Saturday, August 31, 2013

Tested Truths: All Resistance is Futile

Tested Truths: All Resistance is Futile:   It happens to all of us, and on that day when you recognize that it has happened to you, I can tell you that you will not like it! On that...

All Resistance is Futile

  It happens to all of us, and on that day when you recognize that it has happened to you, I can tell you that you will not like it! On that day, you will realize that you have become older then you are young?
 Oh you'll fight it of course, and you'll deny it even to yourself. You will fight it both physically and emotionally for as long as possible, but in the end, time will win! Time moves forward like a mighty glacier, picking up and pushing aside all that stands in its way! You will not like it, and you will rail against it, but resistance is futile.
  I suspect that I am older then many of you, and as such, I have entered a period in my life that I am ill prepared for. Truthfully, I'm amazed that I have made it this far? Though I say it as a joke, it is true, that if I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself? Sadly, we have reached the point, that whenever I talk with old friends, inevitably the conversations will turn to doctors, and who is seeing who for what? I hate that! The same group of people who once talked about tearing the roof off the sucka, now says things like, How did your procedure go Harold, and its good to see you Maude, you sure are looking better.
  But time waits for no man, and time marches on and all that, so I guess that all we can do is to make the best of it? Boy, this turned out to be a depressing little piece, Sorry about that! Now you will hear things like, Growing old in style? You can only do that if you have the money for it, because you need money to have style! Or how about this one, You are only as old as you feel? Is that also true on the days when you feel 20 years older then you are? The real key for all this, is to keep your mind as sharp as you can for as long as you can, because when your mind is sharp, then your spirit does well.

Friday, August 30, 2013

Tested Truths: The Precipice

Tested Truths: The Precipice:   Mr. Obama's mindset as to the middle east has led up to this moment. This one is his alone. For unlike Benghazi, there is no Hillary t...

The Precipice

  Mr. Obama's mindset as to the middle east has led up to this moment. This one is his alone. For unlike Benghazi, there is no Hillary to fall on her sword. This one is so much his, that not even his staunchest believers can find a way to blame Bush for this one?
  Needless to say, this is one of those monumental moments in history. For what he decides to do, will not only be the defining moment in his presidency, but will also decide the fate of the entire world!
It doesn't matter your politics, but you had better pray for wisdom for our president, because even if you don't know anything about biblical end times prophecy, understand it this way. This could be the start of WWIII!
  It doesn't matter what you think of me, or even if you think I'm a madman? We are standing at the precipice of world war! If you are not religious, and no nothing of prophecy, and you look at it strictly from a political point of view, it is obvious. But if you know the scriptures, it is undeniable. All of the players are in place. The super powers have already backed their horses, and they stand watching in the wings! Israel, poor little Israel stands surrounded and alone. Yes, she is isolated, but she is ready!
  The Mideast is a tinder box of nations, just dry kindling, that someone has soaked with gasoline! President Obama is the one standing near the campfire with a lit match in his hand. If he drops that lit match into the wood below, the wars will have begun! But if he takes a step back, and blows that match out, the world will step back from the precipice!

Tested Truths: Coming to Blows

Tested Truths: Coming to Blows:   Apparently it got lost in the nomenclature? I have no idea what that means, but I just like saying it? But there is a soundness to the sen...

Coming to Blows

  Apparently it got lost in the nomenclature? I have no idea what that means, but I just like saying it? But there is a soundness to the sentence, it seems rounded in a way, less apt to have sharp edges, perhaps thats why?
  I have been wallowing in a sea of stupidity lately? Worrying about circles, and whether Google's analytics can be trusted? According to them, 3 people read my piece on the Reverend King, and I was one of them? In their social plan, they put you into circles, and you request to be put into these circles?
Sounds like high school cliques run amuk! But circles is fine for them, as it is their business to run you in circles, and drop you always into a Cul D Sac called Sales Way! Loops, a lota loops, circular reasoning is their game. But if your looking for help, a little compassion is hard to find? Trying to get them to respond directly is like trying to get the Queen of England to call! Who knows, maybe they are the new Royalty?
  On the homefront, Max has got himself a new treat ball! He had eaten the hole out of the old one? But with this new ball, for some reason, Max has adjusted his methods of busting my stones until I  fill up his empty ball, and give it a roll! Trust me, the boy can be annoying! My least favorite of his little tricks is when he places the ball directly behind where I'm standing? Twice we almost came to blows over that! He doesn't try that one any more!

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Tested Truths: Dr. Martin Luther King

Tested Truths: Dr. Martin Luther King:   Today marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most moving speeches I have ever heard! A speech that spoke to a divided nation, a speech ...

Dr. Martin Luther King

  Today marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most moving speeches I have ever heard! A speech that spoke to a divided nation, a speech whose time had come. A speech that said to whites, This is the voice of reason, this is the voice of a man you can trust. Spoken by a man of great intellect, and yet still spoken from the heart. This was a speech so saturated with truth, that you knew, that these words were the kind of words spoken only by God himself, these were the words of a man who could be trusted!
  But how then do we take those words so eloquently spoken fifty years ago, and apply them to the reality of today? What if we could change history, what if we could have had the bullet of a madman miss? What would today have looked like if the man himself was in charge of the days festivities? The first and most obvious, one is so simple that even a high school junior in civics 101 wouldn't have missed it! There would have been a few Republicans on the program. Because Dr. King is a man of peace, he would have looked for a bipartisan approach, always looking for a way to unite, and not to further divide.
And what of the honored speakers, those chosen to speak before the President? Do you think that he, Dr. King, might have made a few changes in what was today's fare?
  As an intellectual with a deep faith, he would in no way have shied away from any ideology, and so certainly, would not have been a part of any attempt to stifle a legitimate point of view, but rather would have welcomed a free and open debate. So then, with this in mind, how do you think the speaker's list from today's program would have really looked? Certainly, many of those who did speak would have been welcomed to if Mr. King had presided over it, but who would have been added? Do you think that the voices of Thomas Sowell and Colonel West might have been welcomed? Or what if we were to get even more specific? Which do you think Dr. King would rather have speak directly to the young black voters? Dr. Benjamin Carson, or Al Sharpton? One, the head of pediatric neurosurgery at John Hopkins University Hospital, or the other whose entire professional career was predicated on a lie?
  This was yet another opportunity for our President to rise to the occasion and lead! Lead as the President first, and as a black president second! An opportunity to unite us! Instead, he chose it to wallow in partisan politics, cheapening not only himself, but the office itself. Dr. King would not have approved! To disagree with this President because of his policies is our God given right as Americans. To refuse to disagree with him because he is a black President is racist, and is an insult to the man himself!

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Tested Truths: A word on exclusionary,

Tested Truths: A word on exclusionary,:   I knew that I was supposed to write about something, but for the life of me, I couldn't figure out what? The hell with em I thought, ...

A word on exclusionary,

  I knew that I was supposed to write about something, but for the life of me, I couldn't figure out what?
The hell with em I thought, why should I even bother? They are nothing but a few mickey mouse mal contents, so again, why bother? I have been  down in the dumps a bit lately, but it will pass, it will pass.
  And so, I dithered away somewhere between writing, or not? An odd place I tell you. A bad mood had befallen me, and I was looking for a release? So how are we doing America, what is it that you would say is in our future?
  Looking in from the outside, things don't look too good? But yet, looking at it from the inside out, believe it or not,  can actually look worse?  There is an ugliness that has spread across the land. Greed and corruption are everywhere, and this out in the open! And yet, not one calls these into account. Do you still look to yourself to save yourself? Have you reached the formula for eternal life?
  The hardness of any truth is that it is exclusive. That is why the truth stands alone. The truth needs no explanation. And so it is with God! Because he is truth, He stands alone!
  Jesus said, I am the truth and the way, no one comes to the Father except through me.
Exclusionary? Yup! Reaction to those who reject this: TOUGH, live with it...

Monday, August 12, 2013

Tested Truths: I haven't a clue?

Tested Truths: I haven't a clue?:   While re-telling a story, did you ever find yourself exaggerating a bit on each telling? Not quite lying,  call it an embellishment? Yeste...

I haven't a clue?

  While re-telling a story, did you ever find yourself exaggerating a bit on each telling? Not quite lying,  call it an embellishment? Yesterday, I went up to visit my brother in law at the hospital. The hospital sits on some hilly ground, and so the walk up to it was very painful to my knee! Now that is the simple and concise truth of the matter, without any accompanying adjectives. But by the third telling, not only was I walking with a limp, but it was so bad, that the hospital people loaned me a wheelchair to use while I was there? This part of course is not true, but by this telling, I got across the severity of my pain,  which if I had to choose only one word to describe it, I would probably pick excruciating, though in fact, that might just be too severe?
  I guess if there is to be a point to be gained from all of this, it would be that because of this pain, the quality of my life is not what it should be? I don't want to write as much as I once did, and my daily walks are considerably shorter!
  Now there is something else, as long as I am writing this one, but it probably doesn't fit with the subject I started with, and in truth, I don't even know why I am telling you this? I have a good vocabulary, but not a great one? Case in point: On Friday's show, Dana Perino used two H words while talking about the President's recent news conference, the last of which was Hyperbole. I understood perfectly what she was talking about, but only because of the context she chose to use it in? Taken on its own, as a word left to itself. If you were to ask me Webster's description of what the word means, I haven't got a clue?

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Tested Truths: Where's One?

Tested Truths: Where's One?:   It's funny, but life is made up of moments, many moments, many many and so on? It is a surefire thing, and it will come this way again...

Where's One?

  It's funny, but life is made up of moments, many moments, many many and so on? It is a surefire thing, and it will come this way again! But for now it is lost, because not many have seemed to even notice?
  But here's a moment, just one of many that happened almost simultaneously? I was sitting at a traffic light, getting ready to make a left onto the highway, and I had Little Feat on the car stereo. So while I was waiting for the light to change, I was thinking about the order of the songs? I wanted to skip 3, and go directly to 4? This while 2 still played, so I decided that I would skip three and go to 4, just as soon as 2 finished playing. That was the private moment I wound up sharing at the light? Because while I was wrapt up in my private little consideration, out side my car, other people had moments also. In fact, while I pondered my little problem in the moments while I sat at that light, 36 cars passed in front of me, 3 waited along side, and one pulled up behind me. So, in those moments that we all spent at that light, no matter how fast it went, that was a moment that was a shared experience! But what we all were thinking at the moment of commonality, those are some of the many moments that we spoke of before.
  But there is a moment in time, that we all shared at the moment it occurred? Everyone who was alive at the time of the first 9/11 shared a moment that is emblazoned in our minds eye! Sadly, fewer have the sight of a dead Ambassador being dragged through the streets, and not as many see the burning Embassy? But as the anniversary of both atrocities draws near, be ever vigilante to not allow a third!
  America, Forget all this Politically Correct non-sense, and start calling the enemy by name! Because if you refuse to call your enemy by his name, how will you know who to fight? Wake up America, the time to cower in fear is at its end! It's time to flex our mighty wings, and once again sharpen our talons!

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Tested Truths: Cumulous Clouds

Tested Truths: Cumulous Clouds:   As a life long sky watcher, it seems to me that we must have broken some kind of record for how many days in a row that the sky has been f...

Cumulous Clouds

  As a life long sky watcher, it seems to me that we must have broken some kind of record for how many days in a row that the sky has been full of cumulous clouds? According to Webster,  Cumulous clouds are bright, white and puffy, and I'd say that that sums it up well!
  If you know the type, and if you are a sky watcher yourself, you know that these are the kind that change shape as you watch, and that if you watch long enough, eventually they will become anything that you can think of? The really good ones remain bright, white and puffy, even in the night sky! All they need is a clear bright moon to show off their shapes as they move across the sky!
  But my very best favorite kind, is when they form a giant circle in the sky, and you can see them rise to their full height, as you view them from inside the circle! This has happened twice that I remember quite vividly, in the little patch of sky that I watch.
  All told, the inner wall of the circumference was at least four, but no more then six layers high! And though the layers moved separate from each other, they all stopped at the inner wall as if kept in circle form by some unknown force? Each of the layers, independent of each other, moved in the area back from the clearing, forcing faces and different shapes to show themselves to the clearing! All of the formations within the cloud layers were a brilliant white, except for the bottom layer which had a blueish grey bottom. Watching the skys' can be quite interesting, and I highly recommend it! Find a patch of sky near you, and try to get out and watch it at least once a day? This can be very rewarding.

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Tested Truths: The Newly Irrelevant

Tested Truths: The Newly Irrelevant:     What is the essence of cool? I would think that it is going against the grain? A sort of James Dean persona, raging against the statu...

Monday, August 5, 2013

Tested Truths: The New Segregationists

Tested Truths: The New Segregationists:   Who are these people who look to divide us? What are their motives? They are the new segregationists, it is now black voices that call for...

The New Segregationists

  Who are these people who look to divide us? What are their motives? They are the new segregationists, it is now black voices that call for separate but equal! These want no part of simulation, what they want is power! It is just as it was when it was whites calling for that same thing, it's just the other side of the same coin.
  There are two sides to anything in life, just as the other side of life is death, do you see? So now they look to spin the old lies in a new way, hoping to make sense of it? A new spin, they look to put that old point of view that failed before in a way that will work? It will fail this time as it has failed before! But beware of these new purveyors of lies and half truths for they bring with them the whirlwind! But don't sell these sowers of separation short, for they will stop at nothing? A race war? bloodshed?
These do not fear this, in fact, they wiould welcome it!

Friday, August 2, 2013

Tested Truths: Innocence

Tested Truths: Innocence:   To be innocent is to know nothing about the subject. That is why there are so few innocents, it's an ego thing you see? The other side...

Innocence

  To be innocent is to know nothing about the subject. That is why there are so few innocents, it's an ego thing you see? The other side of tremendous highs, must be tremendous lows? It is that way with feelings, they can wash from one side to the other.
  What the fruit of the tree offered was wisdom! And who wouldn't want that? Wisdom is being able to discern between good and evil. But consider this, before she took that first bite, evil for them, did not exist! So also at that point, was the beginning of wisdom. It is the original sin, Pride! And the prize? Wisdom!
  Here is a simple way to know the difference? All good wisdom comes from God, and all evil wisdom comes from men! It really is that simple. I have been mulling this one over for about a week now, and in my mind I have written it 10 different ways? There are times when I cannot understand why these words of mine are so hard to hear, but then again, I knew all along.
  They say that there is a fine line between genius and madness, and they are correct. For on the other side is depression, a place I know all to well! I don't like it there, though at times it seems that some of the greatest thoughts have sprung forth from great sadness? I know the depths of depression, because I have been there. I could take you to levels that you would fear to know, but what would be the point?
  The point is God, know him or be eternally stupid!