WALDEN WORLD

MIrror Mirror

2011-12-15T15:06:00.000-06:00

Say what!
I have the opportunity to share what God has taught me aomewhat frequently. I mean someone will say something about their "problem" God's Spirit usually gives me something to say. Most of the time I get the feeling what I'm saying to them is what I should be saying to myself. Looking in the mirror as such and seeing what is "right".

Why is it that we always seem to have an answers to others problems but never listen to what we say to them or apply what we already know to be the truth.

Today I spoke with a man who said he was "opening up to a change in his life and was praying for God to show him the direction to go." "so what do you think?" I hesitated to say what's the hold up aand fought the feeling to say he should stop waiting on the LORD to correct his bad mistakes. This guy made a BIG decision this past year, he got married. Marriaage is one of those things that if you don't prepare yourself you're going to have major problems. I'm not a marriage coounselor!

This is what is I told him. The Bible teaching the principles of God and the Spirit of God shows us what is right and what's wrong. Of course Holy Spirit recalls to us the things we need to know when we need to know things. Seems pretty simple so why is it so hard to be the person we want to be and tell others they can be? As the Kids say. "that's messed up."

Well here's my best answer it's all about faith in God and belief in oneself. Jesus was asked once what is the greatest commandment and he responded Love God and the second is love youself. Of course the greatest principle of all is that God loves you unconditionally. Right Of coruse right! So having a loving God that show mercy and provides for our every need should lead us to believing that we can be above the standard, we can live uncommonly, we can be what we want to be. Being uncommon is OK and reallly is desirable.

Today December 15, 2011 I plan to become an uncommom person. I will speak what is right and when I don't I will ask God for forgiveness and also forgive myself. I will do what I think is right and if I don't I will make things right but I will not beat myself up. I will stand with those who are deserving and cannot stand by themselves.

Touching The Soul?

2011-12-15T11:32:00.000-06:00

Inspiration is really short in this world and then there is Timmy. It is amazing to me to see a person that lives above most of us in commitment to his God and who does not follow the standard of his profession but goes beyond any standard. His career may be short lived but his impact will last forever. This believer, this boy, is unforgettable but he is not worthy of our worship. Only our God is worthy of praise and worship.

Wanted to share this article with you.

I rest my case.

When all looks lost, Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow keeps his cool

Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow delivers a pass during the second quarter Sunday against the Bears. (Tim Rasmussen, The Denver Post)

Tim Tebow was wired for sound against the Chicago Bears as part of NFL Films ' "Sound Effects." What is most striking is how remarkably calm the Broncos' quarterback was during what has become known as "Tebow Time."

When Bears running back Marion Barber fumbled the ball away in overtime, pandemonium broke out on the Broncos' sideline. Running back Jeremiah Johnson, sitting next to Tebow on the bench, went nuts. Johnson started pounding repeatedly on Tebow's shoulder pads, yelling and screaming.

Tebow's reaction? At first he said nothing. He got off the bench and as he started walking on the field, he quietly began singing a hymn. Not above a whisper, but here the world was turned upside down in an instant and Tebow was singing.

Two cool moments: He's sitting on the bench next to quarterbacks coach Adam Gase. "Why do we have to do it this way?" Gase asks Tebow, referring to how the team is forced to continually rally from behind late.

Tebow smiles, put his right hand around Gase's shoulder and says: "It's all right. We'll figure it out, man."

Another moment comes after Demaryius Thomas lets a long Tebow pass slip through his fingers. Thomas then, and later, said he short-armed the ball and he should have caught it for a touchdown. After the incompletion, a bummed Thomas is on the bench. Again Tebow is sitting to the left.

Tebow puts his arm around Thomas and says: "You're good. Hey, no big deal. It just makes it closer for a little bit longer. You're about to catch the game-winner. And then you'll be the hero of the game."

Mike Klis, The Denver Post

Read more: When all looks lost, Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow keeps his cool - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_19550546#ixzz1gcoPmQXs

The Devil went down to Carols

2011-12-14T11:31:00.000-06:00

I'm a deacon at my church and I take it very seriously. More that that I take my faith in Christ and my personal relationship with Christ therefore I believe in service to the "church" not because I'm a deacon or just a member of the church but as an act of my faith. So when I was offered the opportunity to act as an usher for the Christmas program I could not say no. Not of to one night but to all five! Now I'd never done this before but I've ushered different thing before so no problem right?

Let me tell you some of the experiences I had over this three day 5 event period.

Now being a usher you are given two assigned seat for you to sit in after your area of seats have been filled. I gave my seats up 4 nights and sat on the floor to allow others to have seat for the performances. I didn't have time to leave the church between services on Saturday or Sunday and got home near to 9:00 each night. Poor me? Not a problem, because I committed to the program. That's just the way it is suppose to be. Yes? Of course yes.

Now I offer you a real life look at the people who come to "FREE" events that are meant for worship and presenting the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Of course in the form of a list!
1.Dress attire:
Ladies come in several categories. there the "I'm afraid someone won't see me group that dress like it is the academy awards and that's OK but if you are clearly over 50 you dress length should be below 6" of your rear end!!!!!!! Good grief woman what is to point of you showing 91% of you legs and in many case leaving nothing to the imagination. By the way, most of you CAN NOT pull "the look" off so use your mind and conscience because the rest of us don't like it.
Sub group here is the women that wear a "maga coat" but take it off as soon as they are in the building only to show 57%-72% of their chest. LORD have mercy! I'm sorry about your mother's death. How do I know your mother is dead you might ask. Because if she were alive she would slap you all the way back to the closet to dress yourself respectfully.
The next group is the "I forgot about the program so I came directly from Walmart" group. Please ask Santa for some matching tops and bottom stress pants this year. And please when the coats go on sale get one that will cover you middle and remember little animals are not in style anymore.
The next group are the men. Of yes, the men don't get out of this. Camouflage is not a color and it is for hunting. Don't wear you hat in doors and if you have been wearing a hat remember what happens to your hair after you have been wearing a hat for a while.
2. Behavior group:
At your house there is a thermostat that controls the temperature. Ifyou are cold PUT YOUR COAT ON! Don't ask me to turn the heat up when you are sitting with your coat in your lap.
I don't give out tickets. No there is absolutely no reserved sitting. I don't have anything to do with tickets. Nothing, absolutely nothing to do with tickets. so if you want to complain about there not being enough seats then next time read that tickets are void prior to the the event starting so you best get there early before people without tickets get YOUR seat.
3. The "Be Like Jesus" group
Thank you for being so nice. I met some of the sweetest people that would give up their seat for another location so a family could sit together. That's the spirit of Christmas.
4. You take your life in your own hands if you insist on using profanity in God's house. "SHAZAM"!!!

5. If you want to fight ... come on outside.
If you get mad at the world because you had to sit in a folding chair in a not so good place, don't take it out on me and if you do expect me to respond in like manner. Do not take a swing at me unless you want it back at you. That is for young and old alike.

Carols By Candel Light was a wonderful experience for almost all the 15000+ people that attended the program. God was glorified in so many was and i worshiped Him.

GLORY

Not The Old Days

2011-11-15T11:29:00.000-06:00

How Much More?

College sports keeps throwing up signs that ought to stop us from believing in their virtue, and yet we keep running right through them. How much longer 'til we reach a tipping point?

This is one of the articles on an ESPN site this morning. Brought some thoughts to me that I'd like to share.

Now I can speak because I played, I coached, and I watched the game but also experience the game.

The people that mean most to me outside my family are my old teachers and coaches. I never had to worry about one of them mistreating me or leading me in the wrong direction. Never! They spoke the way people of influence should. They acted the way people of influence should. The dressed the way people of influence should. They expected of me like people of influence should. I was surely inspired by many people in the spot light because they had done things that I thought were unattainable for me. I knew that as I began to have opportunities to be a part of the "TEAMS" there was more expected of me than just the average guy. I signed my first autograph August 1972. I remember the thought, "you want my autograph? Why do you want my autograph?" I wasn't a starter for the Bulldogs but this young boy seems to think because i was a player for Mississippi State I was worthy of him having my autograph. It was a great day for me. I quickly developed "my autograph" that of course contained a scripture verse, Phil. 4:13. For the next 3 years i was called upon to speak for the MSU Fellowhsip of Athletes across the state of Mississippi. It was a privilege to represent the University, my fellow players, and our LORD. Later I began to coach and teach young. I knew the responsibility people had placed on me coaching their sons and daughters. I do not think they ever doubted me efforts to protect their children in every way. Today those kids are my other sons and ddaughters. I will never forget them. I may not recognize them because they are big people now but their memories are that of more than just kids i taught or coached. In 1989 i began my administrative career and I missed the coaching but because of the position I held I felt greater responsibility not only to protect but to guide into the future. Have I failed? Yes, many times but there are a lot of wins. Have I lost some? yes, too many. Drowned, shot, car accident, prison, drugs, gangs, guns, hateful parents, rape, murder, and more.
The WINS, oh yes!!! Doctors, lawyers, truck drivers, business men, pastors, military, professors, teachers, coaches, assistant principals, principals, therapists, mothers, daddys, and more that really count to the world.

Everybody can play sports of one kind or another. It makes no difference in their size, shape, speed, or color. I had one boy, name was Pit. To small to not be in some body's shade, but what a heart. I was afraid to let him play his first year because he was so small but turn him loose and he was like a dog after a rabbit. he might caught the rabbit and the rabbit drag him around but he was never letting go. GREAT KID!

OK, rambled some but my rant is related to College athletes now. What is wrong with college football?

LIST ALERT!
1, NO ATHLETIC DORM
2. HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS TO MUCH LIKE COLLEGE
3. PARENTS THAT HAVE LEARNED THE VALUE OF A SCHOLARSHIP
4. PROFESSIONAL SPORTS
5. TV
6. EGOS
7. CHEERLEADERS DRESS LIKE "HOES"
8. CHEER TEAMS, DANCE TEAMS DRESSED LIKE "HOES"
9. SUGAR DADDY ALUMNI, FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY
10. DRUGS
11. MONEY!

It doesn't take a genus to see the signs that the entire NCAA program in way out of control. THE TIPPING POINT? TOO LATE!!

Jo Po Oh No!!!

2011-11-10T10:09:00.001-06:00

Failure in his own eyes??

OK! Good Grief!!! What else is going to happen this football season?? Maybe Delta State is going to reveal that there successful program is because they have a special CORN/Marijuana cross that all the players eat before their game.

That is just about as far out as i would have expected Jo Paterno being in the situation he is today. Saddens me to think that he would not have done any more to prevent this than he did.

I am adding this article that says it all. HOW SAD IT IS!

Paterno failed Penn State more than any coach has ever failed a school, and that’s not the worst of it.

Joe Paterno professed to be part of the larger university community, but in truth, he believed the university was there to serve him, Richard Justice writes. (Jamie Squire/Allsport)

Joe Paterno didn’t do the right thing then, and he wasn’t going to do the right thing now. He was going to do it his way. He was going to please himself, and to hell with anyone who thought he should do it otherwise.

In the end, he seemingly couldn’t understand how he failed the school he professed to love so much. He just didn’t understand that he could not coach another game, that he could not stay at Penn State another hour.

Paterno simply didn’t understand that it would have been unspeakably offensive for him to coach again. How would the victims have felt? How would their families have felt?

How have they felt the last decade when they believed no one would ever be held accountable? They must have felt that Paterno was the law and order in Happy Valley, and that no one — no district attorney, no cop, no one — would challenge him.

Indeed, that’s one of the lessons of this story. Paterno became accountable to no one, and isn’t that sad? He was the moral compass of State College and of Penn State.

He earned that status by winning games, graduating players and not cheating. He seemed different from so many of the others because during his 46 seasons, Penn State proved it could win with honor.

Somewhere along the way, Paterno’s value system became distorted. He had more power than any school president or mayor or athletics director, and because we assumed he always used it for good, because we believed the things he said about winning with honor, we allowed his power to grow and grow and grow.

Paterno built what appeared to be a model program, but he also built a program around secrecy and arrogance. No one crossed Joe Paterno. No one challenged Joe Paterno.

Paterno professed to be part of the larger university community, but in truth, he believed the university was there to serve him.

Someday, he may tell us why why he allowed an alleged child rapist to have his run of the football facilities. Paterno was given an eyewitness account of his most trusted assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, engaging in sexual behavior with a 10-year-old child.

Even if Paterno thought the best of his assistant, even if he doubted he would ever harm a child, he had the moral and ethical responsibility to send him home and bar him from the campus until there was a thorough investigation.

Only Paterno didn’t do that. He allowed Sandusky to bring children onto the campus, allowed him to continue to be treated like a VIP. If Joe Paterno wasn’t an enabler, he was very, very close.

Maybe Paterno refused to believe what he’d been told. Maybe he believed he owed Sandusky such a debt of gratitude that he simply couldn’t bring himself to do the right thing.

In not acting, Paterno failed the victims. He allowed Sandusky’s crimes to continue. Against children with no voice. Children without fat bank accounts. Children who were not blue-chip recruits. Here’s hoping those children haunt Joe Paterno for the rest of his life.

Sure, he failed Penn State, too. He failed his university as badly as any coach has ever failed a school. Every other scandal — Ohio State, Miami, SMU, Baylor, UNLV — seems irrelevant compared to this one.

After all the years in which he was the college coach, the college educator, others were measured against, his career ends in shame. All those years, all those records, all the good, now will be a footnote to the horror of the crimes against children.

Now that Paterno is gone, Penn State can begin to repair itself. But it won’t happen quickly.

It will take time to replace the leadership and to find new people, and even after the new people are in place, even if they’re good and honest people, the legal case will continue for years, and when each new chapter is written, the world will be reminded of the crimes that took place at Penn State, of the the crimes that people like Joe Paterno failed to respond to.

Someday, Penn State may get its reputation back, but it’s unlikely to ever be what it once was. Joe Paterno has stained Penn State forever, but at least he’s gone.

It must be tough being a football god or thinking you are a football god.

Great Riddle

2011-11-09T11:04:00.000-06:00

A RIDDLE

Only 5% of Stanford University graduates figured it out! Can you answer all seven of the following questions with the same word?

1. The word has seven letters....

2. Preceded God...

3. Greater than God...

4. More Evil than the devil...

5. All poor people have it...

6. Wealthy people don’t need it....

7. If you eat it, you will die.

Did you figure it out?

Try hard before looking at the answers

Did you get it yet?

Give up?

Brace yourself for the answer....

The Answer below:

NOTHING!

NOTHING has 7 letters.

NOTHING preceded God.

NOTHING is greater than God.

NOTHING is more Evil than the devil.

All poor people have NOTHING.

Wealthy people need NOTHING.

If you eat NOTHING, you will die.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

2011-11-07T10:30:00.001-06:00

Great weekend for College football. If you like that kind of stuff. Of course I watched the highly talked about Alabama LSU game. Well, I watched some of it. I knew going in that Alabama had the best defense I've ever seen on a college team but expected the LSU Tigers to test it. Before the game i was predicting a 27- 21 Alabama victory but as I watched the game stretch out I knew that two factors would determine the real winner. One: Coaching decisions (right thing at the right time) and two: team execution (doing what should be done at the right time.)

Now I must say my love for the game greatly diminished after playing for 10 years. it occurred when i went to a game what i watched the team I had played on play against I don't remember who. What happened you ask and I know you asked. I heard what YOU say when things don't go just wonderfully on the field. The shouting at, the talking down to, the blame, OMG! I never had any idea of what was going one up in the stands while I was playing as hard as I could with a sprain knee, a pulled groin, a hiper extended elbow, cuts over my eyes or some virus that caused me to loose 18 pounds in one afternoon. OK, there it is. That is why many old player don't go to games and that is why I don't enjoy going either. Of course you engineering majors, the liberal arts folk and business guys love the trips back to campus. To some folk it is more that some drinks, some chicken, some dip you can't pronounce and some special chips that you can only find and get at that "place" and they actually taste like the Kroger brand.

I can go for the snacks and even seeing some old friends but the hike, the climb, the noise, the excited red-necks that must not have a life outside of the seasonal killing off of live animal, football, putting bigger wheels on there trucks and the making of babies. THAT IS NOT FOR ME!.

OH, back to the game. I can sum up the entire night by saying this. You may see another game in your life time that puts two teams of close match as these two were but you probably will never see two teams as good as those to teams ever play again. NO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP NOTHING. THESE ARE THE TWO BEST TEAMS IN THE COUNTRY AND WE'LL PROBABLY NEVER SEE A SO CLOSELY MATCH GAME OF GOOD ATHLETES AND COACHES AGAIN. It only happens twice in each EON.

Be that a it may be, Les Myles is the luckiest Coach ever right? Of course right, but luck has nothing to do with execution by players. Doing what you have been coached is what make things look like luck. The players for LSU won this game because they did what they were supposed to do when it counted. Whether first play or last execution execution execution.

Nick, tough game bro, but kick, kick, kick. Nick please!! 50+ yards to give field position away. Nicky baby!?!?! No national championship for you.

Lastly, if you want to have fun and get a few laughs go to the park when the first and second grade soccer teams are playing. Carry a cooler and some samwiches. the parents and kids will give you a laugh if the parents don't. You might get a since of what sports are all about anyway.

WAIT! one more thing to ponder. It has to do with two people. One is a Bama student. J Finley, a senior majoring in telecommunication and film. he is mentioned in this article related to the cost of a ticket for the Bama LSU game.

Most Alabama students paid $5 for a ticket to Saturday’s game against LSU, but for some fans, the cost of attendance may be hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

Statewide website AL.com reported there were two tickets for sale on Stubhub.com for a seat in row 25 of the lower level north end zone for $10,423.14 each. The tickets are no longer available.
Will Flaherty, director of communications for SeatGeek.com, a search engine that pulls together ticket listings from all major secondary ticket websites, said the average ticket price of sold tickets on their website is $606.

For comparison, tickets to Game 7 of this year’s World Series averaged $601 on SeatGeek, tickets to Game 5 of the NBA Finals averaged $686, tickets to last year’s BCS National Championship game averaged $1,351, and tickets to last year’s Super Bowl averaged $3,067.13, Flaherty said.

“This is a demand we’ve never seen in our two years of doing this,” Flaherty said. “The ticket prices are astronomically expensive, but there are tickets still available. I think it really speaks to just how great these two teams are. They have two loyal fan bases and are a drivable distance away, which really allows people to spend more money on their game tickets.”

Many UA students have posted their tickets on websites such as StubHub.com and Facebook Marketplace to make a profit.

J Finley, a senior majoring in telecommunication and film, said he was selling his ticket to Saturday’s game for $300.

“This ticket and game tickets in general are a great source for extra income,” Finley said. “I don’t have a job, so this is basically like my paycheck. This ticket is one of the most valuable tickets I’ve sold in my four years of flipping tickets. I’d rather watch the game in the comfort of my home instead of standing up for three hours.”

UA student Corey Neill said he was asking for $300 because that’s how much it’s worth to him to miss the game.

“I could definitely use the extra money for bills, but I would also love to go to the game myself,” Neill said. “I can remember paying $230, including an upgrade fee, to go to the Tennessee game when I had just transferred in and feel like this is a much more important game. I think it’s a lot of money for one game, but at the same time, I could see myself spending just as much if I didn’t have a ticket.”

Doug Walker, associate athletics director at the University, said the face value of tickets to attend Saturday’s game is $85, regardless of whether the seats are on the 50-yard line or in the upper deck.

The other person.... I don't know his name. He is one of the 34,000 children that die daily of preventable diseases. One of those that live without fresh water. Makes you want to question how many tickets does it take to put a fresh water well in a nation to provide water to those in need. 59!

MONEY MONEY WHO'S GOT THE MONEY??!!

2011-11-03T09:04:00.000-05:00

Got this from a friend and had to post it. It is so true that it hurts and this is only a part of the story.

Learning from Obituaries....

It seems that every couple of days New Orleans loses one of its treasured

ENTREPRENEURS .

Lets get the players straight before we go on with this.

interpretation of data not verified but...

LARMONDO "FLAIR" ALLEN

His Companion: Kawanner Armstrong

His Sons: Christian Allen

Kwan Allen

Larmondo Allen, Jr.

His Daughters: Deidra Allen

Larmenshell Allen

Lamonshea Allen

Larmomdriel Allen

Larmerja Allen

Korevell Allen

AT AGE 25 - He had 9 Children.

(Could Kawanner Armstrong Possibly Be The Mother Of All Of His Kids?)

His Father: Burnell Thompson

His Mother: Esther Allen

His Stepfather: Bruce Gordy

His Brothers: Burnell Thompson

Edgar Thompson

Wil Willis

Danta Edwards

Reshe Edwards

Mattnell Allen

Burnell Allen

Lester Allen

His Sisters: Shannail Craig

Lekiksha Thompson

Gwendolyn Carter

Jessica Willis

Katina Gordy

Grandparents: Delors Allen

J.C. Allen

Anna Laura Thompson

Will Thompson

So, lets see now...

His Father, Burnell Thompson, fathered his brothers Burnell, Edgar and his sister Lekiksha.

His Stepfather, Bruce Gordy, fathered his Sister Katina.

His Mother, Esther Allen, must have been unwed when she gave birth to: Larmondo, Mattnell, Burnell and Lester.

We don't know who fathered Wil Willis and Jessica Willis, or Dante and Reshe Edwards.

Lets hope sisters Shannail Craig and Gwendolyn Carter are married.

GOT THE ABOVE ALL STRAIGHT?

********************

NOW, THE REST OF THE STORY

He was 25 and had 3 sons and 6 daughters.

NINE welfare recipients collecting $950 each.....

That equals $8,550 a month!!! Now add Food Stamps,

Free medical, Free school lunches, and on and on

Do the math ... $102,000+/year.

Anyone out there, sittin' on their butt while reading this e-mail, making A HUNDRED GRAND doing nothing?

Now that, to me, is a real Entrepreneur. (ALSO, BECAUSE OF THEIR FATHERS DEATH, ALL OF THE KIDS WILL COLLECT

SOCIAL SECURITY UNTIL THEY ARE 18) EVEN BETTER ... IF "FLAIR'S" THIRTEEN BROTHERS & SISTERS FOLLOWED HIS ENTREPRENEURIAL STRATEGY--THAT'S AN ADDITIONAL $1.3 MILLION PER YEAR BUT WAIT...THERE'S MORE! IF ALL THIRTEEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS CAN DUPLICATE HIS FEAT OF 9 WELFARE STRATEGISTS THAT BREEDS 117 NEW RECIPIENTS COLLECTING $100,000/YR!!...OR AN ADDITIONAL $11,700,000PER YEAR... &THAT'S ONE DAMN FAMILY (And demands 100% the Taxes Paid by 1,000 avg. taxpayers)

And THAT is why this once great country is BANKRUPT!

GIVE ME YOU MONEY AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT

2011-11-01T13:27:00.001-05:00

I got his from a friend today. goes with the Walden belief that we got money and we have needs. I mean i don't like the idea of giving people something for nothing.that's right welfare, medicaid. I mean why should i pay for something that the Government pays for those lazy people that don't try to do anything. I met a person one time that said that they had to be careful how much money they made because they would loose their Medicare benefits. PLEASE! We are setting up a future of lard ass lazy do nothing people while the rest of us work our butts off.

I mean i don't want poor people going without basic needs but there is a difference between poor and lazy-ass people that sit on their cough growing butt all day watching premium channels of their big screen TVs. Please use my taxes for the poor and proper stuff. NOT FOR THESE GUYS!

Below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States which are recorded in both the US State Department and United Nations records:

Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the time

Qatar votes against the United States 67% of the time

Morocco votes against the United States 70% of the time

United Arab Emirates votes against the U. S. 70% of the time.

Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.

Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of the time.

Saudi Arabia votes against the United States 73% of the time.

Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the time.

Algeria votes against the United States 74% of the time.

Oman votes against the United States 74% of the time.

Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the time.

Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.

Libya votes against the United States 76% of the time.

Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the time.

Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of the time.

India votes against the United States 81% of the time.

Syria votes against the United States 84% of the time.

Mauritania votes against the United States 87% of the time.

U S Foreign Aid to those that hate us:

Egypt, for example, after voting 79% of the time against the United States,

Still receives $2 billion annually in US Foreign Aid.

Jordan votes 71% against the United States

And receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

Pakistan votes 75% against the United States

Receives $6,721,000,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

India votes 81% against the United States

Receives $143,699,000 annually.

OUR GOVERNMENT IS WILLING TO SEND MONEY TO THESE COUNTRIES EVEN THOUGH THEY DO NOT LIKE US. ?

Good Grief!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uncoomon Sense

2011-10-25T15:16:00.002-05:00

Common Sense vs Uncommon Sense

OK, Revelation!

Seems that there is a serious lack of common sense being used today. I see kids and the "parents" daily that either do not have common sense or they aren't aware of it. I guess you can't teach common sense but when you look at it in a cause and affect situation, it 's either there or not. Maybe experience is the foundation of common sense or the sharing of experiences by some one you trust who has shared their adventures with you. I don't know. I guess you could look at the idea that common sense is tied to logic some how. Of course it is but don't you have to have some facts to base that logic on or at least a thought process that uses the facts as facts and not likes, guesses or conveniences? Of course some facts or maybe faith in facts and where do you get the facts or beliefs that propagate the thought process? Education, family, friends, books, genes, TV, movies, God?

OK! Walden philosophy...

Common sense is the crowd's decision, the average of what every one thinks is correct. It's based on what the average action or reaction would be by the masses of human beings. I mean you might think about something different than I but we might come to the same conclusion because we base the decision on the facts we know, but how we interpret the facts may cause us to reach a different conclusion.

So I present to you a new term. "Uncommon sense", the thought process that is not governed by the average way of thinking but the "other" way. I give you God's way of thinking. God's way can be so uncommon or "unaverage" as the world thinks. I think we might call it "Unworldly" thought.

I think "uncommon sense" might be pretty easy to recognize because if it is based on God's principles, that are by the way unchangeable. They should be a Godly expression that can be traced back to the uniqueness of God and his attributes.

Christian are called out to be separate to the world and be "uncommon" in their thought processes.

PRETTY GOOD HUH??

HOPE IS FADING FAST???

2011-10-20T14:54:00.002-05:00

GONE BUT GONE WHERE

I have recently made some major decisions in my life and have felt good about them but there is always doubt. Age sneaks up on us and for those of us that are FAT and our bodies have been through several deaths and resurrections. My plan in life was to retire when I was 55 and now I'm 59, almost 60 years OLD! Good grief, that's old. I'll be on social security in two years and a little more than 3 months!!! Good grief!!!!

Growing up, in my family retirement was the time when you didn't have to work any more. You had all the money you needed. You could get a full tube of crickets and go fishing. You wouldn't have to tell anyone. I'm sitting at my desk doing the blog thing, I've got a broken leg that I walked around on for 4 months before discovering, I've gained 10 pounds because I can't do my usual workouts and i wonder if I'll ever run again. I find myself trying to take care of other people when I can't take care of myself. My life gets shorter every day because i can't do what I think I should be able to do or what I expect that I can do.

I found this today and it really expresses a lot of how I feel.

"I'm 76 and I'm Tired"I'm 76. Except for brief period in the 50's when I was doing my National Service, I've worked hard since I was 17. Except for some some serious health challenges, I put in 50-hour weeks, and didn't call in sick in nearly 40 years. I made a reasonable salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, it looks as though retirement was a bad idea, and I'm tired. Very tired.

I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.

I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to.

I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in Australia , New Zealand , UK, America and Canada , while no one from these countries are allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia or any other Arab country to teach love and tolerance..

I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate.I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses or stick a needle in their arm while they tried to fight it off?

I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of all parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.

I'm really tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems. I'm also tired and fed up with seeing young men and women in their teens and early 20's be-deck them selves in tattoos and face studs, thereby making themselves un-employable and claiming money from the Government.

Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 76.. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter and her children. Thank God I'm on the way out and not on the way in.

Well I'll end by saying I'm tired but I'm also FEED UP, and that is a blog for another time.

WORKING ON FOCUS

2011-08-30T09:49:00.002-05:00

Very few truly important things in life are without their complexities. Our "JOB", of course, is no exception. The same is true of Christian focus. If focusing was easy and simple, either in the natural or the spiritual, we'd concentrate better at work, every athlete would spend more time "in the zone," every student would get the maximum from his brain, and we would probably be further along in our spiritual journey than we are. As with all great endeavors, there is a need for practice when it comes to maintaining focus on God.

We who grew up playing and watching sports forget all the small but critical things about a sport that we picked up along the way, things we don't even remember learning. Football's level of complexity is amazing. So guess what. Winning teams practice a lot! They do drills that teach skills. They run plays, the same ones over and over. The point is to practice. We would not be good at our work without learning about it and making an effort to apply what we learn.

A good work environment also depends on good relationships, so they also require effort. In a similar way, we practice maintaining our focus as we practice the complex life and death endeavor of living life with God. One of the ways we practice maintaining a God-focus all the time is by spending some time focusing on God. If you don't have a regular time in which you give God all your attention by praying, reading the Bible, listening to God, writing down your thoughts while focusing on God stuff. This is THE KEY to being able to maintain a God focus. We can learn to maintain God focus all the time, but we must start by having God focus some of the time.

The Apostle Paul told the Thessalonian church to "rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances" (I Thessalonians 5: 16-18) which is a way of saying that it's possible to keep focused on God all the time, keeping aware of his presence just as He is aware of us. Paul was a practical fellow who didn't give unrealistic advice. To understand what he was getting at, we need to start with having a God focus some of the time. That means including some of our work time. Now unlike football practice, or some work, it doesn't have to be drudgery. In fact, if you stay at it, this will become the time that is the highlight of your day. But like football practice or learning our work skills, our time of focus is preparing us for something else. It's the prep for living the rest of the day with God. It's prepping us for Game-time, when the working hours and the other hours are equally and all part of our God time.

Seems to me that God time must be all-time and all the time must be God time.

Thanks FBCJ work coach.

Shane rides off...

2011-08-25T09:22:00.003-05:00

I love that song "Happy Trails." You know it, "happy trails to youuuuuuu, keep smiling until thennnnnnn, happy trails to youuuuuuuuuuuu till we meeeeeet aaaaagain." Gen Autrey, the famous singing cowboy would sing it at the end of his show each week. Long time ago... it was only 30 minutes long, but what a 30 minutes it was.

I really liked those old westerns. It was easy to tell who the bad guys were and the women, well they knew there place. Now I don't mean that bad but in those times it was unusual to see a women in a role as a "BOSS" of the trail ride or other stuff. Ok, maybe running the salon, but then only if she could sing. I mean things were spelled out. You knew what to expect from everybody and you knew in the end Gene would be singing Happy Trails.

Where has our society gone wrong! Let me answer that with one word. EVERYWHERE! I personally believe it has to do with the switch on the man and woman roles in life.

I could not live without my Libby but I have not given up the role that I was brought up with of being the provider and protector and i could never give that role up. It would be like "demaning" yourself to give up that role.

Good grief, got off Happy Trails didn't I?

Any way, things for me have changed from the Gene Autrey show way of life. It may be time to sing the song for the last time. When what you are or what you have been for so long is taken from you have to face it that it is time to find a new role in life.

So we'll see. If would be mindful of my "search for significance" i would greatly appreciate it.

Something Holy Smells II

2011-08-15T08:31:00.004-05:00

As I promised I am back to comment on the situation that I see continuing at FBCJ.

Yesterday Dr. Buckley preached his final sermon as "pastor " of First Baptist Church of Jackson Mississippi. Personally I found it to be an above level sermon from Stan. I would really say that about 69% of it was an outstanding message of Faith and Action.

As promised at his resignation Dr. Buckley stated his reasoning for resigning from FBCJ. Impulsive decisions and not bringing enough people along on some major actions were two of these reasons, but I have major concerns that a majority of those in attendance missed his real reason.

Stan came to one of those points in his life that Henry Blackaby says are the turning points when we encounter God and make a life altering decision causing us to step out on faith and to exercise, prove that faith by action. Stan was confronted with the old "two paths in the woods, one less traveled" thing. Stan's confrontation with God was a win win thing, as always, where God gave Stan a new direction requiring faith as will as action.

Of course the process for FBCJ was a rocky, to say the less, process and I don't accept that Stan realized the difficulty of the process. Here are the facts as I see them: (that's right in a list!)
1. NO vote taken in any meeting but one was ever united as one related to the "package" given Stan. The only one would have been, that being from the special projects committee.
2. FBCJ will be forced to raise it's budget for the next church year by more that $100,00 and greater if they are to treat the current staff properly and meet the obligation for Stan's packet..
3.The "Special Project" committee made a decision and it was a done deal.
4.Roberts Rules of Order are no where in the Bible.

I perhaps may rant about this topic at another time but I'm cutting this short because I would just like for it to be over.

When I left the FBCJ sanctuary yesterday I was hurting. Hurting because of the way a few people were treated openly. We should have been more kindly. Hurting because I saw the "organization" and "politics" of the big church more clearly than ever in my life. There is a large strain on my faith in the "organization" of the FBCJ because of the absence of openness from the leadership. I personally sent 9 e-mails asking questions of the "leadership" but got not returns. NOT ONE!

POLITICS! Oh LORD why do we have to feel the political thing in God's house of I've got power so listen to me so don't think for yourself. I'm a doctor, lawyer, or banker so you should take me more serious that others.

LORD rescue us from ourselves.

The bottom line is this (of course in list form):
1. Stan Buckley is no longer the pastor at FBCJ.
2. There are somethings that are in need of repair at FBCJ. Beginning with LEADERSHIP.
3. MOST OF ALL, GOD IS IN CONTROL!

Someting Smells Unholy

2011-08-01T12:38:00.009-05:00

I'm sure you know and are aware of the recent resignation of the pastor at First Baptist Church.

I'm compelled to comment because I am a "Deacon" at this Large Old Church.

First, let's note that the pastor, Dr. Buckley, is not a close friend and I have had limited contact with this gentleman dispite being a deacon. What I Know as fact is that Dr. Buckley is a Christian man or of great intelligence. I know that he is very knowledgeable of the WORD of God and that he can teach the Bible with confidence. Dr. Buckley has a family and a wife and as far as I can tell he does a good job at being a father and husband.
Second, let me present several facts related to the Senior Pastor's ministry and relationship with the congregation of FBCJ. Dr. Buckley came from a church where the attendance in worship might be 400 on a good day. His previous church was a not so large church when compared to FBCJ. With that I would say that even the greatest preacher/pastor would he faced with challenges and probably make some mistakes. Some mistakes have been made, and everybody makes mistakes.

A large dissatisfaction with some "way we do things" became apparent after a "survey" was taken related to the changing of the "schedules" at FBCJ. The survey left no doubts that there was some division of the congregation of FBCJ in the way things were being done at FBCJ.

Dr. Buckley presented a major mission effort for the people for Haiti which produced a FBCJ giving effort of nearly $500,000. A wonderful mission project that has and continues to do many good things in that country and it's people. Except for a few procedural bumps the Haiti Project as gone very well and involved many members of FBCJ.

With this said let's be perfectly clear that NO "wrongful/bad stuff" have been said related to Dr. Stan Buckley. In my opinion he is a fine man that will continue to be used by God.

The facts continue:
Dr. Buckley has been out of the pulpit for a large number of Sundays for the last 3-4 months and decided to take advantage of a personnel policy that allows 7 weeks of sabbatical which he currently is enjoying.

Dr. Buckley resigned indicating that no one had asked him to resign and that God had given him release to leave FBCJ. Dr. Buckley also indicated that he had no plans to go to another church or organization. He resigned from his position of his on free will with no pressure from any group or individual.

Now comments on my part. If you are not under pressure from any group of individuals then where is the pressure coming from? WHAT IS THE DEAL??? We can then assume that Dr. Buckley had plans for his immediate future for maintaining his and his family's life style? or are we to assume that some "secret society" has taken it upon themselves to "help" FBCJ with it's problems?

It may be just me but if a man resigns from his job he HAS to have a plan to take care of the family or someone else has made a plan for him and his family. I don't mean GOD.

Recently the Deacon Body of FBCJ met to discuss the "transition" for Dr. Buckley. After much discussion, that group voted (split voted, As I saw it around 60/40) for a deal for Dr. Buckley. I will not go into the details because there are things being done as I write that may affect that deal. I will say this, if the deal goes as voted it will put Dr. Buckley in a position of putting FBCJ in a position of having to do better (increasing)in the area of "giving" than it has in the recent past or present under his leadership.

In my opinion either a deal was struck before any resignation was mentioned or Dr. Buckley is not the person I believe him to be by creating a very difficult situation for the staff and congregation of FBCJ.

Now don't take me wrong, we are talking about FBCJ which has a great tradition of doing great things for God. This is the same body of believers that raise over $500,000 for the building of a community in Haiti above the regular giving. The same FBCJ that has planted so many churches that are standing on their own and growing. But, don't take me wrong and do take me as the straight up person I am saying something just ain't right with this.

Dr. Stan Buckley will preach his final sermon as pastor of FBCJ on August 14. He has indicated that he will be more specific in his reasoning of resigning at that time. So I will save my final thoughts to the "POST DR. BUCKLEY ERA."

Give a little "butt?"

2011-08-01T12:10:00.004-05:00

Just a thought, actually an extension of a thought from the past when we discussed the X-Auburn head coach, "Tubbyville", and his buy out. It was all about how simple it would be to give a very small part of the MILLIONS he receive towards fresh water for children in Africa that needed water for life.

Well ok for "Tubby" I can see that greed can be used by the devil in many ways. This thought is a little closer to the person as a whole or maybe the person's part. Today I saw where there was an increase in the number of "butt lifts" being done in the USA. GOOD GREIF!!! how much does it cost for a person to have their butt lifted???????? Why would a person want their "butt lifted"?? I tell you it takes more than not having it done and it would have to be a rather large amount for someone to be able to tell the difference. A "butt lift???Oh my God!!!!

OK, nose (get to the point), stomach (ok I can see that), breasts (all shapes and sizes). They are all expensive! What's next??

Let's keep in mind that those children, 30,000 a day, are still leaving this world for the next just because they don't have fresh warter to drink.

Could we stop thinking about our butts, noses, and our whatevers and put the funds that we can easly afford on a life saving effort.

HUH!!!???

SPECIAL DAY!!!!

2011-05-24T11:38:00.003-05:00

TODAY IS A SPECIAL DAY. IT IS MY LIBBY'S BIRTHDAY.

I have known my girl since fall of 1970, but it wasn't till 5 years later that I got to know her. She is the best of the best.

I could not have asked for a better friend, she is always there for me.

I could not have asked for a better mother for my children, she loves unquestionably and is very very wise. Of course she knows when to ask me for the right answers.

No one could ask for a better grandmother, "LeLe."

I could not have asked for a better lover... enough said.

I could not have lived this long without her. She "completes" me in more than one way.

She challenges me to see my true self and not the one that I see must of the time.

I want to give here everything because she deserves it.

I LOVE MY LIBBY AND WANT US TO HAVE MANY MORE BIRTHDAYS TOGETHER.

Home coming or going?

2011-05-20T08:48:00.002-05:00

My Dad would be proud but would not have gone with me for attend the latest "Gaither Homecoming" concert. My Dad was anti-social to the point I almost didn't recover. My wonderful wife had bought tickets without, of course, my knowing so it was a clear sign that she had big wants of going.

I was not very joyful in going because i have have one of those days for about 3 weeks now and after an hour workout at "Cardio Rehab" I was big tired and my legs hurt big time. Now these tickets weren't cheap, I think $30.00 each. I expected to be able to see the performers and not have my butt go to sleep of a folding chair.

Folks, I was sitting in the next to last row in the very top of FBCJ in a folding chair that I wasn't very confident in at all. I could look straight out and see the chandeliers, straight out. If I stood up I had to look around it to see the stage. Oh yea the stage. I know it was there because I'm familiar with the very large room but, the performers were the size of my class ring. If it had not been for the large screens I couldn't have told who was singing or what.

The place was full full full and very gray or silver how ever you see it. I don't think there was any "Non-believing" type people but there had to be all denominations of believers there in great numbers. I'm sure that if a fight had broke out the baptist would have won. Now one of the highlights of the evening was when the "little lights" can out. Evidently the Gaither bunch" had given out "little light key chain things" to the first few thousand people that arrived of course at least an hour before the 45 minutes early that i got there. Through out the night these few thousand people would press these "little lights" and wave them as if they were at a rock concert. Remember me saying things were very gray, well it was most entertaining to see the waving of these lights. No rhythm no unity just a little wave here a little wave there here a wave there a wave everywhere a wave. GOOD GRIEF! I thought everybody had seen the Montley Crew rock concert light wave! It was about the one and a half hour point that I, one of the few realized the the "little light" was not for waving but to help silver headed believers "press and see" the steps to the bathrooms! OMG!!! On this night FBCJ could have made enough money from pay toilets to build 137 houses in Haiti.

Now When the concert was beginning to start I wasn't surprised that the commerials began, but when they continued for the first little while I was a little disappointed especially when Bill pitched the "Gaither magazine.". Clearly these folk planned to make a large amount of money from sales of "stuff". Well, that's OK because that's what most concerts are all amount, but THERE WERE NADA, NONE, ZERO T-SHIRTS SAYING I WENT TO THE GAITHER HOMECOMING AND GOT THIS T-SHIRT.

Now the Music was wonderful!!! What a blessing! If you get the opportunity to attend a Gaither concert you SHOULD take it because you won't be disappointed.

Of course I have to present the "Gaither Homecoming" list:
1. "Little lights" were a hoot for me. The waving of the lights was kinda like a bunch of ADHD students in a room filled with colored lights.
2. Mark Lawry (sorry, don't know the spelling) is a hoot. The comedy is so predictable but it is comedy. DUDE CAN SING! I'm a new fan.
3. Michael English?? yes that Michael English still has a GOD blessed voice. I got he feeling he was seeking forgiveness from every one for his screw up. OPPS! He was my guy at one time was "MY MAN". Had some of the greatest song out there and a blessed voice. He think he should have climbed to the next to the last row and said he was sorry for letting me down, especially at the Dove Awards.
4. My girl enjoys that singing stuff. Of course it is her special gift and she is good at it but it's more than just that. I think God uses voices to speak to the soul. So God was speaking to my girl last night. I was almost sorry she had to be with me.

Closing I would say that I love that southern gospel music. That's a big hint K-LOVE!

Promoting Unity With the Vote

2011-05-16T13:51:00.002-05:00

OK, write this down. If you are a member of some group that promotes unity among the membership try this the next time you vote. Call for those that vote NO. then answer the question that those folk have. See if they are just misunderstanding what is going on or are they just not with it. If the topic being voted on is with the propose of the organization then there shouldn't be any no vote. All voting NO?! OK, what the deal? All voting NO?! OK, what the deal? All voting NO?! OK, What's the deal? All voting NO?! and there is none, good. What a show of unity!

WOW! what a concept??? Maybe we should try this at some churches.

THE FIX

2011-05-10T14:40:00.001-05:00

You gotta love those people that think about numbers and such and come up with simple solutions. Simple? I think YES!

The Fix

There recently was an article in the St. Petersburg , Fl. Times. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on: "How Would You Fix the Economy?" I think this guy nailed it!

Dear Mr. President,
Please find below my suggestion for fixing America 's economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.
You can call it the "Patriotic Retirement Plan":
There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.
2) They MUST buy a new AMERICAN Car. Forty million cars ordered - Auto Industry fixed.
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed.

It can't get any easier than that!!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their taxes..

Mr. President, while you're at it, make Congress retire on Social Security and Medicare. I'll bet both programs would be fixed pronto!

GOTTA LOVE 'HEM!!!!!!!!

GOLF?

2011-05-09T08:33:00.003-05:00

Good grief! I just may have to start playing golf again. Well, no, but I just might buy me a a Ping hat. Check this out...

"On Monday, I played the Disney, Lake Buena Vista course. As usual the
starters matched me with three other players. After a few holes we
began to get to know each other a bit. One fellow was rather young and
had his wife riding along in the golf cart with him. I noticed that his
golf bag had his name on it and after closer inspection, it also said
"wounded war veterans". When I had my first chance to chat with him I
asked him about the bag. His response was simply that it was a gift. I
then asked if he was wounded and he said yes. When I asked more about
his injury, his response was "I'd rather not talk about it, sir".

Over a few holes I learned that he had spent the last 15 months in an
army rehabilitation hospital in San Antonio Texas . His wife moved there
to be with him and he was released from the hospital in September. He
was a rather quiet fellow; however, he did say that he wanted to get
good at golf. We had a nice round and as we became a bit more familiar
I asked him about the a brand new set of Ping woods and irons he was
playing. Some looked like they had never been hit. His response was
simple. He said that this round was the first full round he had played
with these clubs.

Later in the round he told me the following. As part of the discharge
process from the rehabilitation hospital, Ping comes in and provides
three days of golf instruction, followed by club fitting. Upon
discharge from the hospital, Ping gives each of the discharged veterans,
generally about 40 soldiers, a brand new set of custom fitted clubs
along with the impressive golf bags.

The fellow I met was named Ben Woods and he looked me in the eye and
said that being fitted for those clubs was one of the best things that
ever happened to him and he was determined to learn to play golf well
enough to deserve the gift Ping had given him. Ben is now out of the
service, medically discharged just a month ago. He is as fine a young
man as you would ever want to meet.

Ping has the good judgment not to advertise this program. God Bless
America and the game of golf." Feel Good story from Bob Ptak.

Yep, I'm Ping fan now and gold is ok too.

How hard is it to see a lie????

2011-04-22T09:31:00.002-05:00

How hard is it to see a lie?

For those who need it I offer some simple guidelines to recognizing a lie when you hear it. Of course in the form of a list.
1. If it sounds to good to be true, it's probably not.
2. When someone offers information that is a put down or negative about someone or some organization, it has to be self serving in some way and is probably a falsehood.
3. When a person offers information and they personally don't have contact with the situation, organization, or person they are talking about, it's probably not all together the truth.
4. When a person speaks LOUD about something with lots of emotion and snot is shooting out their nose. They are probably in a crazed state of mind and speaking untruthfulnesses.
5. If statements come from a kid who thinks that are going to get money because some carpet bagging lawyer told they would if they said a certain things, it's a lie.
6. The possibility of a correct accurate statement being made is directly proportional to the person's character. That doesn't mean the lower the education level the closer to the truth, but think about it...
7. The best rule to follow comes as the "old coaches" rule that states, believe nothing you hear and half of what you see.
8. Finally, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's a duck or one of its kin folk quacking to hear themselves.

DAMNED IF YOU DO DAMNED IF YOU DON'T

2011-04-08T12:41:00.007-05:00

I recently read an article from the University of Southern Mississippi student press that related to the revival at a local church near campus. the Invited preacher was the pastor and spiritual leader of our present President. I want to share that article and give you the chance to form your own opinion. it begins like this: "We have in our midst tonight the pastor who led the ministry that produced the first African-American President," announced Rev. Reginald Woullard, Pastor of Shady Grove Baptist Church in Eastabuchie, Miss. From my pew last Monday night, I could see Rev. Jeremiah Wright, President Obama's ex-pastor – the man who became infamous for shouting "God damn America!" from the pulpit. Woullard, who had invited Wright to preach a revival at Shady Grove, hailed him as "the Prince of Prophets." Two others – fellow USM students Robby Terrell and Tyrone Adams – joined me. Robby and I were the only white males in the room. Wright began by welcoming the visitors – which included members of the Nation of Islam. Then, he gave us all a warning: "This message is not addressed to everyone," he said. "This message is addressed to believers." Not everyone who comes to church is a believer, he said. Some are curious – others are critics. With that, Wright was already planting in the minds of the congregation that any objection to his preaching should be met with hostility. Wright then set up his sermon by juxtaposing Jesus with Pontius Pilate, the Roman leader to whom Jesus was brought before being crucified. These men were from "two different worlds," Wright said. "There are people in power who have opinions about you based on their privilege of skin color," he told the mostly black crowd. "I'm in the text – Pilate was European, Jesus was not European." He then launched into a hateful tirade against whites, attacking everything European. "They are ignorant and arrogant," he said. "And these graduates of Harvard and Yale are setting policies for you based on the stupidity of David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Voltaire, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Thomas Jefferson – a pedophile, Theodore Roosevelt, and the racist Supreme Court and the Encyclopedia Britannica." But that wasn't all. "The ignorance and arrogance of white supremacy have the shapers and movers of world policy living in a different world from the world you live in altogether, and the sooner you realize that, the better off you're gonna be." What upset me most was not Wright's hate speech – it was the fact that everyone else in the church was shouting, clapping and pumping their fists in the air. Wright noticed that Tyrone, Robby and I were still and silent, and quickly informed us that we looked like the three stooges. "Curious," he sneered. He went on to make more hateful comments, attacking Israel, America and Bush. Though he did not call him by name, I'm pretty sure he made several thinly veiled attacks on Obama as well. But finally, the service ended. To my relief, we had all kept cool – until some poor, unfortunate soul asked Tyrone how he liked the service. When Tyrone responded by saying he didn't like the service at all and that Wright was a "bigot, anti-Semite, and a racist," churchgoers nearby began yelling at us angrily. We tried to explain our feelings, but to no avail; a security guard told us it was time to go. When a deacon tried to speak to us, church members attempted to dissuade him. "Let them leave," one said. "Don't entertain the devil." It was quite clear that we would not be welcomed back at Shady Grove Baptist Church. But the next night, two friends of mine – both white – did go. After arriving, USM students Eric Fry and John Negri were interrogated a total of four times throughout the service. The church and its security team wanted to know what their "real business was there." Several times, they were asked if they were reporters. At one point, Eric and Jon were pulled out of the sanctuary by security guards who took them into the lobby for questioning. At the same time, an older man – who happened to be the only other white male in attendance – was also pulled out. "We were only asked a few questions and released fairly quickly," Eric said. "But as we were leaving the lobby, we saw a cop move the older white man to the wall. It appeared that he was about to be frisked." Eric believes that what happened to him and Jon amounted to racial profiling. I agree. It was no more acceptable than would be an incident in which a white church selectively pulled out black visitors for "questioning." That would also be absurd. The entire experience was remarkable. To realize that a church so nearby would allow such a hateful man to preach division and bigotry was mind-blowing. To know that such a large congregation would be so receptive to that hate was disheartening. I may have walked into the church "curious" about the man who was once the spiritual leader of our current president, but I walked out a decided "critic." I guess his message really wasn't for me. The author is By Ashton Pittman I find myself in an occupation for more than 37 years for all the right reasons but wearing bruises from attacks for one simple reason, I am white. No one has ever looked at where I grew up, what my parents were like, where I went to school or who my friends were. Even today in a conference I was the point of attack by a parent not because of something I had done but because of the color of my skin. So let me say for eternal reasons, I'm sorry to all those people of color that have been mistreated at one time or another by a white person. I'm truly sorry that you were put in or put yourself in a situation where some one did or said "something" wrong to you. BUT! enough with the black white thing! HERE IS A WALDEN WORLD DECLARATION...THAT'S RIGHT IN LIST FORM. 1: Don't talk down to my JESUS! He WILL get you for that! 2: Getting in a circle and shouting "yea us" at the expense of others is for fools and their friends. 3: You will be known by the people you hang with. 4: Your words will destroy you.

Idol Chatter

2011-04-08T09:24:00.002-05:00

I'm no Katie Walden in reviews of American Idol but I've got to say something! Being a non-wlling participant in the idol phenomena, in other words my wife has to watch and my daughter must blog-review, I'm stuck in it like it or not. PIA!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!! BEST LOOKING!!!!!!!! BEST VOCAL!!!!!!!! BEST!!!!!!! BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is why i don't vote on this stuff. It must be a bunch on dumb folk watching on their 9" black and white set with the rabbit ears and tin foil thang on it. Now I've got to say the rest of the idol children are probably asking themselves those quiet little questions like "do you know what it feel like when you need to pee?" They can't have a clue as to what's going on. I mean really, one has the black vote, one has the hard rock vote, one has the best in tight pants vote, one has the look/act alike vote, one has the country vote, one has the plump vote, one has the curly hair/ facial hair vote, one has the kinder garden vote. I mean really, where were the voters for the best looking, best singing, best potential of making a million bucks in the next 6 months. Was there a black out in the lower forty states preventing these AI fans from getting through!? I demand a press conference and a revote!!!!!!!!!!!!

ONE FOR THE BUCKET LIST.

2011-04-04T10:21:00.005-05:00

There are lots of things I've been cursed with. Being FAT is one of them. I know, I know you say you don't have to be fat. Don't eat! Exercise!! RIGHT!!!?? Let me say at this point that if you are one of those people that say these silly things... SHUT THEE UP!!!!! You are probably one of those folks that can eat all you can but never gain a pound. You're probably one of those people that never get depressed too so you know nothing about emotional eating. With that said on to glory! I am watching TV and there is the place that makes a 7 POUND!!! hot dog!! Now I love hot dogs. It may be that hot dogs were cheap meat when i was growing up or not, but I love hot dogs. With chili, pickle relish, onion, peppers, you name it. I even love them "raw", uncooked. And all that abrings me to this addition to the bucket list. I want that 7 pound super dog! and "I'll have it my wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!" "A great party hot dog for BBQs, picnics, tailgating, hunting, novelty gifts - seriously, people love sending these things cross country as gifts! Go figure. Big Hot Dog $89.95 + s&p Great for tailgating, football parties, BBQs, family reunions, novelty gifts, and for hot dog lovers of all ages. The BIG HOT DOG measures 16" long and 4" in diameter and is made of 100% veal, beef, pork, every Tuesday in Chicago, Illinois. The BIG HOT DOG differs from normal "tiny" hotdogs, in that it is 50 times bigger, weighs 7 lbs, has 50 servings per BIG HOT DOG, and is served by slicing it into patties for cooking and eating per the consumer's desire. Its the biggest, best and tastiest hot dog Chicago foodies have enjoyed ever! Now you can buy it and have it shipped to you today!" Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A SMALL PRICE TO PAY.

Behind Closed Doors

2011-03-31T10:52:00.003-05:00

Recently I got a note from my wife about an e-mail from a very skilled and talented man that I highly respect. The e-mail was a response to an anonymous e-mail that was sent to him complaining about his job performance. The response was the best I've ever seen because it was a striking the heart with simple truth. It has been my experience that when you criticise some one from the shadows it just proves the person is doing a good job and someone is jealous. If you must so your inadequacies in judgement and character I suggestion a family reunion. Also I pray that the person who wrote this letter be blessed with the trials that this man has gone and is going through. I just have an idea you will not see the blessings as this man has in his life. I DECLARE MARCH 29TH 2011 AS "LAVON IS DA MAN DAY"

WE GOT FAITH YES WE DO?

2011-03-09T11:10:00.001-06:00

WE GOT FAITH YES WE DO?

2011-03-09T11:10:00.000-06:00

CHURCH?

2011-03-03T11:17:00.002-06:00

Every time I hear about the supreme court making a ruling about freedom of speech and a church I get a stopped up feeling from down under.

Ok, I have my personal feelings aboout the "church", but this is even a stronger feeling. Summary: the church is the bride of Christ. That church is the body of Christ not the organization and for this one sided discussion the church is a club!

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the first amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount attention-getting, anti-gay protests outside military funerals. The court voted 8-1, that means one with some sense.

So let me put it this way... My God does not condone the ranting of those who claim His name with permission to be outrageous whether it is about gays or what. God has called His people to like Him in their spirit which means you don't go to a honorable soldier's funeral to protest gays or anything else. Show the love people!! SHOW THE LOVE!!!

To the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. I say "change the Baptist Church in your name to the greater club of Topeka Kansas who doesn't give a crap about others." I really think I may sponsor a trip to Topeka to picket out side this "church" carrying signs that say "NOT A REAL CHURCH! NOT A REAL CHURCH!

Decisions Decisions

2011-02-07T11:34:00.002-06:00

I have been working in public education since August 1974, 37 years. I have been able to watch education change and see the disintegration of the family continue from a particular unique spot compared to most people of this world. Throughout my days I have had to sit next to one of my players after a severe injury, a broken neck. I have had to read the headlines of students killed by some unknown person, for what ever reasons, unknown. I've been cussed by kids, parents, friends of kids, friends of parents, staff, and by people who didn't know me from Adam's cat. I've been used by principals and "down town" folk for reasons my best guess would be selfishness. I've been blamed for things that have never been explained or proven me. I could be in the next state and be accused of some body's car being scratch. I'm been blamed for being to white or to big, for that I must confess I AM white and large.

There is nothing that I can say to change the thoughts of some people and have reached the point in my 59 years of life that... I DON'T CARE.

I want to share an article that was in our local paper related to the non-new of our school district superintendent's contract. It reads...

"JPS CHIEF'S JOB IMPOSSIBILITY

To paraphrase Will Rogers all I know about our public school superintendent is what I read in the papers. The school board recommends, the City Counsel deliberate, statistics are cited, facts are debated, opinions exchanged and decisions will be made.
Before final action is taken by the proper authority, could some points be considered? Are today's children being raised in an academic atmosphere where formal education is respected? Are these children prepared at home and their environment for the classroom? Do they enter their grade with the discipline, family support and desire to succeed in life through learning and hard work?
Perhaps the superintendent's job is impossible."

Perhaps so but if you think he has it tough, come stand in my shoes for a day. No wait, one day is not enough. You should come for a week. Just a regular week, not one that requires special testing or one where you get 23 new students who have arrived with various offenses ranging from having drugs at school, a knife hidden in the gym bag, or having sex on the bus. Just a regular week so you cannot say "it's just one day."

I'm continually asked when I'm going to "get out" and I'm continually asking back "why". Some body's got to do it right? I'm beginning to ask myself if anyone can do what I do and should I continue to try to do what do. Seems the job is simply impossible. Be that as it may, when I get 240 comments and birthday wishes from former student it tells me that i've done something right, if for only one changed life it was worth the cost.

In today's world everything is costing more and many people have a lifestyle where they get too much for free, so they adopt the way of life that what ever you tried to do for them it's never enough. Mays me wonder if some one will pay the price I've paid when I'm gone.

Recently God showed me a GREAT TRUTH found in the 10 chapter of Joshua. God has delivered a waring group to Joshua and his people. Joshua takes God at his word and begins to get busy killing the enemy. God even gets personal with the enemy by knocking them in the head with hail stones. Joshua sees that the battle is going to take a little longer than he thought so he has the nerve to ask God to stop the SUN and MOON. PLEASE! ask God to stop the sun! Yes he did. Joshua knew that God had delivered the enemy unto him and that the battle was won before the first life was taken. Why not ask for the sun to be stopped in the sky? WHY NOT? God is all powerful, He can do anything.

So it brings you and I to this point. What ever the problem, be it sins or trials we come down to "faithing" #1 stop the sun or #2 sins and trials, #1 stop the sun or #2 sins and trials, #1 stop the sun or #2 sins and trials????????

So even the impossible, like educating children and enabling them to become productive citizens is not beyond God power. So today i would beg you to pray to God to STOP THE SUN.

ONLY SOLUTION

2011-01-28T12:41:00.004-06:00

RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN AWAY!!! FAR FAR AWAY!!!!!!!

I consider myself somewhat of an expert when it comes to challenged kids. Why! you may ask, well 37 years of experience of working with them. I've seem problems on top of problems that simply manifest themselves into larger more complicated problems with either no end in sight or no solution available in this universe.

We are in big trouble and no amount of money is going to fix most of these problems because they are self induced. Our family structure is shot to hell and it is becoming more of "a somebody help me, but don't treat me that way." One parent, no parent, three parent, grand mother parent, mother's boy friend parent, mother's girl friend parent, daddy's girl friend parent homes are the norm now. I don't blame young people today for not wanting to get married and having kids, but if you are gong to have kids then take the responsibility to raise them properly. If you don't they will turn their backs on you when you need them and be as drain on society in every way that can be thought of. Realistically who would want to bring a kid into a world, a nation, a city where kids walk the street at early morning hours and the person who claims them shows no concern for them. Kids today have people that will stand up for them doing WRONG and EVIL! It has to be an effort to "regain" their love or something because the reasoning behind their disrespect towards those who try to help their children is evidence of the ignorant and is inversely proportional to their productivity in life.

Solution????? Not in sight my brothers and sisters!

The only possible rectification is the resurrection of the true family, the Christian home where God is God and parents train up their children in God's ways. Those ways are distant and far from your public schools, but not completely absent. There are a few of us that still believe, try our best and pray the presence of the Spirit of God as we walk the halls.

The bottom line is don't blame me for your screw up when you did the screwing up. Some things just can't be unscrewed.

So RUN! away from the evil of the world and ask God to wake the world to the only true solution. His way.

There is a need for change!

2011-01-13T10:38:00.002-06:00

Basketball has become boring and we need a change.

I confess! I hate basketball! I'm sure having to play security guard and leader of the masses for the out-of-mind for many schools has something to do with it but whether professional or college basketball, both have become boring to me. Let's admit it, the players are bigger and better than ever before. I don't mean there are more "Jordans" that before but i mean there are more near "Jordans". Seems they can all DUNK and it appears much of the true skill is missing out. To me is seems that most of the time it's 5 one on one games occurring at the same time. The real game involves who is the last to score.

Be that as it may, I am here to save you all by offering these changes to the sport(?) of basketball. Yes it is a list :)
1. Dunks will no longer count as two points. They now are worth one point and can not be counted in the last minute of play.
2. The three point shots continue but now there is a four point shot that is taken from half court. These four point shots can be "called" and unhindered in the last 44 seconds of any game. I hope you got the "44" play on the four point shot.
3. The ball itself is going to be modified. The game ball will be a solid color selected by the home team, but if the home team selects the traditional color for the game they receive an opportunity at 3 free throws. One prior to the beginning of the game, one at the beginning of the second half and one at the end of the game.
4. 3 opportunities will be given at 3 point shots for creativity in the areas of a. uniforms, b. players, c. half time performance. (NOTHING OF A SEXUAL NATURE) examples:
a. uniform design, gladiator night, sponge Bob night, Disney night
b. players, a team with a "little person" that play or a one armed guy that plays (a minimum of 2 minutes per quarter/half).
c. half time performance, a bunch of cute kids jumping ropes, a guy dressed like spider man doing shots off a tramp, an eating contest (unique food like chocolate yak chunks)

We all owe it to the fans of tomorrow to modify the game of present day into a game that is real like the game of yester year.

Open Hand Out, A Good Thing?

2011-01-13T09:26:00.003-06:00

Giveme giveme giveme

Just a quick not but something since it has been so long since I have posted.

I am more aware of the things the USA does for people than ever before. In my profession I see hundreds of people with their hand out saying somebody has to help me and lots of the people I just meet are continuously talking about what the government should be doing for them. Seems like MOST folk have lived the way they wanted and now they want others to pay their bills. Don't say you don't think the same way I do because whether you are one of the ones with your hand out or the ones that are being forced to fill those hands by our government, you think about it and have an opinion.

Here's mine and of course it has to be a list :)

1. If you earned, it get it. If you worked HARD 37 years and earned a retirement then you deserve it and you shouldn't have to be drained of it by anyone who not earned theirs.

2. Just because it is available doesn't mean you have to take advantage of it. It rags me every time I go to a luncheon or what ever and I see people get a second, third, or fourth plate of food, for what ever reason, maybe to" take home". JUST BECAUSE IT'S FREE! IT'S LIKE TRICK OR TREAT. You go to some one's house and you expect them to have your favorite candy and if not you get mad. It's like taking a half dozen calendars from some store giving away as advertisement that are free when you don't even use one. They're free right? Never mind that someone else who might actually need one didn't get one because YOU took a half dozen and put them in some draw only to be discovered in November and thrown away.

3. Just because Medicare or Medicaid offers you a service doesn't mean you have to take advantage of it. You know there are people that actually need those services but can't afford them because they don't have either of the Government programs. They have to sacrifice something else in their life to have the funds to get the services or treatments they need.

4. Take some pride in yourself. Suck it up! It may be an inconvenience for you but tough it out. You'll never be perfect, you'll never have the teen body that you had. Live with it!!!

5. Don't blame someone else for your short falls in life and expect them to cover your needs.

The bottom line is live with in you own means. If you don't have the money to go to the movie, live your life without the movies. Because other people do things in their lives that you don't get to do, doesn't mean the someone should pay for you to do those things. Live your life, not someone else's and don't walk around looking for free calendars.

2010-11-08T09:14:00.004-06:00

There is always and turn in the road.

We all face problems and stress in this world. After all Jesus said in this world you will have tribulation. He also tells us that those problems and stressful situations cause us to grow in Him by becoming like Him. That is a good thing to happen. But there comes a time when we are given "release" to know that what we were about is not what we have to be about.

An example may be your current job. Now I personally believe that God calls us into a "purpose" with our vocation and He equips us to do the job in a way for Him to be glorified by our success or failure. If you're like me you make have spent a majority of you life in the same job or working in with the same organization.

I've actually had several jobs while working for the same organization. Teacher, coach, counselor, acting Principal, night school principal, summer school principal, principal, assistant principal all are different jobs with different situations calling for some different skills. I'd like to think that I have done a good job at all of these jobs and that I'm worthy of my position because of my having experience and knowledge that come with years of service.

My job now is very difficult because I deal with young students who have made mistakes and have been put out of their home schools. Drugs, weapons, fights, threats, you name it they have done it. The causes, who actually knows? Mother, father, family, lack of family, prenatal care, being dropped on their head, what ever. Difficult but purposeful. It gives me a sense of worth that for most of the last 36 years I have not felt. Making a difference in one life is great but having the opportunity to make things better for many kids is what it is all about.

You reach a point that you examine the scales and notice it takes more on your side than it does the other. Paying more, getting less, sacrificing more, affecting less, investing more with less return. Helps me see God's hand more clearly.

Today it became very evident that I can continue to work where I am and make some difference but the cost has become to high. It's kinda a feeling that you have been given permission to change post in the battle. That your commander has said I need you at another post now, I release you from this responsibility.

So released I am to face another battle, to take on another responsibility. I'm sure it will be under the same commander with the same purposes. I need not hope I know that my commander/leader will not change and my purpose will not change.

I know who holds the future. In the book of Jeremiah God tells us he knows the plan for us, it is for us to look at His purpose and see when He is saying "I release you to do my purpose some where else."

These thing don't happen over night and once given release you don't, you can't just walk away but you can think more clearly of what the next post will be.

I ain't dead yet, neither are you!

2010-11-01T12:53:00.002-05:00

Let's Get a Grip!

PLEASE!!

We have gone here before but I can't help but to visit again the insanity of the surrender by individuals to the college athletics.

So much for enjoyment in athletics, especially college. Cheerleaders, strategy on the field, on the court, and during the game. Traditions like the cow bell, family tail gating, special FOODS!

Then there are those things that spoil it all, hatred, selfishness, missed place devotion, they all jump in. It's like the devil taking away our joy by tempting us with that most tempting thing we would ever face. The sin that separates us from joy.

Can't we all just enjoy the game and then look forward to the next game?? I don't think so! Watching or being at a college football game has become a passion for some people. I mean a passion in the strictest sense. I mean a passion like makes husbands leave their wives. I mean passion that causes hurt to those who just minutes before you were saying I love you to.

At what point do we GET A GRIP?! At what point does this passion become a rage and what is the real cause????? Is it worth it? It has become an addiction like alcohol to the alcoholic. How does each individual deal with this??

I really can't say how people handle this attitude, feeling, addiction, but there are many many individuals that are failing miserably at controlling themselves when it relates to college athletics.

To them and to you I say GET A GRIP!!!! You hurt it for most of us borderline sports fans.

2010-10-19T12:47:00.002-05:00

What's That You Didn't Say?

Well darn the farm Mr. President. You missed another opportunity.

"Far be it for our American President to publicly congratulate (let alone even mention) AMERICAN ingenuity and AMERICAN PRIVATE ENTERPRISE for the miracle rescue of the Chilean Miners.

• Schramm Inc. of West Chester , Pennsylvania built the drills and equipment used to reach the trapped miners.
• Center Rock Company, also from Pennsylvania , built the drill bits used to reach the miners.
• UPS, the US shipping company, delivered the 13-ton drilling equipment from Pennsylvania to Chile in less than 48 hours.
• Crews from Layne Christensen Company of Wichita Kansas and its subsidiary Geotec Boyles Bros. worked the drills and machinery to locate and reach the miners and then enlarge the holes to ultimately rescue them.
• Jeff Hart of Denver Colorado was called off his job drilling water wells for the U.S. Army's forward operating bases in Afghanistan to lead the drilling crew that reached the miners.
• Atlas Copco Construction Mining Company of Milwaukee , Wisconsin provided consulting on how to make drilling equipment from different sources work together under differing pressure specifications.
• Aries Central California Video of Fresno California designed the special cameras that were lowered nearly a mile into the ground sending back video of the miners.
• Zephyr Technologies of Annapolis Maryland , made the remote monitors of vital signs that miners wore during their ascent.
• NASA Engineers designed the " Phoenix " capsule that miners would be brought to the surface in, and provided medical consulting, special diets and spandex suits to maintain miners' blood pressure as they're brought back to the surface.
• Drilling Supply Co., Houston also involved.

Oh, and Canadian-based Precision Drilling Corp. and South-African company Murray & Roberts, drilled backup rescue shafts in case the American rig failed. Which it didn't."

2010-10-13T09:01:00.003-05:00

IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!

There are certain parts of movies that just hang on. One of my favorites is a moment at Camp Mohawk when the Lake "something" Olympics were taking place. Of course the rich kids camp was winning and Camp Mohawk chances are slim and none. Head Counselor Bill Murry steps up to give the motivational talk to the seemly dumed campers and profoundly states that no matter what they did all the really good looking chick would still go out with the kids at Morning Star because they had all the money. And then he begins to chant "it just doesn't matter, it just doesn't matter, it just doesn't matter" over and over till the whole camp is screaming "it just doesn't matter. "

Recently I was apart of two meeting where "well-to-do" men and woman came together for some common purposes. Of course that is an assumption on my part because my conclusions are that both groups wanted the same results but weren't welling to give up part of themselves to accomplish a common good. I guess they all were inwardly chatting "it just doesn't matter.".

Facts are, it really does matter. It matters that we are together in what our efforts can accomplish and even more it really does matter that we realize that God is able to meet ours and the needs of others exceedingly abundantly beyond our greatest expectation.

It is time for us all to put aside ourselves for others and do what is right instead of what is proper or fitting.

2010-10-06T09:49:00.002-05:00

YES I REALLY DID, QUESTIONS 1241-1400

1241. Out of all your friends, family and the people you know who is the most:

Intelligent: Crawley

Happy: Sharah

Miserable: July

Easily influenced: TOM!

Cranky: LA

Bitchy: LA

Evil: LA

Nice: Susan

1242. What's the best live musical performance you ever saw?

Casting Crowns

1243. Have you ever had a 'pregnancy scare'?

don’t think so

1244. Kelly Osbourne or Madonna's version of “Pappa Don't Preach”?

Madonna1

245. Can you change a tire?

Of course, but the car must be stopped

1246. Have you ever put your fist through a wall?

YES

1247. When do you feel the most relaxed and able to be yourself?

In the tub

1248. Do you have a place that is your own where you won't show anyone else?

yes

1249. Are you a part of any teams or clubs? .

1250. Is cheer leading a sport?

An event!

1251. Do you believe that people should be able to choose death for themselves if they want to end their lives?

No
1252. Is there anything you morally object to?

Yes, queers

1253. What would you never do for money?

kill

1254. Applebees, the Outback, or TGI Friday's?

outback

1255. Which do you drink the most: juice, soda, milk, or water?

soda

1256. What sport do you like to watch the most?

football

1257. What sport do you like to play the most?

kissing

1256. Do you write poetry?

I have

1257. Are you aggressive?

yes

1258. Have you ever fallen from grace?

She has never held me before. No

1259. Does it bother you when a band you like gets really popular?

1260. Has anyone ever won you a stuffed animal?

If yes, did you name it after the person who won it for you?

DAAAAAAAAAAA

1261. Can you go one week without cursing at all?

yes

1262. What's the best candy?

snickers

1263. Can you lick your own nose?

Yes but why??

1264. What song would you like to hear spontaneously in a public place (like a store)?

Up up and away

1265. Do you ever make others feel unwanted?

Yes, but not on purpose

1266. Do you think you have ever made others feel unwanted without realizing you were doing it?

yes

1267. Are you very sensitive to what other people are feeling and how they will react to certain things?

yes

1268. Have you ever climbed a tree?

yep

1269. Do you feel somehow different when the moon is full?

1270. Who do you know that talks a lot but never really says anything?

I know several of those people

1271. Is world peace possible?

1272. Who do you know that is making a huge life mistake yet you can't stop them?

Can’t say

What’s the mistake?

Giving up

1273. Do you plan to own a home or rent an apartment for most of your life?

own

1274. Would you enjoy going to a strip bar to see strippers (of whatever sex you find appealing)? no1275. Would you ever consider stripping in a sexual way for money?

How much???? Some one would be very very desperate.

1276. Would you ever consider being a nude model for an artistic life drawing class for money?

yes

1277. What are 2 goals that you have?

Live, die

1278. What are 2 negative traits that you have?

Slow, cussing

1279. Will these negative traits stop you from achieving your goals?

1280. Everyone knows that you are nice, fun, creative, and good but what are 4 other positive traits that you have?

fugal, compassionate, assertive, good cook

1281. How often do you daydream about your wedding day?

never

1282. If you were hiring someone for a job but could only ask him or her 3 questions in the interview what would you ask?

Why, how, when

1283. If you were interviewing someone for the position of your new friend but could only ask 3 questions, what would they be?

Why, how, if

1285. Wholesome - Conducive to sound health or well being; salutary: simple, examples: wholesome food; a wholesome climate, Promoting mental, moral, or social health: example: wholesome entertainment. Do you enjoy wholesome activities (sports, cooking, beach, family time, zoo, museums, etc.)?

yes

If yes what wholesome activity do you enjoy the most?

Family time

Are you a wholesome person?

1286. When was your first kiss and what was it like?

1967, weak, very weak

1287. Are you quiet and shy?

1288. Are you bitchy, cranky, whiny, miserable, depressed, needy, mean, flakey, shallow, obnoxious, inconsiderate, nervous, and/or stuck up?

Not completely!

1289. Do you come off any of these ways even if you aren't really like that?

Oh yea!!!

1290. Are you loud and unfriendly?

No, but it depends

1291. Can a positive attitude/good personality make up for someone being less than beautiful?

Oh yea!!!!!

1292. Can being totally beautiful and hot make up for a negative attitude/bad personality?

Oh yea!!!!!

1293.What are you seeking?

happiness

1294. Could you see yourself as a future nun/monk?

NO WAY!

1295. Would you rather have a baby or get a pet?

Too late

1296. What mistake do you repeat over and over?

Over eating

1297. What do you think of the restaurant Hooters?

It’s a family restaurant
1298. What are 5 traits that make someone ugly?

Nose, neck, butt, teeth, BREATH

1299. Do you hate when people tell you to smile?

No, smart ass

1300. Do you like the writing of Douglas Adams?

I don’t think so.
1301. Can “what you don't know” actually hurt you?

yes

1302. Are you pondering what I'm pondering?

Yes, and I don’t know either

1303. What people or objects would you describe as “pure”?

Christ love

1304. Are you into bookcrossing (If you aren’t sure, check out www.bookcrossing.com)?

1305. Have you ever had a pen pal?

1306. Have you ever had a package pal (same as a pen pal but you send each other surprise gifts instead of letters)?

1307. Is there a particular word or phrase that annoys you?

1308. Is there an online game you like to play?

Click-o-mania

1309. What group of people is the most discriminated against in your opinion or experience? Good people

1310. What do you like best about bras and underwear?

Who they are on

1311. Are you afraid of living in oblivion?

1312. Before you were born you got to pick your life from one of these. Which do you pick?

You are successful from the start, a musical genius, good looking, wealthy.

You become a rock tar, get super famous, make your mark on the world and die at 27.

*You are caring and compassionate.

You love animals and adopt more and more as you grow older. You foster and nurture and care for them all of your life.

You sit home playing video games for 70 years.

1313. What is broken in your:

Car? headliner

School? leadership

House? Weather stripping

Life? faith
Soul? foundation

Brain? Front half

1314. Which one will you fix first?

life

1315. Tell me all your thoughts on god:

Glory, He is mine, I am His. He loves me.

1316. What is the strangest note you've ever received?

From a queer student professing his love, POOR KID SCREWED BUT WITH GOOD TASTE

1317. Of the following how many can be used to get in touch with you?

Phone- yep

Beeper-nope

Voice mail-sorta

Email-yep

Cell phone- yep

Snail mail- yep

1318. Are you always available/easy to reach, or do you give people a chance to miss you?

people always have a chance to miss me.
1319. If you got pregnant or impregnated the person you are with now (hypothetical if there is no one in your life just now) would you lean more towards keeping, adopting out, or aborting the baby?

Kept both.

1320. If your partner in the pregnancy did not agree with how you felt and pressured you to change your mind or just went ahead with what he or she wanted to do against your wishes, would that affect your ability to continue your relationship with this person?

No chance, didn’t happen

1321. Who should have the final say in the decision to have a baby, the woman or the man?

Both together.

1322. If your boyfriend or girlfriend cheats on you for the first time, do you forgive him or her and take him or her back?

Can’t happen

1323. What if it is your husband or wife that cheats on you?

Kill the cheatee

1324. Who is more responsible for educating children, parents or schools?

Depends on the parent

1325. Are you into new age things?

No I like old stuff too

1326. Are you very:

Nervous? no

Anxious? no

High strung? no

Organized? sorta

Tense? no

Rigid? no

Skeptical? sorta

1327. Do you perceive reality differently from others?

yes

How?

Eyes of Christ

1328. If you asked someone, “Do you masturbate?” and he or she says, “No,” would you assume he or she was lying?

yes

1329. What do you blame things on?

Effort and chance

1330. Do you want to be naked and famous?

At the same time, no.

1331. Ice Cube or LL Cool J?

cool J

1332. What are your feelings about rap music?

No speaka da english

1333. Cypress Hill or Roxy Music?

??????????????

BSB or N'sync or NKOTB?

????????????????????

Debbie Gibson or Paula Abdul?

Paula

Eminem or Kid Rock?

Kid

Weezer or the Get Up Kids?

??????????????????????????

1334. If you could solve just one of the world's problems what would you choose to solve? hate

1335. Would you make a good:Counselor?

yes

Visual artist?

yes

Teacher?

yes

Pilot?

yes

Secretary?

Yes

Cashier?

yes

Waiter or waitress?

Yes

Veterinary assistant?

Yes

Office manager?

Yes

Stage manager?

Yes

Actor or actress?

Yes

Sales girl or guy?

Yes

Pizza delivery girl or guy?

Yes

Film director?

Yes

Business man or woman?

Yes

CEO?

Yes

Surgeon?

Yes

Fire man or woman?

Yes

Cop?

Yes

1336. Do you check condoms to see if they are expired before using them?

Never had the chance!

1337. Imagine you are in school and a person of the opposite sex you barely know asks you really nicely for a ride home from class (yes, you have a car). It's out of your way. Do you say yes?

yes

Let's say you said yes. She hugs you. What is your reaction?

Hug back

As you drop him or her off s/he hugs you again and thanks you for being such a nice person. What do you make of all this?

Good reaction

1338. Are you interested in post-apocalyptic (post-nuclear war) movies?

yes

1339. What is the saddest movie you ever saw?

bucket list

1340. What is the saddest thought you can think of?

Losing my family

1341. Who is the most horrible driver you know?

No comment

1342. Are you a sexist in any way?

yes

1343. How often do you check your email?

Daily several times

1344. How often do you check your diary for notes?

??????

1345. If you had to read a biography about someone, who would you pick?

Christ,

1346. Which of your friends and relatives has the most interesting life story?

Ron

1347. What's the matter with kids today?

parents

1348. How do you feel about censorship?

needed

1349. What was on the last CD you burned?

Katie’s Black Eyed Peas

1350. What movie should be released on DVD but hasn’t been released yet?

Life as it should be.

1351. Have you ever wished for wings that work?

yes1352. Have you ever imagined that you are not really of this world?

1353. Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

1354. Do you still have imaginary friends?

1355. Do you enjoy reading children’s books?

1356. Are you decadent?

Don’t think so

1357. What would make you happy that money cannot buy?

Happiness for my family

1358. What would make you happy that money can buy?

10,000 Fresh water wells

1359. Where do you hang out on your spare time?

couch

1360. Do you delight in minor euphoria?

Minor??? maybe

1361. It's (what time is it?)

__2:48 PM____.

Do you know where your:

Mom is?

yes

Dad is?

Yes

First boyfriend or girlfriend is?

Best friend is?

Yes
Soul mate is?

yes

Wallet is?

yes

1362. Who do you feel sorry for?

Not living harder

1363. What will you never say in front of your parents?

I hate you

1364. Do you change your personality and behavior depending on who you are with?

1365. Are you waiting for marriage to lose your virginity?

1366. What year were you born?

1952

1367. What is your sign?

yeild

1368. What year did you/will you graduate from high school? 1970

1369. Do you use moisturizer? yes

1370. On what parts of your body?

feet

1371. Are the 70's back in style?

always

1372. Do you read any magazines?

Look at the pictures and read parts

1373. Do you read before going to sleep at night?

maybe

1374. Are you a music maker?

No, noise yes

1375. Are you a dreamer of the dreams?

Yes mostly bad

1376. How do you feel about large corporations?

They are large

1377. How do you feel about people who are, “just doing their job”?

kiss ass, worthless

1378. Which would you watch of these choices:

Pitch black yes

The mummy yes

Pretty woman MAYBE

1380. About what percent of the time do you feel good about yourself?

23.785%

1381. Do you feel comfortable with other people (in social situations)?

yes

1382. Do you have good friends/family relationships?

Mostly, the others don’t count

1383. How do you control your tension and anxiety?

eat

1384. Are you able to meet the demands of life and function in society?

1385. Do you curb your feelings of hatred and guilt?

yes

1386. Do you maintain a positive outlook?

Depends on what I’m looking out at.

1387. Does knowing you enrich the lives of others?

Yes

1388. What things do you cherish?

Bible, pictures of the family, Randi

1389. To what extent do you value diversity?

87.631%

1390. What fascinates you?

animals

1391. Do you appreciate nature?

yes

1392. If you could be someone else for a day who would you be?

Libby

1393. Would you ever consider 'psychic surgery' if you were ill?

yes

How about voodoo?

Who do voodoo, you do? No way.

Herbal remedies?

yes

1394. How effective do you feel meditation is?

Some better than others.

1395. How effective do you feel prayer is?

Absolute!

1396. How do you think that you (or anyone, for that matter) could pray without ceasing? Considering that without ceasing means being mindful of the presence of.. I’d say any one can be prayful without ceasing.

1397. Is religion a live option for you (that is, a possibility, something you are drawn to even if you have no belief)?

Yes, religion offers structure to society

1398. What part of your body do you lavish the least attention and love on?

toes

1399. How many clocks are in your house?

10 or so that work

1400. What topics would you like to see more of on this survey?

food

2010-10-04T15:34:00.003-05:00

I can count to 13 too.

What an end to a game? Yes I'm talking about LSU! I wonderful if those Voodoo charms those guys wear under their jerseys cause any rashes.

Go Gators!!!

Bit'em Dawgs!!!

I say that to say this... There are a lot of "nuts" in the world. They say things that even they don't understand but expect everybody else to understand what they meant after saying stupid things that no one understood to begin with. I know some of these people personally and they just don't get any better with time. They are their own worst enemy. Their heart's desire is for someone to take care of their every wish in life. Whether it be financially, socially, spiritually, or "hopefully." (I know... you have to think about that one.) Good grief!! Grow up and be your own person. Take notes so you don't forget who you are. You could make you own life and live it. Stop trying to live someone else's life or get someone to live for you. Tell the truth and stop looking for excuses.

Let me make one last statement, if you want to blame someone blame Al Gore. They tell me he takes credit for the World Wide Web and most people wouldn't be able to think up the crap they throw out there if it wasn't for the "web".

Thanks, Al! Now go climb a mountain.

2010-09-14T12:21:00.002-05:00

Every now and then I get a little story via e-mail that I think it would be a tragdy if all didn't read it. This is one of them.

The Pickle Jar

The pickle jar as far back as I can remember sat on the floor beside the dresser in my parents’ bedroom. When he got ready for bed, Dad would empty his pockets and toss his coins into the jar.

As a small boy, I was always fascinated at the sounds the coins made as they were dropped into the jar . They landed with a merry jingle when the jar was almost empty. Then the tones gradually muted to a dull thud as the jar was filled.

I used to squat on the floor in front of the jar to admire the copper and silver circles that glinted like a pirate’s treasure when the sun poured through the bedroom window.
When the jar was filled, Dad would sit at the kitchen table and roll the coins before taking them to the bank. Taking the coins to the bank was always a big production.

Stacked neatly in a small cardboard box, the coins were placed between Dad and me on the seat of his old truck.

Each and every time, as we drove to the bank, Dad would look at me hopefully. ‘Those coins are going to keep you out of the textile mill, son. You’re going to do better than me. This old mill town’s not going to hold you back.’

Also, each and every time, as he slid the box of rolled coins across the counter at the bank toward the cashier, he would grin proudly. ‘These are for my son’s college fund. He’ll never work at the mill all his life like me.’

We would always celebrate each deposit by stopping for an ice cream cone. I always got chocolate. Dad always got vanilla. When the clerk at the ice cream parlor handed Dad his change, he would show me the few coins nestled in his palm. ‘When we get home, we’ll start filling the jar again.’ He always let me drop the first coins into the empty jar. As they rattled around with a brief, happy jingle, we grinned at each other.

‘You’ll get to college on pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters,’ he said. ‘But you’ll get there; I’ll see to that.’

No matter how rough things got at home, Dad continued to doggedly drop his coins into the jar. Even the summer when Dad got laid off from the mill, and Mama had to serve dried beans several times a week, not a single dime was taken from the jar.

To the contrary, as Dad looked across the table at me, pouring catsup over my beans to make them more palatable, he became more determined than ever to make a way out for me ‘When you finish college, Son,’ he told me, his eyes glistening, ‘You’ll never have to eat beans again - unless you want to.’

The years passed, and I finished college and took a job in another town. Once, while visiting my parents, I used the phone in their bedroom, and noticed that the pickle jar was gone. It had served its purpose and had been removed.

A lump rose in my throat as I stared at the spot beside the dresser where the jar had always stood. My dad was a man of few words: he never lectured me on the values of determination, perseverance, and faith. The pickle jar had taught me all these virtues far more eloquently than the most flowery of words could have done. When I married, I told my wife Susan about the significant part the lowly pickle jar had played in my life as a boy. In my mind, it defined, more than anything else, how much my dad had loved me.

The first Christmas after our daughter Jessica was born, we spent the holiday with my parents. After dinner, Mom and Dad sat next to each other on the sofa, taking turns cuddling their first grandchild. Jessica began to whimper softly and Susan took her from Dad’s arms. ‘She probably needs to be changed,’ she said, carrying the baby into my parents’ bedroom to diaper her. When Susan came back into the living room, there was a strange mist in her eyes.
She handed Jessica back to Dad before taking my hand and leading me into the room. ‘Look,’ she said softly, her eyes directing me to a spot on the floor beside the dresser. To my amazement, there, as if it had never been removed, stood the old pickle jar, the bottom already covered with coins. I walked over to the pickle jar, dug down into my pocket, and pulled out a fistful of coins. With a gamut of emotions choking me, I dropped the coins into the jar. I looked up and saw that Dad, carrying Jessica, had slipped quietly into the room. Our eyes locked, and I knew he was feeling the same emotions I felt. Neither one of us could speak.

This truly touched my heart. Sometimes we are so busy adding up our troubles
that we forget to count our blessings. Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person’s life, for better or for worse.

God puts us all in each other’s lives to impact one another in some way. Look for GOOD in others.

The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or touched - they must be felt with the heart ~ Helen Keller

· Happy moments, praise God.
· Difficult moments, seek God.
· Quiet moments, worship God.
· Painful moments, trust God.

Every moment, thank God.

2010-09-08T11:07:00.005-05:00

Friends there has been a William sighting!

ain't life great!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-09-08T10:44:00.006-05:00

SHOES Part II

I start with the "I sorry" for not letting the shoe thing go, but is it just a female hormone thing or what! NO! it happens to guys too. Good grief! Do you not understand that those shoes are for hunting bears in the woods and they just don't go with a tie! Guys guys guys... Take a second and thing. Unless you have "problems with your feet" get something that doesn't make you feet he topic of discussion after you leave the room.

Here's a clue, OK, some clues. Right list time.

Clues you made a mistake in shoe selection or reasons to "get thee to a shoe store.":
1. Your toe is sticking out between the slits in the shoe.
2. You have walked the heel down on those shoes where they look like mountain man clogs.
3. There are parts of leather (or something that looks some what like leather) "hanging" off the heels.
4. One shoe is a different color than the other and yes, you have tried to polish them several times with that can paste polish your dad used.
5. SOMETHING Smells!
6. My sister has a pair like yours but she wears a dress some.
7. The heel is "way" high making you look like you're walking in high water.
8. You laces form the shape of an exotic animal.
9. They are the same color as your Christmas tie.
10. The toes are shaped perfectly for kill insects running to the corner of the room.
11. Good grief men unless you name is "Huggy" purple is not a shoe color.

12. STEELE toes???? What are you afraid of??? are you planning a dance contest with a BIG women??

Now... GO... get thee to the shoe store.

2010-09-08T08:58:00.004-05:00

What is the source of you actions?

Speaking today of a widely published report of a Florida church's plan to burn the Muslim "holy" book the Kuran. Let me be clear how I stand on this.

STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not just the logical stance to prevent provocation of extremist who, to begin with are just looking for reasons to murder people that might be wearing the same tag as those who perform this action, but the better reason of "faith and action" this is stupid and dumb.

Why would you want to do such a thing? OK, we were all shocked at the actions of a few Muslim extremists of September 11th and I can imagine the hurt and hate of those who suffered lost of friends and family towards those of like faith and beliefs, but is hate a good reason to demonstrate a hateful act that is most assuredly gong to create more acts of hate. What more is at the center of this "burning" than hate, hate, and more hate.

Show me where Christ demonstrates hate except where it relates to sin and convince me in the least way that "hate" is not SIN!!!

Our whole existence as Christians is centered around Glorifying the Father. All things are to glorify the father and for that much all things do glorify the Father whether it is our intentions or not. God is in control always no matter what.

As to the "pastor " who came up with this idea I say, GOOD GRIEF! Get out, get out! Go away! Run into the wilderness and seek to find the truth you probably had at one time. You cannot stand at the Holy desk and present the Word of God and then not follow the teaching of that Word. You are not the care keeper of those in the faith family at your church. You are the wolf in sheep's clothes, the agent of the dark one, the false one spewing puss from you mouth leading others away from the true Christian walk.

The source of our actions as Christians is Christ the son of God. His love eternal.

Do all as you would be doing it unto God.

They will know you by your love for one another.

Now, of course I want to have an open mind. SO, if you can show me in the WORD of God how burning the "book" will glorify God I will bring the matches to Florida. Better yet I will buy a zippo with the emblem of the USMC on it and start the fire myself.

Sir you are the 1% percenter of the Christian family of faith.

2010-09-02T13:54:00.005-05:00

QUESTIONS 926-1240

Caught you though, cause you skipped 1101-1199!!!

926. Have you ever held someone and appreciated how delicate and fragile all life is and felt that they were even more precious and beautiful because one day they would die.and so will you?
DIE? Good grief!

927. In ten years someone else might own your house and the room you are sitting in now. Someone else might be standing right next to where you are sitting now. So that means you could be standing right next to someone but you can't see him or her because they are ten years away.Ever look at life like that?

WHY? There are better things to think about than stupid time warp stuff.

928. When was the last time you:Soaked in a bubble bath-
You don’t soak in a bubble bath you soak under it.

Read a good book outside-
July 10

Held someone's hand-
last night

Felt truly joyful-
?????????????????

929. What do you bring to this world that no one else can?-
fine children

930. Do you feel that you are part of every living thing in this world and that all those things are part of you?
no

931. Are you more afraid of death or not completely living?-
Not completely living. Just here… in the land of the dying on my way to the land of the living

932. What was the last thing you wanted to do but didn't or couldn't do?
have ice cream, give a friend a lot of money, beat the hell out of a hateful person

933. Why don't you try and do that thing now?
same reasons

934. What is the most wonderful thing happening right now in the world?
my family
935. Name 7 things going on around you that you normally wouldn't notice:
1.air blowing on my arm
2. lingering taste of a soda
3.piano playing
4.Burn notice on TV
5.fan blowing
6.nose runnnnnnnnnnning
7.legs hurting.

936. Name three things you hate
1.people dying
2.greens
3.two faced people

937. Name one GOOD thing about each of those 3 things you hate.
1. they leave this world of hurting
2.the color
3. I can leave them behind1045. Have you ever given blood?yes1046. Have you ever been thrown out of someplace?no
1047. What do you daydream about?
fishing, eating, Libby

1048. Are you a miracle?
yes

1049. If America is one nation under god then are atheists citizens? of course, God made atheists too

1050. Should they be?

PAY ATTENTION!

1051. If you could pick any rock star to replace the Ozbournes in their reality show, whom would you pick?
the Chipmunks

1052. What are your feelings about Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of Christ?
very realistic!

1053. What did you think about the last episode of Sex in the City?
I didn’t think about it.

1054. What is your favorite movie with Adam Sandler in it?
Click

1055. What is your biggest problem?
depression

1056. Have you ever been arrested?
not completely

1057. Can musicians be held responsible for influencing people to behave badly?everyone is held accountable for their actions

1058. Do you believe that there are subliminal messages embedded in some TV shows, movies & music?
yes

1059. Is there anything that you believe should be banned for any reason?
Muslims

1060. How often do you eat too much?
daily

1061. Have you ever descended into pure madness?
yes, twice

1062. Would you want to?
never again

1063. Do green m&m's make you feel sexy?
nothing makes me feel sexy

1064. If you died tomorrow, what mark would you have left on the world?
a long brown streak

1065. What movie would you NEVER want to see?
the one with naked skinny and naked fat people

1066. What annoys you the most about yourself?
desperation

1067. How do you feel about capitalism?
it’s CAPITAL

1068. How do you feel about socialism?
has its place

1069. How do you feel about communism?
not needed

1070. Has anyone ever tried to injure you?
many times

1071. Has anyone ever tried to kill you?
yes

1072. How do you know when it's time to break up with someone?
they let me know

1073. What is your opinion of the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake superbowl exposure incident?
touching but NOT revealing

1074. What's the most annoying sound?
certain people’s voices

1075. Who was your childhood hero?
superman

1076. With nearly 100 channels why is NOTHING ever on?
reruns

1077. Would you adopt a stray kitty wandering through your neighborhood?
don’t like cats, that would be NO!

1078. Describe what you look like:
a calorie free, fat free reducing pill

1079. Describe what you ARE like:
falling apart due to injury and mileage

1080. What bad habit do you have that affects other people as much as it affects you?cussing

1081. How did you party new years eve 1999?
with the family, nothing exciting

1082. Does second hand smoke bother you?yes!
1083. Have you ever:Dumped a drink over some one's head?
yes
Dumped a drink over your own head?
yes
Bit someone?
yes
Torn at some one's clothes?
yes!
Made out in the bathroom?
yes!
1084. Which Lord of the Rings movie has the best ending?
the last one

1085. Do you have any interesting scars?
all scars are interesting, make up any story

1086. Is it better for people to change and evolve their ideas or always be consistent?
change to what the need be

1087. Warped tour, Lollapalooza or Area concert?
no way

1088. What are you missing in your life?
fun and a hearts desire

1089. Do you ever know when someone is thinking about you?
mostly if they tell me, not many other times

1090. What could you make a sculpture out of that's in the room with you right now?
anything, rocks, pencils …

1091. Do you believe in the lost city of Atlantis?
yes,

1092. Have you ever read The Little Prince?
no

1093. This is Mr. fish <><>

1094. What did Mr. Octopus say to Mrs. Octopus? get a grip

1095. Let's see if I'm psychic. Write a yes or no question here. Is the boss having an a fair with the PE coach?

1096. Write another yes or no question. Is the PE coach having an affair with the boss?

1097. Think of just one more yes or no question. Does anyone care whether the boss and the PE coach are having an affair?

1098. Type one question that can be answered with a color (example: what color is my car) What solid color is my underwear?

1099. Think of a number between one and one hundred & type it down.

1100. Write one more question, anything you want.

Who killed JFK?

Caught you!!! the list skips to 1201 from 1100!!!!!!

1201. Have you ever owned a record?

Yes, shot put 55’11 ¾”, south Mississippi, high school, junior high, city

1202. In some states people want to make it a requirement that creationism (god made the world) be taught alongside evolution in high school sciences classes. What do you think of this?

The truth and scientific theory should always be taught to generate fresh thought

1203. Should evolution also be taught in religious establishments like church or temple?

Churches are for worship and truth

1204. Can a person believe in creationism and in evolution at the same time? of course, it is a scientific principle, but God also created evolution

1205. You obviously like surveys since you are filling out a 5,000 question one. Do any of the following surveys sound interesting:

The Doors/Jim Morrison Survey:

The David Bowie Survey:

The Beatles Survey:

The Rocky Horror Survey:

The Labyrinth Survey:

The SLC Punk Survey:

The birthday survey: yes
So this is love, the survey: yes
The heartache/break up survey: yes
Creationism vs. Evolutionism Survey: yes
Opinion Survey:
World Trade Center Survey:
Halloween Survey: yes
Survey of Sin: yes
How evil are you? Survey: yes
The Roaring 20's Survey:

Well, once, long ago, I created all those surveys. Now they are floating around in people’s diaries because the diary I had them in (Simply Surveys) was deleted due to disuse.

1206. Who did you get this survey from?
Gretta Internet

Say one nice thing about the person you got this survey from:
Broad

1207. Here is a list of priorities...
Love/sex

Family #1

Close friends

School/learning next to next to last

Job/career
Being true to yourself/self respect
Honesty Aesthetics (beauty in the world)
Creativity
Patriotism
Knowledge
Wisdom
Leading an exciting life
Making a contribution to humanity

Being rich Being famous last

Having power next to last

Justice/fairness
World peace
Accepting and understanding others
Finding yourself

Spirituality/religion #2

Health #3

Happiness What are your top three priorities from this list?

1208. Out of that same list what are your BOTTOM 3 priorities?

1209. How many hours of TV do you watch in an average day?
3-4 hours

1210. Do you want to have a car, a house and 2.5 kids?
Only 2 kids

1211. What song, CD, or band is a 'guilty pleasure' for you (meaning you know it sucks but you like it anyway)?
The Purple Wiz

1212. If you were going to vote for a candidate for president and then you found out that the person you were going to vote for is HIV positive would that effect your vote and why?
Depends on how he got that way and what his life style was now.

1213. Have you ever had an HIV test?
no

1214. What time do you:
Get up in the morning: 6:10-628 AM
Eat lunch: 11:45
Do something active during the day: 4:45
Go to bed: 10:00

1215. Have you ever ridden a motorcycle?
of course all people of character have

1216. When you hear the word ‘biker’ what kind of person do you think of?
FREE SPIRIT rider

1217. Did your parents ever talk to you about sex?
no

1218. If your pet dies, you can now have it cloned for $50,000. How do you feel about this?

possibly a good idea for those who have the money, not me

1219. Are you or would you be embarrassed about buying condoms?
NO

1220. Do any of your clocks make an odd noise or play a song when the hour strikes?

Used to but broke, sounds like a motor cycle

1221. What are the things that make you go 'Hmmmm....' (remember that song?)?
Nothing, absolutely nothing

1222. Are you a sinner?
yes, we all are.

1223. Are you naughty or nice?
neither

1224. Is belly-dancing sexy?
Never done it

1225. What celebrity would you love to be able to dance with?
I don’t think so

1226. What is your favorite comic book movie?
X-men

1227. What movie would you recomend for couples to watch on Valentine's day?
Each other

1228. Besides when you were little how many people have seen you completely naked and who?
Hundreds, the folk I took showers with after practice

1229. Is sex something that should be treated casually?
NO WAY!!!

1230. Have you ever participate in an orgy?
Is that where you build a house like habitat?

If no, would you ever consider it?
Build a house? sure

1231. What song is in your head right now?
none

1232. What was the best day of your life like?
Any day with my Libby

1233. What are you all about?
I’m not all about anything, maybe family

1234. You have won a contest where you get all these great prizes but you can only keep one for yourself and must give the others away to friends, family or whoever. Which one do you keep and who do you give the rest to:
A $5,000 gift certificate to radio shack: Ross

A brand new yellow jeep:katie

An all expense paid vacation for 2 to Italy: FOR ME!

Lunch with N'Sync:Katie

A lifetime supply of herbal essences shampoo: LA

A $1,000 check:Mission first

A palm pilot? Ron

An autographed picture of Shakira: some guy on the street

Breakfast with kid rock: Chennault

A shirt once worn by Jonathan Davis: Evan

One round of mini-golf with Sharon Osbourne: Becky

A phone call from Robert Smith: LA

A brand new washer/dryer: Anna

Free medical insurance for 1 year:Libby

1235. Who do you think you might have known in a past life?
No one in this life, past life… good grief!

1236. Do you take vitamins?
yep

1237. Do you prefer fake or real flowers around the house?
real

1238. Sometimes roses are pink, yellow, white or red. If you give someone a rose, does its color change the meaning behind it as a gift?

YES!

1239. What's the most deadly thing you can think of?
Cliff diving

1240. To-MAY-toes or to-MA-toes?

MAY!

2010-09-02T13:45:00.000-05:00

War HUH!… What is it good for?????

Allow me to step to the soap box and shout with vigor… GOOD GRIEF!!!!

Mr. Obama has declared the war in Iraq, Iran, and Uran over. Hello, we’ve been at war?? Seems to me that we were in a war on terrorism and terrorism is where it is found. Whether Iran, Iraq, or Memphis. I was around when JFK was murdered because he was prepared to get out of Viet Nam. The “war we lost”, remember those kind of statements back in the 70’s. Seems it was to costly for us to stop the “war” then because of the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to be made because of the “war”.

I see the “end of this war” as the same pulling out of a military action that was never unleashed on the true enemy. “Look but don’t touch” as I see it and at what cost? Lives of young men with loved ones that are shaking their heads at why. It’s not like the enemy is wearing a uniform that we can identify and pop a cap on him. Oh yea, we kill those that shoot at us but the ones that sit back and set off a bomb with their cell phones, the throw the brick and hide the hand group, they walk away to blow up kill kill kill another day.

Hell yes it is time to get out of the country but who do we send the bill for these years of “conflict” to? Now we’re going to sell $13,000,000,000 worth equipment to them. Get me right on this, we are leaving $13,000,000,000, of equipment behind. We don’t need it, opps, I forgot the Mexican border where bunches of people are flooding in to suck the tax payers money away from them. That will have to be for another time.

Now don’t take me wrong. I believe that being the strongest nation in the world comes with a price. We are called to stand for freedom and liberty, but where is the respect and “thank you”s for our expenses and sacrifice? WHERE IS THE RESPECT???

What do you think would happen if we took just 1/10 of the price of the “conflicts” and spent it on the gulf coast to restore the BP oil spill, or maybe another 1/10 and built fresh water wells in eastern nations of the world of need. We might cause some good and it wouldn’t be hazardous to any one’s health. 27,000 children dying daily of preventable diseases… how about doing something about that.

Here’s my decree for dealing with conflicts, since this is Walden World I can decree, No more “conflicts”!!! If we have to go to a nation to clear up a “problem’, we go full speed, fully manned, guns a blasting and then get out!!! No forming government, no training the army to take over just wham bam thank you mam.

Here another decree just because it my world and this one is a list of course.
1. One billion dollars to the Mississippi and Louisiana coast to rebuild from Katrina and the BP “accident.” One each, keep the change.
2. 3 billion dollars to supply fresh water wells for the peoples of Africa.
3. 4.5 Billion dollars to states education funding directly to alternative education to get the dummies out of class rooms with the students that want an education.
4. I decree that no “checks” will be provided any person who is not a productive citizen and does not work! No matter how many kids they have out of the union of marriage, NO CHECK!

2010-09-02T13:38:00.001-05:00

War HUH!… What is it good for?????

Allow me to step to the soap box and shout with vigor… GOOD GRIEF!!!!

Mr. Obama has declared the war in Iraq, Iran, and Uran over. Hello, we’ve been at war?? Seems to me that we were in a war on terrorism and terrorism is where it is found. Whether Iran, Iraq, or Memphis. I was around when JFK was murdered because he was prepared to get out of Viet Nam. The “war we lost”, remember those kind of statements back in the 70’s. Seems it was to costly for us to stop the “war” then because of the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to be made because of the “war”.

I see the “end of this war” as the same pulling out of a military action that was never unleashed on the true enemy. “Look but don’t touch” as I see it and at what cost? Lives of young men with loved ones that are shaking their heads at why. It’s not like the enemy is wearing a uniform that we can identify and pop a cap on him. Oh yea, we kill those that shoot at us but the ones that sit back and set off a bomb with their cell phones, the throw the brick and hide the hand group, they walk away to blow up kill kill kill another day.

Hell yes it is time to get out of the country but who do we send the bill for these years of “conflict” to? Now we’re going to sell $13,000,000,000 worth equipment to them. Get me right on this, we are leaving $13,000,000,000, of equipment behind. We don’t need it, oops, I forgot the Mexican border where bunches of people are flooding in to suck the tax payers money away from them. That will have to be for another time.

Now don’t take me wrong. I believe that being the strongest nation in the world comes with a price. We are called to stand for freedom and liberty, but where is the respect and “thank you”s for our expenses and sacrifice? WHERE IS THE RESPECT???

What do you think would happen if we took just 1/10 of the price of the “conflicts” and spent it on the gulf coast to restore the BP oil spill, or maybe another 1/10 and built fresh water wells in eastern nations of the world of need. We might cause some good and it wouldn’t be hazardous to any one’s health. 27,000 children dying daily of preventable diseases… how about doing something about that.

Here’s my decree for dealing with conflicts, since this is Walden World I can decree, No more “conflicts”!!! If we have to go to a nation to clear up a “problem’, we go full speed, fully manned, guns a blasting and then get out!!! No forming government, no training the army to take over just wham bam thank you mam.

Here another decree just because it my world and this one is a list of course.
1. One billion dollars to the Mississippi and Louisiana coast to rebuild from Katrina and the BP “accident.” One each, keep the change.
2. 3 billion dollars to supply fresh water wells for the peoples of Africa.
3. 4.5 Billion dollars to states education funding directly to alternative education to get the dummies out of class rooms with the students that want an education.
4. I decree that no “checks” will be provided any person who is not a productive citizen and does not work! No matter how many kids they have out of the union of marriage, NO CHECK!

2010-08-25T09:58:00.002-05:00

SHOES: A women's affair

I just had to share an observation of mine that has served to entertain me for a life time. I get a kick out of what women will do to have fashionable feet.

Girls will buy anything that is offered without thinking about whether or not the shoe is going to last long enough to pass the store door, and of course Carol and Marilyn say "90 days and the style is out." I mean "style"? Good Grief!

List time. Observations related to women and their shoes:

1. There are really only a few styles of women's shoes. The difference is the junk that is glued on them and that is not limited in any way. Then you got your high heel, not so high heal and the "flat". Then you modify the heal to the wedge, spike, boxy, geometric, "death pointy", and the "grand ma's." Any variety of this will work.

2. Women have no regard for safety when selecting shoes. Some of these shoes should carry a warning label because of the height of the heal or sole.

3. Women have no regard for the way their feet look in some shoes. I mean when your toes run out the end of the shoe a good 1 1/2 inches where your foot looks like a Golden Temple monkey's foot gripping the shoe, it's time to let those babies good or it's time to confess that you were under the influence of the shopping gods when you bought them.

4. It is possible to determine the price or comfort of women's shoes by the noise they make when a women walks. Whether it is a "slap" or a "slappy dap", girls please!

I'm not sure because I'm one of those people who wear things out, shoes included, but there seems to be a lot of shoes boxes in every girl's closet to justify a movement to give some to those children in foreign lands who are without shoes... that is if they would wear them.

2010-08-20T08:50:00.003-05:00

Frustrated? #%@$#&!

Seems as I look back on my life that it's filled with frustration and and being dumped on. Well, I guess it really depends on where I am standing when you are looking back that makes the difference. It's that old "half full or half empty glass" thing. In my Christian walk it depends on whether I'm up to the challenge or not. Key word there being "I."

It wasn't till I got to college that I discovered that the Christian life is impossible to live and my frustrations were because I was fighting to live it on my own. Impossible, yes, because only one person has ever lived the Christian life, Billy Graham. No not Billy, it was Jesus. That is because he is God. Sinless God. The sadness, frustration, and depression in my life all were centered in my failure to grow and learn and apply what was available to me because of the same sacrifice that brought me eternal life in Christ. The book of Galatians talks of the fruits (results) of the Holy Spirit of God, but even those results are only evident when we are dependant on the totality of God.

The Christian like life is hard to live. "THAT'S DA FACT JACK!"

Time for a list. These are things that are certain in the Christian pursuit of the abundant life:
1. God loves you and has a plan for us all. Special UNIQUE plan for us individually.

2. God will get glory in all He does in our lives and through our lives.

3. Satan does not want you to follow Christ therefore he will do everything he can to frustrate you and derail you in your path to glorify the father. Satan will attack you in every area of your life especially your family (loved ones), your body (physically), and emotions (love, hate, etc...)

4. This too shall pass.

Let me share with you a short note that I read today that really is "uping".

BY THE WAY I'M INVENTING A NEW WORD! IT IS THE WORD "UPING". No it doesn't have two "Ps". It is spelled 'U' 'P' 'I' 'N' 'G'. Defined as something worth mentioning that bring your spirit up from where ever it has been. As in the sentence: I was feeling down because my bank account was short my needs till I was remind that God still loves me by reading an article that was "UPING".

If God Really Loves Me...Then Why Do I Suffer?
The worse this planet becomes, the more people ask that same old question... "If God Really Loves Me...Then Why Do I Suffer?" It's the basis for all kinds of attacks against the God of the Bible and His teachings. It's even used to attack the evidence of His existence and the legitimacy of the Christian faith. The response typically given to "Do You Believe in God?," is almost always the same. If there is a God and he loves me then he wouldn't do that, he wouldn't cause this, he wouldn't allow this to happen, and on it goes. Is there a purpose in my suffering? Is God truly Sovereign? Is there a purpose in all things, even my death or someone else's? Why do these things happen to me!?

"My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life."(Psalm 119:50)

You might not get it but for me the answers were pretty uping, yes? Of course yes!

2010-08-16T13:59:00.006-05:00

KEEPING UP WITH THE KATIE!

#801-#925

801. How often do you change your mood in a day?
as few times as possible and as much as needed

802. When you ask people how they are doing you actually care about their answer or is it just polite?
YEA, SURE.

803. Would you consider yourself to be very polite?
Yes sir

804. Do you like movies and books that involve nuclear holocaust?
Yes

805. Have you ever had a lucid dream (a dream in which you knew you were dreaming and had complete control over what happened in the dream)?
Of course, this is all a dream. You all are part of my dream!

806. Have you ever had a flying dream?
Who hasn’t.

807. Have you ever had a lucid flying dream?
Yes, but not as a dog.

808. What's the oddest law you ever heard of?
No spitting.

809. What is the ultimate way to connect with another person?
prayer

810. Can you be intimate with someone without touching him or her?
Yes but I’ve known some people who couldn’t.

811. Can men and women ever really be 'just friends' with no interest in anything more?
NO WAY! You always have to be interested in more… wait you mean the sex thing …. Then my answer has to be Maybe.

812. ??????

813. Are you addicted to this survey like drugs?
NO!

814. If your significant other wanted to wait for marriage could you hold out or would you leave them (or would you cheat)? Is that the sex thing again?
marriage is not about sex, it’s about making a super life and that takes two Christ center people.

815. What's the longest sentence you can make using only words that start with the same letter as your first name?
Better be big bigger biggest because being biggest be better.

816. If you had a theme song what would it be?
maybe the theme to "ROCKY" song, as good and any

817. Are you cranky?
Depending on my battery charge.

818. Which group generally annoys you more, people older than you, or people younger than you?
young with old minds

819. Do you refer to older people as old farts?
“I B ONE”

820. Do you refer to younger people as the kids? Yes, and little .......

821. Which is better: Poems that everyone can relate to or poems that are intensely personal to the author?
The ones that I don’t have to read or interpret!

822. Is it worse to be too hot or too cold?
Depends on the season of the year or how hot or how cold, I think hot

823. Are you so flexible that you can put your feet behind your head?
I’m flexible but I still use a calendar. STUPID! Why would someone want to put their foot behind their head??

824. Would you enjoy reading fairy tales written about robots?
Of course who wouldn’t like to read fairy tales

825. Is smoking a turn on or gross?
it’s a lighting up

826. What is the one way you wouldn't want to die?
SLOWLY!

827. Which would look sillier on you: A cowboy hat or a Rasta hat?
Depends on whether I was naked at the time.

828. Would you rather have a job doing something indoors or outdoors?
Outdoors, in the shade.

829. Would you rather learn more about human nutrition or meteorology?
Meteorology, I’ve always wanted to know about meteors in case one were to crash into the earth near my house

830. Have you ever taken honors courses?
Yep, wasn’t my choice but did, got an “A”

831. What do you think of crop circles?
I’m not sure, but they keep going round in my head, seriously, a topic that is to be discussed but not answered

832. Where do they come from?
Who?

833. When was the last time you screwed up big time?
Couple of years ago. I forgot that I was worth "being."

834. You have a choice. What do you eat: turkey dog with the works 2x
A veggie burger
A turkey dog
A cheese sandwich

835. Do you get a lot of random instant messages?
no

836. Do you have a paper journal also?
sorta

837. VHS or DVD? Why be limited?
Both and the new 3D too

838. Vinyl, cassette tape, or CD?
YES YES YES! What ever has the tune.

839. Have you ever seen the video/heard the song Days Go By, performed by Dirty Vegas?
No and don’t care!

840. MTV: should it play morel videos or more shows?
They will what they will.

841. Name a band:
rubber… sorry Beatles
Do fans of that band tend to share any characteristics with each other?
Naaaaaaaa na na na naaaaaaaaaaaaa

842. What does the expression 'touch and go' mean?
Touch the object and go away. Kinda like hit and run in a kinder sense

843. Caffeine or alcohol?
Caffeine

844. Betty or Veronica?Roni

Archie or Reggie or Jughead? daaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

845. What book are you reading right now?
Land Mines by Charles Stanley

846. Is the news too depressing?
YES,

847. Would you rather have a stuffed lion, elephant, pig or duck?
LION

848. Are you late for a very important date?
NO

849. Ever use star 69?
NO NO NEED

850. Is everyone as smart as you?
NO… they all have the potential just not the desire.

851. Have you ever seen the musical Annie?
On TV, didn’t have a choice

852. Sheets: silk or satin?
Satin

853. Bath: soap or bubbles?
bubbles

854. Your best color: blue or red?
blue

855. What's your favorite candy?
Jelly beans

856. Can you sing?
Of course, everyone can sing, just not good and depending on the song

857. It's the end of the world, as we know it. How do you feel?
That’s an everyday thing, an every moment thing. I’m going to be with Jesus and my loved ones

858. You take your little sister (she's 12) shopping for school clothes. Mom gave you the money to hold. She picks out a skimpy top emblazoned "Hottie" and hip-hugging pants that leave at least two inches of skin north and south of her navel exposed to the wind. She insists: If she doesn't have these clothes, she'll look awful, the other kids will tease her, and she’ll feel like a nerd.Do you think she should or should not wear these clothes?
She’ll wear what mom wants her to wear or what mom said to buy, the little ho!
Do you buy them for her?
NO

859. What do you think is the most annoying cliche?
“and I thought you were a Christian”

860. What band is underground right now but will one day get really popular?
“the gas band”

861. Of the following which word best describes you: versatile
versatile (flexible):
wonderful:
x-tra special:
your own best friend:
zany:

862. What does BYOB stand for? Be Your Own Boss

863. Who is sexiest: Marilyn BUT SHE IS DEAD SO …..
Marilyn Monroe
James Dean
Elvis
Jim Morrison
Madonna
Cyndi Lauper???????? GOOD GRIEF!!!!!

864. Do you always do what's expected of you?
I’D SAY I’M PREDICTABLE BUT I WOULD BET ON IT

865. Do you believe everything you hear on the news?
NO WAY!

866. Would you prefer a $100.00 gift certificate to Hot Topic or Abercrombie & Fitch (assuming neither store gives change, so you'll have to spend the whole thing)?
Either because neither would have what I really wanted so I would spend it on my girls.

867. Have you ever won a competition?
Yes,

868. Who looks sloppier when they are over weight, guys or girls?
Sloppiness is a choice, being fat is mostly a choice so choose.

869. At what age do you become all grown up?
grown up is a state of mind and is completely dependent on the situation you are in

870. Have you ever written graffiti on anything?
yes

871. Can you remember what you wrote?
nope

872. Are you a force of nature?
If you mean am I earth, wind, fire or ice I choose wind, …. I have made my share of wind in my time.

873. What do you think of blue eye shadow?
It looks blue like.
How about gold eye shadow?
kinda shiny

874. Would you ever wear any of the following Halloween costumes:
Flapper? Is that a fish?
Hippie? Do you mean hippo?
Disco dancer? NO

875. Should birth control be taught in high school?
It’s not? Oh you didn’t say practiced did you? Only Catholic schools.
How about in jr. high or elementary school?
OH my LORD! It should be a mama daddy thing.

876. Would you consider yourself a genius?
It depends on the time and day.

877. What did you think of the movie Solaris?
mostly

878. Which is usually better movies or books?
Depends of the subject. Mostly movies.

879. Do you think The Hobbit will be made into a movie?
It hasn’t been?

880. Do you research which brands use sweatshops to make their clothing before you shop?
No just size

881. What gives you a magical feeling?
the Spirit of God in a song, the voices of my loved ones, my Libby’s touch

882. Have you ever pulled apart a Christmas cracker?
What is a Christmas cracker?! You made that up.

883. Would you rather watch basketball or play basketball?
Play of course. But I hate basketball.

884. Do you think that everyone makes his or her own problems?
Some do, some are

885. Do you often consider how your actions will affect other people?
All the time.

886. Are J-Lo and Ben Afleck interesting to you at all?
no

887. Do you use bad grammar or hate bad grammar?
yes

888. Make up a tabloid headline:
Obama Admits WRONG, Gives life to Christ, America back on track, Muslems go to hell.

889. Do you like to learn new things? Yes, useful things

890. What's more important, fame or personal accomplishment?
Accomplishment bring worth

891. Sweet dreams are made of this.... What are they made of?
good awakenings.

892. Two trailer park girls go round the outside...Round the outside of what?
The water tank.

893. Are you wearing a piece of jewelry that means a lot to you right now?
Yes,my wedding band

894. If someone was going to inscribe a message on a ring and give it to you what would you want it to say?
you make a difference in me

895. Guys who are losing their hair:
let it go
Should they shave their heads?
Get implants?
Or let it go?

896. Do rock stars work hard or lead the easy life?
Doing what you love is not hard work, it’s fulfilment

897. How much water do you drink every day?
Not much water but diet soda, 2-3 liters

898. Are you driven or kinda apathetic?
Driven, but it depends on whos driving and the destinations

899. Who do you turn to when you are down?
My LORD

900. Would you ever wear seran-wrap?
Sure, why not, of course not over my face, daaaaaaaa!

901. Would you rather have a candle scented like blueberries and creme or butterscotch pecan pie?
blueberries and creme

902. Which ones are fruits and which are vegetables:
Banana - fruit
Cucumber - veg
Tomato - fruit
Apple -fruit
Carrot - veg
Eggplant - veg
Cherry - fruit
Pumpkin - veg

903. Does it annoy you when people talk loudly on their cell phones in public?
All the time!

904. Is love a commitment to one person, or can you love more than one person at the same time?
Love? Many, commitment in marriage? Only ONE! And that be the opposite sex!!

905. Cover or original: WHO CARES!Smooth Criminal; is it better by Michael Jackson or Alien Ant Farm?
Blue Monday better by Orgy or New Order
I Want Candy; Is it better by Aaron Carter or Bow Wow Wow?
Love Song; Is it better by 311 or The Cure?
It's My Life; Is it better by No Doubt or The Talking Heads?

906. What is the most uncomfortable feeling?
WORTHLESSNESS
907. Do you like Maroon 5?
???????????????????????

908. Would you ever go on a blind date TV show?
NOT SINCE I’M MARRIED, BEFORE … OF COURSE!

909. How much of your wardrobe is dry clean only?
I LIKE ALL MY CLOTHES DRY AND CLEAN.

910. Who's arms would you like to crawl into?
JESUS OR LIBBY, IN THAT ORDER.

911. What the hell is your problem?
FAT AND MENTALLY CHALLENGED

912. Look around you. What is the most beautiful thing you can see?
PICTURES OF MY FAMILY

913. What is the most beautiful thing you can't see?
THE OCEAN

914. Take a deep breath. Yawn deeply. Do you appreciate the things most people take for granted, like breathing?
YES, BUT I HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT SOMETIMES

915. Do you appreciate breathing more when you have a cold and you're all congested and can't breathe right?
NO

916. Is congestion a positive thing because it helps you to appreciate breathing?
NO WAY, THAT’S LIKE SAYING HAVING YOUR PANTS BURNING MAKES MORE APPRECIATIVE OF ZIPPERS

917. How is your life like a work of art?
THERE’S ALWAYS A CLEAN UP AFTER THE WORK IS DONE

918. Do you feel that your life influences and is influenced by many other lives?
YES, BUT THERE COULD BE MORE

919. Has a smile ever made all the difference in the world to you?
OF YEA, A SMILE FROM MY BOY WILLIAM, MY GIRLS, … IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN LIVING OR NOT

920. Have you ever looked at a tree and considered how the roots could be miles long, trailing and entwining with other roots underground, all of them holding the soil together?
NO, EXCEPT WHEN THE ROOT IS IN THE WAY OF A COMFORTABLE NAP.

921. Do you notice the little things in life?
YES, BUT NOT ALL

922. Do you feel, as Jung did, that deep down, underneath our individual personalities we are all the same?
NO, WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT IN THE WAY GOD MADE US AND THE MISSION BEFORE US

923. Do you feel a great oneness with the universe?
NO, ONENESS… IS A KINDA SELF CENTERED THING.

924. When was the last time you decided to really enjoy yourself?
CAN’T REMEMBER, IT’S USUALLY WHAT OTHER NEED TO BE HAPPY

925. When was the last time you set your self free and acted without caring at all what someone else thought?
I DON’T KNOW, THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES I HAVE DONE WHAT I WANTED TO BUT ACTING FREE… THERE ARE ALWAYS CONSEQUENCES

2010-08-10T12:03:00.002-05:00

GIVE ME A BREAK! OR NOT!

Hot story today is about the flight attendant that got feed up with a passenger and released the emergency exit and said "outa here". The guy slid down the exit, got in his car and went home. I say... sign of the times. I don't know what the passenger did but couldn't he have just done what he was suppose to do. GOOD GRIEF! What ever happened to folk just doing what is right. Day's pay for a day's work. I think somebody removed the you courtesy from the dictionary of life. The only thing i might have done differently would have been to fill my pockets with those little bags of peanuts before i jumped down the slide.

Some how we've got the idea that we are owed something. What ever happened to that more blessed to give than receive??? It's till around just not on the minds of a lot of folk.

Second point today is Native American. I'm proud to say that i actually have Native American blood in my family. Great great grand mother thing on both sides I'm told. Thus my understanding of and the actuate interpretation the "TV Indian" language as I have. Things like "speaks with forked tongue" "they went that away" are right up my alley.

And that brings me to my second point of the day, the real message behind "speaks with forked tongue" is "you are a two faced person" that brings crap into the good lives of others.

I have to claim a Gump for not saying anything else on that. you know Forest Gump, "and that's all I have to say about that."

2010-08-04T12:47:00.001-05:00

BACK WITH A REASON

Well, you are probably wondering what prompts the old fart to return to the Walden World Blog. Right, of course right. Got this from my mail and just had to comment on it since it seems that so many folk want to discuss a boy from Oregon moving to Mississippi. Now I will admit that it is not a ride I’d make but there has to be a reason for this ride.
HERE'S THE ARTICLE-
Pimps still rock the SEC ask Houston Nutt"
You’ve just embraced a law-breaking, bad seed quarterback who was dumped from the Oregon program for a few things that really don’t reflect the rah-rah spirit of college football. Jeremiah Masoli pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor burglary charge in March and was booted from Oregon after a marijuana possession charge ended with a guilty plea. But hey, there are plenty of third chances to be had at the University of Mississippi. Masoli hooked up with Ole Miss a few days ago. “I spent a great deal of time with him,” Nutt told SI.com’s Andy Staples. “I really feel that I can help him and he can help us.” Could it be that Nutt was in a pinch because he only had two quarterbacks after highly-touted quarterback Raymond Cotton decided to transfer

Did you think we’d get far without a list? Of course NO.

Reasons “Duck” Masoli is moving to Oxford Mississippi:
1. The girls are better looking that “ducks” in Oregon.
MAYBE
2. To experience the southern exotic foods. Grits and BBQ.
AGREED
3. Security is not as tight at fraternity houses at Ole Miss.
TBA
4. Better weather.
Oops, the index today was 109.
5. The uniforms at Ole Miss are sharper than Oregon’s.
NO WAY!!
6. Personal relationship with a man of character like Houston Nutt.
????
7. Chance to spend “lots of time” with a person of high morals like Houston Nutt.
??????
8. Chance and certainty of being HELPED by Houston Nutt.
????????
9. Chance to get away from the bad influence of those old friends living in northwest United States.
AGREED
10. Traded Jason Cotton a lap top computer for the QB position.
OOPS!

Let’s be real, why would this kid come to Mississippi from Oregon unless it’s to play professional football. He could play ball at dozens of schools between MS and Oregon. He comes to Ole Miss, right, they get a chance to win a few more games than they would have and “Duck” gets noticed by playing in the SEC, the world greatest football conference. That’s the bottom line.

Now next to the bottom line is that Houton Nutt screws the pooch. You gotta ask the question when do you honor and respect those that honor and respect. How about those guys who pay the price and live the life. The ones those little kids want autographs from because they want to be just like them. on the field and OFF. The ones that have been through those days with indexes of 109 before.

Good grief Houton, why did you leave the “razorbacks”, I forget. The point for me is that you draw a lot of negative press for Mississippi, the state that is. Do me a favor, move to New Jersey or better Mexico.

To me there’s just something about someone having to pay for their mistakes. Something about a lesson learned. Jeremiah, you got your undergraduate degree for free by playing football at Oregon. Then you just screwed up. It doesn’t appear to me that you’ve pay you dues for a poor decision and maybe a few others. Do you have some surprises for us?

Lastly I should say shame on all of you that are keeping the real secret to why poor Jeremiah is coming to Mississippi and Houton Nutt is sacrificing a degree of the integrity of the Ole Miss Football program. The real reason for such a this long ride is to WIN football games and nothing else. WIN at all cost!

Good Grief!! What has happened to college athletics?

2010-06-14T04:16:00.002-05:00

SO WHO'S STUFF IS IT ANY WAY??

Today having lunch I had a conversation about the SBC, Southern Baptist Convention. I are a "Methobapterian", but I belong to a Baptist church therefore I am a member of the southern baptist conference which is presently having their convention in Disney World, well near there. I've been to the convention before and there is a lot of good stuff that happens there but it is also the time when the "believers" "TALK" about stuff. There should be around 20,000 believers there this year and not just because of goofy.

This year seems to be a follow up from a thing that started last year. Baptist have this method of giving that's sorta a give it to us and we'll get it to the right place thing. It's a co-operative thing as a group thing so we call it the co-operative program. We, the different churches, give to the cooperative program and the funds go to different programs like mission projects etc... All sounds simple and good doesn't it. Good system right?

Well, man has a way of screwing things up. Even when it's meant to be nothing but good. All we have to do is be natural or do what comes natural. (hint)

The follow up is to a committee called the GCM or something like that which was to study the amount of giving by churches to the cooperative programs. GCM stands for the Great Commission "something", which is where believers are commanded to go into all the world preaching God's good news and disciplining others to do the same. You see some churches are LARGER than others and have a larger budgets and some have a stronger commitment to the cooperative program. Let's say your church has a $1,000,000 budget but only gives 2% to the cooperative program while another church has a budget of $100,000 budget but gives $10% of its budget to the cooperative program. Now is that FAIR? That's why this commission or committee was formed, to decide. HUH?

We, believers have this thing called the Bible. Now the Bible is the WORD of God. The one and only God. It's a thing that's kinda not optional for those who really believe. That's where that Great Commission comes from, the WORD of God.

Now let me share that I can not find in the Bible anything about the cooperative program or anything about any "ORGANIZATION" dictating the amount of giving to ANY programs in the world. Certainly we are told to give because we have been given, giving is worship, giving is proper and should be a regular part of a Christian's life but I can't find where an amount is given. We are told to feed the hungry clothe the poor, that's a certainty. We are to tithe but even then we are to give from what we are blessed with. The traditional 10% is a figure of just that tradition not one that comes from God. That might be like saying "you can't give more than 10% because God didn't say to give more than that." Now it doesn't take a preacher from a 2000 or 500 member church to see that.

Now let's not get upset YET because I really don't think anything has been done but just in case a scholar at the SBC convention has selected Walden World for nightly reading let us keep in mind, IT IS ALL GOD'S ANY WAY AND THE FACT THAT WE WOULD EVEN CONSIDER CREATING A GROUP TO CONSIDER HOW MUCH SHOULD BE "GIVEN" TO A SPECIFIC AREA OR PROGRAM IS NOT... ALLOWING THE SPIRIT TO GUIDE THE INDIVIDUAL FAMILIES OF FAITH TO EXERCISE THE NEEDS EXPRESSED TO THEM BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD.

GOOD GRIEF!!!

More to come if necessary.

2010-06-03T14:12:00.003-05:00

Sorry for the delay but ...VIDEO TODAY!!!!!!!

I haven't go a good one in a while but i had to send this one out. THIS IS A CITY BOY! You can't see it but off to the right are 27 empty beer cans and another city boy holding a camera. This is what happened....

2010-05-14T14:56:00.002-05:00

Ring My Bell!

OK, I hear that the SEC Rules committee was planning on taking up the "issue" of the "artificial noise maker" again this year. Well, Let me be one of the first to make myself known on the issue of the "COWBELL."

To do that i must make a statement related to sports all together first. We have screwed up sports and made a good thing into a negative thing in record time. Our heroes, in their efforts to be "all they are not" have taken drugs, used people and left a never leaving impact on the small people's minds of the world. We've run the price of a ticket to any professional and almost every college game beyond the reach of any logical minded dad who needs to provide for his family. We've put players names on shoes, shirts and shorts and our young folk think by buying, let me say paying great amounts for and wearing these garments will be a star. Good grief! The sport isn't made by the player or is it. Heroes are the players or are the players heroes??? might depend on how old you are and how much money you have. GOOD GRIEF! Not don't take me wrong I've given out my share of autographs in my days pasted, way pasted, and it was a great feeling but I wasn't getting money under the table, a new car, new cloths, special summer "jobs" or anything like that. I got a college education that i wouldn't have gotten unless i played football at Mississippi State. YEP, the one with the COWBELLS!

Now the COWBELLS. I had know idea about COWBELLS when i went to MSU. But my freshman year I heard my first, bought my first, and rang my first. It soon became a part of me .

The noise was unforgettable. Whether while sitting in the stands or on the field best said it is "unforgettable." Before being on the field full time my junior year i sat in the stands at home games. It was a uniting factor. the sound was like "no matter what the score" we are STATE! We became BULLDOGS. Our hearts pounding, sweat pouring we were DAWGS! Of course after the game and the score was usually to our disadvantage we all returned to our regular selves and head to "Judge Mac's" for refreshment. From the field it was the sound of encouragement in the purest form. As players we knew how most people felt about our record and performance put that sound, that ringing, that clanging was something from Maroon and White Heaven saying we do believe and once the game began the noise seemed to actually become a part of you mentally like your dad saying do it boy, you can do it! and your mom saying I'm so proud! and the best looking girl in Western Civilization class standing up while surrounded by her entire sorority shouting that's the guy! that one right there! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO yea! It a feeling I will never ever ever ever forget. maybe some guys and of course i can't speak for the regular people in life never had that feeling and never will but for me I'd like to say to the SEC Rule Committee in relation to the Mississippi State COWBELL quietly that it is tradition as strong as the SEC has become power house conference. To allow traditions to be removed it worse than "kissing your sister." Further more, loudly I'd like to say loudly, KEEP YO DAMN HANDS OFF MY COWBELL!!!!!! WHY DON'T YOU PICK ON THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE CRUEL TO ANIMALS LIKE ALLIGATORS OR THOSE THAT USE PROFANITY IN THE NAME LIKE COCKS AND HOW ABOUT THOSE THAT CAGE TIGERS UP, POOR KITTIES! NEXT THING YOU KNOW YOU WILL BE ALLOWING REBELS TO CALL PLAYERS DEROGATORY NAMES FROM THE SIDELINES! KEEP YO DAMN HANDS OFF MY COWBELLS!

2010-05-10T20:17:00.003-05:00

ALMOST FISHING

OK, sitting at home after the heart attack and decided to go fishing. Randi has never been fishing and I haven't been in a long time. We have a good friend that invited us to his place and away we went. I got both lines in the water and was prepared for some fun. WELL RANDI HAD PLANS TO HAVE FUN TOO! I sit down and saw Randi take a step into the water. Into the water? Into the water up to his chin, then the "pretty boy" jumps on in! Swims out, gets my cork, and swims back to the bank. Who'd athought the little bot was a natural in the water. Anyway, the fishing was over but the swimming was not. Little boy swam for another half hour before I tried to dry him off enough to ride home.

It was a good day of almost fishing.

2010-05-07T13:28:00.002-05:00

YO MAMA!

Sunday is MaMa's day so I wanted to send a shout out to my Mom. My mom is a common sort of woman who grew up on a farm in North Mississippi near the town of Tishimigo. She didn't have a lot of friends to grow up with but had faithful family members that loved truly. Mom taught me lots and was very patient with me since I was not the perfect child. I love my mom and would do anything for her.

Second I want to yell at, I mean shout out for my children's mom. The very best woman I've ever known. The most loving, caring, thoughtful, sacrificial, and Godly mom in the world. If you got to pick your mom this is the one you want.

2010-05-04T12:56:00.001-05:00

Who's Church?

Big or little it seems to me that it really makes no difference. White, black, yellow, or red, it really doesn't make a difference. The difference comes from a place far, far away. A place where things are never out of focus because they are always the center of our efforts.

Can I mud-up this any further? Hang on!

It takes all kinds to make the world of "Christiandom." Yes fat and skinny, long hair and no hair, and even the singers and the "sing-less."

My church is First Baptist Church of Jackson Mississippi. Big church with lots of folk, lots of giving, lots of political jockeying, and then there are the rest of us. We are a significant number of believers in this body of faith. Us have same things in common, well at least a few things.

Some of these things are (List time):

1. We worship the risen savior, the creator... the one true living God. (not that there has been another God and he is dead now.)

2. We believe Christianity to be a way of life and not a religion. Not a Sunday Wednesday thing or a Wednesday Sunday thing. We take Christ with us where ever, when ever.

3. We believe that worship is like air. It is necessary all the time in life. It makes no difference how you worship, just worship and the closer you get to being like Christ the more you will realize that all things are worship.

4. We will champion the "unlikely". Those, unlikely to speak up when they feel left out. Those, unlikely to stand for a belief because of the numbers against. Those, the unlikely to lead because they think that income provides knowledge. Those, the unlikely to show their emotions because real men don't cry. Those that fear embarrassment because they have failed like so many have before only they didn't receive the forgiveness from those who forgot the forgiveness they receive.

5. We know God will supply according to His riches not the monthly giving report.

6. God gives in other ways besides the numbers that are posted in the various mail outs.

7. We are not the number guys.

8. We are sinners.

9. We are forgivers.

Good grief, I could go on and on. The bottom line is that "US" is really loving to all around us and concerned about most, but most of all we are desirous of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Not so much what others think when we speak up or when we don't. When we go or when we don't. When we give and when we don't. After all it's between "US" and God, not "US" and someone else. Please don't judge me but if you do don't be surprised if I don't stand tall and firm when you do.

One of my goals in what is left of my life is to take care of me. Live my life with Christ in control and when I do take back control not to screw things up too much.

So how does this come from "Who's Church?" OK, it's not mine I don't love the organization of the church because it causes problems. Whether it is baptist, Methodist, or what ever it is the organization of the church. It is the business side of the church and without it lots and lots of stuff would not be happening. I know ... rambling but I'm more concerned about me and mine and "US" than I am about whether we are able to provide the everybody color bulletin to read every Sunday.

OK, I said too much, but God has shown me that it is possible for His will to be done and me be a part of carrying out His will and still not be in God's will for me.

WHO'S CHURCH? NOT MINE BUT I'M STILL APART OF IT. AN ACTIVE PART.

2010-04-29T11:08:00.002-05:00

It's only been 14 years!

It's only been 14 years ago since I had my first heart attack and now I've had number two. Yes, boys and girls # 2. This time though I was given reasons and just pisses me off to no end that NO one was any clearer to me of the potential for this one. You'd think with all the doctor's appointments and meds that I take and the things I didn't do that I could have done that was told not to do that this could have been avoided. Well, Hakuna Matata! I'm told by those medical type folk the I'm de-conditioning. That just means that if you don't get to do what you were usually were doing you get weak and tired. I TESTIFY!.

I ACTUALLY MISS WORK! Well, I miss some of the people, not the stress and I'm told that could have been a major factor in this "event". That's what they call it now, "an event".

Anyway, I plan to get back at the blogging and share more enlightenment from Walden World. I've learned that some actually read the ole blog for a laugh, some to get stuff to use against me in a banter of personal issues which will never be settled. It's all OK. After all IT IS WALDEN'S WORLD.

If you want your own world.... start your on blog. HA!

2010-03-12T15:03:00.002-06:00

Friday Video? We try again.

2010-03-11T10:07:00.003-06:00

That's the Facts and I'm Sticking To Them

I'm not shy when it come to expressing my feelings about my LORD and His business. I've only had two church homes in my life. The first I grew up and I grew up in. I've learned in my life some basic things to use as a guide.

1. God is God and I am not, therefore He is in control and not me and if I really want to take a chance of screwing things up then I can make decisions in light of my worldlyness.

2. I don't work for "man", I serve the LORD or not.

3. If we play politics in the "church" we turn the organization of the church into a "poor man's county club."

I do understand that there are "church leaders", deacons and such, that have never experienced a God filled, God lead body of faith but there is absolutely no excuse for negative derogatory speech about church staff and programs. I say that especially to those in a "church" that have no involvement in active programs.

I'm not saying get out and leave us Godly folk alone. GOOD GRIEF! I'm far from Godly and I don't care if you go or not. I just want you to remember the scriptures say, "God will not be mocked" and His wrath is hard.

In closing I'd like to say, "I'm here for you." I'll pray with you and I'll search the scriptures with you. Please just don't stand to close to me because Lightning causes an average of 45 deaths and 300 injuries in the United States each year.

HA!

2010-03-10T13:23:00.002-06:00

Fun Site Good Game

Ever got home from work and looking the freg and grabbed something to snack on and about have way through you begin to add up how long it has been in the freg and wonder if you have made a date with the "porcelain alter" for later that night. WELL HAVE YOU? Of course you have, so here's a site that will cure you of the potential to call "RALPH" after a out of life snack.

http://www.stilltasty.com/

This would make a great party game. Go to the store and buy some snacks and goodies. Put them in the freg and keep up with the date. Bring them out at the party and challenge folk to eat or not eat. Charge them $1.00 for each "no eat." Send the money to Feed the Hungry. Find out which guys are pussies and which girls are ... aaaaaaa .... like to eat.

2010-03-08T15:01:00.002-06:00

Seems to me there is change in the air. When I was a kid I wanted to be superman. There was a lot of power in a bath towel wrapped around your neck when you turned on your imagination. Yes a "comic book hero" but in those days a darn good one. What could be more character building or a better role model than someone that stood for truth, justice and the American way, and of course FLY! I loved X-Men too. I would get up early on a Saturdays and watch the cartoons as long as they were on the tube. It was fantastic.

Now days though, if you want to watch cartoons you get funny looking creatures. Not funny dogs or cats or funny people but you get creatures with no names. What it that thing?!

Somebody started saying how violent the cartoons were so folks started changing them. Well what now?Alice in Wonderland! Of course in Insane-Vision. Yea I know old Alice was never the most calming movie and was very confusing to me but it had little rabbits running around and funny flower things. It was "CUTE." I even saw the triple x rated Alice, not one of my best decisions in life, terrible and nasty too i regret it to this day. THIS VERY DAY. I guess that is why they call it triple x. Today you can see the NEW Alice in Wonderland and if previews are any indication of ... calming entertaining value, you need to do the "run away" when you get near it.

Be that one side of the coin, if you saw "Up" or "Avatar" the future of animation and computer generated features are unlimited. I still want to be Superman or maybe Hulk, yea Hulk, but to see maybe "Treasure Island" or "Song of the South" staring Rabbit and Tar Baby, WOW that would be entertainment.

I could talk about adult decisions that cast young high schoolers into a musical where folk get their throats cut only to end up in a "meat pie." I just think there are better things out there that are just as testing of talent and desire than "SWEENY TODD." Oh crap, I promised i wouldn't blog at you about that musical that I named completely by accident. I'm old and I could go a lot more years before I reach the dirt stage and still not have seen that show. (OK, let me say the shame of it is that the wonderfully talented students that put this musical on could have been tested and enjoyed the production as much and maybe more if it had been something light and with a good moral story. one that didn't include PEOPLE GETTING THEIR THROATS SLICED WITH A RAZOR!

I've got it! How about Shrek 4, My Swamp is filling up with poo. In a musical form that could be a side splitter, and I don't mean with a RAZOR!

2010-03-01T15:16:00.001-06:00

OK, sorry but ignorance is no real excuse. it seems that none of my videos are coming through so tough. Right?

Sorry, I'll really work on it.

2010-03-01T15:09:00.003-06:00

Survey Says...Olympic Fever

Olympic fever.

1. If you could compete in one Olympic event (not necessarily winter sports) what would it be?
Triathlon

2. Do remember a specific Olympic moment from the past?
US hockey win.

3. Have you ever known anyone who competed in the Olympics?
No

4. If everyday activities were Olympic-worthy, which activity would you have a gold medal in?
Fixing stuff
5. Do you know anything about your ethnic heritage?

a little my great grand mother on both sides was native indian

6. Do you enjoy sleeping late?
yes, sometimes it is an absolute necessity

7. Have you ever performed CPR on anyone? Do you know how? (Yes, that's two, I know. Whatevs.)
never needed to but have had certifications and taught it.

8. Name one country you'd like to visit and explain why.
Austria because my Libby would like to go.

9. Have you ever fixed up a couple romantically?
yep

10. What is the last book you read?
the promise by Robert Morgan

11. Do you enjoy sleeping late? NO, YOU write the question! How's that for random??
Who would you like to meet and have dinner with?

Tim Teebo

12. What is your favorite meal at your favorite restaurant?
Baked pasta at old charlie's

2010-02-19T13:58:00.002-06:00

MORE OF THOSE DA QUESTIONS

#551 TO #604

ANOTHER SMALL STEP

551. What is the most magical thing that has ever happened to you?

Finding my wife.

552. How would you tell your friend his or her fly was open in public?

“PISSSSST, your fly is open.”

553. Does a good friend tell you you've got something in your teeth or pretend not to notice it?

Enjoy the laugh for a while and then tell them.

554. The world has many secrets. Have you learned any? Will you share it?

It would be a secret then, but wisdom comes with a price, you can always take one more step, never take points off the board.

555. Are there any bands you like so much that you want to get their music video collection on DVD?

NOPE

556. What do you need advice about?

life and things like that

557. Have you been half-asleep and have you heard voices?

Everybody has to be half asleep before they get to full sleep. I hear voices all the time. I might even answer them.

558. Do you have a good luck charm?

Luck is a formula only known to God, but I know He is in the center of it.

559. Should animals have the same right to life as people?

Nope, but neither should they be abused

560. What is your least favorite body part?

Butt hole (sorry)

561. Do you enjoy British comedy?

I like anything that makes me laugh and doesn’t hurt others.

562. Are there ever happy endings or does nothing end?

Sure, plenty of endings and beginning. It’s just as important as to how you end as to how you begin.

563. What is your worst trait?

Selfpity

564. Is the world more beautiful because of love?

Beauty is a part of love not love apart of beauty. Love looks beyond beauty and make ugly that was become beauty that is.

565. What is the essence of you?

faith and sacrifice

566. What really inspires you?

making a difference, seeing a difference made, accomplishing things others cannot.

567. Have you met your soul mate?

Yep

568. Is everyday a special occasion?

Just another opportunity to trust God. If you consider not being hell bound and lost a speicla occasion then YES.

569. What sound would you rather hear than any sound in the world?

My Libby

570. Of the following which word best describes you:

natural:

outgoing:

polite:

quick thinking:

571. Do any commercials make you want to break your TV?

Yes, the next one.

572. Have you ever lost your religion?

Many times, many, but I’ve never lost my Christianity

573. Do you want to share your life with someone?

Only if it is of value to the you who I share it with.

574. Where ARE the wild things?

In the wildernest.

575. Would you rather have a child genetically related to you or an adopted child?

Either would be God gift and that is a blessing to anyone.

576. If I had a birthday party would you come?

Not a party person, most people’s idea of a party is not fun but talkie talkie, standi standi, and leavei leavie.

577. What seemingly impossible thing is POSSIBLE?

Flight and forgiveness.

578. What song do you love to sing out loud?

OUT LOUD! ALONE maybe that “revelation song.”

579. Have you ever run through the woods naked and played in a stream (you should)?

YEP! Well worth it. AND YES I WAS NOT ALONE!

580. Have you ever taken long solitary night walks?

YEP, mostly when I was in college and was trying to fight the depression.

581. Is there more to you than anyone knows?

I sure. There is more to me than I know. It fears me.

582. Can you make tonight the night that you do the things you always wanted to do?

No.

583. Would you rather watch life on TV or LIVE it?

Depends on what part of life you’re talking about. the adventures and good fun things yes but the suffering death disappointment absolutely NO.

584. What keeps you chained down?

SELF, fear, and missery.

585. What is the nagging feeling in the back of your head?

A life not spent to the fullest.

586. Do you celebrate yourself?

Not in a long time

587. Does everyone get the same opportunities in life?

Yes. Everyone has the same opportunities to be fulfill and help other be fulfilled. The rewards may not be in this world but the opportunities are.

588. What would you consider to be better than sex?

Peace.

589. What evil is necessary?

The only evil that is necessary to give God the glory

590. What's your favorite one hit wonder?

Pizza flavored ketsup

591. What would you do anything for?

Cost the cost, before you do or get.

592. Do you celebrate the full moon?

GOOD GRIEF! IT’S THE MOON!

593. Have you ever gone in the water at the beach at night?

OH YEA! Did a night dive once. It was fantastic. Slid my hand under a flaunder and … it was great.

594. Are you ordinary?

No, I’m special. you have to look for my size clothes.

595. What makes people want to hang out with you?

my wife and family and of course some feel sory for me.

596. Have you ever felt like you've been a little bit too good to someone?

Many times of course that was wrong of me. I really do try to treat others like I want to be treated but I am a failure at that many times.

597. What book did you like that you had to read for school?

None

598. What book should everyone have to read in school?

BIBLE

599. Do you like the store Old Navy? Nope, they don’t carry “Moby” size.

600. What movie sequels do you like?

Alien, Die Hard, Harry Potter, X-Men, Indiana Jones

601. Do you have a lust for life?

Lust? Like intense sexual???

602. Do you want to get more out of life?

I want it all but fear and money keep me from it.

603. Would you want to learn to:

Convert to Buddhism? NO WAY, he is dead

Cure a hangover? Never needed it.

Lie persuasively? To late, opps.

604. What character from a movie is most like you?

the guy in Beautiful Minds

2010-02-19T11:36:00.005-06:00

Video Friday

When I get to feeling a little gray I pull some of the oldies out. They give me a little boost.

Here his is "The Trombone Man."

The retired guy drill team.

2010-02-15T13:09:00.003-06:00

So Right and From the Past

I went to the Dixie National Rodeo Saturday night. Usually would not have gone but I'm doing that "stepping out" thing. So I found myself standing in the middle of the coliseum playing "undercover cop person" and watching the prelims where they move the broncs into position in the fences. OK, the "undercover cop person" thing is for another time but it's my way of acting the usual fool and activating other folks' curiosity. It is rather fun.

Anyway, what I want to share today is something that happened that brought me to tears in front of all those folk.

So, this is how it happened:
-Little Exchange Club lady says, "They're "a fixing" to turn the lights out so you'd better go find you seat."
-So, I sorta did but since I was by myself, seeing the singing group was "a fixing" to sing in a few music and I thought I could just stand there till they got though.
-The lights did go out and I mean it was booger dark. There was some of that patriotic stuff and a few solders walked out proudly in their uniforms.
-Every body started clapping and it was cool.
-Then the singing group started to sing the National Anthem and it happened! No fire works, no video on the big screen, and no beautiful girls wearing that satin shirts stuff and riding their horses around.

JUST SILENCE!

Not one sound outside the choir. It was kinda like standing next to a wood burning stove when you've just walked in from the freezing cold and the warmth penetrates you jeans.

I first became aware of the silence and then the FACT that EVERYONE had stopped moving, speaking, laughing, everything... They had risen to their feet, removed their hats and placed their heart over their hearts to salute the nation, not their race, their color or their religion that the anthem's message sang out. It was almost worship or maybe it was, but it was respect, loyalty, honor, and belief in the United States of America. It almost embarrassed me when i caught myself slowly looking around and realizing that I was one of the very few that was not standing at attention and in reverence. It was at that second that it hit me how great it is to be a part of the USA and a part of a body of folk that were united in that purpose.

Since 1974 I have stood with thousands of kids and adults and had to put up with their disrespect towards the United States in assemblies. We've given up trying to pledge the flag and sing the national anthem. What a shame! and I am sorry to say that I am apart of that problem. I supervised these events, with little authority and decided it's a fight that is too hard to fight. LORD forgive me.

I think I'll be going back to the DIXIE NATIONAL RODEO again and not just to see the little guys riding the bare back horses being thrown into the dirt. I'll go back to be with a very large group of people that take the the respect and loyalty for the USA seriously.

One more thing, if you ever find this at a basketball game or a football game please let me know where it happens. I' like to see that too, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

2010-02-09T20:27:00.002-06:00

NOT YOUR GRAND MOTHER'S FUNERAL

I've been to my share of funerals in my life. I don't like them. I don't care to go but I do because it's the right thing to do. If I go it is with a tremendous effort on my part. Sorry but that is the way I am. I guess it goes along with the depression thing. If i go to your funeral you are special or my wife made me.

I went to a funeral today. This one was different, very different. This was a guy that I grew up with, I mean we really grew up together. He was 2 years younger than I but we experienced a lot together. Not just us but the whole family. His mom and dad were special. She help raise me and his dad was someone to look up to. His little brother was my "bud" too. I even took his sister to a high school dance, by the way it was a good time too. A every special family.

Well with all that you would thing it would just be a normal experience of a good friend's funeral. You know, sad, a few tears, see some old friends etc... Not this funeral. See we grew up together but then we went our own way. I went mine and kinda lost him. I knew he would make his mark in life but today I found out what he had been doing "the rest of his life."

While some make a mark, this guy made a giant colorful stroke that when even glanced at causes your deepest self worth to be envious. A great husband, dad, brother, son, cousin, friend, a selfless individual that devoted his time to making other better than they would have been without having had contact with him.

When my grandmother died I had a warning but with this guy... let me put it this way, the world was a better place with my friend in it. I never realized I would live in a world without him.

THANKS JEFF FOR ALL THE GOOD TIMES. I'LL SEE YOU SOMETIME IN MY FUTURE.

2010-02-02T13:09:00.003-06:00

5000 question survey!?

#302-#550

302. Will you try to accomplish any of these things within the next year?

Come what may…

303. What do you feel controlled by?

Money & depression

304. If Jesus appeared to you and told you that the moon was made of green cheese would you believe him?

first I would know it was Jesus. Second if he said sugar was … Yes I would believe Him.

305. What is one thing you are sure of?

God is always with me.

306. At what part of the day do you feel the most alert?

Afternoon, 4:23

307. Have you ever played in a band?

Played with a band, played like a band? YES

308. Have you ever stared into the ocean thinking 'early creatures crawled outta that'?

surely

309. If not, what do you think of when you are staring into the ocean?

I think of God’s power and faithfulness and that I am His friend

310. Do you like the mental challenge of chess or other games?

Yes, I am mentally challenged in all things.

311. Do you ever think of where your atoms were before they were in you?

I know where they were. In thew hands of God.
312. Do you ever think about where your atoms will go after they have been in you?

not really, that’s one of those don’t need to know things

313. If you didn't know that people couldn't fly do you think that you could?

How stupid is that?!

314. Are you someone that others call when they're having a problem and want to talk about it?

Yes, they call, take advantage of, blame, the usual stuff.

315. When it comes to literature, do you see beyond the writing and into the meaning intended by the author?

Only if the Spirit shows me. I don’t read fiction or non-fiction. Daaaa I read Christian stuff.

316. Is there anything you can take apart completely, and then put back together, and have no left over parts?

Most things.

317. What are your feelings about the death penalty?

Eye for an eye, if they can’t be fixed and the guilt is absolute death by firing squad.

318. If there was a god and you could ask him/her one question what would it be?

of course there is a God (3 in 1) and I would ask “WHEN?”

319. Do you believe that life will be found on other planets?

Yes, but not for a very long time and then in a manner they we will have a hard time comprehending.

320. What is something worth suffering for?

Yes, suffering comes in degrees for me and the rewards also.
321. If you could put an extra eye on your body anywhere you wanted, where would you put it?

I don’t think I would want another eye it would just confuse me so I give my eye to some one who needs one, not another one.

322. Are you in touch with the earth and nature?

GOOD GRIEF!

323. Would you rather live simply or extravagantly?

Alone, simply. With Libby, extravagantly.

324. Have you ever been camping?

Yes, as a scout and with my Pop.

325. Is your heart open when you meet someone new?

I guess so.

326. Are you able to have conversations with and become friends with people who are not like you and are interested in different things than you are?

Yes

327. Are strangers more beautiful or frightening to you?

they are what they are. Let’s confess. There are a lot of ugly people in the world.

328. What stops you from doing everything you want to do?

Me

329. Can you think of three adjective that do not apply to you at all?

Black
Skinny
Passerine

330. How do you feel about Jeremy Jaynes, who got a nine year prison sentence for spamming people with junk email (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Jaynes)?

Stealing is stealing.

331. Do you know who the current premier of China is?

Should I? Kung Fui

332. Are you very active?

In what area?

333. Is there a city that reminds you of the landscape of your brain?

San Francisco

334. Have you ever loved someone who has loved you back?

yes, and loved someone who loved me first.

335. Is it really being 'in love with' someone if the other person doesn't love you?

love is one way then head on

336. Do you believe that there is someone perfect for everyone or that people just fall in love with who ever they are with at the time?

Love for marriage is God made perfect.

337. Do you know secret things?

Yes, OH YES!

338. Have you ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have?

Not real love but the physical kind of course

339. How do you overcome your fears?

Knowledge and action.
340. What can you do better than anyone you know?

Act like me.

341. Would you benefit from a wilder existence?

If you mean live in the woods, yes. If you mean drinking and such, absolutely not.

342. Does it seem to you like the range of socially acceptable behavior is getting smaller or larger?

Much larger, much much larger. We have gone from fear of the atom bomb to the I don’t care g-string and eatable underclothes world. We let society determine what we do instead of our beliefs.

343. Have you ever fired a gun?

Yep, enjoyed it, desire to do it more.

344. Are people becoming more afraid of each other?

Yep, lots of nuts out there and the news on TV shows to much junk

345. If you had to choose the percentage of freedom vs. safety what ratio would you decide on (ex: 100% free 0% safe)?

100/100. freedom and safety are elements of the same thing.

346. Does safety stifle you?

some times it doesn’t fit but it doesn’t stifle me.

347. Who or what needs to be stopped?

“haters” and those that hurt children, they should be hurt back.

348. Are human beings becoming more domesticated?

The only limitation is you for what you do, domestication in my opinion is a learned activity. A matter of choice.

349. Do you follow the lives of the British Royal Family?

Nope
350. How did the death of Pope John Paul II affect you?

There still a Pope? Why?

351. Have you ever lost something and never found it?

I’m sure I have but it must not have meant much. Wait, there was the girl in 1972…

352. Do you listen to any talk radio shows?

Only if I have nothing else or I have to ride with Libby.

353. Who do you trust more, your friends or your parents?

WIFE or and very few others only. Most people just manipulate you one way or another.

354. Would you ever date someone outside of your race or religion?

Nope, married now, no more dating except one person

355. Which of the 7 deadly sins in the worst (gluttony, greed, pride, lust, envy, wrath, sloth)?

Pride

356. Which one are you most guilty of?

Pride and lust is a close second.

357. Are you afraid to be alone with yourself?

Yes, I’ve screwed up before and I don’t trust me.

Do you try to avoid thinking? About somethings and at certain times.

YES, YES and YES

358. Would you venture to tell someone you loved him or her if they didn't say it first?

I’d try to show them first. I don’t think you have to be the first to say it. I think you both realize it then want to share it with the other person.

359. What are you the most sensitive about?

second, being called out of my character and first, people hurting my family

360. What can you talk about for hours?

Jesus

361. Do you talk about yourself, other people, or ideas the most?

others

362. Do you believe that spell casting can work?

Only in the mind of others, people have as much authority and power over you as you let them have.

363. Are you a fan of The Legend of Zelda games?

GOOD GRIEF! NO!

364. What old movie would you go see if it were re-released in the movie theaters?

Battle Cry

365. Is there a celebrity that you would be too starstruck to talk to if you met them?

I don’t think so, unless they were naked

366. Have you ever left a mean unsigned note?

Nope, but I have called people and hung up on them. Wait once is did, on yea. Deserved every bit.

367. Do you think it's cheesy to paste things you didn't write into your diary?

No, diary writing is just like blogging. For me the same amount of people read both.

368. What are three things that you try not to think about?

1.death of my wife
1.death of my Katie
1.death of my Anna
1. death of my Ross
1. death of my William
1. death of my Randi
2. crashing my motorcycle
3. having another heart attack

369. Is casual sex acceptable for you?

only and for ever only with my wife. It’s the only way I can have sex now. I’m 58 years old the “exciting run for cover stuff” is long gone. Do you think I’m Ron “the stud" Mumbower.

370. What form of sexual protection do you use?

The light turned on and my dog, Randi.

371. What is expected of you that you feel is unnatural or not right?

Not eating what I want.

372. Do you sometimes place your own expectations on other people?

Yes, because my expectation is usually higher.

373. Do you sometimes act overeager to make friends when you are around strangers?

Nope

374. Do you take everything that is said literally?

No way, although I do think I have the gift of dissemination

375. Do you take most things others say seriously?

Depends on who they are. Most folk take everything to serious.

376. Do you have a quick wit?

Yes

377. Do you believe in the need for political correctness?

No, but we all try to keep it straight.

378. Do you have strong opinions and beliefs?

Yes, opinions should be based on beliefs.

379. If yes, can you still hang out with and be friends with people who disagree with you?

yes, but stand for what you believe and don’t give a hint that you comply with others wrong thinking.

380. Are you uptight?

No, unless the situation calls for it.

381. Do you sometimes do risky things?

Yes. Some times on purpose.

382. Could just about anyone hold your interest in a conversation for at least ten minutes?

I think so. Lots of factors to consider here.

383. Are you self-conscious?

About some things. I always check my zipper.

384. What would be your ideal destination for a Saturday afternoon?

Movie with Libby

385. Does anyone have a video tape of you doing something embarrassing?

Not to my knowledge.

386. What is Kevin Smith’s(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Smith) best movie?

Good Will Hunting,

387. Where do you like to go on Friday or Saturday nights?

Dinner

388. Do you like your friends to act the same way all the time or do you accept their moods and changes?

Be real is the best. Be yourself and be accepting.

389. Do you often feel like other people are judging you?

YES!

390. What do you think other people judge you to be like?

Being a hard head.

391. Are you quick to judge others?

Quick? No, judging yes.

392. When you have a fight with someone do you want to talk about it right away or calm down first and then talk?

What ever the need be.

393. Some say love is a river (according to the old song). What do you say love is?

Opportunity

394. What is the worst fault a person can have?

PRIDE

395. Do you have it?

Not to that extent, most not in myself

396. Which do you think has more impact on a person’s character, genetics or environment?

Environment. The apple doesn’t fall to far from the tree.

397. Who was your first best friend?

Mom

398. If you are not best friends anymore, what came between you?

no problems

399. Who have you read a biography about?

must not have been very good, I can’t remember

400. What would your own autobiography be called?

The Enemy is Me

501. If you could rename yourself what would your new name be?

Right now? …. Tim Teebow

502. What is your Glam Rock name (the name of your first pet plus your street name)?

Smoky Valley, stupid question!

503. Have you ever created your own 'what ___ are you' quiz?

NO. Another stupid question!

If you did make one what would it be about?

What vegetable are you?

SEE STUPID!

504. What is your favorite song from the 70's?

Hotel California – Eagles

505. What do you feel like complaining about?

Being fat.

506. What do you feel like celebrating?

The love of a savior.

507. Have you lost touch with anyone you should call?

Robert Bell, Fred, Lucky, Louie, Larry…

508. Deep in thought do you forgive everyone?

Absolutely, when in deep thought

509. Can a person speak out against their government and still support their country?

ABSOLUTELY!!!!!

510. What do you have faith in?

A god that’s love is eternal and absolute.

511. Do you believe your government has a file on you somewhere?

Of course, to get my funds and time.

512. What (not who) do you care about?

freedom

513. What is the worst thing that could possibly happen to you?

loose a loved one

514. Who or what is really the absolute root and source of all evil?

Satan

515. What do you want to change about the world?

Greed, feed the hungry give them fresh water

516. Why did you decide to complete this survey?

Challenge

517. Has anyone ever led you on?

Oh yea, many have tried and few succeded

518. What was the last thing you did against your will?

Wear certain clothes because it is suppose to be professional

519. What are your plans for the rest of today?

deal with kids, listen to garbage, go to the board meeting and listen to more garbage.

520. How can you make tomorrow better than today was?

Rest, rest, pray and look for the Jesus in it all.

521. Would you rather date someone 4 feet tall or 9 feet tall?

I don’t think Libby would like it but I did date a 5’1” girl once, not bad…

522. How often do you get jealous?

One time more than necessary.

523. What is the one thing you do that your friends wish you didn't?

show up

524. Do you do any soul searching?

Sometimes I do a lot of soul seeking, I don’t know about searching

525. Do you believe you have a soul?

Already given it to the LORD.

526. Would you rather have a child that is more confident or more curious?

Confidence will bring curiosity

527. Are you a slave to love?

SLAVE? No. captive, yes

528. If you were going to write a bedtime story for someone you loved what would it be about?

The story of the crippled that was healed, the sad that was made happy, and the ugly that was revealed to be beautiful.

529. Does anyone understand you?

NO, not in this world.

530. Do you understand yourself?

Absolutely not.

531. Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: Which is your element?

Water

532. Who influences you to be the way you are?

Libby

533. What is one idea that you live by?

Everybody is worth some effort

534. How can people act to make you want to get to know them?

be generous

535. Are you more delicate or tough?

Tough in a delicate way

536. Would you rather be smarter or more beautiful?

Smarter

537. Have you ever had a surprise party?

Never.

538. When are you at a loss for words?

When asking for money.

539. What is the worst time to be alone?

Alone is a bad time, no matter when it is.

540. What do your parents do that you will try never to do?

Sacrifice my children’s needs for others needs.

541. What gets you through the night?

Meds

542. Do you really want to live forever?

Only with Christ in heaven, surely not in this world.

543. Do you often experience powerful emotions?

YES, very powerful. The kind that will take you breath.

544. What could make you so happy right now that you would cry and laugh and sing?

JESUS RETURN!!!

545. Who is your favorite visual artist?

Kenneth Quin

546. What would you like to protest against?

Parents wanting the school to be their baby sitter and day care.

547. What or who do you support?

God almighty, USA, cheese cake

548. If you found out you were pregnant today, would you have an abortion?

Impossible, but no.

549. Do you like picking out greeting cards or would you rather write your own?

Do my own

550. Do you like to be thought of as mysterious?

I really don’t care either way.

2010-01-29T15:23:00.002-06:00

QUESTIONS 200-301! I'M GETTING UP THERE

201. Put these creatures in order from what you would least like to be reincarnated as (1), to what you would most like to be reincarnated as (10) assuming reincarnation ended up existing AND you were given a choice.
1. male, I’m familiar with the plumbing
2. female human
3. house dog
4. wild dog
5. dolphin
6. manta ray
7. oak tree
8. vulture
9. rock
10. caterpillar

caterpillar, house dog, wild dog, vulture, male human, female human, oak tree, rock, manta ray, dolphin

202. What do you feel unworthy of?

love

203. Would you rather be remembered for having done something for humanity or being a really nice person?

doing something real nice for humanity

204. Which do you value more: science or intuition?

science in an intuitive way`

205. Your best friend and your significant other are in the hospital at the same time with the same ailment. Who do you visit first?

if I don’t go see the friend first I’ll get q/a from the wife

206. Does the universe revolve around human beings?

Naa, it a scientific intuitive thing

207. If you are no longer a virgin, do you wish you still were?

NO WAY! But I never really studied music.

208. Who is your favorite poet of those who are alive right now?

Yogi Bear

209. What is your favorite song from the 90's?

Waterfalls by TLC

210. If you were in alphabet soup what letter would you be?

the O

211. Do you believe in fairies, ghosts, aliens, angels, dwarfs, elves, etc.?

Yes, in context.

212. What makes you want to be someone’s friend?

Christ and the need to be loved

213. Do you troll around the Internet harassing people anonymously for fun?

Harassing …..? No.

214. Have you ever seen the movie A Man Who Fell to Earth?

NO, but I would like to. The original novel was timely and is a book that I have grown to appreciate what it says and what it expresses about the human condition through an inhuman perspective.

215. What is your favorite line from a movie?

“FREEDOM!”

216. What's your favorite video game?

I DON’T DO VIDEO GAMES.

217. Have you ever taken something that wasn't yours?

Yes

218. What is one phrase people say that irritates you?

“I can’t”

219. You allow strangers to read your diary, but would you let your parents read it?

any one who thought it offered something

220. Hot steamy bubble bath or quick in and out shower?

Bubbbbbbbbbbbble bath

221. Are you allergic to anything?

Compecine

222. What is your favorite Terminator movie?

T2, “no problemo”

223. What is your favorite fast food?

Ice Cream

224. What would someone have to do to get you to never speak to him or her again?
Die

225. Would (or have) you ever whip someone or be whipped by someone in bed?

Yes, both

226. Have you ever said 'I hate everyone' and really meant it literally?

NEVER HATE, MAYBE DIDN’T LIKE BUT NOT HATE

227. Why do some people want to get more money than they could ever spend?

INSECURITY! No faith.

228. Have you ever won a carnival fish?

Yes, died.

229. Did it live more than a week?

nope

230. What's the best sounding accent a person can have?

“Brit”

231. What's the most boring thing you've ever read?

School law

232. Do you prefer buttons or touch screens?

Depends on the device. I can break both pretty easily

233. Do you think there is a lot of similarity between the Harry Potter books and the Lord of the Rings series?

NO! Harry is more understandable.

234. Would you consider yourself to be naive?

NO!

235. Which of your friends is most likely to go to jail?

Sonny

236. What is the smallest amount of money that could be in a public toilet that would make you reach in and grab it?

You did say money right? $10.00

237. Would you ever wear real fur?

Sure i would but probably not. it is too PIMP.

238. Arachnophobia or Eight Legged Freaks?

Arachnophobia

239. What are your feelings about police officers?

Most good but some bad.

240. what is your favorite line from a song?

“You are worthy”

241. Is fifty dollars a lot of money?

Oh yea!

242. Do you like the band Front 242 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_242)?

NO!

243. Would you rather have fame, money, or self-satisfaction?

self-satisfaction is very dangerous but very desirous

244. What's your middle name?

Robert

245. What is the absolute limit, the craziest thing you would do for a million dollars?

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246. Are you good, evil or neutral?

Good

247. Should ebonics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonics) be considered a language?

Only if it is recognized as part of a culture that is resistant to organized civilization

248. What color is your bedroom?

Sorta tanbrownish

What color would you like it to be?

blue

249. When are you planning to move to a new home?

never

250. If you added up the cost of everything in the room with you, approximately what would it come out to be?

which room? Bed room? office? You need to think through your questions better.

251. Do you blow your nose in public?

Sure

252. Do you want to follow in your parent's footsteps?

No!

253. What is the coolest web site you know of?

The best is yet to come.

254. Which cartoon would you most like to see turned into a movie?

B.C.

255. Of the following, which word best describes you: enthusiastic, fair minded, generous, helpful

fair minded

256. Can you eat with chopsticks?

Yes

257. Could you tell real money from counterfeit?

Maybe, if I had one of those little pen/marker things.

258. What do you think about school uniforms?

Yes, with guidelines only. Size, fit, etc…

259. What ancient civilization would you most like to visit?

American Indian

260. What would make a great new Crayola color?

Flakes of gold

261. If an art project is created with the intent of getting rich and famous, does that cast doubt over its significance as a work of art?

No, creation is heart, mind, and inspiration.

262. If you became president, whom would you invite to sing at your inauguration?

ANNA Johnson

263. Who is the greatest philosopher of your country?

Philosopher, that means thinker, right? Murphy Martin

264. If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?

TAXES

265. Is it as easy to make you happy now as it was when you were a child?

NO no NO!

266. Who knows more...you, or your parents?

ME

267. What instrument would you like to be famous for playing?

Piano

268. Children fill its lungs completely with air. Adults breathe in a more shallow way, not filling their lungs completely. Why the change?

Kids run more, adults bodies have larger lungs

269. Would you have sex with a stranger for one million dollars?

NO

270. Are you completely in control of your body?

Never

Are you completely in control of your mind?

Never

271. Which is more romantic: an expensive, glittering bouquet OR flowers that were hand picked as they grew beside the parkway?

Flowers hand picked

272. Do you know yourself well enough to understand why you feel the way you do?

No way, I don’t think I will ever understand me.

273. Which do you do more often: let movies, songs and books put your feelings into words for you or put your feelings into words by yourself?

I might copy something from something else but mostly just say what I feel.

274. Do you believe celebrities when they are endorsing a product?

NO, see is not believing.

275. What kind of movies do you wish were made more often?comedy with no profanity

276. Does fashion matter to you?

only on TV, not in what I wear

277. Should politicians be held to the same legal standards as everyone else?

Same standards for all. SAME!

278. What do you get in trouble for the most?

Not communicating what I mean to communicate.

279. Should parents spank their kids?

Yes if needed, but not abuse and never in anger

280. What is your worst daily habit?

Eating at night

281. If you had your choice which one TV show would you have canceled?

"Ellen" for sure! GOOD GRIEF! QQQQQQQ!

282. Do you like the taste of sweet or salt?

Whatever my body craves.

283. Are you very precise about what words you use to describe your feelings and thoughts?

I try but emotions are hard to express in words.

284. What do you feel the most guilty about?

Not speaking better when I had opportunities to speak for my LORD

285. Do you meditate?

If you mean day dream, YES, if you mean study memorize recall naaaaaaaa.

286. Can dreams be visions, or do you feel they are always random images?

Dreams had definite meanings but are confusing too. we should not depend on dreams to enlighten us. only the Word of God.

287. Do you try to write/say what you are feeling in a true and simple way?

More difficult to be simple than one might think but I try to always be simple in all things

288. The thief _______ that everyone steals.
What verb would you fill in the blank with?
Covets

289. What's the most incredible experience you ever had?
Leading someone to Christ

290. Are you ever afraid to write/say/think how you feel?

Until a few years ago I would have said absolutely all the time now I say very little of the time.

291. Do you write/say/think it anyway or become intimidated and try to avoid it?

Not really, but I am more aware that I may have to justify what I write or say after I have said it.

292. What is one thing you can't do?

Fly

293. Do you like movies starring Charleton Heston (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleton_Heston)?

YES! He got those commandment things right and published them.

294. Are you gentle?

I think I am. I try to be.

295. When do you feel the most raw and vulnerable?

When I’m depressed.

296. Are you trying to find yourself?

Always wanting to learn more about the "whys" of my life but I’m hard to miss.

297. Where are you looking?

I the heart of GOD and my mental shadows.

298. Are you sometimes afraid of being honest because you are afraid of hurting people's feelings?

That would depend on the person. Some people want you to lie to them to help them justify their lies and not face the real truth. Other need the truth to go further in their personal journey.

299. What would make you a stronger person?

If I could recall scripture from memory better and a cure for diabetes.

300. What book would you like to read sometime soon?

Landmines by Charles Stanley

301. List 5 things you have not experienced that you would like to experience before you die.
A. See my daughters happy and married to men of GOD

B. See my grand boy go to college

C go on a cruise

D dive in blue water

E preach to more than a thousand people at one time

302 is coming!! Your turn.

2010-01-29T15:17:00.002-06:00

Friday Video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-01-26T11:15:00.002-06:00

WHO'S WHO NOW?

I received an e-mail from a friend about ABC news baning USA label pins. Couldn't believe it! then I thought ....................... OK, first this is what i got.

ABC NEWS BANS FLAG LAPEL PINS

Barbara Walters said that this was going to hurt ABC bad. As you know she works for ABC.This should make your blood boil...it DOES mine! ABC NEWS BANS FLAG LAPEL PINS! YESTERDAY THE BRASS AT ABC NEWS ISSUED ORDERS FORBIDDING REPORTERS TO WEAR LAPEL PIN AMERICAN FLAGS OR OTHER PATRIOTIC INSIGNIA. THEIR REASONING WAS THAT ABC SHOULD REMAIN NEUTRAL ABOUT 'CAUSES'. SINCE WHEN IS SUPPORT FOR PREVENTING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION SOME SORT OF A 'CAUSE'? SINCE WHEN IS PATRIOTISM TO BE DISCOURAGED? I URGE YOU TO BOYCOTT ABC AND ITS SPONSORS AND AFFILIATES. WE ARE SLOWLY LOSING EVERYTHING OUR COUNTRY STANDS FOR AND EVERYTHING OUR MEN AND WOMEN FOUGHT AND DIED TO PRESERVE! PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO AS MANY AS YOU CAN.

THIS HAS BEEN VERIFIED THROUGH: http://www.snopes..com/rumors/noflags.asp

OK, We have stepped in the World's "pile." When we weren't watching we put our big foot right in the middle of a big "pile" and now we are saying to all ourselves "I smell something, do you?" If ABC was owned by the USA then they wouldn't be worried about what other folk think. NEUTRAL, GOOD GRIEF! Being neutral is like saying I quit! Like saying I don't care who wins! Like saying absolutely nothing!

Haven't we learned our lesson about saying nothing? NOT YET!? Try and tell the millions of Jews killed by the Nazis. Oops.

I'd like to say to ABC, build a pallet on the sand and get a box to pack for you move.

I'd also like to say to those who work at ABC, I understand you got to eat and send kids to college but there comes a point where you either stand up or squat. It's going to be hard for me to see or hear you while you squat behind those desks made in China.

Who are you, ABC? Or should I say WHO'S are you?

2010-01-26T11:02:00.002-06:00

Life Experiences Lead To Greater Life Experiences

I have an old friend, Fred, who has be a hero to me for a very long time. The kind of guy you want your daughter to married. Good looking, fun, athletic, loves God, loves others, and is purposeful.

Fred lost his wife a few years ago. It broke my heart when I heard about it. Things like that shouldn't happen to people like Fred, but when they do there is always a reason, so after reading this e-mail from Fred I knew i must share it with all. It's content didn't surprise me.

From: Fred Davis /fdavisff@embarqmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:15:23 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Life's lesson

Today on the way home I stopped by the supermarket to pick up a few items needed for the house for the rest of the week. As I was putting them in my Jeep I was approached by a man who said that he used to work there and had lost 50 pounds due to chemotherapy. He did look rather thin, and my heart went out to him because I know the effect that chemotherapy had on my wife Vickie as she went through chemotherapy 3 years ago. He finally came out and said that he was hungry and I knew that he needed a few bucks to get something to eat. I always keep a $5 bill in my glove compartment in case I see a homeless person on the side of the road that has a sign saying "Homeless and Hungry" (etc.). Who knows, they might be, but it's not for me to judge. So I gave the guy the $5 and went on my way not knowing whether he was truly hungry or just wanted to buy some beer.The point is if he was truly out of work due to the hard economic times and being on chemotherapy he reverted back to where he felt comfortable - at the place where "he used to work". Quite often we do that - revert back to a place or situation where at one time we felt comfortable. I know that since my wife passed away I've never felt more comfortable than when I go to the gym and work out or play racquetball because growing up I was so into sports that is where I felt the most comfortable. If we ingrain ourselves to revert back to our true comfort (in my case it's the scriptures that I learned as a youth) then we feel comfortable in times of crisis. Please don't misinterpret this as bragging but rather as a confession what I've relied on the past several years to get me through the nights, weeks and months of tough times since Vickie passed away. My hope and prayer is that through this maybe someone can take comfort in the fact the we all resort back to what truly makes us feel comfortable and secure - and for those of us who are Christians it's the fact that no matter what, everything is meant for a purpose (even though we can't see or don't know why) as expressed in Romans 8:28.

Fred

Thanks Fred!

2010-01-25T10:54:00.002-06:00

TAGGED BY KATIE

Instructions:
1) Answer five questioins with five answers.
2) Tag five other bloggers.
Questions:
1. Where were you 10 years ago?- IN JACKSON MISSISSIPPI, AT WORK AT THE "OLE BM", WRITING A SUSPENSION FORM, AT MY DESK, AT A STATE "MENTAL CONSTAPATION"

2. What is on your to-do list for today?- NOT ALLOW THE CRAP TO SUCK THE LIFE FROM ME, TAKE A NAP, WRITE A LETTER TO A RELATIVE, CALL MOM, WORK ON THE GARAGE

3. What five snacks do you enjoy?- BITES OF ICE CREAM, BITES OF CAKE, SOFT COOKED COOKIES, BEFF JERKY, KEETLE COOKED CHIPS

4. Where are five places you have lived?- Valley Rd, "The Meat House" MSU, Briarcliff Circle in Jackson, MS- Old Spanish Trail in Jackson, Waters Drive

5. Name five things you would do if you were a billionaire:- provide fresh water wells for countries that don't have fresh water, build a camp for troubled kids, give my girls 7.5 million each, finance C.A.R.A. (animal shelter), take care of my mom

tag:1. Abe 2. George 3. Thomas 4. Jimmy 5. Ronald

2010-01-22T15:41:00.003-06:00

VIDEO FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!

Been a while but here I am, sitting writing to you with the Friday video. I hope you enjoy.

Big laugh, get ready.

SORRY LIB!

2010-01-22T15:33:00.004-06:00

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

I just want to thank all of you for your educational e-mails over the past year.. I am totally screwed up now and have little chance of recovery.

I no longer open a public bathroom door without using a paper towel or have them put lemon slices in my ice water without worrying about the bacteria on the lemon peel.

I can't use the remote in a hotel room because I don't know what the last person was doing while flipping through the adult movie channels.

I can't sit down on the hotel bedspread because I can only imagine what has happened on it since it was last washed.

I have trouble shaking hands with someone who has been driving because the number one pastime while driving alone is picking ones nose (although cell phone usage may be taking the number one spot).

Eating a little snack sends me on a guilt trip because I can only imagine how many gallons of Trans fats I have consumed over the years.

I can't touch any woman's purse for fear she has placed it on the floor of a public bathroom.

I MUST SEND MY SPECIAL THANKS to whoever sent me the one about poop in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet sponge with every envelope that needs sealing. ALSO, now I have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason..

I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown) who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.

I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program.

I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me, and St. Theresa's Novena has granted my every wish.

I no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers..

I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day.

THANKS TO YOU I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward an e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.

BECAUSE OF YOUR CONCERN, I no longer drink Coca Cola because it can remove toilet stains. I no longer can buy gasoline without taking someone along to watch the car so a serial killer won't crawl in my back seat when I'm pumping gas.

I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr. Pepper since the people who make these products are atheists who refuse to put 'Under God' on their cans.

I no longer use Saran Wrap in the microwave because it causes cancer.

AND THANKS FOR LETTING ME KNOW I can't boil a cup of water in the microwave anymore because it will blow up in my face.. Disfiguring me for life.

I no longer check the coin return on pay phones because I could be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS..

I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.

I no longer receive packages from UPS or Fed Ex since they are actually Al Qaeda in disguise. I no longer shop at Target since they are French and don't support our American troops or the Salvation Army.

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica , Uganda , Singapore , and Uzbekistan ...

I no longer buy expensive cookies from Neiman Marcus since I now have their recipe. THANKS TO YOU

I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my butt.

AND THANKS TO YOUR GREAT ADVICE I can't ever pick up $5.00 dropped in the parking lot because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg.

I can no longer drive my car because I can't buy gas from certain gas companies!

I can't do any gardening because I'm afraid I'll get bitten by the brown recluse and my hand will fall off.

And I now keep my toothbrush in the living room, because water splashes over 6 ft. out of the commode.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.