Friday, October 11, 2013

Until There is Not

When it dawned upon me that our Heavenly Father had done something rather clever, I just had to let out a chuckle, which I consider to be absolutely amazing (in and of itself).  For I was still on a table in the emergency room of one of our hospital complexes at the time, and it had been taking all of the strength I had left to keep from letting out the blood-curdling scream that had been steadily building in intensity in my throat for several hours beforehand.

You see, the last thing that I had published online was my [The Mag] entry for this week, and it was the very last line ot it that our Heavenly Father quoted to me.

There is Always Time
Jerry E. Beuterbaugh
There is always time
To be born
To be born-again
To start a new life
To start a new career
To turn the page
To turn the corner
To start a new chapter
To laugh
To love
To be happy
To be healthy
To dream big dreams
To accomplish great goals
To reach for the stars
To chase after the sun
To romp in tall grasses
To wrestle squirrels for nuts
To ride fast horses
To drive faster cars
To sail mighty oceans
To climb high mountains
To seize the day
To do the right thing
To fight the good fight
To be all that you want to be
Yes
There is always time
Until there is not

To fill in a few blanks, Him quoting that line of poetry to me came while I was thinking of what a fantastic article this trip to a hospital emergency room would make.  For there were some questions circling inside of my head about all of major projects That have been put on the shelf in the hope of bringing  a little sunshine into your morbid lives.  Since it has taken well over three hours to place what I have so far about this into written form, it looks like I won’t be actually dying anytime really soon, but I sure wish I could more than ever.

Anyway, I have been instructed to stop publishing the stuff that I have been until the important things have been taken care of.  I am also to leave the comments along with checking to see if any legitimate ones need publishing and responded to a few times each week.  I will try to stop by and leave a comment on your stuff when I can.  Be assured that I am going to miss this.

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Good, Great and Glorious Ads

Since not everyone has been as appreciative of my efforts with the Good, Bad and Ugly Ads series as they should be, it seemed prudent to shake things up a bit from time to time.  Hence, Good, Great and Glorious Ads, as well as Bad, Ugly and Awful Ads.  Oh, and if these new approaches are still not to your complete and utter satisfaction, I would tell you what you can do with the point of your view if saying things like that did not now leave such a bitter taste in my mouth.  Therefore, be ye thankful!

GOOD

GREAT

GLORIOUS

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

The Mag 189

Image by crilleb50

Sponsored by [Magpie Tales]

There is Always Time
There is always time
To be born
To be born-again
To start a new life
To start a new career
To turn the page
To turn the corner
To start a new chapter
To laugh
To love
To be happy
To be healthy
To dream big dreams
To accomplish great goals
To reach for the stars
To chase after the sun
To romp in tall grasses
To wrestle squirrels for nuts
To ride fast horses
To drive faster cars
To sail mighty oceans
To climb high mountains
To seize the day
To do the right thing
To fight the good fight
To be all that you want to be
Yes
There is always time
Until there is not

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Monday, October 7, 2013

Come Monday...Treason

10/07/2013
Come Monday…Treason
“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).

This should be a rant of epic proportions, but since I have been feeling especially poorly the past couple of weeks, I do not have the strength to let loose with much more than a whimper.  In fact, even my(?) voice in my head is speaking in rather subdued tones.

Anyway, it was pointed out to me that one topic has been largely ignored as both sides of our current federal budget woes cuss and fuss amongst themselves, which is that any action that threatens our ability to pay our national debts is treasonous (plain and simple).  For the only real difference between the American dollar and the Mexican peso right now is how much confidence other nations still have in the United States of America as a whole.

Okay, I must admit that I probably don’t have a clue about what I am trying to convey here, but it makes sense to me.  For what currency represents is a recognized amount of value between two parties in a business transaction.  In other words, they are kinda like I.O.U.s, and back when the American dollar was based upon the gold standard, having a dollar bill meant that you had a dollar’s worth of gold stored somewhere.  Now that currencies are no longer based upon the gold standard, the implied value of an American dollar is based upon the strength of the American economy, along with the national political will to deal with everyone fairly, which would be to have people in positions of power who are honestly trying to do the right thing—even when it might cost us.

Yes, lack of confidence in a government can cause a country to have to pay more in interest for funds borrowed from other countries, but despite the nonsense continually spewed by hardcore fiscal conservatives, that should not be of much concern to us at this time.  In fact, the vast majority of our national debt is owed to ourselves through the issuing of dollars by the Federal Reserve, and it is in regards to how much our dollar is valued by others that we should be starting to become quite worried about.

Yeah, there were about 10,000 points I just skipped over in a rather awkward manner, but I think you should be getting it.  For with there no longer having to be a dollar’s worth of gold for every paper dollar issued, the Federal Reserve can just print up a few trillion dollars over the weekend to have on hand for the start of business, Monday morning.  Now, if bankers in Germany or Britain decide that it is not worth the paper that it was supposedly printed on…?  Come to think of it, I wonder how much is on business ledgers now that does not even have a paper dollar (or a metal coin) to cover it?

Alas, I keep hoping that I will be allowed to physically die before seeing the actual demise of America.  Yeah, it can be argued that we have weathered stronger storms than this before, but the character of our people has changed to where far too many really don’t care if the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater.  Oh, and then there are the millions who have never cared to know about the baby to begin with.

If you don’t believe me, just listen to volleys being launched by people we elected to represent us in Congress (along with the rest of the D.C. ninnies, of course).  For the hardcore fiscal conservatives really would rather see America crumble than let the liberals win while the liberals keep wailing about something needing to be done to help those in need without giving much thought at all about how it could be done the right way, which would certainly take the fire out of the conservatives rhetoric in the eyes of us stuck in the middle.

No, I have not been told by our Heavenly Father that the demise of the United States of America is imminent, but it has been made clear to me that we are closer than ever before.  For we now have two whole generations coming along without any sense of shame.  You see, self-esteem does not allow for that, and our Heavenly Father is going to give us more of a taste of just how much is good about us apart from Him.

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Sunday, October 6, 2013

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: [Arabah Joy]


 Link: [CreekHiker]


 Link: [Demeur]






 Link: [Snowbrush]



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Saturday, October 5, 2013

Saturday Morning Cartoons (+)

No, it is not that I am in the midst of experiencing a second or third childhood.  For it is arguable that I have never really grown up because of my march toward maturity being interrupted by some episodes of arrested development along the way.  So, instead of thinking that this series is meant as a wistful look back upon a simpler time, think of it as being a rather simplistic mind remaining in a moment for an extended period of time.  In any event, I hope you find it enjoyable.


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Friday, October 4, 2013

Sites To See

The SOLE purpose of this weekly series is to help 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.  Oh, and as of August 10, 2012, I will be no longer including sites that have auto-play and word verification engaged.



 Link: [Any Animal]




 Link: [Briarcat]








 Link: [EcoGrrl]





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Thursday, October 3, 2013

ATF: Celtic Overtones

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.



Copperhead Road
Steve Earle
Well
My name's John Lee Pettimore
Same as my daddy
And his daddy before
You hardly ever saw
Grandaddy down here
He only came to town
About twice a year
He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast
And some copper line
Everybody knew that
He made moonshine
Now the revenue man
Wanted grandaddy bad
He headed up the holler
With everything he had
It's before my time
But I've been told
He never came back
From Copperhead Road

Now Daddy ran the whiskey
In a big block Dodge
Bought it at an auction
At the Mason's Lodge
Johnson County sheriff
Painted on the side
Just shot a coat of primer
Then he looked inside
Well him and my uncle
Tore that engine down
I still remember
That rumblin' sound
Well the sheriff came around
In the middle of the night
Heard mama cryin'
Knew something wasn't right
He was headed down to Knoxville
With the weekly load
You could smell the whiskey burnin'
Down Copperhead Road

I volunteered for the army
On my birthday
They draft the
White trash first
Around here
Anyway
I done two tours of duty
In Vietnam
And I came home
With a brand new plan
I take the seed from Colombia
And Mexico
I just plant it up the holler
Down Copperhead Road
Well the D.E.A.'s
Got a chopper in the air
I wake up screamin’
Like I'm back over there
I learned a thing or two
From ol' Charlie
Don't you know
You better stay away
From Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road
Copperhead Road
Copperhead Road



Dreams
The Cranberries
Oh my life
Is changin’ everyday
In every possible way
And oh my dreams
It's never quite as it seems
Never quite as it seems
I know I felt like this before
But now I'm feelin’ it even more
Because it came from you
Then I open up and see
The person fallin’ here is me
A different way to be

I want more
Impossible to ignore
Impossible to ignore
And they'll come true
Impossible not to do
Impossible not to do
And now I tell you openly
You have my heart
So don't hurt me
You're what I couldn't find
A totally amazin’ mind
So understandin’
And so kind
You're everything to me

Oh my life
Is changin’ everyday
In every possible way
And oh my dreams
It's never quite as it seems
'Cause you're a dream to me
Dream to me

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Good, Bad and Ugly Ads

Since I have not been given much of a life to live in this world, I watch an awful lot of television, which includes an awful lot of commercials.  Now, a “GOOD” ad is one that holds my attention and makes me want to at least learn more about the product or service it is for.  A “BAD” ad is one that quickly becomes nothing more than background noise when it cannot be skipped over.  “UGLY” ads are much worse.  For not only do they make we want to never see them again, they make me want to never have anything to do with the company that paid for them to be produced.  Of course, you may feel differently, but I sure wouldn’t say much about it around anyone with a lick of sense.  For I am, after all, an expert on such things—albeit only in my own mind!

GOOD

BAD

UGLY

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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

The Mag 188

Photo by Mark Haley

Sponsored by [Magpie Tales]

It Is Said
It is said
That there are stones
That mark well the path
To both Heaven
And to Hell
Good intentions
Notwithstanding
It is also said
That no one
Will be left behind
However
Nothing should be taken
Too much for granted
For being left behind
Would be preferable
To going to Hell
Voices in my head
Coming from hearts
That love me
And hate me
It is really hard to tell
Which one is which
At times
For I hear what I want to hear
Sometimes not
Maybe I should start listening
For a change
Maybe not
For it is
After all
Another step to take
Nonetheless
Nothing needs to be
Settled today
For when one is going around
In circles
Everything
Always
Comes back around
Until it stops
And it will stop
Much sooner
Than later
For us all
It is said

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