Song of Solomon 2:11-12
Thursday, March 31, 2016
I
really don't like saying, "Told you so."
I mean if it's that obvious?
Why should I have to point it out to you?
It should speak for itself.
This is how several of Sanders senior advisors explained their strategy just the other day:
"The campaign was willing to write off big losses in many southern states as part of its strategy of focusing on winning a majority in as many states as possible, rather than capturing as many delegates as possible in states it wouldn't win."
Now where did you hear that first Lucy?
:-).
Love you.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
More
"Now what's wrong with Naaman? Naaman was a commander-in-chief of a section known as Aram. He was a soldier. He was a... He was a big-time soldier. He commanded a set of troops that were always raiding Israel. They would come across the border and they would fight and they would terrorize and raid Israel and they would take prisoners and haul the prisoners back to Syria. He was a Gentile. He was a Gentile and worse than that, he was a leper, he had leprosy, he was unclean, he was despicable on every count. On one of his raids he took captive, this is in the stories in 2 Kings 5, first fourteen verses, you can read it yourself, he took back this girl, one of his captives and she became a servant in his house to help his wife. She had a great attitude, she knew about his leprosy and she said to him, "You need to go find the man of God, Elisha, because God can heal you." And you know what happened? He began to believe in the power of the God of Israel and so eventually through some situations, I won't go into all of it, he wound up meeting Elisha. Here is an enemy, a Gentile, somebody who has sacked and attacked and killed and plundered Israel and he's a leper. This is the outcast of all outcasts. And Elisha says to him, "The God of Israel is willing to heal you. All you have to do is go over to the river and go down seven times." One preacher titled a sermon on this, "Seven ducks in a dirty pond." That's essentially...that's essentially what he told him to do. Go over there in this dirty river and just duck yourself seven times. And he said..."I'll..." he was furious, he was a man of honor and a man of stature and a man of dignity and a man of nobility and he isn't going to humble himself in some kind of humiliating deal and go dump himself down seven times in some dirty river. He even says, "We have clean rivers in my area, I'm not going in your dirty river."
So he goes back and his servant says, "Well, better a dirty river and a clean Naaman, huh?" And he starts to think about it and he had second thoughts. And he realizes his desperation and he realizes there's no relief and there's no cure and there's no healing and there's nothing except the God of Israel. Is the man of God really the man of God? Is God really truly God? Is this really His prophet? How will I ever know that? How am I going to know that that's true unless I do what He says? I have to take my desperation, my destitution, my disease, I have to go over there. I have to do what the man tells me to do. If I do what the man tells me to do, then I'll know whether he's the man of God, right?
So he goes over there and he does his seven ducks in the dirty river and guess what? Clean! Oh boy, you're sitting in the synagogue, you're saying, "This is not going well. So we are worse than a Gentile widow from Jezebel's hometown. We are worse than a Syrian Gentile leper. This is intolerable."
In verse 28, "All in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things." Let me tell you something, there's nothing worse than spiritual pride, is there? You know, the Lord had said, "You know, I come to save, this is it. But I can only save the poor, and the prisoners, and the blind, and the oppressed. That's all I can save and it doesn't matter whether they are a Gentile woman or whether they are a Syrian leper, it doesn't matter who it is, it just matters that they see their bankruptcy, their destitution, and they come to Me like the man who said, 'Lord, I believe, but could You help my unbelief?' And they may not know everything there is to know and their faith may not be full, but if they'll just come in their desperation and say, 'I don't have a choice, here's all I have and see what I can do with it.' Then they'll know that I'm the Messiah, right?"
You didn't know either and neither did I until I gave Him my life. Then I knew. And you could have paraded before me an infinite number of miracles. They wouldn't have proved anything. You will never know whether Jesus can save your soul from hell, give you new life, recreate your soul, plant His Holy Spirit there, forgive your sin and send you to heaven until you give your life to Him.
All they could think about was that they were below Gentiles. They didn't even want these stories to be rehearsed again, they didn't like these stories. And they're so angry with Him because He's insistent on the fact that unless they humble themselves like a Syrian leper, unless they see themselves as no better than a Syrian leper, no better than a pagan Gentile woman, unless they see themselves as no better than outcasts, they aren't going to get saved. And that is absolutely intolerable to them, to go to someone who is a life-long Jew, a life-long attender of the synagogue, a serious devout Jew and say, "You're no better off than a pagan, you're no better off than an outcast Gentile leper," is unthinkable because they're so committed to the self-righteousness that's a part of a works system.
And so, it says in verse 29, "They rose up." All of a sudden bedlam broke loose in the crowded synagogue. They cast Him out of the city. They grabbed Him and in mob violence like a lynch mob, they roared out of the city, led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built. Nazareth sits on a hill, many hills on the hill but it's up a slope. We don't know what brow of it. They found a place, a brow of a hill in which the city had been built in order to throw Him down the cliff. Deuteronomy 13 said that if you have a false prophet, you can do that, kill him. They were so entrenched in their self-righteousness, so unwilling to see their sin that when Jesus, the Messiah they had waited for for so long, the Savior of the world came, they tried to kill Him because He threatened their self-righteousness. There's only one reason why people who know the truth of Jesus don't believe. It is because they do not see themselves as the poor, prisoners, blind, and oppressed. You see that? Because you can't be saved if you don't. God offers nothing to people who are content with their own condition, except judgment.
from John MacArthur's sermon.
I
Elijah comes on the scene in 1 Kings 17. He just drops out of nowhere. And the first thing that he does is he announces a drought. Jesus said here in verse 25 that the sky was shut up for three and...three years and six months. It doesn't say that in 1 Kings, it does say that here and it says it in James 5:17, it refers to the same occasion, so we know it was a three and a half year drought. No rain in Israel for three and a half years. The result, the end of verse 25: "When a great famine came over all the land." You've got a lot of widows in the land. Now God cares about widows. There's all kinds of instruction in the Old Testament to take care of widows. Exodus 22, Deuteronomy 10, through the Psalms, Isaiah 1, many, many places and God has a special heart for widows. God in Psalm 68:5 is called "The God who is the defender of widows." Psalm 146:9, "God, the Lord who relieves widows." And He instructed the people to care for the widows and that was a very important part of living out godly righteous life. Even in the New Testament, the New Testament enjoins upon Christians to take care of widows because they are of particular care in the mind of God. So God cared for widows. So it's a time in Israel, apostate, they're worshiping Baal, they've turned from the true God, the true and living God, they're worshiping false gods. There are many widows. God sends a judgment on Ahab, a judgment on Israel and it's a three and a half year drought. And a three and a half year drought produces a famine, people start to die. The people who are at the bottom of the food chain are the widows because they're charity cases. The people dependent on charity suffer the worst because the people who give to charity only have enough to survive. So the people at the end of the food chain get nothing, so widows are on the brink of death. Widows are dying, the special care of God are these widows, not enough food to feed your own children let alone to give it away to some widow. That’s the situation. That is a judgment of God. First Kings 17, that judgment comes through Elijah, he drops on the scene out of nowhere and he announces this judgment. The judgment comes and it is a judgment on the idolatry, the Baal worship of Ahab and the people of Israel.
Now it says, verse 26, "And Elijah was sent to none of them." You know, the Jews didn't like this story, I can tell you, and as Jesus starts to tell it, they start to get angry. Why is He bringing that ugly story up? God, the God of the fatherless and the widow, God, the God who cares about the widows, there was a famine in the land for three and a half years and the people were dying and the widows were dying and God never cared for any of the widows. We don't like that story at all. They were familiar, believe me, with 1 Kings 17, very familiar with it. And if you think that was bad, that Elijah was sent to none of those Jewish widows, this was worse. He was sent to Zarephath in the land of Sidon to a woman who was a widow there. Now this is worse. Why? This woman in the land of Sidon, hang on, is a Gentile. It's bad enough to be a woman in Jewish tradition at this time, it's far worse to be a Gentile woman. But to come from Sidon, that is unthinkable. How could God ignore the Jews of Israel? But then how could He possibly send His prophet to go minister to a Gentile widow in, of all places, Sidon? Sidon was Gentile territory on the north coast of Israel, Tyre and Sidon, the two familiar cities. Tyre and Sidon in that Gentile region, Zarephath was a town in between the two, Tyre and Sidon, a Phoenician city. The area was the home... This is even more amazing. The area was the home of the father of Jezebel. You know what his name was? Ethbaal, he was so devoted to Baal He named himself after Baal. Ethbaal means "Baal is alive." And Ethbaal was such a wicked man he murdered his predecessor and he was a priest as well as being a king. He was the king of Phoenicia, Tyre and Sidon, he was the king, he was a Baal-worshiping king, he was also a priest in the temple of Melqart and Astarte, two of the deities in the pantheon of Baal worship. This is the most wretched thing imaginable. This is the father of the apos...of the apostasy, in a sense, in Israel because he's the father of Jezebel who came and polluted Israel worship when she married Ahab, and so forth. And so here God sends His prophet to a woman from the home region of Jezebel, a Gentile widow. That famine... That area, by the way, was also affected by the famine. Food supply was low. Well, if you go back to 1 Kings 17, I don't have time, you're going to hang with me now, another few minutes, because we can't break this off, I'm not going to get to speak to you for a while, we've got to cover this, this is so powerful.
So if you look at 1 Kings 17 you see the story. God sends Elijah in this midst of all this famine over to Zarephath, to this widow. This is a widow who believes in the true God. The text of 1 Kings 17 indicates that. She says, "The Lord God of Israel lives." She gives testimony. Somebody had witnessed to her about the true God of Israel and she trusted in the true God of Israel. She is a pagan Gentile widow in the midst of a pagan godless area but believes in the true and living God. And so to her goes the prophet of God rather than to Israelites. Her food supply was down to one little bit of flour and one little bit of oil, enough to make one cake, right? One scone, if you will, one biscuit. And the prophet comes to her and you can read the story in 1 Kings 17, I wish we had time to do it, we don't. And he says to her, first of all, "Could you get me some water?" Huh. And then he says when she's going to get the water, "Can you also take what you’ve got left and make me a meal?" Huh. This is a stranger, she's never met this guy in her entire life, he walks in and says, "Take what you've got, that's all you've got and make me a meal, I am the man of God, I am from the God of Israel." She knows the God of Israel lives. She says it, "The Lord God of Israel lives." Well, I'm from the God of Israel and I'm going to ask you, if you will, to take all that you have left, your last meal before you die, starve to death, and she had a son as well, and give it to me.
Now, you know, if she had been in the synagogue at Nazareth, she would have probably said, "Oh no, no, no. Aha, not on your life. How do I know you're a man of God? How do I know whether you're going to take that one thing and you're going to do with that one thing something that's going to provide for me all the rest of my life? How do I know that I can trust you? Could you please fly up in the air and spin around, could you do a few healings? Could you do some magic somewhere? I need to see something so that I can believe."
That wouldn't have proved anything if he had spun up in the air and done some amazing things, if he had done some healings or whatever, it wouldn't have proven anything. The only way she would ever know whether God would supply all she ever needed was to take the little that she had and trust it to him. She figured that out, by the way. She wasn't in the synagogue in Nazareth and it was probably a good thing or she might have been influenced by the crowd attitude. She probably thought like this, "Well, I only have one little cup left, one little bit of oil, that's all I've got. If I give it to him and he is a man of God, then I'll have life. And if he's not, I'll just have one less meal and die half a day sooner. I'm going to die anyway, what have I got to lose?" Pretty good thinking, isn't it? "All I've got is one meal left. I'm destitute. I'm desperate. I'm in poverty. I have nowhere to turn. If I don't trust the God of Israel who lives, if I don't trust the man of God, I'm dead anyway, what's half a day longer? But if he is the man of God, and if God did send him, then I have life." The only way she would ever know was not if he went up in the air and spun around a few times, not if he went out and healed some people, the only way she would ever know that the God of Israel would give her all she would ever need was if she took what she had in her poverty and trusted him with it. She did.
And you remember the story? She made the little cake, the prophet ate it and the next thing that happened was her barrel was never empty. Remember that? It just was supernaturally filled all the time. And the cruse of oil was never empty. It just kept getting filled and filled and filled. That's an analogy of spiritual life and supply. She took the little that she had, she gave it to the man of God and in return she got life, permanent life. And then...and the Lord did another amazing thing. Her son got sick and died, remember? And he raised her son from the dead just because she trusted the tiny bit that she had. She knew that she was the poor, the prisoner, blind, and the oppressed. And Jesus was saying to those Jews, "Let me tell you something, you may be Jews, you may be part of Israel, you may be the people of the covenants and the people of the Messiah, but I'll tell you this, God will save an outcast Gentile widow who admits her spiritual destitution before He'll save you."
believe, it still works that way.
(taken from John MacArthur's sermon)
BTW?
Mom taught me to walk on the side of the sidewalk closest to the street when walking with a female companion.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Monday, March 28, 2016
"You
want to know whether Jesus can save you from hell?
Ask Him.
Give Him your life, that's the only way you'll ever know.
You can see all the miracles under the sun, false miracles or whatever, you can see the whole parade of stuff.
It's not going to convince you.
There's only one way to know that Jesus can save your soul from hell and change your life and send you to eternal heaven with all your sins forgiven and that is to take your meager, little, wicked life and hand it over to Him and see what He does with it."
John F. MacArthur
(I don't agree with him on a lot of things but this is an amazing sermon)
"You
will never know whether Jesus can save your soul from hell, give you new life, recreate your soul, plant His Holy Spirit there, forgive your sin and send you to heaven until you give your life to Him."
John F. MacArthur
Sunday, March 27, 2016
"Kite"
Reminds me of me and mom.
"Something
Is about to give
I can feel it coming
I think I know what it is
I'm not afraid to die
I'm not afraid to live
And when I'm flat on my back
I hope to feel like I did
And hardness
It sets in
You need some protection
The thinner the skin
I want you to know
That you don't need me anymore
I want you to know
You don't need anyone
Or anything at all
Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know
Which way the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
Don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye
It's somewhere I can taste the salty sea
There's a kite blowing out of control on the breeze
I wonder what's gonna happen to you
You wonder what has happened to me
I'm a man
I'm not a child
A man who sees
The shadow behind your eyes
Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know
Where the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
I don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye..."
"When
I was all messed up
And I had opera in my head
Your love was a light bulb
Hanging over my bed
Baby, baby, baby, light my way
Oh, come on,
Baby, baby, baby, light my way..."
"It's
no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest.
It's no secret ambition bites the nails of success.
Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief;
All kill their inspiration and sing about the grief."
"Love
we shine like a burning star
We're falling from the sky tonight
A man will beg
A man will crawl
On the sheer face of love
Like a fly on a wall
We're falling from the sky... tonight
It's no secret at all..."
"They
say the sun is sometimes eclipsed by the moon
Y' know I don't see you when she walks in the room."
Friday, March 25, 2016
But
Bernie needs 58% of all the remaining delegates:
Contest won so far
Kansas 67.7%
Maine 64.3%,
Vermont 86.1%
Colorado 59%
Minnesota 61.6%,
Nebraska 57.1%
New Hampshire 60%
Idaho 77.3%
Utah 81.25%
Democrats abroad 69.2%
Average to date?
68.35%
Thursday, March 24, 2016
"What they are not telling you",
continued.
"Bernie can't win."
After the March 15th primaries, he needed 58% of the remaining pledged delegates.
To date:
March 21st Democrats Abroad Primary:
Bernie 9
Hillary 4
Combined March 22nd Arizona, Utah and Idaho results:
Bernie 73
Hillory 55
All you heard about was her win in Arizona.
How much did you hear about him getting more delegates than her?
Why?
Why is this not being reported?
20 years ago it would have been.
To much media is concentrated in to few hands.
More on that after a while.
Delegate totals to date post March 15th primaries?
Bernis 82
Hillory 59
Percentage?
58.156
Know
wonder she keeps winning the red meat Republican states.
She might as well be one if you ask me.
This isn't what democrats were about when I was growing up.
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
So
since we're revisiting Mississippi John Hurt :-).
Who seems to have won the Blues Artist of Springtime Porch Sitting 2016 award.
I remember,
this one time,
at the NOC...
(Maybe you get that reference, maybe not :-).
Somebody asked me, "So, what kind of blues do you listen to?
They knew I went to festivals. But I knew it was a setup question.
They might as well have said, "I don't think you know anything about it, prove to me you do."
Cause that's kinda the way it was in the NOC at times lol.
I just looked at 'em like, "Alright, you asked, I hope you got a few minutes"
I then proceeded with something akin to the following:
"Right now I'm listening to some Mississippi Hill Country Blues along the likes of Junior Kimbrough and RL Burnside and their clans, long single string droning hypnotic stuff, roots from Mali tribal rhythms. Completely different from the rhythmic structure of Delta Blues with Robert Johnson and all those guys, But some days I might listen to a lil Memphis Blues and everybody knows about BB and Beale Street and West Memphis and Howling Wolf. Tampa Red had his own thing going on in Fla before moving to Chicago, where everybody knows about The Wolf and Muddy electrifying Delta Blues on Chess Records and theres a whole host of other characters in Chicago as well: Lil Walter, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Etta James, Willie Dixon, so sometimes I visit that. Got that Roadhouse thing goin on down in Texas I like, Kansas City I believe originated Jump Blues, Brian Setzer has kinda brought some of that back. Barrelhouse piano rolls out of New Orleans, Alligator Records out of Chicago been putting out a solid repertoire of material for decades now, Blind Pig Records got their thing going on out west, kinda horns and a more real soulful sound. East Coast particularly the Carolinas and Virginia got that country fingerpicking thing, I haven't really got into that much boogie-woogie.
Louisiana is\was the home of some Cajun Roots players, Tab Benoit and Gatemouth Brown come to mind. John Lee Hooker out of the midwest, particularly Detroit was completely different from everybody, St. Louis had Chuck Berry, I mean just on and on and on. But right now? It's all about some Mississippi Hill Country Blues."
He never asked me another question about the blues :-).
It's kinda an earlier version of the guy at the liquor asking me if I got the right bottle of bourbon :-).
Love ya Lucy.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Monday, March 21, 2016
WHAT
THEY ARE NOT TELLING YOU ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES
and other musings...
Super delegates:
During the convention they can vote for whomever they want, this seems to be somewhat more common knowledge now but what isn't as well know is the fact that this is the first time in the democratic primary where Super delegates are included in with the pledged delegate totals giving a false impression to the casual observer about how the race is going. So the question becomes, why? Why is that so? If you don't think having Clinton as a last name has something to do with it I don't think you really understand just how long the arms of the Clinton political machine are. Why is the fact that super delegates are being reported along with pledged delegates not even a story?
The DNC:
They are doing exactly what I have long despised the Republican Party for, putting loyalty to the party over whats best for the country. In doing so they are taking the risk of alienating millions of young progressive voters (and therefore elections) for years to come. Sounds like a good move right?
Inevitability:
If this race is so damn inevitable for Clinton? Why do I have to keep hearing about it? Does a guy walking down the street who has a million dollars in his bank account make sure that everyone knows he does? No, he doesn't. He knows he does, why should he feel compelled to convince anyone? "He'll be done by Nevada, He'll be done after Super Tuesday, he'll be done after March 15th, he doesn't have a path to the nomination." What have these inevitability types been right about so far?
Super Tuesday:
It's a joke. It needs to be done away with. It was designed to thwart a candidate like Sanders (or Trump) and have them finished off early so the party's eventual candidate could concentrate on the general election. Works great right? Newsflash, democrats don't need the south to win. Florida is nice to have but the fact is democrats have more paths to victory in the electoral college without it than the Republicans do. The South is red meat Republican territory. Do away with Super Tuesday and let these states decide their own primary dates and let the candidates at least pay lip service to these constituencies. It's to much area to cover in too short of time way to early on in the process. It does no good for the candidates or the voters. Ditch it.
Hillary is the better candidate:
I love this one. Really? So after a tie (for all purposes) in Iowa, and a shellacking in New Hampshire the "best candidate" pretty much panics and spends a lot more time and money on Super Tuesday races she would have won anyway? That's your better candidate? I'll take the candidate who is being more strategic in his thinking, saving up his cash (he's out raising her now) for the stretch run which will be in heavily democratic areas. It's almost like he knows she falters down the stretch. Go figure. My thinking is this was the game plan all along. Make it till after march 15th and then start chipping away at whatever lead she has. I guarantee you this, she didn't expect to be asking for money after her wins on March 15th. This is not the campaign she had envisioned. Sound familiar?
Did I mention there is on ongoing FBI investigation along with several other investigations into one of the candidates? This is no right wing hatchet job. This is the FBI! If her name wasn't Clinton and if she wasn't female, would you still support a candidate with an ongoing FBI investigation? Do you want indictments in the general election and a President Trump?
But she swept the March 15th primaries:
North Carolina and Florida were given. Why waste time and money somewhere you know you're going to lose? Missouri and Illinois might as well be ties. "But Ohio, people got scared of what happened in the Trump rally in Chicago and flocked to her in Ohio." Really? Why didn't they do the same thing in Illinois and Missouri then? The most plausible explanation for what was the biggest setback of the Sanders campaign to date is the fact that independents who supported Bernie in Michigan went to Kasich in Ohio by almost the same percentage. It was well known that a Trump loss in Ohio would in all likelihood result in a brokered Republican Convention. That wasn't the case in the Illinois and Missouri races, therefore this seems the much more likely scenario.
But Sanders needs 58% of all remaining delegates:
A friend suggested he has to win all the remaining contest and needs to just "get out of the race". Really? Seems like fair reporting would also include how he's done in his victories to date but you won't hear or see this much. Again, the question is why?
Kansas 67.7%
Maine 64.3%,
Vermont 86.1
Colorado 59% Minnesota 61.6%,
Nebraska 57.1.
New Hampshire 60%
Given these numbers, it's not out of the range of possibilities although others would insist that it is. Remember, we're just now moving into heavy democratic areas.
Down the stretch:
Raising cash and campaigning at the same time is a very difficult proposition and it is exactly the one Mrs. Clinton finds herself in. Sanders is out raising her and the upcoming map is dominated by much democratic strongholds than were the earlier primaries which a majority of were in the south. In fact outside of the south? Clinton has a pledged delegate lead of 26. Why do you want to support a candidate that has built her delegate lead on a geographic area that neither her or Sanders will win in the General? The South (with the possible exceptions of Virginia and Florida) is no longer needed for a democratic victory come November. Makes sense to support the candidate that built their delegate lead there right?
Iowa-2
Ohio -17
Illinois - 1
Nevada - 5
Massachusetts -1
A twenty six delegate lead outside a geographical area that doesn't matter anymore. This is what a former Senator from New York, a former Secretary of State, former first lady, and party favorite, with a year and a half head start, all the favorable press in the world (How many "inevitability" stories have you seen compared to ones about the ongoing FBI investigation? ) while going up against an unknown, self-declared Democratic Socialist Senator from Vermont.
I honestly believe the Sanders campaign sought to prove two things, 1) that a candidate with enough small donors wouldn't need money from Super Pacs and 2) The south is no longer relevant in Democratic Presidential Primaries. He's already proved one.
If it was me? I'd rather be in Sanders shoes at the moment.
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Rumi
If you find me not within you, you will never find me.
For, I have been with you, from the beginning of me.
This
isn't about me.
This isn't about you.
This is about a group of people who all sacrificed in one way or another over time to set the stage so a whole lot more people could benefit.
Period.
Theres always gonna be critics and cynics.
Always has been, always will be.
Best just to ignore them and move on I suppose.
Love you.
This
is what TV was like when I was 10 years old in Louisville KY.
No cable.
No satellites.
No remotes.
Presto the Clown when I got some from school lol.
Spiderman.
Lost in space.
Leave it to beaver.
Gilligan's Island.
The Rifleman
Needless to say, it was a different time.
Friday, March 18, 2016
"I
don't want to limp for them to walk...
Never would have known of me before...
I don't want to be held in your debt...
I'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed.."
Thursday, March 17, 2016
RUMI
The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.
The light which fills the heart is the light of God.
Great Mystery ...
teach me how to trust
my heart,
my mind,
my intuition,
my inner knowing,
the senses of my body,
the blessings of my spirit.
Teach me to trust these things
so that I may enter my Sacred Space
and love beyond my fear,
and thus Walk in Balance
with the passing of each glorious Sun.
~ Lakota Prayer
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
RNM
"He was the unapologetic spokesman for a generation who anguished for a better world."
– New Pittsburgh Courier (1981)
I would say for all generations.
Check
out Lewis County Missouri's Democratic Primary results from last night.
That doesn't happen everyday :-).
Peter Buck
(R.E.M. guitarist)
"I was talking to Colin Meloy [of the Decemberists]. He was going, "Boy, you guys got out at the right time. The festivals are horrible now. They all have that fucking dance tent. You get these kids who are totally tripping, walking through and yelling during your set, and then there's that thumping all night long."
:-).
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016
So
I could be wrong :-).
But for whatever reason I feel like what I write here is reaching way more than the original person it was intended for :-).
Weather it's repackaged and presented in a different fashion I have no idea.
I really have no basis in fact for the above mentioned opinion but I've learned (at least in certain situations) to trust my intuition.
I recently read an article and at the end of it, it ask the question:
"When the fascist came, what did you do to help fight against them daddy?"
With all that being said?
Here goes with the first really overtly political post in this forum.
TRUMP
People are saying this will be the end/ruin of the Republican Party.
I agree.
They didn't take their own advice after the Romney lost.
They chose not to step up and stop him early on when they could have.
It's funny to me to see a bunch of people (9 at the first debate I believe) standing around trying to be the toughest kid in the schoolyard but nobody wanting to take on the bully.
So much for being a bunch of tough guys and women.
But this is more than that.
I've read multiple columns lately about how this shouldn't be seen as a political party's demise, but should be viewed instead as a logical conclusion to where it has been headed all along.
If I agreed with the first sentiment about Trump being the ruin of the Republican party?
Then suffice it to say I agree with the second sentiment even more so.
Why?
I can hear people asking.
Well?
Because I was paying attention the whole time it was happening right in front of me.
If your political party has subtle or just under the surface racist overtones for well over forty years?
You really shouldn't be very surprised when it finds a mouthpiece.
President Obama is entirely correct when he says the other Republican candidates say the same things, just in a lot more subdued fashion than Trump.
To allow him to say the inflammatory things he has?
To not stand up and call him out as being wrong?
It's the same thing as giving your tacit approval.
People today don't even know what "The Southern Strategy" is.
Or was, given that it didn't hold Obama in check, nor does it seem to concern Mr. Sanders that much.
People don't remember Reagan kicking off his campaign at the Neshoba Miss County Fair.
Literally three miles from where three civil rights workers were slain by members of the KKK.
Regan goes there and touts "States Rights."
Never once did he mention the three slain civil rights workers.
These days the powers that be are trying to white wash that speech.
Trust me, you start talking "States Rights" in Neshoba County Mississippi in 1980?
Everyone knows what you are saying.
Throw in some Willie Horton attack ads.
(Bush the Elder).
Appoint a Supreme Court Justice who made it a personal vendetta to gut the voting rights act of 1964.
(Bush the younger)
I didn't even mention Congress obstructionism, I could sit here all day and just bring up point after point but theres really no...
Well?
Point to do so.
Stir this witches brew up while cooking for 40+ years and then stand around befuddled when the final product comes out.
I mean it's really what they have done to themselves.
The good news?
I'm really not seeing where Trump (or Cruz for that matter) picks up 64 electoral college votes on this map.
That's just way too many states to flip.
The democratic candidate would have to loose: Michigan, Ohio, Virginia and Florida.
It's just a very unlikely scenario.
Particularly when you factor in a likely backlash to Rick Snyder's tenure in Michigan and Rick Scott's continued unpopularity in Fla.
Everybody forgets it's not a national election in the truest sense.
It's a state by state election and there is a tremendous difference between the two.
Chickens come home to roost?
You betcha.
"What did you do to fight off the Fascist daddy?"
I just did son.
My conscious wouldn't have rested easy if I didn't.
What did you do?
Did
some research.
This says Lexington.
I'm pretty sure it was Louisville.
Amazingly?
There's not that much documentation around about it.
I
need to remember.
Always.
Need someone to help me remember actually :-).
Pretty sure I found her :-).
That's
what Nicholas would tell you lol.
Me?
I would say forgiveness is the best.
But as long as you're helping others?
This is a close second lol.
It's
so much more than a picture of Bourbon to me.
For one?
Nobody ever heard of it.
1885 Henry McKenna started makin whiskey.
Think about that for a second.
Pre-civil war.
Heaven Hill doesn't even list it on their website.
Rob, yes that Rob, brought the first bottle I ever saw of this to the Phi Delt House back in the mid eighties.
It's good lol.
There are a lot of bourbons people are paying a lot more for than this that aren't nearly as good.
10 years old.
100 proof.
Smooth.
Bottled in Bond.
I would say light bodied?
Not so in your face quite as much.
All these guys on instagram with more money than they got sense posting pictures of anything and everything with a cigar and their fancy glass.
You can tell half of them don't even know what they got.
Nothing against fancy glasses lol.
But every damn picture gotta be like that?
They will never get to ride down to the local store, find a bottle of this, put it on the back of their buddy's tailgate with his moms horse barn in the background and grab a shot.
All in KY :-).
By shot I mean the picture and the whiskey lol.
Like I said, it's so much more than a picture of Bourbon to me.
It's personal.
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Well?
One way to do it would be to learn which side of her to walk on when the both you are walking down the street.
Love you.
Nite.
Friday, March 11, 2016
"Everywhere
I go in the world today, Bob Marley is the symbol of freedom. And I speak of him not only as a musician but as a transcendent champion of human rights and justice.” – Salil Shetty, Head of Amnesty International
"Ya' say what?
Ya' ask me to hush up and mind my own business?
Uh...baby you are my business
You good business baby
I just looooove good business..."
Thursday, March 10, 2016
The
way my mind works lol.
I'm just layin on the couch at Christians.
Watchin a movie with him and Hallie.
Out of nowhere lol.
"Ride on Josephine baby ride on"
Great lol.
Now it's stuck in my head the rest of the night lol.
Had to listen to it when I got home to get it out of my head.
Didn't work lol.
It's still there.
You know what beat that is right?
Pretty unmistakable.
Saw George Thorogood :-).
At The Brown Theatre in Louisville.
Right down the street from where Kindred is on Broadway.
Before The Kentucky Center for The Arts bought it and remodeled it.
Went with my buddy rock-n-Roll Rob Morrison.
My roommate in college.
The guy that brought home Blantons, JW Dant and a whole lot of other bourbons nobody had ever heard of at the time.
He's memorialized on my cooler on the porch.
That's a whole nother story lol.
Rob passed away a few years back.
Swine Flu.
Sucks.
Anyway.
We were going to go to the U of L preseason basketball game over in New Albany.
U of L had a really good team the year before and were looking to do so again.
Streets were packed with cars.
People were walking back and getting in their cars.
"Hey, whats going on?"
"Fire Marshall is turning people away, too many people in the gym."
Damn.
Now what?
We just looked at each other.
We both knew he was playing that night.
At pretty much the same time we said "George Thorogood!"
Off we went.
"Dude I don't have enough money for a ticket."
Rob says "You got enough to buys us a couple of beers?"
"Yeah."
"You buy the drinks, I'll spring for the tickets."
"Deal."
Rob was always cool like that.
We get there, get tickets, place is close to being full.
Were in the balcony.
First row in the front all the way on the right as you stand facing it.
Fire escape was immediately to our left.
Lil bit into the show and he's just killing it.
Neither one of us really that big of a fan of his.
His music has it's place.
Mostly clubs and field keggers lol.
But live?
Oh good lord.
He duck walked forward all the way across the front of the stage.
He duck walked backward all the way across the front of the stage.
Played that big ass white guitar of his (Gibson I do believe) behind his head.
"Dude?"
"Yeah?"
"I gotta piss."
"Well go then." Rob says.
"I don't wanna miss anything."
Rob just turns away like oh well, your problem lol.
We stood, danced and sang the whole damn time.
I mean we had a blast.
Neither one of us could believe how good of a show it was.
"Hey"
"Yeah?"
"I'm going to go out on the fire escape, make sure and let me back in."
"What?"
"There's nobody out there I'm going to go take a piss."
I mean I'm like two stories up in the dark with a parking lot down below.
(The cars were far enough away lol)
Rob just laughs.
"Okay."
Turns out I could get back in without Rob having to open the door for me.
The rest of the show?
Whenever either one of us had to go?
Take a guess where we went lol.
2:55 mark lol.
"Josephine?
...your tank is leakin' baby
I think ya' better slow down, ride with me
Ya' say what?
Ya' ask me to hush up and mind my own business?
Uh...baby you are my business
You good business baby
I just looooove good business
Ya' say what?
Ya' ask me what kind of car am I drivin'?
Well, Uh...
I'm drivin' a '48 Cadillac with thunderbird wings
I'm tellin' ya' baby it's a runnin' thing
I could reach a groove a'baby .. get a gear
I think I could take it a'right outta here
Ride on Josephine, ride on
Ride on Josephine, ride on
Ride on Josephine, child ya' got a runnin' machine
Baby baby ride on Josephine, baby ride on."
He was still playing after two hours.
Big old body builder type just wailing on the sax all night.
They turned on the lights.
It was time for the show to be over.
They started pulling the curtain closed on the stage.
He started cussin.
"What the f&^%?"
They killed the mic.
He starts kicking at the curtain.
They drag him off the stage.
Promise.
When I was in high school he did a tour, fifty states in fifty days.
Did Hawaii and Alaska the first two days.
He played Armondos Palace on Bardstown Road on that tour.
I didn't get to go, I was too young but as soon as I got my license?
I went to see where this place was and what it looked like.
Bardstown Road, Highlamds.
Place is a fitness center now :-(.
I told Nich a while back I didn't remember how I came to find out about the Highlands when I was young.
It just came back to me :-).
"Ride on Josephine, ride on" indeed.
Love you.
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