Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
TFT: The Gatlin Brothers
Not every song that
will be featured here will be what is generally considered as being “Christian”
in the eyes of this world. For some will
be anguished cries from the pit of despair, and others will be quite obviously
ferverent rants of rebellion.
Nonetheless, be assured that they will all be of our Heavenly Father (in
one way or another) and I hope that you have been given ears to hear the
message.
All the Gold in California
Larry Gatlin and The
Gatlin Brothers
All the gold
In California
Is in a bank in the
middle of Beverly Hills
In somebody else's
name
So if you're
dreamin’
About California
It don't matter at
all
Where you've played
before
California's a
brand new game
Tryin' to be a hero
Windin’ up a zero
Can scar a man
forever
Right down to your
soul
Livin’ on the
spotlight
Can kill a man
outright
'Cause everything
that glitters
Is not gold
And all the gold
In California
Is in a bank in the
middle of Beverly Hills
In somebody else's
name
So if you're
dreamin’
About California
It don't matter at
all
Where you've played
before
California's a
brand new game
All the gold
In California
Is in a bank in the
middle of Beverly Hills
In somebody else's
name
So if you're
dreamin’
About California
It don't matter at
all
Where you've played
before
California's a
brand new game
Brand new game
A brand new game
Broken Lady
Larry Gatlin and
The Gatlin Brothers
She’s a broken lady
Waiting to be
mended
Like a potter would
mend
A broken vase
A broken lady
Waiting to be
mended
And have what’s
left
Of the pieces
Put back in place
Her love was like a
fortress
Around a man she
would have died for
Taking care
To take care
Of all he needed
But the lady’s
fortress
Slowly turned into
a prison
And the warning
signs he gave
She never heeded
She vowed every
mornin’
That what God
joined together
No one else in the
world
Could pull apart
And then the walls
came tumblin’ to the ground
And her world came
crashin’ down
Around her heart
She’s a broken lady
Waiting to be
mended
Like a potter would
mend
A broken vase
A broken lady
Waiting to be
mended
And have what’s
left
Of the pieces
Put back in place
She’s a broken lady
Waiting to be
mended
And have what’s
left
Of the pieces
Put back in place
Lyrics From:
[elyrics.net]
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Come Monday...What Does It Matter?
“Come Monday…” is a
weekly series that will involve a review of, or commentary about, websites, movies, documentaries, television
shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the time. Be assured that these reviews will be
generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come
Monday.” This is subject to change,
however. In fact, I would be most
derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a while. For rants promote change, and change can be
good—right? Therefore, since good is
generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel
universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being
something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).
Well,
I was all raring to go with a piece about my adventures in video production,
along with singing the praises of Wolf and Trina over at [BlogDumps], but it
would seem that the RSS feed for this site quit working after the last Come
Monday… was published. Besides, I am
feeling worse than normal tonight, and I am certainly not in the mood to have a
knock-down, drag-out fight with Blogger over making things look half-way
presentable here.
So,
that will be about all for this. Yeah,
it may very well be the best I have ever published.
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
A Sunday Drive
Back during my
childhood, our parents would often load up my brother and me after Sunday
morning church services for a leisurely drive around where we lived. Even though we were seeing mostly familiar
sights, it was still good to see them, and this is why “A Sunday Drive” sounded
about right for the name of a weekly series revisiting familiar sites that are
well worth seeing again and again. The
link below the image is to the site itself, and the image is linked to the post
it was first included in here.
Link: [AHeathens Day]
Link: [Amel's Realm]
Link: [Curly Willows Ranch]
Link: [Ozark Mountain Cats]
Link: [Paws and Prayer]
Link: [The Current Situation]
Link: [The Puppy Channel]
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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Trib Updates
This is a weekly series that will include a brief summary of the latest articles that have been published on The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter. Hopefully, this will encourage you to go check out some truly outstanding articles that have been published by a number of truly outstanding authors. Moreover, I hope this will also encourage you to want to become a contributing member/author, as well. The “Hear Ye! Hear Ye!” site explanation near the top of the side-bar should answer many of your questions. Yes, this series also included an “SOS! (Spam On Saturdays)” segment before, but it just wasn’t working for me. Therefore, that will be replaced by a republishing of one of the Trib articles.
[Peace? That’s An Accident!] contains a video clip from John Rambo, courtesy of
Lavender Darwin.
[Musing About the Undisciplined Brat at the Post Office] contains some more parenting
tips from Lavender Darwin.
[I Resolve Not To Give George Lucas Any More Money!!!] contains a rant from
Lavender Darwin about technological advances outpacing his ability to pay for them.
[1% Bank Tax Email] is from me about a very credible-looking email that is based on
half-truths and political skullduggery.
[Vas Klampies Cereal] is from Lavender Darwin about one of his favorite subjects.
[Trying To Walk On Both Sides] is from me about how Rep. Michele Bachmann and Christine
O’Donnell are trying to walk on both sides of the secular/Godly divide.
[Martini Madness!? Boy Did Someone Send Me the Wrong Mail…] has Lavender Darwin
wondering how he got on that mailing list.
[More on Creepy Plastic Surgery] some more from Lavender Darwin on another one of his
favorite subjects.
Close
to a month ago, I published an article [here] about the Republic (MO) R-III
School Board voting to remove a couple of books from the high school library in
the hope of protecting the innocence of the attending children, but it would
seem that they feel quite differently about protecting innocent girls from
being raped on campus by predatory boys.
In fact, they appear to be quite indignant about it, which should become
clear after watching the following video of a local newscast.
Link: [On KSPR]
Did
you catch that next to the last part? “School
board members and school officials have refused comment about the incident, but
did file a response to the suit, calling it, ‘Frivolous,’ and saying, ‘The
special needs student didn't do enough to protect herself.’”
No,
that report did not go into previously alleged details, which makes the
Republic School Board’s response even more callous. For the [FIRST TIME] she reported being raped
to school officials, not only didn’t they believe her, they forced her to write
a letter of apology to the boy before suspending her for the rest of her
seventh grade year.
The
next time (allegedly) it happened, DNA was obtained, and I hope the stuff is
just starting to hit proverbial fan.
Granted, there may very well be another side to this story, but the way
it has been handled so far is beyond shocking to me.
Alas,
I suppose I shouldn’t be all that surprised.
For back when my first wife and I were going home after treating
ourselves to a night out at the movies in Springfield on New Year’s Eve (1977),
we were stopped by a couple of Republic Police cars as we travelled through
town. Evidently, 25 MPH was too slow to
be going in a 35 MPH zone at around 2 AM with no other cars on the road, and
after determining that I had not been drinking (this was before that started),
one of cops told me that I needed to pay more attention to my driving than I
was to my girlfriend. Oh, there is not a
doubt in my mind that this was another time when our Heavenly Father stepped in
to keep me out of getting into some serious trouble. For I wanted so badly to smart back to that
officer about her being my wife, and that trying to pay as much attention to
her as she would let me had resulted in her being around 5 months pregnant
(with Vicki, our first child) at the time, which would have probably gotten me
thrown in jail for a number of sundry charges.
No,
it is not good to judge a town on a few bad incidents. Besides, Republic actually looks like one of
those fairly small towns that many dream about living in, but when
self-righteousness and pride mix, there will be much more to be brought out
into the light.
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Friday, August 26, 2011
Sites To See
The SOLE purpose of this weekly series is to call attention to sites
that I think many would find most interesting—in one way or another. Just to be clear, inclusion in this series is
not necessarily meant as a recommendation, and I have included sites that are rather
disturbing to me. The link below each
image is to the site itself, and each image is linked to the particular post
from which it was taken when applicable.
Please, go see for yourself.
Link: [FailedMessiah.com]
Link: [Frankly Speaking]
Link: [Free Your Mind]
Link: [Incurable Insomniac]
Link: [K-9 Katastrophie]
Link: [Moments of Mine]
Link: [Mysterious Things]
Link: [Notes From Underground]
Link: [Oh!pinion]
Link: [Only In America]
Link: [Sand Flat Farm]
Link: [Sarge Speaks Out]
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