Welcome

Welcome to my blog http://www.skegley.blogspot.com/ . CAVEAT LECTOR- Let the reader beware. This is a Christian Conservative blog. It is not meant to offend anyone. Please feel free to ignore this blog, but also feel free to browse and comment on my posts! You may also scroll down to respond to any post.

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.











Thursday, April 30, 2009

Clay Vice SamKat blog publicist- Profit share

Mr. Vice- otherwise affectionately known to Carol's and Clay's greatly successful softball girls' team members as Clay-O-Clock. They won 93 % of their games and three Ohio State Championships over an eleven year span. I don't care if they were playing the Old Ladies Home, which they weren't, that is terrific.

This blog has had 2403 visitors to date. That is up considerably since you became my publicist a while back.

Now to divvy the income:


Proprietor's share: 0.00

Publicist's share: 0.00

Expenses: Minimal donated by me


Net profit: 0.00


No kidding Clay, your notices have helped and I thank you!

From the Plymale/Brooker knowledge machines

How many of these did you know?














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The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for

Blood plasma.
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No piece of paper can be folded in half

more than seven (7) times. Oh go ahead...I'll wait...
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Donkeys kill more people annually

than plane crashes or shark attacks. (So, watch your Ass )
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You burn more calories sleeping

than you do watching television.
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Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age
or older.
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The first product to have a bar code

was Wrigley's gum.
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The King of Hearts is the only king

WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE
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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive

from each salad served in first-class.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

(Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you ?)
(That women are going the 'right' direction...?)

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Apples, not caffeine,

are more efficient at waking you up in the morning .
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Most dust particles in your house are made from

DEAD SKIN !
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The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.
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Walt Disney was afraid

OF MICE!
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PEARLS DISSOLVE

IN VINEGAR !
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The three most valuable brand names on earth:
Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
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It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...

but, not downstairs.

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A duck's quack doesn't echo,

and no one knows why.
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Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6)
feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the
flush.

(I keep my toothbrush in the living room now !)
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And the best for last....

Turtles can breathe through their butts.
(I know some people like that, don't YOU ?)

So......................





Remember, knowledge is everything, so pass it on...and go move your
toothbrush !!!

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Post-Christian? Not even close. USA Today

I am sorry not to be good at including links in my blog, but I feel that this, the third of a Monday morning series on religion in the USA Today,s 'The Forum' is important in attempting to see what the liberals are feeding us about religion in America. I hope you can obtain and read the link. Some interesting observations. Things from the 2008 ARIS- American Religious Identification Survey.


http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/04/post-christian-not-even-close.html

Jack P. & Keith B emails- P'Town friends

Jack,

I remember Keith Brooker on a Trojan basketball team back in the forties.
He was a good one and you had to be to make the Trojan teams. Some good
players didn't make it but could have played on lesser teams, with fewer
boys to compete againstm in the county.
Many of our school yard players at Highland school would have benefitted by
capable formal coaching which many high schools had then and now. Keith
seemed a quiet fellow, a few years older than me, but I didn't know him
personaly. By the tone of his emails, he has his head on straight. Go
Trojans!

You are wise beyond your young years Jack.

I hope you also remember the Gilmer twins. Bob and Bill were excellent
friends and mentors of mine. They were from your Eighth Street
neighborhood. Each was extremely bright, particularly in electonics. They
worked as engineers for Portsmouth radio stations early on, and Bob was a
supervisor in the Instrument Maintenance Department of Goodyear Atomic for
years. Bob died just recently and Bill, last I knew, still lives in
California.

In another email, Carolyn Lynch (Rowson) recently mentioned that Eddie Hill,
another important and quiet mentor to me, is still living there in
Portsmouth. I hope another, Howard Rase, who operated the Sohio Station at
Hutchins and Seventeenth with his father, is also still among the living. A
little of me dies when any of these wise elders, such as our mutual friend,
Clark Rapalee, passes this life.

God made nothing more interesting than people and our P'Town had, and has,
many of the very best!

I hope that you and Keith don't mind that I copy and paste much of your
stuff in my SamKat blog- www.skegley.blogspot.com.

Sam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack H Plymale"
To: "Sam Kegley"
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:57 AM
Subject: Fwd: Emails from you.......]


> Sam, I've forwarded stuff I have received from Keith before. He is an
> old frat bro from OSU but more importantly an old eighth street
> Portsmouth guy. Freshman at PHS when I was a senior. I haven't seen
> him in 60 years, but you can see that a bunch of friendships stand the
> test of time. He is retired and living in Dallas now.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Keith & Pat Brooker
> Date: Apr 29, 2009 7:48 AM
> Subject: Emails from you.......]
> To:
>
>
>
>
> -----
>
>
> I wake up in the morning ,
> And can hardly wait to see
> If I've received a mailing,
> Addressed from you to me.
>
> I get my 'puter running
> And much to my delight,
> Your poems, jokes and other things
> Come quickly into sight.
>
> Please keep those emails coming,
> They are so enjoyable you see
> Funny things, friendly things
> Those things you mail to me.
>
> But most of all the fun of it,
> Is knowing that they came.
> From you, my friend,
> The one I need not name.
>
>
>
> This is a test of the
> Emergency Friendship System
> Forward it (and to me too I hope)
>
>
> .....a Friend does most
> Or all of these..
>
> (A)ccepts you as you are
> (B)elieves in 'you'
> (C)alls you just to say 'HI'
> (D)oesn't give up on you
>
> (E)nvisions the whole of you (even the unfinished parts)
> (F)orgives your mistakes
> (G)ives unconditionally
> (H)elps you
> (I)nvites you over
>
> (J)ust 'be' with you
> (K)eeps you close at heart
> (L)oves you for who you are
> ( M)akes a difference in your life
>
> (N)ever Judges
> (O)ffers support
> (P)icks you up
> (Q)uiets your fears
> (R)aises your spirits
>
> (S)ays nice things about you
> (T)ells you the truth when you need to hear it
> (U)nderstands y ou
> (V)alues you
>
> (W)alks beside you
> (X)-plains thing you don't understand
> (Y)ells when you won't listen and
> (Z)aps you back to reality
>

Jack Plymale & Keith brooker- Bright lady speaks!

Subject: The Other Side of Racism
To:















This is really powerful..........truly the other side of the coin!







________________________________





Anne Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State
University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's
Hoover Institution. She is a member of the American Sociological
Association and the American Philosophical Association. She has been
a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a
Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal
Opportunity in Higher Education.



In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were
featured in Bill Moyer's television series, "A World of Ideas." The
transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his
book, A World of Ideas.





Dr. Wortham is author of The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical
Study of Black Race Consciousness which analyzes how race
consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy
issues. She has published numerous articles on the implications of
individual rights for civil rights policy, and is currently writing a
book on theories of social and cultural marginality.





Recently, she has published articles on the significance of
multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in education, the politics of
victimization and the social and political impact of political
correctness. Shortly after an interview in 2004 she was awarded
tenure.

No He Can't Either
by Anne Wortham

Fellow Americans,

Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not
vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for
president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not
require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and
that life is worth living. I do not require a black president to love
the ideal of America .

I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is
no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears
of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from
me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of
human flourishing and survival - all that I know about the history of
the United States of America , all that I know about American race
relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I
would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has
come to America . Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my
certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to
serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to
pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a
human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed
of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to
think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million blacks in
this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that blacks
are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by
self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he
doesn't look like them. I would have to wipe my mind clean of all
that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught
Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration - political
intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University
's Kennedy School of Government.

I would have to believe that "fairness" is the equivalent of justice.
I would have to believe that man who asks me to "go forward in a new
spirit of service, in a new service of sa crifice" is speaking in my
interest. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic
prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes
that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I
would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the
masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the
generators of wealth.

Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the
scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park,
Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!" Finally, I would have to
wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits,
journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that
capitalism is dead - and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan,
objected to their assumption that the particular version of the
anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own
version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to
capitalism.

So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have
elected a black man to the office of the president of th e United
States , the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John
Wayne and Jane Fonda is over - and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy
and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And
the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The
self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments
of satisfaction for having elected a black person. So, toast
yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s
bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your
glee Harvard, Princeton , Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You
have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a
black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to -
Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded
your freedom and mine - what little there is left - for the chance to
feel good.

There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Christian Tim Benadum Westerville Ohio

It seems only a few days ago that Tim Benadum was our neighbor who lived on the northeast corner of the easternmost intersection of Electric and Illinois Avenues, here in Westerville. We knew the parents Ted and Maryjean fairly well (both now deceased) and other members of their nuclear family.

Tim served in Mount carmel's Emergency Room a few years before he and his young family went into medical missionary work in Cambodia.

I googled Tim this morning out of curiosity and my respect for Christian miossionaries and found this:

Welcome
Who We Are
Cambodia Facts
Mission and Strategy
Medical Training
Village Clinics
Staff
Latest News
How to Help
Photos
The Future
Staff






















Dr. Tyrone Adcock MD – USA, Obstetrics and Gynecology





Dr. Tim Benadum MD – USA, Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine





Dr. Doug Collins MD – USA, Family Medicine and International Health





Dr. Andres Gugliametti MD - Germany, Surgery and Primary Care





Dr. Eda Kim MD- USA, Primary Care





Dr. Mary Kluck M.B.,B.S., Dip. RACOG– Australia, Emergency Medicine





Dr. Chap Modich MD - Cambodia, Primary Care





Dr. Nuon Sophal (Tam) MD- Cambodia, Primary Care





Anna Kammerdiener MPH - USA, Public Health





Jessica Lemm PharmD - USA, Pharmacy





Samath Socheat - Cambodia, Nursing





Kep Chanlyna - Cambodia, Nursing











Expatriate and National Staff Members
Mercy Medical Center is staffed by missionaries and volunteers from across the globe (including Australia, Germany, and USA), in partnership with Cambodian employees and volunteers. We are a conglomerate of Christian organizations with a heart to love the people of Cambodia through healthcare.

Specialties currently represented by our staff include: Family & Emergency Medicine; Pediatrics & Pediatric Surgery; Women’s Health & Gynecologic Surgery; Public Health; & Dentistry. We also frequently host visiting volunteers specializing in various surgical & internal medicine specialties.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Tom & Carolyn Lynch A special prayer for each of us

This is one of the
Best prayers
I think I have ever read.

PRAY THIS EVEN IF YOU DON'T
FEEL LIKE IT!!
IT WILL ONLY TAKE A MINUTE.


I started not to do this, but as
I read it....
I understood God to say,


'You need a miracle tomorrow'


so here goes....Prov. 29:25









You never know
when God is going to bless you!!
Good things happen when
you least expect them to !!!!!!!!


Change the number in the subject box
when you forward it by adding one!!!




Dear Lord, I thank You for this day,
I thank You for my being able to see
and to hear this morning.
I'm blessed because You are
a forgiving God and
an understanding God.

You have done so much for me
and You keep on blessing me.
Forgive me this day for everything
I have done, said or thought
that was not pleasing to you.



I ask now for Your forgiveness.
Please keep me safe

from all danger and harm.

Help me to start this day
with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude.
Let me make the best of each and every day
to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.

Please broaden my mind
that I can accept all things.
Let me not whine and whimper
over things I have no control over.

And give me the best response
when I'm pushed beyond my limits.



I know that when I can't pray,
You listen to my heart.
Continue to use me to do Your will.
Continue to bless me that I may be
a blessing to others.

Keep me strong that I may help the weak...
Keep me uplifted that I may have
words of encouragement for others.
I pray for those that are lost
and can't find their way.




I pray for those that are misjudged
and misunderstood.
I pray for those who
don't know You intimately..
I pray for those that will delete this
without sharing it with others
I pray for those that don't believe.



But I thank You that I believe
that God changes people and
God changes things.
I pray for all my sisters and brothers.
For each and every family member
in their households.
I pray for peace, love and joy
in their homes; that they are out of debt
and all their needs are met.

I pray that every eye that reads this
knows there is no problem, circumstance,
or situation greater than God.
Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight.


I pray that these words be received
into the hearts of every eye that sees it
in Jesus' name. Amen!



If you prayed this prayer,
change the number in the subject box
before forwarding the message
so people can see how many
other people have done so.

God Bless ! ! ! ! !

Just repeat this phrase and see how God moves!!

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