Saturday, June 27, 2015

Bug-A-Salt

Makes a wonderful gift for the Roman Catholic Man in your life . . .

Special Ops Forces S.E.A.L. Team 6 is ready for the next objective … “Satan Exorcised And Liquidated” (S.E.A.L.).

These Bug-A-Salt Guns are AWESOME!!! Let’s do this!!!



That didn't take very long!

Well, that sure didn’t take very long to happen!

It’s Time to Legalize Polygamy
Why group marriage is the next horizon of social liberalism.
By FREDRIK DEBOER
June 26, 2015


Conventional arguments against polygamy fall apart with even a little examination. Appeals to traditional marriage, and the notion that child rearing is the only legitimate justification of legal marriage, have now, I hope, been exposed and discarded by all progressive people. What’s left is a series of jerry-rigged arguments that reflect no coherent moral vision of what marriage is for, and which frequently function as criticisms of traditional marriage as well.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/gay-marriage-decision-polygamy-119469.html#ixzz3eH8yNSoQ

Why June 26 is a Holy Day For Homosexuals

Who is Joshua Matz?
June 26: A Day That Will Live in Infamy
Persecution is coming — and it's been abetted by traitorous Catholics
The High Court voted in a sweeping broad-based decision that sodomite marriage is a constitutional right. The vote went as largely expected in a 5–4 ruling where Catholic Justice Anthony Kennedy, a long time ally for homosexual rights, equated the struggle for sodomite marriage to the civil rights battle for blacks in the 1960s.
In a giant step going even further, Kennedy also addressed the issue of the children of homosexual couples, saying they had a right not to be humiliated by their parents not being legally recognized as married.
Reports from various gay and gay-friendly media are saying that the fix has been on this for quite some time, even down to the day of the decision being released. Earlier in the week, the Court announced it was adding Friday, June 26, to what are called “hand-down” days, referring to days on which decisions are handed down. That is somewhat unusual because decisions are not generally handed down on Fridays.
However, this Friday happens to be June 26 — a very significant date for the synergy between the homofascist movement and the courts. The New York Times recently reported that Justice Kennedy has a homosexual law clerk this term. His name is Joshua Matz. Matz wrote a law review article a couple of years back called "The Constitutional Inevitability of Same-Sex Marriage." It would not be beyond the realm of possibility that Matz let his boss know that June 26th is a virtual holy day in the gay culture.
The decision coming down today on June 26 makes this date the day of decision for three of Justice Kennedy’s four big gay cases, all favorable to homofascists — Lawrence, Windsor and Obergefell —Obergefell of course being today's decision — all of them being decided on June 26 in various years. A fourth case was decided on another date.
Writing the majority opinion in this case virtually enshrines Justice Kennedy — one of six Catholics on the Court — as the one single individual most responsible for the advancement of sodomy being institutionalized in the United States. In fact, the case could be made — owing to America's power and prestige — the one individual most responsible for the enshrining of homosexuality in history.
Kennedy represents, personifies all that has gone wrong in the Catholic Church in America these past decades.
Another justice, Sonia Sotomayor, is also a baptized Catholic, but she was seated on the bench by Obama and is largely rumored to be a lesbian, or at least extremely friendly to the cause. Kennedy, however, is a Reagan appointee and had been the hope of many solid Catholics back in the day to be the one to stop — or at least slow — the aggressive push in U.S. courts for immorality.
At this day and time, perhaps no man on earth more personifies the line from the Psalms: "Do not put your trust in princes."
It is worth pausing here and noting that the continual slide into Hell of America has been aided and abetted and in many cases even led by traitorous Catholics — some of them lay people, others clerics. Doctor John Rock, a Catholic, invented the birth control pill. Ted Kennedy, even from his death bed, championed Obamacare with its contraceptive mandate and abortion funding. Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Kathleen Sebelius and a host of others from the Catholic Rogues Gallery have all turned traitor.
It is established tradition now that among powerful or influential American Catholics that they abandon the Faith and give themselves over to Lucifer, the most recent of which is Anthony Kennedy. With this diabolical victory now in hand, faithful Catholics should now see the hand-writing on the wall. It has never been enough for the homofascist movement to just achieve equality. Advocates want those who disagree forced to submit and sign off and give their approval to homosexuality as a natural good. This decision will be used to force that issue in areas of employment, commerce, education, health care, courts, even religious institutions.
Catholics should not see this as an end. It is now just the beginning. Be prepared for the persecution that will come — because it will surely come.



Subjects not Citizens

The Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) ruled this week that you white people have “unconscious racism” and don’t have enough minorities in your communities.  So, groups may now sue based on population statistics instead of the previous standard of having to show personal injury.    Obama will now proceed with his plans to have HUD create low income housing in “wealthy communities” which means suburbs.  Of course, this will not apply to areas where Hillary lives or the Kennedy family lives, or where supreme court justices live.

Following Obama’s example, SCOTUS took legislative powers away from Congress and ruled this week that the letter of the law (exchanges created by the states) does not mean what it says.

Also following Obama’s example, SCOTUS took power away from the 50 states and ruled that the states no longer have the power to make laws about marriage, and that the federal government gets to define marriage and punishments for those who refuse to embrace and celebrate sodomy.  

So, you are no longer a citizen of your state but a mere subject of the federal government.

How much of this tyranny will President Trump be able to undo?


Sic Semper Tyrannus!

Birthday Song

As you know, this song is used to teach children how to sing – as Julie Andrews teaches the children in “The Sound of Music.”

Ut queant laxis is a Latin hymn in honor of John the Baptist written in Horatian Sapphics[1] and traditionally attributed to Paulus Diaconus, the eighth century Lombard historian. It is famous for its part in the history of musical notation, in particular solmization. The hymn is sung to a Gregorian chant, the original "do-re-mi" music.

The chant is useful for teaching singing because of the way it uses successive notes of the scale, ut (replaced in modern solfège by do)–re–mi–fa–so–la. The first six musical phrases of each stanza of the hymn begin on a successively higher notes of the hexachord. The naming of the notes of the hexachord by the first syllable of each hemistich (half line of verse) of the first verse is usually attributed to Guido of Arezzo. Guido, who was active in the eleventh century, is regarded as the father of modern musical notation. The hymn does not help with the seventh tone as the last line, Sancte Iohannes, breaks the ascending pattern. The syllable "si", for the seventh tone, was added in the 18th century.

St. John’s Birthday Song:
or

Ut Queant Laxis

Ut queant laxis resonare fibris
Mira gestorum famuli tuorum,
Solve polluti labiis reatum,
Sancte Joannes.
Nuntius celso veniens Olympo,
te patri magnum fore nasciturum,
nomen, et vitae seriem gerendae,
ordine promit.
Ille promissi dubius superni
perdidit promptae modulos loquelae;
sed reformasti genitus peremptae
organa vocis.
Ventris obstruso recubans cubili,
senseras Regem thalamo manentem:
hinc parens nati, meritis uterque, 
abdita pandit.
Sit decus Patri, genitaeque Proli
et tibi, compar utriusque virtus,
Spiritus semper, Deus unus,
omni temporis aevo. Amen


English translation:
So that these your servants can, with all their voices, to sing your wonderful feats, clean the blemish of our spotted lips. O Saint John!
An angel came from the heavens to announce to your father the greatness of your birth, dictating your name and destination.
He (Zacarias) doubted these divine promises and was deprived of the use of speech; but when you were born he recovered the voice that he had lost.
Still locked in your mother's breast, you felt the King's presence housed in the vestal womb. And prophet, before being born, you revealed this mystery to your parents.
Glory be to the Father and to the only-begotten Son, and to you, Holy Spirit, their equal in greatness: one God forever. Amen.

Bring Your Gun To Church

Bring Your Gun To Church Used to Be The Law

Imagine the following scenario: At church this Sunday, while reviewing the list of announcements and upcoming events for your church, your pastor adds, “Oh, and don’t forget: on Sundays we have our regular target practice. Make sure to bring your guns. Make sure to bring your pieces to church.”

Absurd, right? Not so. It used to be the American way. For example, a 1631 law in Virginia required citizens to own firearms, to engage in practice with them, and to do so publicly on holy days. It demanded that the people “bring their pieces to the church.” Somewhere along the line we have lost this mindset. Today the ideas of church and arms are assumed to be at odds, as if loving your neighbor has nothing to do with the preservation and defense of life and property.

But the idea of Christian society and an armed, skilled populace actually have deep historical roots. Alfred the Great codified the laws of England in the 9th Century, often resorting to biblical law in order to do so (where he departed from biblical law, the integrity of his famous law code is quite poor). Alfred applied the Deuteronomic laws of kings that forbad a standing army (Deut. 17), and as a result developed a national defense based on militia:
"By the Saxon laws, every freeman of an age capable of bearing arms, and not incapacitated by any bodily infirmity, was in case of a foreign invasion, internal insurrection, or other emergency, obliged to join the army.…"1

This required and encouraged an armed citizenry:
“Every landholder was obliged to keep armor and weapons according to his rank and possessions; these he might neither sell, lend, nor pledge, nor even alienate from his heirs. In order to instruct them in the use of arms, they had their stated times for performing their military exercise; and once in a year, usually in the spring, there was a general review of arms, throughout each county.2

Imagine! Imagine the government poking its nose in every year not to register and license weapons for possible future confiscation, but to ensure that each house indeed possessed weapons. Imagine that instead of imposing fees for licensing schemes, the government levied fines for not owning a firearm. This was the case in Massachusetts in 1644.
The state required that “every freeman or other inhabitant of this colony provide for himself and each under him able bear arms a sufficient musket and other serviceable piece” as well as “two pounds of powder and ten pounds of bullets.”3 Those who neglected this duty could receive fines up to ten shillings (for laborers, roughly a day’s wages).

In 1623, Virginia statute forbade anyone to travel unless they were “well armed,” and required that all men working in fields likewise be armed.4

Laws from 1631 repeated the same requirements and added to them: all able men should bear arms and engage in practice with their arms. The law specifically required “All men that are fitting to bear arms,” and to “bring their pieces to the church upon pain of every offence.” ((William Hening, The Statutes at Large, 174.)) (Equally shocking to most modern evangelicals is the fine for not obeying these laws: landowners who did not so arm their laborers and workers were required “to pay 2 lbs. of tobacco,” and this fine in tobacco was “to be disposed by the church-wardens, who shall levy it by distress.…” ((William Hening, The Statutes at Large, 174.))

Imagine that: the government desiring, commanding that every able citizen own weapons and be skilled in using them! And to do so on “holy days” and at Church.5 (It’s even more unbelievable that the government assumed all men were going to church every Sunday. Perhaps we could increase their numbers if we could reinstate target practice fellowship.)

The legacy of arms and freedom as Christian virtues continued into American Revolution. The Lutheran pastor John Peter Muhlenberg is perhaps the most famous of the “fighting parsons.” He answered George Washington’s personal call to raise troops using his own pulpit and Ecclesiastes 3 to do so. Other ministers of the gospel were well known to preach with loaded guns in the pulpit with them. Pennsylvania preacher John Elder provides a great example: “Commissioned a captain by the Pennsylvania government, he led a company of rangers and was accustomed to preach with his loaded musket across the pulpit.”6

Likewise, Rev. Thomas Allen, a later collaborator in writing the Massachusetts State Constitution, himself fired the first shot at the Battle of Bennington. In the context of the War for Independence, ministers saw guns as tools of liberty and defense against tyranny.

Read the rest of the article at American Vision.



Wet Floor

Two policemen call the station on their radio.

"Hello. Is that you Sarge?"

"Yes."

"We have a case here. A woman has shot her husband for stepping on the
floor she had just mopped clean."

"Have you arrested the woman?"


"No sir. The floor is still wet."

8 Rules For Radicals

8 LEVELS OF CONTROL - VERY SCARY
   
Saul Alinsky died about 43 years ago, but his writings influenced those in political control of our nation today.......
Recall that Hillary did her college thesis on his writings and Obama writes about him in his books.
Died:  June 12, 1972, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Ca
Education:  University of Chicago
Spouse:  Irene Alinsky
Books:  Rules for Radicals, Reveille for Radicals
Anyone out there think that this stuff isn't happening today in the U.S. ?
All eight rules are currently in play.

How to create a social state by Saul Alinsky:
There are  eight levels of control  that  must be obtained  before you are able to create a social state.   The first is the most important.
1) Healthcare – Control healthcare and you control the people.
2) Poverty – Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
3) Debt  – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level.  That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control – Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare – Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).
6) Education – Take control of what people read and listen to – take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion – Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools.
8) Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor.  This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.

Does any of this sound like what is happening to the United States ?

Alinsky merely simplified Vladimir Lenin's original scheme for world conquest by communism, under Russian rule.
Stalin described his converts as "Useful Idiots". 
The "Useful Idiots" have destroyed every nation in which they have seized power and control.
It is presently happening at an alarming rate in the United States of America .

   If    people    can read this and still say everything is just fine…   they are “useful idiots".
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."


Is being a good person enough to get to heaven? Hell, no!

Is Being A "Good" Person Enough To Gain Heaven?
AKA - Universalism Kills Evangelization
AKA - Why Many Christians Don't Evangelize
Surveys now show us that most Christians actually operate as Universalists - that is they believe that being a "good person" will get you to heaven. Thus, many Christians now believe in what could at least be described as a quasi-universalism, which is that the default setting of our souls is that most people are "saved". According to Pew data, from 2008, "70 percent of Americans with a religious affiliation say that many religions - not just their own - can lead to eternal life."  If this is the case, then the question becomes - why evangelize, grow in holiness, decide to intentionally follow Jesus, etc? If you believe all the "good" people are going to heaven anyway, why would you evangelize and seek conversion? If all religions are the same, why would you follow Jesus? 
For the majority who self-identify as a Christian, who would say that being a "good person" is enough to gain heaven, there are many implications of this belief - many of which go unexamined. Unfortunately this is not a correct understanding of the evidence from Christian theology/history or from the Biblical understanding of salvation. Thus, if one holds such a view, they have seperated themselves from a Biblical Christian understanding of salvation and grace. So, it is not an unimportant issue.
Yet, this isn't the first time such a false understanding of salvation has come up in the history of the Church.  A heresy called Pelagianism really kicked it all off. Pelagius was a British monk who taught that man can obtain salvation through our own free works and choices. In other words, it is a denial that God's grace is necessary and that we can work our way to heaven. In many ways, our modern culture is really a modern form of Pelagianism, and this mentality has once again seeped into the Church. Pelagius also denied original sin and it's consequences. His teachings were strongly opposed by St. Augustine and other Bishops - who clearly taught that he was wrong about almost everything in regards to salvation, grace, and free will.
If many Christians don't completely hold the views of Pelagius, they probably hold a form of semi-Pelagianism, which started in France in the 5th century. It was an attempt to be an in-between compromise between 2 positions - Augustine on grace and Pelagius.
Semi-Pelagianism attempted to balance things between Augustine and Pelagius - but is still wrong! It teaches that our initial assent to faith is not necessarily impelled by grace, we can merit salvific grace by our good deeds, and once we have been justified, we con't need any other graces - we are saved. All of these ideas were clearly condemned in 529 at the 2nd Council of Orange and then again in 1546 by the Council of Trent.
Aggie Catholic Blog


Do you believe in life after delivery?

1.    In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other, “Do you believe in life after delivery?”
2.    The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. It seems we are obviously here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later and that we have capacities that are meant for something greater than here.”
3.    “Nonsense!” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What makes you think there is?”
4.    The second said, “Well, I am going to suppose that since we have eyes and legs and mouths that there is a world outside that has more light than here so that we can see, and where will walk about with our legs, and eat with our mouths. I mean, why would we have legs if we weren’t ever going to walk, or eyes if we weren’t ever going to have light and see?  Maybe there will be many other things that we can’t understand now.”
5.    The first replied, “That is absurd. You are just engaging in wishful thinking and hoping that things will get better. This is all there is. Who needs to walk? And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. And since the umbilical cord is so short, life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
6.    The second insisted, “Well I think there is something more than this, outside and beyond this womb. Some sort of longing is in my heart to see and walk freely and to eat and enjoy things. I mean, why would we have these legs and eyes and mouth and hands? And where did we get the longing to use them if we weren’t meant for something more? Indeed, maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
7.    The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
8.    “No,” said the second, “Surely we will meet our mother and she will take care of us.”
9.    The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in a mother? That’s laughable. If a mother exists then where is she now?”
10.  The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are from her and it is in her that we now live. Without her this world we are in now would not exist.”
11.  Said the first, “Well I don’t see her, so it is only logical that she doesn’t exist.”
12.  To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when I am in silence and I focus and really listen, I can perceive her presence, and hear her loving voice, calling down from above.”
Not a bad analogy in parable form (remember, no analogy is perfect)! 
http://blog.adw.org/2015/06/a-powerful-parable-against-the-premises-of-unbelief/

86%

THIS ONE IS A SENDER     

This is by a daughter of a murdered couple in Raytown, MO, who had a 
Bible and Bookstore on 63rd street.

She says: When I had to testify at the murder trial of my parents a 
Week ago, I was asked to raise my right hand ... The bailiff started 
Out "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but 
The truth?"

I stood there and waited but she said nothing She said "Do you?"

I was so stunned I blurted out "What happened to "so help me God?"

She came back with "Do you?"

I replied yes, but I was perplexed.

Then the judge said. "You can say that if you want to."

I stopped, raised my right hand, and finished with: "So help me God!"

I told my son and daughter that when it came time for them to testify, they should do the same.

I don't know what can be done about it, but it's time for us to step up  and DO something.

NBC this morning had a poll on this question. They had the highest  number of responses that they have ever had for one of their polls,  and the percentage was the same as this: 

86% to keep the words,  14% against...

That is a pretty 'commanding' public response.

I was asked to send this on if I agreed ....

Or delete if I didn't.

Now it is your turn. It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God.

Therefore, I have a very hard time understanding why there is such a 
Mess about having  "In God We Trust"  on our money and having God in 
The Pledge of Allegiance.

Why is America-- our nation -- catering to this 14%?      Yes, why??  

If you agree, pass this on, if not, simply delete ....

In God We Trust If You Choose To Delete 
Perhaps Then You Are Part Of The Problem

Me? I'm Passing It On. 
It seems to get worse daily.

AGREE OR DELETE 
(although I pray that you will forward this...)  

Our Generation


No matter what our kids
And the new generation think about us,

WE ARE AWESOME !!!    
OUR Lives are LIVING PROOF !!!    


To Those of Us Born        
1925 - 1970           :    

At the end
Of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno. If you don't read anything else,
Please
        
Read what he
Said.
    


Very well stated,
Mr. Leno.
    
~~~~~~~~~    
TO ALL THE
KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
    
1930s, '40s, '50s,
'60s and '70s!!



First, we survived
Being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank
    
While they were
Pregnant.
    


They took aspirin,
Ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
    


Then, after that
Trauma, we were
    
Put to sleep
On our tummies
    
In baby cribs
Covered
    
With bright colored
Lead-based paints.
    


We had no
Childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets,
    
And, when we
Rode our bikes,
    
We had baseball
Caps,
    
Not helmets, on
Our heads.
    




As infants and
Children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts,
No air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes..
    




Riding in the
Back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
    


We drank water
From the garden hose and not from a bottle.
    




We shared one
Soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.
    




We ate cupcakes,
White bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.
And we weren't overweight.

WHY?    


Because we were
Always outside playing...that's why!
    


We would leave
Home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights
Came on.
    
No one was
Able to reach us all day.
    
--And, we were
OKAY.
    




We would spend
Hours building
    
Our go-carts out
Of scraps
    
And then ride
Them down the hill,
    
Only to find
Out we forgot the brakes.. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned
To solve the problem..
    




We did not
Have Play Stations, Nintendo’s and X-boxes. There were
    
No video games,
No 150 channels on cable,
    
No video movies
Or DVDs,
    
No surround-sound or
CDs,
    
No cell phones,    
No personal computers,    
No Internet and
No chat rooms.
    




WE HAD FRIENDS    
And we went
Outside and found them!
    


We fell out
Of trees, got cut,
    
Broke bones and
Teeth,
    
And there were
No lawsuits
    
From those accidents.

  
We would get
Spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand,
And no one would call child services to report abuse.
    



We ate worms,
And mud pies
    
Made from dirt,
And
    
The worms did
Not live in us forever.
    

  

We were given
BB guns for our 10th birthdays, 22 rifles for our 12th, rode horses, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and

-although we were
Told it would happen- we did not put out very many eyes.
    


We rode bikes
Or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just
Walked in and talked to them.
    




Little League had
Tryouts
    
And not everyone
Made the team.
    
Those who didn't
Had to learn
    
To deal with
Disappointment.
    


Imagine that!!        




The idea of a parent bailing
Us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!





These generations have
Produced some of the best
           risk-takers,    
Problem solvers, and
Inventors ever.
    


The past 50
To 85 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas..
    


We had freedom,
Failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
    




If YOU are
One of those born
    
Between 1925-1970   , CONGRATULATIONS!        


You might want
To share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids before the lawyers
and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.
    


While you are
at it, forward it to your kids, so they will know how brave and lucky their parents
were.
    


Kind of makes
you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?
    
~~~~~~~    
The quote of
the month

by    
Jay Leno:    

"With hurricanes, tornados,
fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the
country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist
attacks, are we sure this is a good time to have taken the Lord's prayer out of the schools?"

For those that
think that God is not in control...go ahead and delete this.
  
      

For my brainy friends

If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright,
he's the famous Erudite (comic) scientist who once
said: "I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff
had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates.
His mind sees things differently than most of us do. . ..
Here are some of his gems:

1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't
expect it back.

3 - Half the people you know are below average.

4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

5 - 82.73% of all statistics are made up on the spot. 

6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other
parts feel so good.

7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad
memory.

8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with
the rain.

9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise
my hand.

10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the
second mouse gets the cheese.

11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, But she left
me before we met.

12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?

13 - How do you tell when you're out of
invisible ink?

14 - If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.

15 - Depression is merely anger without
enthusiasm.

16 - When everything is coming your way, you're
in the wrong lane.

17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having
enough sense to be lazy.

18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness
pays off now.

19 - I intend to live forever... So far, so good.

20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have
to buy her friends?

21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get
sucked into jet engines.

22 - What happens if you get scared half to
death twice?

23 - My mechanic told me, I couldn't repair your
brakes, so I made your horn louder.

24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for
your name.

25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all
evidence that you tried.

26 - A conclusion is the place where you got
tired of thinking.

27 - Experience is something you don't get
until just after you need it.

28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional
to the softness of the bread.

29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism;
to steal from many is research.

30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there
is no lifeguard.

31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time
you'll have to catch up.

32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your
body is required to be on it.

33 - Everyone has a photographic memory;
some just don't have film.

34 - If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is
not for you.

And the all-time favorite -
35 - If your car could travel at the speed of light,
would your headlights work?

Like Father, Like Son

Nice cigar!
They do look alike.

When Clint Eastwood’s Son Asked for a Role in American Sniper, He Told Him What Any Good Dad Would


Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Honey, Whiskey & the Grasshopper

As you know, St. John lived on locusts and honey while preaching in the desert.

So, you should celebrate his birthday today with:

Honey-flavored whiskey

And

The Grasshopper
2 oz. cream
¾ oz. green crème de menthe
1 oz. light crème de cacao
Pour all into a shaker filled with ice and shake 40 times.
Strain into a cocktail glass.



How To Keep Witches Away

It is customary to gather St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum) on today’s Feast of St. John’s Birthday - June 24.  

”Wort” is from Old English wyrt (German Würze), which means “plant”, but is used mostly in compounds.  Since ancient times “singent’s wort” was known to relieve melancholy or depression, as does borage… which every garden should have.  It would be hung above doors, windows and sacred images (hence the hyper-icum ”above image”) to keep witches and evil spirit away.  Burning those witches might have something to do with its effectiveness as well, now that I think about it.


Oh! And eat some snails.  It is a Roman custom to eat snails on the Feast of John the Baptist.

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Night on Bald Mountain

Do you remember these scary images from your youth?


Mussorgsky's (1839-81) Night on Bald Mountain was actually titled St. John’s Night on the Bare Mountain.

St. John’s Night, or St. John’s Eve, is the night before the Feast of St. John which happens to fall around the summer solstice. Eastern Europeans have long celebrated it with a mixture of pagan trick-or-treat traditions and religious observances and bonfires.

The first version appeared in 1867 and was revised around 1872 and again in 1880. In this last version he added a hauntingly beautiful quiet ending in which a church bell announces the dawn and daybreak chases away the evil spirit.

Night on Bald Mountain has remained an audience favorite ever since its appearance in Walt Disney’s landmark movie, Fantasia.

June 23:  Happy Midsummer’s Eve!   Happy St. John’s Eve!   Happy St. John’s Night!

June 24:  Happy Saint John’s Birth Day!   Happy St. John’s Feast Day!