GREAT SPEECH ON LEADERSHIP

A POST FOR MY MINORITY READERS- THE SKY REALLY IS BLUE

If you have been failing to live  up to your expectations, is it possibly because you have let someone else define you?

The truth is, we are all from minority groups of some sort. 

That's me on the far right. Jesse paid us a visit in Tennessee
via the Photo Shop skills of Jay Crosby.

I am a White Anglo Saxon American. But, I am a King James Bible only Fundamental Christian. I am also a US Army Veteran. I am from Texas, California, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan, Arizona, Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia.

And, I speak Swahili, and the walls of my home are covered with gongs and trinkets from Africa. I suspect none of you reading here belong to a minority that small.

So, who defines me?

Homeland Security says I am a potential terrorist because I am a Veteran and I carry a Bible and study prophecy. Honest, HLS believes that.

The Young Turks roar and use the F word when they talk about my group.

Barak Obama wants my group to shut up about Jesus Christ, as if Jesus has also become a "potential terrorist."

So, will we go quiet, and stop talking out in the open, about what we love and why life is good for us?

Will we let the media, the neighbor, some racist, a school teacher, or the President define us?

Please watch this TED Talk:

So, if you let the mob define you, they will then define what the world can expect from you. And, that will not be much.

Will you let them get away with that?

Philippians 4:12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Ah, so there is someone on my side.

Thank you, my Savior.

WEDDING BELLS? NOT IN NEW ZEALAND..... ROOOOAAAAAR

So, what is the "wedding party" consist of? 

Answer: A bunch of friends of the bride and groom who are all about testosterone and sacred rage.

And then............ the bride even gets in the mood.

HOW TO HAVE FUN WITH SPAM

This looks like great fun. And, it does something of a service to humanity. I have often thought that if I engage a criminal online who is spamming to sucker in gullible older adults, I am keeping a thug involved with me and not doing his dirt.

CAUTION: Do get a special email address for this purpose so you can dump it when it gets to be too much.

Try the same thing with telemarketers. It is great fun to see how long you can keep them in suspense thinking you are still a potential sucker.

Now, how to torment a telemarketer:

The key to toying with a telemarketer is that he is told that as long as you say "Yes" to questions he is to keep trying to move forward with the scam. He is also told that he is to abandon you after you say "No" the third time. I have used the "No" by saying "No, No, No," and they hang up at once.

So, see how long you can keep them trying by saying, "Yes."



Here is how to leave a telemarketer in suspense:

So, you gotta Jewish friend already. Put da guy to work for you:

Look, I know I don't post often to this blog. I have 14 blogs, and this one gets second most attention. So, try not to complain too much, OK?

SILLY WALKS BRITANNIA- LONDON TO CANBERRA TO PAKISTAN

THE THRILLING SILLY WALKS OF JOHN HOWARD, FORMER PM OF AUSTRALIA

SILLY WALKS IN PAKISTAN AND INDIA

FOR THE RECORD, THERE IS A MINISTRY OF SILLY WALKS.

WHY DON'T WE AMERICANS AND MEXICANS HAVE A CEREMONY LIKE THIS?

I AM JEALOUS. 

WE HAVE SOME VERY TALENTED SILLY SOLDIERS WHO COULD HANDLE THIS.

SO, WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM A WATER BED?

This is classic German humor and tricks. They are not quite as cautious as the rest of us. So, we all can have a good laugh.

YO MAMMA SAY, "EAT YO APPLE"

Yo Mamma from the hood is pushing apples under the counter.


We need a blood test of NFL players for malic acid.

THE GIBSON BROTHERS FROM NORTH CAROLINA

I just needed to show you a bluegrass group
that is all music and no affect.



BUT, when these boys get crazy,
no one can keep up with them.....

WHAT DO YOU CALL IT WHEN VLADIMIR PUTIN IS STANDING ON A CRACKER?

Answer: Putin on the Ritz

And, though this is a year old, and some of you have seen it, this flash mob in Russia is amazing. The crowd participation is exceptional also.

MUSICAL START TO THE NEW YEAR- 2014

I thought it only fitting to start the New Year by raising the level of artistic forms in music. Modern music lacks the art content and articulation common to music long ago. 

At age 70 I long for the music of my earlier years, so here I give you a tune commonly played on classical music radio station KFWB in Los Angeles in 1959.

MUSICAL ART FORMS FROM LONG AGO

I truly regret messing with your mind like that. 

Here is a serious song about nature and the creatures that populate our earth and make our hearts sing:

MUSICAL OFFERING
ON A MORE PROFOUND NOTE

Well, that did not work out either. I shall thus go clear away from our own nation with its profane music and give you a sampling of something from the Congo in Africa:

POIGNANT MUSIC FROM THE DEEP JUNGLES

Get out of here, all of you. 

You people just expect too much from the past anyway.

:-)

CRUSHING ONLINE TUTORIAL PREPAREDNESS PEOPLE MUST SEE

This is a very articulate tutorial on preparing for dealing with your can.



Never let it be said that we do not open dark secrets and tell you the untarnished truth here. Why just the other day I saw a batch of tarnished truth laying in a corner of Wal-Mart, and I pointed it out to the store manager. 

I later received a personal note from Wal-Mart's Little Rock headquarters thanking me for catching the tarnished truth for them. 

Folks, we can never be too careful, right?

TERRORIST ATTACK IN TOKYO-- A ROYAL FLUSH

READ AND BUY A TICKET TO TOKYO

Have a flushing good time.







The Japanese really make potty time a special event.

LAUGH AND THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH YOU

There really is something to that.



So, why should these Buddhists have all the fun. Can a Bible believer bring the world a merry heart moment?

Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

Proverbs 15:15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

COVER YOUR EARS JOHANN

Fur WHO?

Keep them ears covered JSB-- It gets worse.

SO, DID YOU THINK TEXAS WAS GUN CRAZY?

And, did you hear that Aussies were super paranoid about guns?

Think again:

DONNER UND BLITZ

Thunder and lightning again......


A solar flare coming tomorrow.


I will work in my greenhouse.


Ta Da

CRITIQUE OF NOAH WEBSTER'S CLASSIC NOVEL

The following is adapted from Bill Nye's Remarks. Bill was postmaster of Laramie, Wyoming in about 1885.


Thus:





Mr. Webster, no doubt, had the best command of language of any American author prior to our day. Those who have read his ponderous but rather disconnected romance known as "Websters Unabridged Dictionary, or How One Word Led on to Another." will agree with me that he was smart. Noah never lacked for a word by which to express himself. He was a brainy man and a good speller.


It would ill become me at this late day to criticise Mr. Webster's great
work--a work that is now in almost every library, school-room and counting
house in the land. It is a great book. I do believe that had Mr. Webster
lived he would have been equally fair in his criticism of my books.


I hate to compare my own works with those of Mr. Webster, because it may
seem egotistical in me to point out the good points in my literary labors;
but I have often heard it said, and so do not state it solely upon my own
responsibility, that Mr. Webster's book does not retain the interest of
the reader all the way through.


He has tried to introduce too many characters, and so we cannot follow
them all the way through. It is a good book to pick up and while away an
idle hour with, perhaps, but no one would cling to it at night till the
fire went out, chained to the thrilling plot and the glowing career of its
hero.


Therein consists the great difference between Mr. Webster and myself. A
friend of mine at Leavenworth once wrote me that from the moment he got hold
of my book, he never left his room till he finished it. He seemed chained
to the spot, he said, and if you can't believe a convict, who is entirely
out of politics, who in the name of George Washington can you believe?


Mr. Webster was most assuredly a brilliant writer, and I have discovered
in his later editions 118,000 words, no two of which are alike. This shows
great fluency and versatility, it is true, but we need something else. The
reader waits in vain to be thrilled by the author's wonderful word
painting. There is not a thrill in the whole tome. I had heard so much of
Mr. Webster that when I read his book I confess I was disappointed. It is
cold, methodical and dispassionate in the extreme.


As I said, however, it is a good book to pick up for the purpose of
whiling away an idle moment, and no one should start out on a long journey
without Mr. Webster's tale in his pocket. It has broken the monotony of
many a tedious trip for me.


Mr. Webster's "Speller" was a work of less pretentions, perhaps, and yet
it had an immense sale. Eight years ago this book had reached a sale of
40,000,000, and yet it had the same grave defect. It was disconnected,
cold, prosy and dull. I read it for years, and at last became a close
student of Mr. Webster's style, yet I never found but one thing in this
book, for which there seems to have been such a perfect stampede, that was
even ordinarily interesting, and that was a little gem. It was so
thrilling in its details, and so diametrically different from Mr.
Webster's style, that I have often wondered who he got to write it for
him. It related to the discovery of a boy by an elderly gentleman, in the
crotch of an ancestral apple tree, and the feeling of bitterness and
animosity that sprung up at the time between the boy and the elderly
gentleman.


Though I have been a close student of Mr. Webster for years, I am free to
say, and I do not wish to do an injustice to a great man in doing so, that
his ideas of literature and my own are entirely dissimilar. Possibly his
book has had a little larger sale than mine, but that makes no difference.
When I write a book it must engage the interest of the reader, and show
some plot to it. It must not be jerky in its style and scattering in its
statements.


I know it is a great temptation to write a book that will sell, but we
should have a higher object than that.


I do not wish to do an injustice to a man who has done so much for the
world, and one who could spell the longest word without hesitation, but I
speak of these things just as I would expect people to criticise my work.
If we aspire to monkey with the literati of our day we must expect to be
criticised. That's the way I look at it.


P.S.--I might also state that Noah Webster was a member of the
Legislature of Massachusetts at one time, and though I ought not to throw
it up to him at this date, I think it is nothing more than right that the
public should know the truth.

THE LAST LINE

The somber thoughts are important, but they often make us enemies just as fast as they make us friends. When they make us friends, these friends then invariably ask us to lead them to battle, whether with guns of ideas.

So, in the end, when the flesh is weak and betraying us, what really lasts?


WATCH THIS MAN AND HIS TAKE ON IT. Keep the last line-- you may need it.


Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.


I added the verse from Solomon because some pious soul will defy me and say that making people laugh is somehow inferior of profane.


Enjoy