Out 'n' About

Got to the library and a woman in the closest handicapped space calls out, "ROEBUCK!" I looked, not recognizing her at all, and she said, "Are YOU Roebuck?" 

I said, "I AM!" 

She said, "Would you like this parking space?" How very kind of this woman wearing a Control Freak tee shirt! I declined, and then recovered my keys from the Buckmobile I had left in the ignition. 

Don't give up on humanity, expecially AMERICANS! Because you'll run across some awesome ones every day! :)

One's Worth a Thousand, so Two...

Obama's TRUE Agenda Has NOT Failed!

Much was said when a political *commentator proclaimed that he hoped Mr Obama would fail. That statement was twisted to indicate that the commentator did not want to see America flourish under the Democrat. That was NOT, I believe what the commentator meant. He meant that he hoped that Obama's TRUE agenda would fail...but it hasn't. Obama's programs have driven the United States into record debt and closer to a Socialist States of America. That's where we sit now. Do you know that most GM and Chrysler dealerships post 2008 are now owned by Democrats? Do you know that dealerships which were closed were done so on the basis of the owner's party affiliation and the one's which were closed down were those owned by Repuclicans? This is corruption and tyranny of the first order and no, Obama's TRUE agenda has NOT failed!

*Rush Limbaugh

Brainwashed?

If the liberal brain was  "washed" it would  be clean, but their brains have been polluted with lies they believe are true. The left looks at programs that have failed 100% of the time and thinks, "Yeah, but that's because the wrong people tried them. WE can do this." The conservative, knows human tendencies and programs that always work unless someone like Senator Dodd or Barney Frank comes along and sabotages them as was the case in '08

Straight-forward Moral People

When I was in the band Scarlet Onyx in high school, so far as I knew, I was the only non-Roman Catholic in the bunch. I had kind of gotten used to that as I had lived in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood. Different denominations occur because of differences in doctrinal concerns and theology within the church universal (all the denominations) One misconception my mom had about Catholics came to the fore when I asked quite innocently, "Why can't we be Catholic?"
I had seen that the Catholic kids went to early mass (some skipped it) and were back home and playing way before I could come home, get out of my suit, eat Sunday Dinner and begin my play. Mom's response was, "Oh Honey, we could NEVER do THAT! The worship statues!" Mom only knew what she'd heard. Later I found some Catholics to love the Lord just as much and some more deeply than the biggest charismatics, Baptists, and other so called "protestants."

We had a drummer leave the band and inherited the drummer for a group called the Rokz named Rusty Fuerst. Rusty was immediately made fun of by the others mainly because he didn't drink booze, didn't smoke and stayed away from cafeine, in obersvance of his Mormon faith. Rusty impressed me with how he tried to behave himself in the moral arena. He had what was a clear opportunity to be sexually active and told me he did not give in to temptation and that, "the Lord was with me!" That impressed me, because my goal, like a salmon swimming upstream, was to be a virgin until marriage. The Catholic members of the band thought Rusty was screwy, but I admired him.

So, I went to my Dad and asked him, "What is it that's off (theologically) about the Mormons. Dad wasn't clear at that time and later, I did my own study on it. Meanwhile, what Rusty told me was that this guy Joseph Smith had an angel (of the Lord) tell him that all the Christian denominations were WRONG and set him straight about it and in short, that's how the Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) came into being.

The basic difference between Mormonism and faith in Jesus of Nazareth is that Evangelical Bible-based Christians believe in God's grace alone to be saved (from Hell), that Heaven is a free gift, bought by Jesus when He died on the Cross. There's nothing one can do to be saved except receive the free gift God gives through Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God, also described as the LAMB of God, slain from the foundation of the world. Grace plus NOTHING. Some denominations stray from that and try to add good works, but Christians believe good works (doing good things) is just what happens when someone comes to know Jesus personally as Savior and Lord.

If someone were to make it to Heaven by being good---doing good deeds (works) it would surely be the Mormons, because they do a lot of good deeds. As humans with a do-it-yourself mentality, we tend to think we have to do something and find it difficult to think Heaven is just free.The Mormon understanding of Jesus is different also. In fact, the "Jesus" of Mormon belief is quite different from the Biblical Jesus. Christians do not believe that God was once a man and grew to "god" status as Mormons do, and do not believe Jesus was created, but is the Creator of all that is and ever will be. Mormons believe that Jesus and Lucifer are brothers---good brother and bad brother (Good cop, bad cop) Those are the distinctions I've come to know.

That being said, Howard Hughes trusted Mormons to run his estate because of their moral standards and the FBI recruits Mormons routinely for their ranks because of their good behavior. I mean, who's more wholesome than Donnie and Marie, after all, as much as people make fun of them?

So to see a man like Mitt Romney, whom I disagree with theologically, but trust as a very moral, upstanding gentleman accused of some of the stuff he's been accused of, only makes the accusers look small by comparison, especially when they tell outright LIES about him.

So, when I voted yesterday, I did so believing a good, moral man was running for office. Yeah, in MY view, his theology is off, but that's about it. Forget the false accusations. Would I rather have someone who more agrees with my theology at the helm? Absolutely. I voted for Alan Keyes every time he ran, who is a good, Catholic believer and truly a man of God.

The man occupying the White House currently has been proven to me to be not only a Socialist, but a Marxist as well. SOME believe him to be a Muslim which is difficult to prove or DISprove as lying to us (the "infidels") is part of their game plan. Lying. We've heard a lot of that from DC lately. So, it came down to Mormon or Marxist. I'll take Mormon every time!

Was it the Condoms?

A widower friend of mine has been putting his feet in the water of dating for the first time in decades and has been on a few dates with a young lady he's interested in (well, maybe not so young--closer to HIS age) and his son, asked him to purchase some prophylactic contraceptive devices for the purpose of constructing a "rubber tree" as it were. My friend went to a store on the other side of town and made his purchase as discreetly as possible. He's noticed at the same time that the woman he's been "courting" has grown silent, not returning his calls or texts. It was funny to me, that he thinks that she somehow found out about the condom purchase and has become silent in some sort of response to it.

The Manchurian "President"

I have severely lowered the amount of political items in this and other forums, but I can no longer be silent in this regard:

Hilary Clinton's taking the blame for the Benghazi tragedy only emphasizes what a lack of a President Barack Obama is. She says he was "unaware." Indeed. He plays it like he's unaware of a LOT of things but he knows what he's trying to do. It is sad that there are those who even now deny that Obama is a Marxist out to destroy our dear Republic. It is even sadder that there are those who have been brain washed into thinking any good whatsoever could come from socialism that gave us the Nazis, the Soviet Union's totalitarian regime, Cuba and RED China and their murderous reign of terror.
Hitler killed Jews and "his own people." Joseph Stalin murdered even more, as did Kruchev, who was then silenced by his own party. Even Fidel Castro has admitted that Communism hasn't worked in Cuba and at the close of World War II the Chinese Communists used a young Christian missionary named John Birch for live bayonet practice.
Castro bull dozed the Roman Catholic cemeteries and as little as a few years ago a friend with family in Cuba told me that it was illegal there to own any kind of meat. Meat is for the tourists and being caught with it in your possession can meat imprisonment or even death.
This is where Obama's Marxism leads. It is insanity to try this formula again and expect different results.
I hope people will wake up from their Marxist slumber!

I Was Just Sittin' There

On the old Jackie Gleason Show, a character Frank Fontaine used to do called "Crazy Googenheim" would say, "I wa'n doin' nuttin'...I wuz juss STANDIN' there!"
Well, last night, I was sitting. My pal Shannon Pate needed transportation, so I was at his karaoke gig and this couple was sitting on the couch. I borrowed one of the cushions to sit at the fire place for a little more comfort as, by experience, I knew the couch would devour me and it would take a tow truck to pull me out.
The guy (turned out his name was John) asked if I was in the band. I explained, no, it was karaoke and I was driving the karaoke host. He offered me a drink and I declined. When he went to the mens room, his date began to question me. Am I with "the band?" 
Again, "No it's karaoke and I'm just driving the host around." Then, out of the blue she says, "The guy I'm out with tonight?"
"Yeah"
"He's married."
I COULD have quipped, "So, you're a home wrecker?" but decided she probably didn't have the same sense of humor as me.
Changing the subject, since we seemed destined to talk, I asked her if she was going to sing. She said that she wouldn't want to be heard by so many people. I didn't push it further. Later, she went to the ladies room and he said, "She's going to SING!:
"Oh really?"
"Yeah, her name's Karen."
"All righty" She never DID sing. She was putting down a lot of shots for such a petite little thing and looked sleepy before they took off. I couldn't help thinking, knowing guys as I do, that his investment was probably going to pay off with her napping and not the more frisky stuff.
You meet all kinds.

Decades Later---A Book Review

One of the books that has given me insights into the character of Jesus is a book called "A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23" by Phillip Keller. The book is, what the title indicates. Being a shepherd himself, Keller gives unique insights into the Psalm, probably of David. The reader learns of the behavior of sheep including their fears and personality traits. "He leads me beside the STILL waters." Sheep would dry up, literally, if the were depending on moving water to drink. They're scared to death of it. The shepherd knows this and knows the needs of the sheep and provides them.

The most interesting  thing, to me was the analogy of the sheepfold. Out in otherwise treacherous parts of the country are these sheep folds. Basically a stone enclosure with an opening. Outside, not only those who would steal the sheep, (thieves) but wolves who would devour them. The sheepfold is, in that sense, a refuge for the creatures. There is no door or gate. A tourist asked one shepherd, seeing this, what prevents a thief from plundering or a wolf from having a feast? The shepherd laughed and explained that he himself becomes the door, as across the threshold is where he sleeps. Any thief or wolf would have to get in "over the shepherd's dead body."
There are multiple other insights in this book that I highly recommend. I read this book in the seventies, loaned it to a brother back then and don't think I'll ever get it back, as he passed away about three years ago. The GOOD news is, it's how out on paperback.

Down Wit *ODP!

So, now it's been revealed that there WILL be "death panels" under "Obamacare" (which, by the way is the worst oxymoron I've ever heard) Just like the Nazis the bureaucrats in charge refer to people not as "patients" but as "units." So, once again, Sarah Palin was not wrong and out in left or right as it were, field. Reminds me of the old rap recording (I almost said song) "Down Wit OPP." So, I decided to mess around a little bit on that theme.

You down wit ODP? It's killin' me
You down wit ODP? It's killin' me
Give it up for Obama kayuh
Raise yo hands in the ayuh

You down wit ODP? They comin' fo' me
You down wit ODP? They comin' fo' me
Day sayin' I too old so they treat me cold
So if I has a stroke, it'll all be a joke

A neurologist revealed that at a national meeting of such in DC it was shown that the plan is, if you're above a certain age and have bleeding in your brain, there will be no surgery without a panel's approval but normally just "comfort" would be given.

Big Brother meets healthcare in the tradition of the US Postal "Service"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wsnHGI5K-E


*ODP= Obama Death Panels