GOTTA SEE THIS ONE !

FROM CATHIE FILIAN'S BLOG: (red emphasis mine)




I am an Okie girl and proud of it, so when this bit of funny information came through my email - I just knew I had to share it with you. Those of you who are familiar with Oklahoma will get a kick out of the names. And those of you have not been, well you should go! I have to admit I have been to many of the towns! :)



Love The Summer?Poolville, Oklahoma
Sunray, Oklahoma

Want Something To Eat?
Corn, Oklahoma
Grainola, Oklahoma
Hominy, Oklahoma
Olive, Oklahoma
South Coffeeville, Oklahoma
Sweetwater, Oklahoma
Cookietown, Oklahoma

Why Travel To Other Cities? Oklahoma Has Them All!Cleveland, Oklahoma
Orlando, Oklahoma
Miami, Oklahoma
Pittsburgh, Oklahoma
Santa Fe, Oklahoma
St. Louis, Oklahoma  (I SERVE AS PASTOR HERE)
Chattanooga, Oklahoma
Peoria, Oklahoma
Burbank, Oklahoma
Fargo, Oklahoma

Don't Forget The Wildlife!Wolfe, Oklahoma
Eagle, Oklahoma
Buffalo, Oklahoma
Fox, Oklahoma
Bison, Oklahoma
Deer Creek, Oklahoma
Elk City, Oklahoma

We Have A Town Named After A Number...
Forty-One, Oklahoma

And A Town Who's Letter's Don't Spell Anything....IXL, Oklahoma

And For The Sportsman Who Wants To Get Away From It All...
Fisherman's Paradise, Oklahoma

We Even Have A City Named After Earth's Only Satellite!
Moon, Oklahoma

And A City Named After Our State!
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 

Feeling A Bit Chilly?Snow, Oklahoma
Slick, Oklahoma
Cold Springs, Oklahoma

Oklahoma Is Full Of Love!Lovedale, Oklahoma
Loveland, Oklahoma
Lovell, Oklahoma
Bigheart, Oklahoma
Loyal, Oklahoma

Like To Read About The Presidents?Adams, Oklahoma
Taylor, Oklahoma
Fillmore, Oklahoma
Grant, Oklahoma
Taft, Oklahoma
Johnson, Oklahoma
Lincoln, Oklahoma
Jefferson, Oklahoma
Reagan, Oklahoma
Wilson, Oklahoma
Roosevelt, Oklahoma
Carter, Oklahoma
Clinton, Oklahoma
Washington, Oklahoma

Other City Names In Oklahoma To Make You Smile.....Frogville, Oklahoma
Loco, Oklahoma
Bushyhead, Oklahoma
Bugtussle, Oklahoma
Hooker, Oklahoma--MASCOT IS: HOOKER HORNEY TOADS
Slaughterville, Oklahoma
Bowlegs, Oklahoma
Slapout, Oklahoma

And Regardless What Side Of The Fence You're On...
Gay, Oklahoma
Straight, Oklahoma

HAPPY ! HAPPY ! HAPPY ! 2014 THANKSGIVING---REPRINT

HAPPY !
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                                                THANKSGIVING!

                FROM TURKEY DYNASTY


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HICKS, HAYSEEDS, & HILLBILLIES---I LOVE 'EM ALL! v 2.0

Added: The title of this Post is how I was treated---not how I view the real hard workers!




I HAVE THE GREATEST OF RESPECT FOR MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE CHAPPED HANDS AND SUNBURNED NECKS. THESE FOLKS BUILT AMERICA AND KEEP IT RUNNING.


MOST PEOPLE WITH MANUAL SKILLS ARE WILLING AND EAGER TO EXPLAIN THE WORKINGS OF THEIR TRADE IN TERMS EVEN AN OLD  MAN LIKE ME CAN UNDERSTAND. VERY FEW HAVE EVER TRIED TO SNOW ME WITH HOW MUCH THEY KNOW.


SADLY, THAT DOES NOT HOLD TRUE FOR THE WHITE SHIRTS AND TIES CROWD. RECENTLY, A SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF A LARGE REGIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTION CALLED ME AND EARLY ON HE STRESSED HE KNEW MORE ABOUT MY PROBLEM THAN I DID.


AFTER ABOUT 30 MINUTES THE "SHIRT" ACKNOWLEDGED THE INSTITUTION, NOT ME, WAS THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM. HE FINALLY THANKED ME FOR  DISCOVERING A MAJOR FLAW IN THEIR OPERATING PROCEDURES.


BEING TWO DOWN, MR. VICE PRESIDENT PROCEEDED TO TELL ME HOW HE HAD ALL OF HIS BILLS PAID OUT OF HIS ACCOUNT EACH MONTH. I MENTIONED THE SMALL AMOUNT OF MY INCOME, THREE GRANDKIDS WE ARE RAISING, AND A SEMI-INVALID WIFE WHO TAKES A TON OF MEDICINE. HE STOPPED REFERRING TO HIS LARGE POSITION.


HE DID AUTHORIZE A SMALL, I MEAN SMALL, GIFT CARD FOR ALL OF THE PROBLEMS HIS OUTFIT HAD CAUSED ME.


I DO NOT RESPOND WELL TO SHIRTS WHO TRY TO IMPRESS ME.  
 
IN CLOSING, HE SAID HE WOULD NOT BE IN HIS OFFICE BETWEEN 11AM-1PM.  I SAID THAT I HOPED HE HAD SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT! SILENCE FOLLOWED. I REMARKED THAT I KNEW HOW THINGS WORKED. HE WANTED TO IMPRESS ME WITH THE FACT HE COULD TAKE A TWO HOUR LUNCH! RANCHERS, OIL PATCH WORKERS, CONSTRUCTION WORKERS ARE AMONG THE MANY WHO ARE LUCKY TO GET A 15 MINUTE LUNCH!


OVER THE YEARS, IN THE USAF, BUSINESS, AND 30 PLUS YEARS OF CHURCH WORK. I HAVE SEEN MANY ROCKETS GO UP HIGH AND FAST AND COME DOWN WITH EQUAL SPEED !!!!


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WANT TO BE RICH, VERY, VERY RICH ?????

WANT TO BE RICH?


START COUNTING YOUR BLESSINGS !!!


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"MARRIED MARRIAGE"--SEVERAL WILL IMMEDIATELY UNDERSTAND !!!!

A LOVELESS MARRIAGE IS WORSE THAN NO MARRIAGE.

WHAT MAKES THIS POEM SO REVEALING IS THE TRUTH OF THE POEM MAY APPEAR LATE IN LIFE AND AFTER YEARS UPON YEARS OF COLD, HEARTLESS MAKE BELIEVE AND PHONY SHAM. A BAD PLAY CAN NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.
MAY GOD BLESS THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN DECEIVED AND HAD THE MAJORITY OF THEIR LIVES UNKNOWINGLY WASTED BY A WOMAN  OR MAN OF THE WORST  SORT !

PLEASE SEE THE JAM PACKED WONDERFUL EXPRESSION IN RED.

HIS LAST LETTER

BY ELLA WILCOX

Well, you are free;
  The longed-for, lied-for, waited-for decree
     Is yours to-day.
I made no protest--and you had your say,
   And left me with no vestige of repute.
"Neglect, abuse, and cruelty" you charge,
 With broken marriage-vows. The list was large,
   But not to be denied. So I was mute.

Now you shall listen to a few plain facts
   Before you go out wholly from my life
   As some man's wife.
Read carefully this statement of your acts
   Which changed the luster of my honeymoon
   To somber gloom,
And wrenched the cover from Pandora's box.

In those first talks
   'Twixt bride and groom, I showed you my whole heart;
Showed you how deep my love was and how true;
With all a strong man's feeling I loved you.
(God, how I loved you, my own chosen mate!)
      But I learned this
   (So poorly did you play your little part):
You married marriage--to avoid the fate
      Of having "Miss"
Carved on your tombstone. Love you did not know;
   But you were greedy for the showy things
   That money brings.
Such weak affection as you could bestow
   Was given the provider, not the lover.

The knowledge hurt. Keen pain like that is dumb
   And masks itself in smiles, lest men discover.
      But I was lonely, and the feeling grew
      The more I studied you.
Into your shallow heart love could not come;
   But yet you loved my love, because it gave
   The prowess of a mistress o'er a slave.
You showed your power
In petty tyranny, hour after hour,
   Day after day, year after lengthening year;
My tasks, my pleasures, my pursuits were not
   Held near or dear,
Or made to seem important in your thought.
   My friends were not your friends; you goaded me
   By foolish and ignoble jealousy.
Till, through suggestion's laws,
I gave you cause.
   The beauteous ideal love had hung
In my soul's shrine,
And worshiped as a something all divine,
   With wanton hand you flung
Into the dust. And then you wondered why
My love should die.

My sins and derelictions cry aloud
To all the world. My head is bowed
   Under its merited reproaches. Yours
Is lifted to receive
   The sympathy the court's decree insures.
The world loves to believe
   In Man's depravity and Woman's worth;
   But I am one of many men on earth
   Whose loud, resounding fall
   Is like the crashing of some well-built wall,
   Which those who seek can trace
   To the slow work of insects at its base.

   Be not afraid;
   The alimony will be promptly paid.

World Voices by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
New York : Hearst's International Library Company 1916.


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ELEANOR POWELL--GINGER'S EQUAL !!! V 2.0

OK , I AM CRAZY ABOUT TAP DANCERS FROM THE GREAT MOVIE MUSICALS !


GINGER GETS THE MOST RAVES. WELL DESERVED. BUT ELEANOR POWELL IS VERY SPECIAL. SEE THE FOLLOWING YOU TUBE LINK.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veNXiv4kP-c&list=RDveNXiv4kP-c




ELEANOR WAS BY FAR MORE ATHLETIC THAN GINGER. GIVE GINGER A SLIGHT EDGE ON FIGURE. ELEANOR HAD A STAGE PRESENCE THAT GINGER NEVER CAPTURED. ELEANOR SMILE TEN TIMES MORE THAN GINGER. ELEANOR DID MANY SOLO DANCE ROUTINES.


MAYBE IT WAS ELEANOR'S ENERGY, DRIVE, AND SPEAKING EDGE THAT CAUSES ME TO RATE THE TWO AS EQUAL. MAN, COULD SHE EVER TAP DANCE!


GINGER HAD THE BALLET GRACE ELEANOR SEEMED TO LACK.


HOW FORTUNATE WE ARE TO HAVE THE BEST DANCERS IN ALL THE WORLD TO SEE ON FILM AND THE INTERNET.



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WOW !!!! LUCK HAS SMILED ON US AGAIN !!!

I AM SURE THE NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS OF ONE PERSON WINNING MORE THAN ONE LOTTERY DRAWING IS KNOWN TO THE HIGH INFORMATION READERS OF THIS BLOG.


DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE UNBELIEVABLE GOOD LUCK THAT WE HAVE EXPERIENCED ??


1. We won an all expense paid cruise to --------
      The Bermuda Triangle !


2. We were selected to appear in the remake of a popular movie -----Snakes On A Plane !


3. The latest and greatest was we won our very own island----Three Mile Island !


Please do not contact me on our secret way of winning these high value drawings !!!!   


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YOU PROBABLY HAVE'NT SEEN THESE PICS

STRANGE, VERY STRANGE, CRATER IN SIBERIA !


http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0018-exclusive-new-pictures-inside-mystery-siberian-crater/


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TREASURE INQUIRIES

 UPDATE: PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT INQUIRE ABOUT THE RUMORED SILVER TREASURE. IT IS MOST LIKELY A PRANK OR JOKE. 


I HAVE REMOVED THE POST.


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VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE: I HAVE RECEIVED INFO THAT THE SILVER MENTIONED IN THIS POST, AND ELSEWHERE, MAY HAVE A CONFEDERATE STATE CONNECTION.


THREE PCHS STUDENTS WERE EXPLORING A WOODED AREA DURING A SUMMER BREAK. THEY ENCOUNTERED A MOUNDED AREA THAT WAS RATHER NARROW AND ABOUT 2-3 FEET HIGH. 


THEIR FIRST IMPULSE WAS TO DIG RIGHT IN AND SEE WHAT WAS INSIDE. IT WAS EVIDENT THE MOUND WAS LOCATED ON WHAT WAS OTHERWISE FLAT GROUND IN THE FORREST FLOOR.


WHEN THEY QUIETED THEIR TALKING THEY HEARD A DISTINCT LOW FREQUENCY HUMMING. AT FIRST IT SOUNDED LIKE A HORNET'S NEXT. HOWEVER, IT WAS MUCH LOWER IN FREQUENCY THAN ANY BEE'S NEST THEY HAD EVER HEARD.


THE SOUND SEEMED TO BE COMING FROM THE MOUND. BUT WHAT WAS IT? REMEMBER THIS WAS YEARS BEFORE INDIANA JONES. NONETHELESS, THE PREVIOUSLY BRAVE TRIO OF TEENAGERS DECIDED TO LEAVE.


I WAS ONE OF THE TRIO. I CANNOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF THE OTHER TWO---DITTO ON THE MOUND'S LOCATION. (WAS IT THE MUCH RUMORED SILVER TREASURE? DOES INDIANA HAVE AN OAK ISLAND?)


PART OF THE UPDATE: I LOVE GETTING E-MAILS AND PHONE CALLS FROM READERS OF THIS BLOG. HOWEVER, I ASK THAT NO ONE CONTACT ME ABOUT THE LOCATION OF THE MOUND OR TRIO MEMBERS---AN OLD MAN MUST MAINTAIN A FEW SECRETS! 


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SMOKE CAUSES ME BAD RECOLLECTION

LOUISVILLE BLAZE EVOKES BAD MEMORIES FOR ME !

THE LIBERTY TIRE RECYCLING FIRE IN LOUISVILLE, KY REMINDED ME OF A PAINFUL INCIDENT IN MY PAST.

I WAS A PARTICIPANT IN A FIRE NEAR MCKINNEY, KY OVER 60 YEARS AGO.  “MY COUSIN AND I CARRIED TRASH TO A SMOLDERING FIRE BEHIND OUR GRANDPARENTS’ HOUSE. WE PLACED AN OLD TIRE ON THE TRASH FIRE AND WITHIN SECONDS THICK BLACK SMOKE BILLOWED HEAVENWARD. MY COUSIN AND I PLACED OUR SHIRTS OVER OUR HEADS AND PRETENDED TO BE FIREFIGHTERS. WE WOULD RUN THROUGH THE SMOKE WITH SHOUTS OF EXCITEMENT.”

ENTER MY COUSIN’S FATHER WHO NEARLY PULLED MY 12 YEAR OLD ARM OUT OF SOCKET. HE YELLED AT ME, “THAT SMOKE IS THICK ENOUGH TO MAKE A WELL MAN SICK MUCH LESS ONE WITH THE ASTHMA!” HE CONTINUED TO GLARE AND YELL AT ME AND NEVER ONCE SAID ANYTHING TO HIS ASTHMATIC, AND EQUALLY GUILTY, SON.

SOMETIMES THE EVENTS OF OVER HALF A CENTURY AGO COME BACK WITH PAINFUL SPEED. THE LIBERTY TIRE FIRE SCRAPED THE SCAB OFF OF ONE OF MY WORST CHILDHOOD MEMORIES.

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WOW ! 29---WHAT A NUMBER !

A POPULAR RADIO TALK SHOW HOST ANNOUNCED THIS PAST WEEK THAT 29 OF THE SENATORS WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA CARE HAVE EITHER QUIT, DIED, OR WERE DEFEATED AT THE POLLS.


THIS HAS NOT, PROBABLY WILL NOT, BEEN REPORTED BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA.


I HAVE MET SOME FOLKS WHO ARE NOW PAYING $1000 PER MONTH FOR INSURANCE !


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EVERYBODY'S SOMEBODY'S FOOL !

JUST LISTENING TO SO GREAT '50's MUSIC.


CONNIE FRANCES IS SINGING ONE OF MY FAVORITES---"EVERBODY'S SOMEBODY'S FOOL"


MY GOSH, WHAT A WONDERFUL TIME TO HAVE LIVED. I OFTEN FEEL I AM ONE OF THE MOST BLESSED GUYS IN ALL THE WORLD !


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IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT ?

Letters To Editor (Sent to Daily Oklahoman Newspaper 11-6-14)

It took me awhile in graduate school to grasp the constant mantra of my major professor: “In life, process is often content.”

Roughly translated---The way things are done is just as important as what is done. Tuesday’s election is Exhibit “A” of this profound truth. Yesterday, Americans cast ballots but no stones. Many politicians were fired but no AK-47’s.

The Founders’ Constitutional process is the enduring victor in every election. American heroes from Valley Forge to Fallujah have proudly defended this priceless process. Our peaceful voting process impacts the entire content of our lives.

Is this a great country or what?

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HARDCORE, UNREPENTANT COLD WARRIOR

THIS  APPEARED IN THE SHAWNEE NEWS-STAR: (11-4-14)

Letters to the Editor

Up Front: I am a hardcore, unrepentant, Cold Warrior. My confession notwithstanding, the Russian Air Force is engaged in a provocative and very dangerous game of international chicken. Media reports that in 2014 over 100 flights of Russia bombers have probed the airspace of NATO countries. 

What is even more alarming than the three fold increase over last year is the bombers are operating several thousand miles from the Russian border. To accomplish this new mission, fighters and refueling aircraft are accompanying the bombers. These cat and mouse probes have skirted several NATO countries, as far south as Portugal. Add to this long range “total package” mission is the bombers have not filed the necessary international flight plans and they are flying with the aircraft identifiers turned off. 

The potential for an accidental shoot down is within “the pucker factor” range of probability. If NATO is to effectively respond to these challenges, there must be a major increase in NATO resources---Translated: US defense spending.

The talking heads on TV tell us the probing flights and the invasion of the Ukraine is playing well with the Russian people who long for Russia to regain international super power status. The mix of strengthened Russian nationalism and massive cuts in US defense spending does not bode well for our national security.

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WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

AMERICANS HAVE SPOKEN AND AS OUR PRESIDENT SAID AFTER VISTORY,


"JOHN, ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES."


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LAST OFF RAMP TO FREEDOM !!!!

TOMORROW---11-4-14 ---THE CITIZENS OF THIS GREAT NATION WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY, MAYBE THEIR LAST, TO START THE LONG AND DIFFICULT TASK OF RESTORING OUR REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC TO CONSTITUTIONAL
AUTHORITY.


GO VOTE! YOUR GRANDCHILDREN ARE COUNTING ON YOU ! THE GRAVES OF OUR VETS DEMAND IT !!!!  


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HAIR BEWARE !

WIND AND LONG HAIR SOMETIME DO NOT MIX. CONSIDER:


While entering Wal-Mart recently a couple was exiting. The woman had very long black hair.


The wind first blew her hair into her face !


The wind next blew her hair into the face of her male friend !


The next huge gust blew her HAIR into the street !


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LIFE IS PRECIOUS---TIME MARCHES ON !

Many of the readers of this Blog are 60+ years of age. Somewhere---I do not know where---people develop a heightened concern about acquaintances with whom they have maintained limited contact over the years. Why is that? I suggest the following:


a. Death is rapidly depleting our ranks. If we have something to say, we had better say it now.


b. Each death of classmates and friends, who are about the same age, remind us of our own mortality.


c. For some, friends from the past is all some folks have now. Most people need people---Thanks Barbara Streisand--(Name Dropping---I served with an officer who was in Barbara's high school. )


d. With Eternity in view---life tends to sort out the chaff. People, not things, occupy are thoughts.


I confess: My classmates and friends from high school have always occupied a vital part of my memory. This is a bit strange because I have seen so few of them since we graduated. (My wife and brother frequently accuse me of being stuck in the 50's. I am guilty as charged.)


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