Southerners have many sayings for just about everything. I remember a nice warm June day in Alabama when it was raining and the sun was shinning. My grand mom told me that when that happens the devil is beating his wife with a frying pan.
For over 50 years I remember her voice and words each time it rains while the sun is shinning. It has been both a blessing and a dilemma.
You see I could never put a face on the devil's wife. I always had a pretty good imagination for what the devil looks like but for many decades the imagination would not allow the face of his wife to gel in my mind.
That was until 2006 when a certain woman became the majority leader of the House of Representatives. All of a sudden it cleared the imagination's vapor lock and hit me like a ton of bricks. Nancy Pelosi's face is now embedded in my mind as the woman I see each time it rains while the sun is shinning. The imagination has gotten pretty graphic with the extent of the beatings by the pan and I sometimes catch myself hoping the rain doesn't stop. I will see someone about this soon. I know it's not healthy.
I have no idea if you have had this problem or not. But I bet you will visualize her the next time the sun is shinning and it is raining at the same time. I bet you will think of the sun and rain when you see her in one of her never-ending interviews.
We all were told about the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But take a few minutes to view this video and see where the real pot of gold is being hidden.
When your done with the video stay out of the kitchen where the frying pans are located. Beside, we all need more than frying pans, NOW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOAgT8L_BqQ
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Sharing of ideas and interest to avoid the onset of Complacency ( Complacency def: : self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies) in our Country. "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil" — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Help me out here ! NBC has confused me again.
This weekend Rory McElroy displayed an amazing game of golf that placed him hip deep in the history book of golf.
Prior to the kick off of extended coverage of the U.S. Open, NBC opened the golf major event with a video piece meant to stir up patriotic emotions since the event was being played at Congressional Country Club. The piece featured great clips of schoolchildren reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. The problem? There was a glaring, completely unnecessary editing out of the phrase ‘under God’ and also ‘indivisible’ from the piece.
NBC does not confuse me with their liberal programming. I have learned to accept that this is the network for me to avoid unless one of these major sports events happens to be carried by that network.
NBC does not confuse me when they post a poll to see how many people believe in GOD.
NBC confuses me when they omit two words that so clearly slams people of Judeo Christian faith by Intentionally omitting GOD!!!!
NBC confuses me when they do not wish for us to remember the fundamentals passed down by generations. Indivisible is not a word that the progressives like so they will just omit it. How convenient. How arrogant. How petty.
When we accept things like this and do not let them know then we become a nation of liars. We become sheep redirected by the comissions and omissions of the so called "Elite"
NBC. I don't know where I am going but I damn sure know where I have been. I have been in a country, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. If the God lord is willing and enough people refuse to accept this type of action then perhaps I will remain in a country, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
NBC No Body Cares network
Other related blog sites on this:
http://technorati.com/entertainment/article/nbc-suggests-separation-of-state-church/
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/talk-of-the-day/article_ea742ef6-9b3a-11e0-9dd2-0019bb30f31a.html
Prior to the kick off of extended coverage of the U.S. Open, NBC opened the golf major event with a video piece meant to stir up patriotic emotions since the event was being played at Congressional Country Club. The piece featured great clips of schoolchildren reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. The problem? There was a glaring, completely unnecessary editing out of the phrase ‘under God’ and also ‘indivisible’ from the piece.
NBC does not confuse me with their liberal programming. I have learned to accept that this is the network for me to avoid unless one of these major sports events happens to be carried by that network.
NBC does not confuse me when they post a poll to see how many people believe in GOD.
NBC confuses me when they omit two words that so clearly slams people of Judeo Christian faith by Intentionally omitting GOD!!!!
NBC confuses me when they do not wish for us to remember the fundamentals passed down by generations. Indivisible is not a word that the progressives like so they will just omit it. How convenient. How arrogant. How petty.
When we accept things like this and do not let them know then we become a nation of liars. We become sheep redirected by the comissions and omissions of the so called "Elite"
NBC. I don't know where I am going but I damn sure know where I have been. I have been in a country, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. If the God lord is willing and enough people refuse to accept this type of action then perhaps I will remain in a country, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
NBC No Body Cares network
Other related blog sites on this:
http://technorati.com/entertainment/article/nbc-suggests-separation-of-state-church/
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/talk-of-the-day/article_ea742ef6-9b3a-11e0-9dd2-0019bb30f31a.html
Sunday, June 19, 2011
"MELLIONS" Let us make a new word
As a first blog let's start with a new word. MELLION. Why not? We are crushed with new words each day and acronyms that only embarrass you if they are uttered in groups that you are not familiar with. Do you have 4G ? My LED is 3D! Can you text with T9? You can only get the program if you have Roku. So we must continue to keep up with the alphabet or get lost in the letters.
We are a country of 308,745,000 people according to the 2010 census. That's 308,745,000 ME's. With 308 million people we are assured of having some very different opinions and ideology.
During 1950 when the golden age was blooming we also had some deferences but with only 152,271,000 people we clearly had fewer ME's than we have today.
Throw in some habitants from other counties and cultures and you have a receipt for ideological chaos. But we are a country that allows for diversity. Always have-always will.
What is disturbing more than the above is the social habits that we have fostered beginning with the boomers. These habits were then transferred to the next generation and then to the next until we have three plus generations of ME's.
As the country continues to divide I feel that the lines of division is more with this group than any other part of society. Sure we have the liberals and we have the conservatives. We have the far extremes of each side. But have you thought about the fact that each person in each group is really out for "what's in it for ME?" And believe me there are MEllions on each side.
Compromise is what we use to do. Can't we just get along is something from a Sunday school book from 1970. I only want what I want and I will not accept anything else. Typical MEllion thoughts!
Understanding the mellion is not hard. He or she was drawned that way since the first baseball or soccer tryout or the first cheerleading squad. Everybody makes the team. This was only but one of the many habits creating the mellions. It continues in High school and in the workplace.
Recognizing the mellion is not hard either. Listen and soon you will see that the maximum number of sentances between a me, myself or I is usually one.
I do not write this without thinking that I myself am a mellion. I am a boomer that didn't start out with much but did well and picked up a few bad habits in the process. But do I intend on staying a mellion? Hell yes! Oops strike that. I do want to temper my own desires so that this country can move forward. Temper is subjective and it is ok to associate temper with tolerance. But one thing that will flow from this and many posts is the danger or allowing tolerance when you know it is wrong. That is when it becomes complacient and that is when some other mellion must temper themself.
When you have a million of something you have a mallion (don't tell Obama). When you have too many mellions you have chaos.
In summary we should accept that many things will never be as they were. We will need to work out some differences. But it would be better for all if we draw a line somewhere and refuse to move that line. My line in the sand is rooted in my faith in GOD. He has never let me down. He has never left me. He has been with me and for me all along. So don't think that I will temper that.
When writing to the editor don't be a Mellion!
We are a country of 308,745,000 people according to the 2010 census. That's 308,745,000 ME's. With 308 million people we are assured of having some very different opinions and ideology.
During 1950 when the golden age was blooming we also had some deferences but with only 152,271,000 people we clearly had fewer ME's than we have today.
Throw in some habitants from other counties and cultures and you have a receipt for ideological chaos. But we are a country that allows for diversity. Always have-always will.
What is disturbing more than the above is the social habits that we have fostered beginning with the boomers. These habits were then transferred to the next generation and then to the next until we have three plus generations of ME's.
As the country continues to divide I feel that the lines of division is more with this group than any other part of society. Sure we have the liberals and we have the conservatives. We have the far extremes of each side. But have you thought about the fact that each person in each group is really out for "what's in it for ME?" And believe me there are MEllions on each side.
Compromise is what we use to do. Can't we just get along is something from a Sunday school book from 1970. I only want what I want and I will not accept anything else. Typical MEllion thoughts!
Understanding the mellion is not hard. He or she was drawned that way since the first baseball or soccer tryout or the first cheerleading squad. Everybody makes the team. This was only but one of the many habits creating the mellions. It continues in High school and in the workplace.
Recognizing the mellion is not hard either. Listen and soon you will see that the maximum number of sentances between a me, myself or I is usually one.
I do not write this without thinking that I myself am a mellion. I am a boomer that didn't start out with much but did well and picked up a few bad habits in the process. But do I intend on staying a mellion? Hell yes! Oops strike that. I do want to temper my own desires so that this country can move forward. Temper is subjective and it is ok to associate temper with tolerance. But one thing that will flow from this and many posts is the danger or allowing tolerance when you know it is wrong. That is when it becomes complacient and that is when some other mellion must temper themself.
When you have a million of something you have a mallion (don't tell Obama). When you have too many mellions you have chaos.
In summary we should accept that many things will never be as they were. We will need to work out some differences. But it would be better for all if we draw a line somewhere and refuse to move that line. My line in the sand is rooted in my faith in GOD. He has never let me down. He has never left me. He has been with me and for me all along. So don't think that I will temper that.
When writing to the editor don't be a Mellion!
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