Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Everybodys
sick or recovering Lucy.
Nich has a ruptured eardrum.
Al has bronchitis.
Christians boys got the crud (Stuffy heads, snotty, coughing and sneezing).
Ricky is recovering from shoulder replacement surgery.
What a week.
Love you.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Thanksgiving Day
Mom, "Are those your best jeans?"
Me, "No...just the ones I'm comfortable in."
Had the answer thought out the night before.
I knew somebody would have to say something.
Promise.
That's
all it takes :-).
Now this is stuck in my head lol.
Hard to find a decent video.
Always loved Ska.
The Specials, Madness, English Beat.
No Doubt comes out and everybody's like oh this is so new, this is so cool lol.
Anyway.
Liked these guys.
Liked NoDoubt.
Just always liked the old school punk ska stuff from London in the late 70's as well.
Monday, November 28, 2016
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Saturday, November 26, 2016
Rumi
"Always remember you are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
smarter than you think
and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined."
Friday, November 25, 2016
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Turkey
was phenomenal.
As usual :-).
It's not bragging if you can back it up remember?
I got the carving part down now too :-).
I mean to the point where I feel confident about it now.
Did it last year but wasn't confident about being able to do it again on my own.
It had been a year.
Did just fine.
Check.
How many man points does that get ya?
People that don't even like turkey like my turkey :-).
One person said it was the best they had ever had.
People that like turkey?
Really like my turkey.
Love you.
So
Since people seem so free to give me advice?
Let me return the favor.
#1 Dear every seventeen year old that thinks their gonna rule the world in a few years:
Go get yourself some thicker skin, you're gonna need it in this world trust me.
#2 If you've never had a child?
Don't you dare think for a second you have any say in how we should be with ours.
It's not your place.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody :-).
Todays
attire :-).
It's not everyday your team gets a chance to be 10-1.
Let alone get a chance to be 10-1 on Thanksgiving day on national TV.
All about the turkey and some football :-).
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
I
might cook for you.
Maybe.
Don't know yet.
Haven't made up my mind.
Don't know if you're worthy enough or not yet.
Leaning toward no to be honest.
Bahahahahahahahahaha
You'll wake up.
You'll walk in on me in the kitchen witha bunch of food cooked up.
Your eyes with light up.
"Oh yea!" you'll say.
I'll be wavin' a spatula at you like, "Oh hell no, that's mine, you go get your own."
Then the lil puppy dog eyes cause you'll be wondering if I meant it or not.
I'll just bust a smile.
Say something like, "Well who the hell did you think I'm cooking it for numbnuts?"
You'll smile.
We'll eat.
Then we'll start our adventure for the day.
Promise.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Sunday, November 20, 2016
You know?
"I don't see you
When she walks in the room"
:-).
Everything just starts sounding like Charlie Browns mother at that point.
Love you Bambi.
What
would you think if you were me today walking into that church and hearing that?
Remembering back to what you had said a long time ago etc.
Not just today but lots of times at new Chapel UMC.
Trying to figure out why a pastor would choose Revelation for a book study.
That's just not something a lot of pastors would choose to do.
The way I came across the church to start with.
Just on and on and on Lucy.
Head's spinnin Lucy.
And
"There are adventures waiting in some far off country and a boy who will look at you one day like you’re the only person in the damn world."
whom might that be Lucy?
Inquiring minds wanna know :-).
I've
been going to Bro Joe's bible study on the book of Revelation for some nine sessions or so now.
If you change "Islamic Union" to "Islamic Fundamentalism" in his eschatology?
And if you view warfare as asymmetrical or irregular (diplomatic, economic, cyber etc) not necessarily tanks on a battlefield?
We're here.
It's happening.
Which would make going to worship today and having this thrown at you all the more shocking:
The Message to the Church in Philadelphia
7 “Write this letter to the angel of the church in Philadelphia.
This is the message from the one who is holy and true,
the one who has the key of David.
What he opens, no one can close;
and what he closes, no one can open:
8 “I know all the things you do, and I have opened a door for you that no one can close.
You have little strength, yet you obeyed my word and did not deny me.
9 Look, I will force those who belong to Satan’s synagogue—those liars who say they are Jews but are not—to come and bow down at your feet. They will acknowledge that you are the ones I love.
10 “Because you have obeyed my command to persevere, I will protect you from the great time of testing that will come upon the whole world to test those who belong to this world.
11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take away your crown.
12 All who are victorious will become pillars in the Temple of my God, and they will never have to leave it. And I will write on them the name of my God, and they will be citizens in the city of my God—the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from my God. And I will also write on them my new name.
13 “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches.
Lucy?
Help!
:-).
Love ya Dollbaby.
Genesis 6: 13-18
Genesis 6: 13-18
Mathew 24: 37-39
1st Thessalonians 5:1-9
Revelation 3:15-17
John 7:38
John 4:14
John 3:27
Isaiah 44:3
"When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail,
By the living Word of God I shall prevail"
Revelation 2 18-23
"And I will give to each one of you according to your works."
Proverbs 6:23
Ephesians 5:13
Isaiah 6:3
Revelation 4:8
"Don't
think man is inherently evil?
Put two babies in a crib and give them one toy, watch what happens."
Good stuff from the revival.
:-)
"Don't give up
Don't back down
Don't let the liar turn you around
My heart's fixed
Way up in mind
I'm going out and let my little light shine
Shure gonna let my little light shine"
Be
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
- Marianne Williamson
humble they say.
What they mean is be humble to us.
Only one entity I'll ever bow down before.
And it's not made of flesh and blood.
"A
traveler is far away from home
He sheds his coat and quietly sinks into the back row
The weight of their judgmental glances
Tells him that his chances are better out on the road
But if we are the body
Why aren't His arms reaching?
Why aren't His hands healing?
Why aren't His words teaching?
And if we are the body
Why aren't His feet going?
Why is His love not showing them there is a way?
There is a way, there is a way"
Sweetheart?
What good are smiles that are never seen?
Laughs that are never heard?
Touches that are never felt?
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Friday, November 18, 2016
Hosea 9:11-15
Hosea 9:11-15.
Psalms 58:3-8.
Exodus 11:4-5.
I could go on but I'll stop.
In more than a couple of instances God has taken out plenty of children.
Mostly when they are destined to become evil nonbelievers.
Lets
just say I don't think it's an accident I went to nine hours of Brother Joe's Bible study on the book of Revelation.
Wall
Street's gonna regulate Wall Street.
Cause you know.
That's always worked so great in the past.
Great
This is what ya get when you vote for somebody who will say anything to anybody to get elected.
Once they're in power?
They'll do whatever they want regardless of what they said to anybody.
And besides he's just plain wrong.
Plenty of Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, schoolteachers and many others enjoy a substance that's safer than alcohol or tobacco.
I'm not even gonna go into what a waste of resources the war on drugs has been.
Oh
this ones gonna piss some people off lol.
Oh well.
Here goes.
Genesis 2:7
Ezekiel 37:5
Ezekiel 37:6
Ecclesiastes 11:5
It's not that hard to figure out.
What man or woman alive knows God's will or ways or plan?
Need to be humble indeed.
I got my Amendment to the Constitution that I'm partial to, other people have theirs.
I got my bible verses that support my positions.
Other people have theirs.
As my dad would say:
"Thats what makes the world go round."
Know
"If you cling to your life, you will lose it;
but if you give up your life for me, you will find it."
the feeling.
Love you Lucy.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
"Sometimes
I feel like I don't know
Sometimes I feel like checking out
I wanna get it wrong
Can't always be strong
And love it won't be long
Oh sugar, don't you cry
Oh child, wipe the tears from your eyes
You know I need you to be strong
And the day is as dark as the night is long
Feel like trash, you make me feel clean
I'm in the black, can't see or be seen
Baby baby baby light my way
All right now
Baby baby baby light my way"
Love you.
Nite.
I
know this much Lucy.
The God I know and love?
He's not out to scare you to come running to him.
Call out for him.
He'll hear ya.
He always does.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Know why
I like The Rastas?
Besides the obvious lol.
Their rejection of materialism.
Don't take that wrong.
If you've done well and you want nice things and can afford them and you're helping others living a decent life etc??
That's fine.
It's the always wanting more.
Money isn't the root of all evil.
The love of money is.
Things are not the root of all evil.
It's the always wanting them that is.
Big difference.
"covetous, greedy, acquisitive, grasping, avaricious mean having or showing a strong desire for especially material possessions. covetous implies inordinate desire often for another's possessions"
Rumi
"A lover asked his beloved,
Do you love yourself more than you love me?
Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you.
I've disappeared from myself and my attributes,
I am present only for you.
I've forgotten all my learnings,
but from knowing you I've become a scholar.
I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able.
I love myself...I love you.
I love you...I love myself."
Sound familiar?
It should.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
They
always say:
"God wants a personal relationship with you."
Till ya have one.
Then they're like:
"Oh no, not like that, here's your lil cookie cutter we need you to fit back in to please."
So
when in doubt?
I'll go with this:
34 “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth!
I came not to bring peace, but a sword.
35 ‘I have come to set a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
36 Your enemies will be right in your own household!’
37 “If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.
38 If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine.
39 If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it.
40 “Anyone who receives you receives me, and anyone who receives me receives the Father who sent me.
41 If you receive a prophet as one who speaks for God, you will be given the same reward as a prophet. And if you receive righteous people because of their righteousness, you will be given a reward like theirs.
42 And if you give even a cup of cold water to one of the least of my followers, you will surely be rewarded.”
Which
makes this make much more sense:
“The mark of an advanced, or certainly of an adult artist, is being able to hold that paradox in your mind at the same time, hold those conflicts in your mind without letting them drive you crazy and understanding that they are just a part of living.”
The
same people that tell you this:
Matthew 10: 34-42.
34 “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring peace, but a sword.
35 ‘I have come to set a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
36 Your enemies will be right in your own household!’
37 “If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.
38 If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine.
39 If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it.
40 “Anyone who receives you receives me, and anyone who receives me receives the Father who sent me.
41 If you receive a prophet as one who speaks for God, you will be given the same reward as a prophet. And if you receive righteous people because of their righteousness, you will be given a reward like theirs.
42 And if you give even a cup of cold water to one of the least of my followers, you will surely be rewarded.”
Seems
like I remember somebody saying he's not that great at putting teams together here a lil bit ago.
He's never had to.
Yeah...
If your transition team is having problems?
It might not go just how you thought it was going to go.
Monday, November 14, 2016
Election post-mortem.
Oh boy lol.
Get the good times roll.
So much things to say indeed.
Here we go.
Democrats.
No other political party in history could have pulled this off. We're looking for a slam dunk here. It's the last thirty seconds of a fifteen round heavyweight title fight. You're drawing back ya got him on the ropes you're gonna knock him out of the ring and into the crowd and be done with this menace forever. You're lookin at the Presidency, the Senate, Progressive Supreme Court Appointments and winning over the largest generation in our nation's history for the next thirty-five, forty years worth of elections. Instead? When you missed? Ya spun around and got your own self knocked the fuck out. Ya pulled an 0-4. O-fer. Ya fucking pulled an O-fer. Like I said, no other political party in history could have pulled this off. Fuck the guy packing 35-40 thousand people into arenas and stadiums with positions on trade that would have held, Pennsylvania and Michigan (Bernie won it's Primary remember?) at a minimum. We want the person with the lowest trustworthy and favorability ratings in our party's history. Oh, and she happens to be under an FBI investigation? Yippie! We don't care. She's who we want! What kinda party looses governorship's while occupying the White House for eight years? What kind of leadership is that? The DNC was entirely inept under Debbie Wassermann Schultz. It's being purged at the moment with progressive replacements coming in. Good. Four years late, but you know? Who's counting? Fuck the democratic party. It's why I'm really not upset about this election. Ya got what ya deserved. Why even let the possibility of this ever happening come into play? As soon as I can? I'm registering as an Independent. If this is how you run your organization? Why on earth do you think you deserve to run the country? Go back to being New Deal Democrats. The American people deserve a new "New Deal" and it's time.
Indeed.
Was anyway :-).
Republicans
Y'all got nothing to be proud of either. You lost your identity as a party in this mess. Both parties orthodoxy was just torn to shreds, that's the story of this election to me. But seriously? How long do you think you're going to continue to win elections with a minority of votes? Probably not many more election cycles. Twice in the last twenty eight years you've managed to win the presidency by popular vote. Twice in the last twenty eight years! You had to gerrymander the house years ago to retain control. (Republicans Win Congress as Democrats Get Most Votes). You've managed to do the same thing at the state level. (These 3 maps show just how dominant Republicans are in America after Tuesday). Not quite the O-fer the Dems pulled but getting pretty damn close. Look at what all you had to do to win this election: Get big name celebrity to run, check, Gut Voting Rights Act, check, Purge voting roles, check, Institute draconian voter ID law's in swing states, check, Close early voting stations in same, check. And you still managed to loose the popular vote! Ya pulled out all the stops on this one. You knew you had to.
I walked into the lil store where I used to be a cook. It was the day after the election and the usual crowd was there. The 12 or so older white men with grey hair were enjoying their moment. To be honest? I was happy for them. Then, as I went to check out, I was waited on by quite possibly four immigrants. Walking to the truck I couldn't help but think... How many of the white haired old men are gonna be around for the next election, or the one after that?...then I thought, how many children will the four people behind the counter have in the next four or eight years? It was like I was hearing the last great collective sigh of relief from white rural America. That's exactly what it felt like walking out of there that day.
A microcosm of the demographic trends sweeping our country while getting my biscuits and gravy Lucy.
Sweet :-).
Love you Dollbaby.
Apparently
some individuals didn't like finding out about my wildest dreams lol.
So here's the deal.
It's always been this way.
We are each responsible for the media we consume.
What we see, hear, read, listen to etc.
You are the final editor.
You have the final say.
Turn it off.
Put it down.
Walk away from it if you don't like it.
But don't blame the person who created it.
Not their fault you can do your job and be the final editor.
Sunday, November 13, 2016
Didn't
a certain young woman say along time ago (About four years or so) in the old POF days that the lord was bringing his two's together to go out into the world?
Pretty sure she did.
I know she did as a matter of fact cause I remember telling my buddy David Lash about it.
Encyclopedic
some might say.
The two I missed?
Out of forty questions?
They were about Elvis lol.
Did he have any #1's in the decade?
Which one of these four songs was recorded in the sixties, bombed both of them.
Fuckin Elvis lol.
Figures.
In my defense he is more associated with the fifties.
And I was a whopping six years old at the end of the decade.
Wanted a 100%.
But I'll take it.
Marley
with The Commodores backstage at Madison Square Gardens.
79? 80?
Somewhere in there.
He was the opening act.
Lionel Richie second from the left.
The
same piece of hemp that gives you the right to own a gun, gives you the right to Peacefully assemble.
The key word there was Peacefully.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
"But
the voice of truth tells me a different story
And the voice of truth says, "Do not be afraid!"
And the voice of truth says, "This is for My glory"
Out of all the voices calling out to me
I will choose to listen and believe the voice of truth"
"The
waves they keep on telling me
Time and time again, "Boy, you'll never win!"
"You'll never win"
But the voice of truth tells me a different story
And the voice of truth says, "Do not be afraid!"
And the voice of truth says, "This is for My glory"
Out of all the voices calling out to me
I will choose to listen and believe the voice of truth"
Matthew 5:11-12
Matthew 5:11-12
“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
Rejoice and be glad,because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
:-)
"All work no play may have made Jack a dull boy
But all work no God has left Jack with a lost soul
But he's moving on full steam
He's chasing the American dream
And he's gonna give his family the finer things
Not this time son I've no time to waste
Maybe tomorrow we'll have time to play
And then he slips into his new BMW
And drives farther and farther and farther away
So He works all day and tries to sleep at night
He says things will get better;
Better in time
And he works and he builds with his own two hands
And he pours all he has in a castle made with sand
But the wind and the rain are comin' crashing in
Time will tell just how long his kingdom stands
His kingdom stands
His American Dream is beginning to seem
More and more like a nightmare
With every passing day
"Daddy, can you come to my game?"
"Oh Baby, please don't work late."
Another wasted weekend
And they are slipping away
'Cause he works all day and lies awake at night
He tells them things will get better
It'll just take a little more time
He used to say, "Whoever dies with the most toys wins"
But if he loses his soul, what has he gained in the end
I'll take a shack on the rock
Over a castle in the sand
Now he works all day and cries alone at night
It's not getting any better
Looks like he's running out of time
'Cause he worked and he built with his own two hands
And he poured all he had in a castle made with sand
But the wind and the rain are coming crashing in
Time will tell just how long his kingdom stands
His kingdom stands
All they really wanted was You
All they really wanted was You
All they really wanted was You"
:-)
"Oh what I would do to have
The kind of faith it takes to climb out of this boat I'm in
Onto the crashing waves
To step out of my comfort zone
To the realm of the unknown where Jesus is
And He's holding out his hand
But the waves are calling out my name and they laugh at me
Reminding me of all the times I've tried before and failed
The waves they keep on telling me
Time and time again, "Boy, you'll never win!"
"You'll never win"
But the voice of truth tells me a different story
And the voice of truth says, "Do not be afraid!"
And the voice of truth says, "This is for My glory"
Out of all the voices calling out to me
I will choose to listen and believe the voice of truth"
Preacher man
said at revival the other night that the reason for sex was to propagate the human race.
In another 85 years?
We're gonna add 30% more people to the world.
Seems like the human race is doing a pretty good job propagating itself if you ask me.
Sorry dude.
Gotta call bullshit on this one.
That's your opinion.
It's not biblical.
Nowhere in the bible does it say the ONLY reason for sex is to have children.
I know go forth and multiply I get it.
But it doesn't say this is the only reason we were given this blessing.
My counter to the "go forth and multiply" argument?
Oh I don't know, the entire Book of Song of Solomon?
Having a child wasn't exactly at the forefront of the participants thoughts it doesn't seem like to me.
I take a Prince like approach with this one :-).
With the right person?
With the right emotional connections?
Intimacy can sometimes be as close as we'll ever get to heaven here on earth.
That to me seems to be the point.
Preacher man got his opinions.
I got mine.
Dad would have said:
"That's what makes the world go around."
Love you Lucy.
More
intelligent.
Sweeter.
Quirkier.
Than she is drop dead gorgeous.
Dear everyone,
this is why I've been going nuts for years on end now :-).
Friday, November 11, 2016
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Seriously?
Does anyone really think Bernie Sanders wouldn't have received:
73,000 more votes in Pennsylvania,
27,000 more votes in Wisconsin,
and 12,000 more votes in Michigan than Hillary ended up with?
(That would have won the election)
I mean who seriously believes that?
NPR stated that Democratic women in those three states voted for Hillary at a rate of, are you ready for this?
55%.
55%.
The vast majority of the other 45% went to Trump.
DEMOCRATIC WOMEN!
His message on trade resonated.
This is women getting back at her for NAFTA and what it ended up doing to their families.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
One
could argue that the media gave Trump the election with the estimated $80 million dollars of free coverage they gave him during the primaries.
This is why the blurring of the lines between entertainment and news reporting is a bad idea.
Misc
election thoughts.
Hillary was a flawed candidate from the start.
Ask yourself this, if the democratic nominee wasn't female and their last name wasn't Clinton and they were under investigation from the FBI would as many people have voted for them in the primaries?
Very unlikely.
Like a lot of people, I wasn't really thrilled with the choices we had.
Living in a state that I know is going to go red in presidential elections affords me the opportunity to cast a protest vote.
So I did.
Keep in mind we are electing electors here to go elect people for us.
(Article 2, Section 1, and the 12th Amendment of the constitution.)
A woman will win the Presidency here soon.
I'd be lying if I said I was sad that it won't be Hillary.
Just never really liked her.
She came across for decades like it was just inevitable that this was going to happen for her.
A very polarizing figure with lots of baggage does not a good candidate make.
Dems did what Republicans do.
They put party loyalty in front of what was best for the country.
I've been a registered Democrat all my life.
First chance I get?
I'm changing to independent.
I don't care about voting in the primaries any more.
Hopefully they all become open here before long anyway.
Hopefully they all become open here before long anyway.
On a brighter note lol.
Only once in my lifetime has a party that has held the White House for two terms went on to win a third term.
Talking party here not individuals.
That would be the first "W" after Reagan.
It's just a hard feat to pull off.
So anyway, now somebody actually has to govern.
These "free trade" agreements have been horrible for the working class of this county.
European countries do need to pay more for their portion of NATO.
But a couple of policy positions I agree with will never make me change my mind of what an utterly classless, tasteless individual is now the president elect of this country.
Now the democrats will pull out all the obstructionist tricks they learned from their Republican counterparts.
Takes about a year to put a team together to start with.
(This is something Mr. Trump has never excelled at BTW).
Last year of his term he'll be in lame duck status with another election coming.
In between you have about two and a half years to get something done.
It's like my buddy Lonnie used to say,
"One thing about it, these aren't boring times we're living in."
When's the Midterms again?
Anybody seen Elizabeth Warren?
Love you Lucy.
Love you Lucy.
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
:-)
"I got a date with the preacher's daughter
She give me life she bring me water.
Every Sunday I watch her work
Pretty little self in a pretty little church
Daddy gives her nod she takes collection
Daddy gives her nod she kneels by his side.
Well I'd sell my soul for just one touch
The good Lord would too if he loved her half as much."
John 7:38
John 4:14
John 3:37
Isiah 44:3
Love you.
Nite.
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