith Cebula, director of Butler's Center for Faith and Vocation.



"He is a classic Indiana United Methodist," Cebula said. "He is steadfast in his religious practice. He is very quiet about his religious practice. He doesn't wear it on his sleeve. He does not need to speak about it in any specific or overt ways. He lives it."



Cebula, a former religion writer at The Indianapolis Star, became acquainted with Stevens' faith story on one of those rare occasions when he spoke about the subject -- at an event her center held for incoming Butler students last fall.



The religious references, she said, were very sparse.



Instead, Stevens talked about values shared among people of many faiths.



His mode of operation -- having a faith but not trumpeting it -- contrasts with a sports faith culture in which baseball hitters cross themselves before every pitch, football players kneel in the end zone for touchdown prayers, and basketball players begin postgame interviews by "giving the glory to God."



That's not who Stevens is, and that's not a very Methodist way of doing things, said his pastor at St. Luke's, the Rev. Kent Millard.



"One of the things is humility -- you don't boast about your faith," Millard said. "You don't talk about it. You don't wear it on your sleeve. You live it out in your life."



Although members of the media covering Butler failed to get a fix on Stevens' faith, they saw something in him they seemed to like.



The Washington Post described him as "uncontroversial, unjaded, unimpressed by the fame of his peers." USA Today called him "the rare mid-level coach at the mid-level basketball program who can't be bought." The Chicago Sun-Times said Stevens was the "angelic" coach of "the squeaky-clean collection of players from Do-Gooder U."



And just before this latest championship game, a Philadelphia Daily News sportswriter wrote that "Brad Stevens is Clark Kent. He is mild-mannered. He is intelligent. He clearly has superpowers. He just does not take off his suit to prove it."



Although it originally had ties to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Butler is a secular school. Nevertheless, Butler athletic director Barry Collier, a prime architect of The Butler Way, says it would be "a showstopper" if a coaching candidate came up empty in the values department.



Like Stevens, Collier -- who attends East 91st Street Christian Church -- is reluctant to get too specific in stamping The Butler Way with a Christian seal. Instead, he says: "Those principles have been around for a long time. And it doesn't take long in my mind to find out where they came from. There is a good book where they came from."



Such an attitude, Stevens said, is necessary because Butler is a diverse campus.



As for the heaps of praise from national media, Stevens seems to find it uncomfortable. The same goes for when Collier said Butler's achievements "were good for America." Or when Gov. Mitch Daniels said Stevens and the team were "the best advertisement Indiana ever had."



"If we are playing and living and working up to all our standards," Stevens said, "that's all we care about."



Stevens also is aware that people can fail.



"We've got 18- to 22-year-old guys. They're not perfect, they're in college. Their coaches aren't perfect," he said. "At the end of the day, it's all fragile."



In the end, Stevens said, basketball is like life: There are good runs and bad ones. But he says it's not so much about the wins and losses -- he doesn't know where his NCAA tournament rings are; he's lost track of the nets his winning teams have clipped -- as about the journey.



"If you win or if you lose, it's not going to matter as much as the relationships," he said.



"And the result is not going to matter as much as the lessons."



Call Star reporter Robert King at (317) 444-6089.