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!!!
Saturday, June 27, 2015
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
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.
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.
Read more at http://godfatherpolitics.com/23225/bring-your-guns-to-church-sunday-it-was-the-law/#SPxSWIfTUrEwf8IH.99
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."
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
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:
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...)
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,
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.
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
|
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!
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