HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!

THANK YOU LORD FOR BRINGING US TO THIS POINT. WE PRAY FOR WISDOM, COURAGE, FAITH AND STRENGTH TO FACE THE CHALLENGES OF 2014 ---AMEN

A Story That Should Be Read By All

Camille Paglia: A Feminist Defense of Masculine Virtues

The cultural critic on why ignoring the biological differences between men and women risks undermining Western civilization itself.

By 

BARI WEISS 

CONNECT

Dec. 27, 2013 6:55 p.m. ET

Philadelphia

'What you're seeing is how a civilization commits suicide," says Camille Paglia. This self-described "notorious Amazon feminist" isn't telling anyone to Lean In or asking Why Women Still Can't Have It All. No, her indictment may be as surprising as it is wide-ranging: The military is out of fashion, Americans undervalue manual labor, schools neuter male students, opinion makers deny the biological differences between men and women, and sexiness is dead. And that's just 20 minutes of our three-hour conversation.

When Ms. Paglia, now 66, burst onto the national stage in 1990 with the publishing of "Sexual Personae," she immediately established herself as a feminist who was the scourge of the movement's establishment, a heretic to its orthodoxy. Pick up the 700-page tome, subtitled "Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, " and it's easy to see why. "If civilization had been left in female hands," she wrote, "we would still be living in grass huts."

The fact that the acclaimed book—the first of six; her latest, "Glittering Images," is a survey of Western art—was rejected by seven publishers and five agents before being printed by Yale University Press only added to Ms. Paglia's sense of herself as a provocateur in a class with Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern. But unlike those radio jocks, Ms. Paglia has scholarly chops: Her dissertation adviser at Yale was Harold Bloom, and she is as likely to discuss Freud, Oscar Wilde or early Native American art as to talk about Miley Cyrus.

Ms. Paglia relishes her outsider persona, having previously described herself as an egomaniac and "abrasive, strident and obnoxious." Talking to her is like a mental CrossFit workout. One moment she's praising pop star Rihanna ("a true artist"), then blastingObamaCare ("a monstrosity," though she voted for the president), global warming ("a religious dogma"), and the idea that all gay people are born gay ("the biggest canard," yet she herself is a lesbian).

But no subject gets her going more than when I ask if she really sees a connection between society's attempts to paper over the biological distinction between men and women and the collapse of Western civilization.

She starts by pointing to the diminished status of military service. "The entire elite class now, in finance, in politics and so on, none of them have military service—hardly anyone, there are a few. But there is no prestige attached to it anymore. That is a recipe for disaster," she says. "These people don't think in military ways, so there's this illusion out there that people are basically nice, people are basically kind, if we're just nice and benevolent to everyone they'll be nice too. They literally don't have any sense of evil or criminality."

The results, she says, can be seen in everything from the dysfunction in Washington (where politicians "lack practical skills of analysis and construction") to what women wear. "So many women don't realize how vulnerable they are by what they're doing on the street," she says, referring to women who wear sexy clothes.

When she has made this point in the past, Ms. Paglia—who dresses in androgynous jackets and slacks—has been told that she believes "women are at fault for their own victimization." Nonsense, she says. "I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters." She calls it "street-smart feminism."

Ms. Paglia argues that the softening of modern American society begins as early as kindergarten. "Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys," she says, pointing to the most obvious example: the way many schools have cut recess. "They're making a toxic environment for boys. Primary education does everything in its power to turn boys into neuters."

She is not the first to make this argument, as Ms. Paglia readily notes. Fellow feminist Christina Hoff Sommers has written about the "war against boys" for more than a decade. The notion was once met with derision, but now data back it up: Almost one in five high-school-age boys has been diagnosed with ADHD, boys get worse grades than girls and are less likely to go to college.

Ms. Paglia observes this phenomenon up close with her 11-year-old son, Lucien, whom she is raising with her ex-partner, Alison Maddex, an artist and public-school teacher who lives 2 miles away. She sees the tacit elevation of "female values"—such as sensitivity, socialization and cooperation—as the main aim of teachers, rather than fostering creative energy and teaching hard geographical and historical facts.

By her lights, things only get worse in higher education. "This PC gender politics thing—the way gender is being taught in the universities—in a very anti-male way, it's all about neutralization of maleness." The result: Upper-middle-class men who are "intimidated" and "can't say anything. . . . They understand the agenda." In other words: They avoid goring certain sacred cows by "never telling the truth to women" about sex, and by keeping "raunchy" thoughts and sexual fantasies to themselves and their laptops.

Politically correct, inadequate education, along with the decline of America's brawny industrial base, leaves many men with "no models of manhood," she says. "Masculinity is just becoming something that is imitated from the movies. There's nothing left. There's no room for anything manly right now." The only place you can hear what men really feel these days, she claims, is on sports radio. No surprise, she is an avid listener. The energy and enthusiasm "inspires me as a writer," she says, adding: "If we had to go to war," the callers "are the men that would save the nation."

And men aren't the only ones suffering from the decline of men. Women, particularly elite upper-middle-class women, have become "clones" condemned to "Pilates for the next 30 years," Ms. Paglia says. "Our culture doesn't allow women to know how to be womanly," adding that online pornography is increasingly the only place where men and women in our sexless culture tap into "primal energy" in a way they can't in real life.

A key part of the remedy, she believes, is a "revalorization" of traditional male trades—the ones that allow women's studies professors to drive to work (roads), take the elevator to their office (construction), read in the library (electricity), and go to gender-neutral restrooms (plumbing).

" Michelle Obama's going on: 'Everybody must have college.' Why? Why? What is the reason why everyone has to go to college? Especially when college is so utterly meaningless right now, it has no core curriculum" and "people end up saddled with huge debts," says Ms. Paglia. What's driving the push toward universal college is "social snobbery on the part of a lot of upper-middle-class families who want the sticker in the window."

Ms. Paglia, who has been a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia since 1984, sees her own students as examples. "I have woodworking students who, even while they're in class, are already earning money making furniture and so on," she says. "My career has been in art schools cause I don't get along with normal academics."

To hear her tell it, getting along has never been Ms. Paglia's strong suit. As a child, she felt stifled by the expectations of girlhood in the 1950s. She fantasized about being a knight, not a princess. Discovering pioneering female figures as a teenager, most notably Amelia Earhart, transformed Ms. Paglia's understanding of what her future might hold.

These iconoclastic women of the 1930s, like Earhart and Katharine Hepburn, remain her ideal feminist role models: independent, brave, enterprising, capable of competing with men without bashing them. But since at least the late 1960s, she says, fellow feminists in the academy stopped sharing her vision of "equal-opportunity feminism" that demands a level playing field without demanding special quotas or protections for women.

She proudly recounts her battle, while a graduate student at Yale in the late 1960s and early '70s, with the New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band over the Rolling Stones: Ms. Paglia loved "Under My Thumb," a song the others regarded as chauvinist. Then there was the time she "barely got through the dinner" with a group of women's studies professors at Bennington College, where she had her first teaching job, who insisted that there is no hormonal difference between men and women. "I left before dessert."

In her view, these ideological excesses bear much of the blame for the current cultural decline. She calls out activists like Gloria Steinem, Naomi Wolf and Susan Faludi for pushing a version of feminism that says gender is nothing more than a social construct, and groups like the National Organization for Women for making abortion the singular women's issue.

By denying the role of nature in women's lives, she argues, leading feminists created a "denatured, antiseptic" movement that "protected their bourgeois lifestyle" and falsely promised that women could "have it all." And by impugning women who chose to forgo careers to stay at home with children, feminists turned off many who might have happily joined their ranks.

But Ms. Paglia's criticism shouldn't be mistaken for nostalgia for the socially prescribed roles for men and women before the 1960s. Quite the contrary. "I personally have disobeyed every single item of the gender code," says Ms. Paglia. But men, and especially women, need to be honest about the role biology plays and clear-eyed about the choices they are making.

Sex education, she says, simply focuses on mechanics without conveying the real "facts of life," especially for girls: "I want every 14-year-old girl . . . to be told: You better start thinking what do you want in life. If you just want a career and no children you don't have much to worry about. If, however, you are thinking you'd like to have children some day you should start thinking about when do you want to have them. Early or late? To have them early means you are going to make a career sacrifice, but you're going to have more energy and less risks. Both the pros and the cons should be presented."

For all of Ms. Paglia's barbs about the women's movement, it seems clear that feminism—at least of the equal-opportunity variety—has triumphed in its basic goals. There is surely a lack of women in the C-Suite and Congress, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a man who would admit that he believes women are less capable. To save feminism as a political movement from irrelevance, Ms. Paglia says, the women's movement should return to its roots. That means abandoning the "nanny state" mentality that led to politically correct speech codes and college disciplinary committees that have come to replace courts. The movement can win converts, she says, but it needs to become a big tent, one "open to stay-at-home moms" and "not just the career woman."

More important, Ms. Paglia says, if the women's movement wants to be taken seriously again, it should tackle serious matters, like rape in India and honor killings in the Muslim world, that are "more of an outrage than some woman going on a date on the Brown University campus."

Ms. Weiss is an associate editorial features editor at the Journal.

(From the Wall Street Journal)

WSJ In-Depth

 

ANOTHER LETTER TO EDITOR ON JAMES COVERED BRIDGE V 2.0

THIS WAS PRINTED

Dec 26, 2013

North Vernon Sun & Plain Dealer

Letters to the Editor

 The recent contribution of Robert (Bobby) Keller to protect the James Covered Bridge from over-size farm equipment is impressive, but not surprising. I have known the Keller family over half of a century and they have served for years as the principle unpaid advocates for the preservation of the historic and irreplaceable James Covered Bridge.

The two covered bridges in Jennings County are major tourist attractions which produce revenues for the entire county, especially those businesses located in close proximity to the bridges. These businesses have a bottom line interest in the preservation of the bridges.

During the recent major renovation of the James Covered Bridge the value of the bridge to mega-farms in the area could be easily measured in lost productivity and added fuel and manpower costs.

Some readers may question my continued, long distant interest in this matter. In 1947 Jennings County represented a modern day Promised Land for my family; until age 21, I called Jennings County home; for 20 years as member of the USAF I paid Indiana State Income Tax; and I have many relatives and friends who live and work in Jennings County. 

Protecting our covered bridges preserves the past and serves as a visible monument to a brighter economic future for all.

Glenn 

Shawnee, OK  

CHRISTMAS QUAKES IN OKLAHOMA !!!!

Earthquakes shake homes over the holiday

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — It wasn’t Santa and his reindeer landing on roofs that shook some central Oklahoma homes on Christmas.

The U.S. Geological Survey reports that two small earthquakes struck the area on Wednesday, in addition to one that struck the night before.

The first, a 2.7-magnitude earthquake, struck near Spencer at about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. A USGS preliminary report says the earthquake’s epicenter was 5 miles north of Spencer and 11 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. The second earthquake hit a little before 3 p.m. That 2.9-magnitude quake was centered 19 miles south of Norman.

The area also had a Christmas Eve earthquake, a 3.7-magnitude trembler near Edmond around 9 p.m. on Tuesday. Preliminary USGS data show that the quake was centered about 6 miles east-northeast of Edmond and 14 miles north of Midwest City.

All three had a depth of about 3 miles.

Earthquakes have become more common in Oklahoma in the past several years. A recent study by the USGS says the seismic activity is here to stay, although it’s not clear why.

Only a handful of earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 3.0 occurred each year in Oklahoma from 1975 to 2008. But since 2009, the USGS says, more than 200 temblors have hit central Oklahoma. Many are based around the Oklahoma City area.

From Shawnee News-Star (12-26-13)

CHRISTMAS STORY---Thank You Mrs. Johnson (REPOST)

MRS. JOHNSON WAS 3RD AND 4TH GRADE TEACHER AT LOVETT. EACH STUDENT WAS REQUIRED TO MEMORIZE THE KJV CHRISTMAS STORY FOUND IN THE BOOK OF LUKE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.


Can you image the fun and money, the ACLU would have with this?


David Barton has written much about the decline of American education after God was expelled from our schools.


Christmas Story Luke 2:1-20 (No copyright on KJV) 



(Luk 2:1)  And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.


(Luk 2:2)  (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)


(Luk 2:3)  And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.


(Luk 2:4)  And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)


(Luk 2:5)  To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.


(Luk 2:6)  And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.


(Luk 2:7)  And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.


(Luk 2:8)  And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.


(Luk 2:9)  And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.


(Luk 2:10)  And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.


(Luk 2:11)  For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.


(Luk 2:12)  And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.


(Luk 2:13)  And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,


(Luk 2:14)  Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.


(Luk 2:15)  And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.


(Luk 2:16)  And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.


(Luk 2:17)  And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.


(Luk 2:18)  And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.


(Luk 2:19)  But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.


(Luk 2:20)  And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.

WELCOME NEW BLOG READERS

I HOPE YOU ENJOY READING THIS BLOG. YOU MIGHT WANT TO START AT THE BEGINNING AND THEN JUST "PICK AND CHOOSE." 

A COUPLE OF NEW FEATURES ARE PLANNED FOR 2014!!!!

STAY TUNED!

MAJOR ICE STORM HITS OKLAHOMA !!!!!!!

 

THOSE DREADED CHRISTMAS LETTERS !

CONTENT REMOVED BECAUSE POST WAS SUSPECTED OF BEING HACKED. GUESS SOME FOLKS CAN'T TAKE A JOKE !!!

AN OLD GI SPEAKS

I TAKE NO JOY IN WRITING THIS POST. THE BASIC MISSION OF THE US MILITARY IS TO BREAK THINGS AND TO KILL PEOPLE. IT IS THE CONDUCT OF US INTERESTS BY VIOLET MEANS. IT IS DANGEROUS, BLOODY AND COSTLY IN MANPOWER AND MATERIAL RESOURCES. 

TODAY IT IS HARD TO FIND A PLACE ON PLANET EARTH WHERE WE ARE NOT FACING WELL TRAINED, WELL FINANCED, AND FANATICALLY INDOCTRINATED ENEMIES. ALL OF THIS GROWING INVOLVEMENT IS BEING PLAYED OUT AGAINST A BACKDROP OF   RAPIDLY DWINDLING RESOURCES.

SIMPLY STATED: TO QUOTE GEORGE CLOONEY IN "O' BROTHER WERE ART THOUGH."  D&*N, WE'RE IN A TOUGH SPOT!

Healthcare, budgets, and appointments do not matter if we are not free.  Get informed and vote for officials who understand this  is our last turn off to freedom!

Glenn <><

A sample of one does not a theory make

WHERE'S THE LINE TO SEE JESUS ?

GUESS I AM THE LAST TO SEE THIS:

IT IS POWERFUL !!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OExXItDyWEY

HELP! I AM CAUGHT IN A VENTURE TIME WARP !!!!!

OK! YOU'VE WANTED TO CRANK THAT 3k WATTS MUSIC MONSTER UP TO 9.9! PULL THE SHADES. TURN OUT THE LIGHTS! TAKE THE PHONE OFF THE HOOK!

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN MUSIC WAS NOT DROWNED OUT BY SHOUTING AND SCREAMING?

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LET'S GIVE A PCHS SIZE WELCOME TO THE VENTURES!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzmSaMnQr5A  

MY GOSH THEY WERE AND ARE GREAT!!!

OLD GUYS CAN STILL GET IT DONE ! VENTURES IN JAPAN !

INVITE THE GRANDKIDS TO CHECK THIS OUT!  (ESP... "I GOTTA A WOMAN")



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjLFMCj82PI


MICK, MY MAN, EAT YOUR HEART OUT.

JINGLE BELLS---Ventures----Ya Gotta Hear It !

ROLL BACK THE CLOCK AND CHECK THIS OUT!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR_lI9OgHQ4




33 1/3 LIVES ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Lovely Legend Of Love

               The Lovely Legend Of Love

At age ten he first heard of that beautiful secluded valley

Where rivers of eternal and mysterious joy freely flowed

Two years later he would awaken with legends made real

He could explain stars and planets but not the valley of truth

 

For several years he sought to find that lush valley of love

Several female sojourners delightfully aided his search

Only one special female searcher could sense his desire

Her heart and soul would engulf him to produce weakness

 

Fear of losing the future depleted the need winning now

His selfish presumption of  her waiting proved so very false

He found another fellow searcher clothed in orthodoxy

Faithful and true she lacked spontaneous abandonment


 

 

 

 

USA----An Exceptional Nation---Founded By Exceptional People

This is part of a message I preached the Fourth of July weekend in 2010 at the First Baptist Church in St. Louis, OK.

"Till Death Do Us Part"

What follows is a brief story of high school sweethearts who were married against the bride's parents wishes. age. Since both were of age and little could be done.

The newlyweds received an envelope from the bride's parents that invited them to come over for a dinner next Saturday night.

The newlyweds viewed the invitation as a mellowing of the bride's parents attitude. The evening produced different result.  

FOURTH AND ONE---MARRIAGE IS S

"SO YOU WOULD KNOW" ----The LeBeaus

I HAVE SAID IT BEFORE---I LOVE SOUTHERN GOSPEL MUSIC. HERE IS A GREAT NEW SONG:

https://myspace.com/lebeaumusic/music/song/so-you-would-know-10680888-10482072




Check It Out. Great Message and  A Great Arrangement.

Glenn <><

NOT ALL OF THE COCKROACHES LIVE UNDER THE SINK !

Following the death of a church member's father, I was asked to accompany the daughter to the reading of her father's Will.

Once more I saw human nature at its most sinful display. Her father had developed a very, very serious relation with a woman about 40 years his junior. This relationship was prearranged by her mother on her deathbed to take care of her boyfriend after her death.

Take care she did. The executrix was changed to the daughter.  Also the major portion of the estate was to go to new executrix instead of my church member. In addition, nothing was to go to the deceased only surviving sibling. He was hurt that he was not named executor instead of a woman his brother had only known for a year.

Even the lawyer for the estate was shocked and amazed by this very strange turn of events.  

I later learned this was a well planned scheme that resulted in the victory for a Gold Digger's family. When it gets dark enough the cockroaches will come out. Not all of the cockroaches live under the sink. I feel very sorry for the family of the victims and those victims yet to come.    

THERE IS A PAYDAY SOMEDAY! 

Thanks for the Emails---Keep 'em Coming

I always welcome emails. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!
 
One common denominator is that most emails deal with the present. I really appreciate that very much.

One recent email dealt with a widow's plans for travel and family activities. She is moving forward in spite of a great personal loss. That is courage and the Grace of God at work.

Keep reading the Blog and keep those emails coming in.

Glenn <><

THANK YOU PRESIDENT LINCOLN !

Mister President, Thank you for being a president of personal principle instead of political partisanship.

Thank you for showing Christian compassion instead of contrived concern.

Thank you for spending your time majoring on equal opportunity instead of equal outcomes. 

Thank you for focusing on future generations instead of fickle focus groups.

Thank you for using your early failures as a launching pad for real success instead of a platform for rationalizing surrender.

Finally, thank you Mister President for taking time to personally travel to Gettysburg to deliver a speech of only 270 words. That address honored the fallen, comforted the grieving and defined for generations yet unborn, what it means to be an American.

God Bless You Mister President

Gettysburg---150 Years Later---Greatness Never Dies !

NOVEMBER 19, 2013 IS THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS 

 

Here is the full text:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

-- Abraham Lincoln

Nov. 19, 1863



THE PAWN SHOP ----A VERY SAD PLACE

I have referred to a pawn shop in earlier Posts. I will guess that many of the readers of this Blog have never been inside a pawn shop. Maybe you will agree with me, after reading this Post, it is a very sad place.

WHY PEOPLE PAWN ITEMS?

1. Temporary Cash Need---In spite of high comparative interest, it is a quick, no-credit check way to get some much needed cash for legitimate reasons.

2. Dump Stolen Items---Police regularly check pawn shops for reported stolen property. A smart thief goes some distance from the local area to dump their items.

3. Cash for Drugs and/or Gambling---This is a major motivator for people in Oklahoma to pawn or sell outright important and expensive
items.

Here's the part that really affects me----children and other family members anxiously await, in the car, the return of the person pawning an item. 

Tornadoes Hit The Heartland---11-17-2013

AP PHOTO

I am watching CNN and talking to my brother in North Vernon all at the same time. Modern technology is something.

The photos and reports are all too familiar to those of us who live in Oklahoma. While the initial shock will wear off, the effects of material and emotional lose will remain for a very, very long time! 

My thoughts and prayers are with family and friends who are victims of this very rare Fall outbreak of very bad weather. 

THE MAN WHO RAN THROUGH 3 STOP SIGNS !

   

True Story

 

I recently met a man who was on his way to recovering after running 3 food safety Stop signs.

 

 

He reported he stopped at his favorite diner to have a hot dog. Here is his near death experience story.

 

Stop Sign #1: His favorite hot dog didn't look right ---it was brownish in color and wrinkled in appearance.

 

Stop Sign # 2: His favorite hot dog did not smell right---for the life of me I cannot describe how it must have smelled.

 

Stop Sign # 3: His favorite hot dog did not taste right----no juice and tough to bite.

 

For four days following the hot dog experience, he battled diarrhea and severe vomiting. One listener to his story asked if his knees were in a permanent right angle! With his condition picking up speed but losing altitude, he went to the doctor.

 

Surprise! Surprise ! He was suffering food poisoning and after several tests the problem was traced to the bad hot dog.. He had both salmonella and ecoli poisoning. The doctor stated if not caught the ecoli would have entered his brain with fatal results.

 

The meds he was prescribed stopped the infection and the long road to recovery started.

 

Yes, the doctor reported the incident to the health department. Here is where common sense gets suspended. I asked, " Did you inform the hot dog vendor?"

 

Are you ready for his reply? 

 

"No, I didn't want to hurt his business." (Emphasis mine.)

 

Some people you just can't help.

 

 





The End of a Lonely and Angry Man

This a real account of a man I know (not a fellow church member) who died (I did not preach the service) and was eulogized by his pastor as being a man of service and great moral character.

One person in attendance asked me following the service if they had attended the wrong funeral? For the man so many of us present knew was a far cry from the man described by the pastor.


The man most of us had known was a very domineering and dictatorial person who seemed to always go out of his way to created problems and bad relations with others, including his own family.

He was a man of great mechanical achievement but never learned the difference between making a living and making a life. He was the poster boy for OCB and perfectionism.

He distrusted everyone, especially those located near him. He would become very upset if a neighbor's tree leaves blew into his yard. Arguments with city officials were commonplace.

Toward the end of his life he had only one friend, his caregiver nurse. Here is the saddest of all situations. She thought he was the perfect man and he thought she was the perfect Christian. Her behavior was equally hypocritical and misleading.

He left behind a tangled financial nightmare. His caregiver is apparently the only person who has the "secret" code to unlock this mess. 

His military honor guard funeral, complete with a 21 gun salute and taps, could not erase the wasted  life he had lived. 

I was very, very glad when the service was concluded. It will take me some time to work through my feelings about this man.

  

Possible Indiana Sighting of Hickory Husker Red Basketball Bus !!!

OK! OK! I know the moie Hossiers

Solar Eclipse

Major Hardware Configuration Changes Underway

Attention: All Blog readers----Posts will continue when changes are completed.

65 and 1/2 Years

I encountered an elderly couple at our pharmacy and asked how long they had been married?

The wife replied, "Sixty five and one half years."


I said, "That is a monument of love."


She quickly remarked, "We are a monument all right!"

Response to a Reader's E-mail

Dear (Name Withheld),

Thank you for your recent e-mail.

I will attempt to respond to your concerns one-by-one:

1. Yes, I do Post on many different subjects on my Blog. I make no claim to being an expert and only try to speak to subjects that are of interest to me. Some are serious and some are tongue in cheek.

2. No, I do not have any ax to grind with any PCHS classmates or other persons. At 72, my life is way too short attacking anyone. In fact, I have on several occasions sought to make amends with those I may have offended in the past. Also, many Posts have sought to thank those from my past who have left a lasting impact upon my life.

3. Yes, I will quickly admit that much of my writing is very plain and lackluster in style and content. I do have a desire to speak with those that have greatly influenced my life. Perhaps, just perhaps, a Post or two will bring some mirth and thoughtful reflection into a few lives.

4. With a few exceptions, I usually write the Posts without a rough draft. A few of the longer Posts have been exposed to a handwritten Bic pen first. 

5. Yes, I welcome guest Posts. Send them to ke5gk@sbcglobal.net  I'll be happy to share your stories with our readers.   

Hopefully, this answers your concerns. Keep reading and keep writing.

Glenn <><  

You Can Get A Bad Rooster !!!!!!!

A lady in our church shared with me and some other church members about the critters that are
near her family's double-wide mobile home. They live in an area at the edge of the woods.

Bobcats, snakes, and a three-legged fox are regular visitors. She has killed four snakes in her backyard this summer.

They raise chickens and gather their own eggs. Snakes and bobcats have greatly reduced their flock. In addition, a big red rooster has attacked her and their four children; especially, their two year old son.

Her husband and father-in-law were unsuccessful in changing the rooster's attitude.

One day, out of desperation, she grabs the family's 20 gauge shotgun and pulls the trigger. BOOM! Blood goes everywhere and feathers fly straight up.

After the feathers flutter down, she ran to the spot where the rooster stood and all she could find was the BEAK and the TOENAILS!!!!!!    

We Are Never Too Old To Learn

Ok. My vanity is on full display, again.

I consider myself an above average identifier of '50s Rock n Roll songs. But today I was stumped on this one:

"Girls grow up faster than boys" by the Cookies

Do you remember this "chart buster"?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtLBJzHPJbY


Neither my Mom or Dad shared this fundamental truth with me while I was a teenager. I suppose I learned it experientially! If any of the girls who I
dated in high school happen to read this--- I say a belated Thank You for the lessons.

A couple deserve a Golden Apple for their very special teaching ability!

March of the Monarchs

In September of each year the Monarch butterflies pass through Oklahoma on their way to Mexico for the winter months. Thousands come by and it is really something to see. Like migratory birds, the butterflies somehow know the way there and how to fly north in the Spring. ADULTS Male Monarch: Notice the thin vein pigmentation and swollen pouches on the hindwings. Female Monarch: Notice the thick vein pigmentation and no hindwing pouches.

MORE OF MY OBSESSION---Graham Creek



I do not own the Copyright on this photo

I am speculating the photographer is the same chap who has placed many photos of the James Covered Bridge on the Internet. Furthermore, I think this shot is looking North /Upstream from the bridge.
 
The photo was taken in late summer when the creek gets very low. I have caught a lot of smallmouth bass from the small pockets of water. Minnows hang out near the weeds and so do the bass. I can close my eyes and almost hear the riffles and smell the cool dampness of the creek. Mourning doves (rain crows) and an excited child's voice can be heard immediately after a couple of car doors slam.
 
Mussel shells and crawdads cover much of the bottom.  
 
I have been most fortunate to have fished in some very fine trout streams/lakes across our great country. Have fished in three oceans and the Gulf of Mexico; however, my heart will always belongs to Graham Creek and the many wonderful memories made there.
 
My gosh I miss it.          Glenn <><

PRE-MARITAL COUNSELING QUESTIONS

In these tough economic times, BEFORE getting married ask your potential spouse the following questions:

1.   Without looking, how much money do you have in your purse/wallet? Now see if you are within 2 dollars of the actual amount?

2.    Situation: A massive snowstorm hits overnight halting welfare check house deliveries. What would be the best streets to take to get to the local post office.

3.   Jack Daniels is distilled in what state?

4.   When a pair of dice are tossed and a 2 and a 5 are showing, what is on the bottom of each?

5.   Name the operating hours of two pawn shops in the local area.

6.   Name six different ways to prepare baloney.

7.   When your mother refuses to “lend” more money, what is the next course of action?

The answers to these questions could be an indicator to see if the relationship should be continued.

IMMEDIATE JOB OPENING

Life Guard in drive through car wash. Red Cross certification with soapy water endorsement required. UA required. BI required. Primary duties---rescue drunk drivers and disabled passengers who have convertible tops down when entering car wash. No benefits. Pay determined by persons saved minus persons lost. Career advancement determined by daily customer reports. Send resume to : captainahab@deepsixcarwash.com

WHAT'S IN A NUMBER ?? V2.0 Mystery Explained

See Explanation At Bottom Of Post

1.     72 is 2 times 36 which is 2 times 18

2.     72 is 4 times 18

3.     72 is 6 times 12 and 6 plus 12 is 18

4.     72 is  6 plus 6 is 12 and plus 6 is 18  

            "It's elementary Dr. Watson."

"Dr. Watson, its really quite simple---The very vain Blogger turned 72 on the 18th of October."

"Holmes, you continue to amaze me."

"Sure wish I'd marked the calendar!"

"Sure wish I'd marked the calendar!"

Was it the day I hired a boy to mow my yard?
                              OR
Was it when I tried to play basketball again?
                              OR
Was it the day I dropped a bag of groceries?
                              OR
Was it when a teenager held a door open?
                              OR
Was it when all the obits were younger than me?
                              OR
Was it when the last piece was saved for me?
                           
Sure wish I'd marked the calendar the day when I got Old

Glenn <><

"All I know is what I read in the papers" ----Wil Rogers

I look for chances to quote the all-time, undefeated, champion entertainer from Oklahoma---Will Rogers.

"SO WAKE ME UP WHEN ITS ALL OVER"

I am probably the last guy on planet Earth to discover this catchy song.

It has a '60s sound. It is the sort of music Jimmy Webb might have written. The late John Denver could handle this song just fine.

Check out this You Tube music video:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AviciiOfficialVEVO?feature=watch


Glenn <>< The Oldest New Music Critic

LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW!

 

 

The following brief true accounts are indicative of Hoosier Hospitality and Dedication:

 

 

1. Sectional Sleepover:  A monster snowstorm piled up many inches of snow during a Columbus Sectional. Fans from many schools were stranded. My wife's grandmother lived about six blocks south of the gym and opened her home for stranded fans.

 

She cooked breakfast for the entire group the following morning. (I loved her as much as my biological grandmothers.)

 

2. Cummins Continuity: Another big snow hit Columbus and a former PCHS student stepped up and did something above and beyond. He had a vital job at the factory that impacted the entire plant. His relief shift operator was snowed out and the former PCHS student stayed on the job a total of 36 straight hours. The multi-million dollar engine maker was able to stay open.  

 

His overtime check was so big they gave him two separate checks.

 

3. Frog legs and Catfish:  This snow story also involves a former PCHS student who was in the Vernon Nip-N-Sip bar when a jumbo snow hit. The total storm dropped 14 inches and the bar owner locked the door at closing time and told the patrons it was too bad to attempt to drive home. He retrieved frog legs and catfish from his freezer and the entire band of bar room buddies ate and drank the night away!---All free!

 

Some snow bound patrons slept (make that passed out) on the floor and some slept crumpled up against the wall like so many puppets with the controlling strings removed. 

 

About 9 am the next morning the snow plows had removed enough snow to permit the headache hurting good old boys to drive home. (For the record---The former PCHS student claims to have pulled an up all night session and never went to sleep.)