Monday, February 26, 2018

Daily Stoic: Cimerlini’s etching “The Aviary Of Death...”


In Giovanni Paolo Cimerlini’s etching "The Aviary of Death," a skeleton perched on a rock is setting a series of snares. The snares look like they are for birds, but they aren’t. These snares are for the group of people lounging and enjoying themselves in the foreground of the park. One man plays a flute. Another reads a book to a beautiful woman. The snares are death, and the parkgoers look shockingly stupid, clearly unaware of the traps being set for them. In fact, one man has already been caught and doesn’t know it. http://sarah-sauvin.com/images/stories/virtuemart/product/cimerlini_oisellerie-de-la-mort.jpg The point: Death is after us and most of us are embarrassingly ignorant of that fact, denying our obvious mortality because it makes us uncomfortable. There is another message in the engraving too. In the background, another skeleton chases a group of ladies. Clearly these ladies are terrified—not ignorant of their mortality—but they are running from the skeleton...straight into a net. The point there: You can fear death all you want, and it will still get you. Memento mori. Marcus Aurelius would say that death wasn’t something to be scared of (to deny its existence because you were scared of it): “It makes no difference whether you look at the world for this long or that long…” he said, so “death shouldn’t scare you.” Again, that’s not nihilism. It’s the opposite. In fact, the last lines of his Meditations deal with how to think about life and death. We can imagine, perhaps, that they were the last words he ever wrote. “To be sent away from [life], not by a tyrant or a dishonest judge, but by Nature, who first invited you in—why is that so terrible?...So make your exit with grace—the same grace shown to you.” Death is the final act in our play of life. No need to fear it. You know it’s coming. Just make sure you act the hell out of your role while you’re here.

Friday, February 23, 2018

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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Today’s Stoic: “There is no Tomorrow...”


We’ve all had that friend: the one who is perpetually planning. They have elaborate plans for their health, their finances, their work, their friendships, their relationships. Plan after plan after plan. And yet, time passes, and nothing changes. Epictetus posed the best retort to the “diet starts tomorrow” issue: "How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?" Get impatient with yourself. Figure out why you aren’t changing and then change. Get started living—not preparing to live—the life you want.

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Today’s Stoic: “How to Change Your Life...”


It was today in 1965 that Malcolm X was gunned down while delivering a speech in a New York City ballroom. Perhaps the most controversial of the Civil Rights leaders, Malcolm was a complicated man. His early life was defined by crime, liqueur and violence and it was a story that ended, as it ends for so many, in a prison cell. But in that cell, Malcolm Little, as he was then called, picked up a book...and then another book...and then another. “People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book,” he would say later. In fact, he would come to refer to “books” rather than college as his “alma mater.” We don’t know if Malcolm read the Stoics as some Civil Rights leaders did, but we know that he drank deeply from history and philosophy and religion and as a result, he came to at least one conclusion that sounds like it could have come from Marcus or Seneca or Epictetus. “There is no better than adversity,” he said. “Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.” It’s true. The impediment to action advances action. The obstacle is the way. We need to understand this simple but completely counterintuitive idea, and then we need to impute it onto our DNA and mind. Because, to paraphrase Malcolm, when we change our philosophy we change our attitude and when we change our attitude, we change our actions. And then, as he did, we can change ourselves and change the world.

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Michael Oberndorf column “The 51st state: denial”...


Michael Oberndorf column The 51st state: denial Michael Oberndorf Michael Oberndorf February 19, 2018 Denial is not a river in Egypt. Denial is a psychological condition where the person or persons suffering from it refuse to acknowledge that a problem or reality exists. Alcoholics are really good at this. They don't have a drinking problem. It's the rest of the world that has the problem. But over the past 30 or 40 years, Americans of all sorts have entered into what amounts to a state of national denial. For instance, the majority of Americans are patriotic capitalists, but we have allowed the Ministry of Leftist Propaganda, aka, the "mainstream" media, to convince us that we are a minority. This, in spite of election after election empirically indicating otherwise. And on the flip side of this, in spite of election after election having the candidates who claim to be conservative, patriotic capitalists that we put into office, almost immediately upon taking said office, vote with the communist/fascist cabal to spend, spend, borrow and spend, and take away our God-given freedoms. There's a reality that exists here, a genuine problem, that we seem unable to admit to ourselves. Denial. I mentioned the communist/fascist cabal. This is made up of most of the country's elected Democrats and a large portion of the elected Republicans, especially those in positions of "leadership," and an enormous group of multi-millionaires and billionaires "donors" who have essentially bought and paid for the politicians. They are milking the treasury dry – our hard-earned tax money – for their own benefit, using government to do it with things like Obama's "stimulus," ObamaCare, and "green energy." Again, there's a reality that exists here, a genuine problem, that we seem unable to admit to ourselves, and therefore, do little, if anything to correct. Denial. Murder in parts of America, especially in the cities run by the aforementioned Democrats is totally out of control. We have lost more Americans in Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, St. Louis, etc., than in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined. Instead of replacing the corrupt cabal members who allow this situation to continue, we accept their claims that there's nothing they can do to stop it, and that if we point out it's nearly all black and Hispanic gang related, then we are racist, and a bigger problem than the rampant mass murder that has come to characterize Life in the Big City. Denial. We deny, too, that we have allowed the left to intentionally degrade our culture, using Lenin's Big Three: Education, Entertainment, and the News Media. We choose not to recognize the fact that fully half the children who "graduate" from high schools are functionally illiterate, especially those from inner-city, Democrat-run, urban schools. We cannot seem to admit to ourselves that the constant barrage of movies and TV shows produced by Hollyweird and the TV networks all have messages that promote drugs, violence, promiscuous sex, anti-capitalism, anti-American revisionist history, and collectivism has undermined our morals and traditions. And perhaps worst of all – although the alternate media, like the site where you are reading this, are turning this around – far too many people cannot seem to grasp that the "mainstream" media, the newspapers, the AP, and the TV networks are in reality a virtual Ministry of Leftist Propaganda, spewing out an ever-growing stream of lies, and distortions, all aimed at undermining our free, capitalist, constitutional, democratic republic. Denial. We can't seem to get our minds to accept that our once-shining culture has become, thanks to the conspirators mentioned above, degenerate. Can you name America's great contemporary author? Playwright? Artist? Scientist? Philosopher? Composer? No? Perhaps this is because the Ministry of Leftist Propaganda and their fellow travelers in Academia have replaced achievement with mediocrity and talent with "celebrity." Denial. However, what seems to be the area of deepest denial is the fact that these individuals and groups are NOT a loyal opposition, are NOT patriotic Americans who simply have a different viewpoint, are NOT people with America's best interests at heart, and that the goal of ALL of these traitors is the imposition of a totalitarian, collectivist police state. Serious denial. One last area of denial: that these problems will go away by themselves, or that someone else will fix them for us. Fatal denial. We have made some small steps towards taking back our country, our traditions, our history, and our lives. The Tea Parties were a good start, and so was electing Donald Trump. But we need to understand in our hearts and souls what Benjamin Franklin meant when he answered the question regarding what the Continental Congress had bestowed upon, We, the People, with, "A republic, if you can keep it." And, regardless of who actually said it, we must never forget, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." A small price, indeed. The son of a German immigrant, Michael Oberndorf is an archaeologist by profession, with a BA from Metropolitan State College of Denver, and an MA from Leicester University, in England. He's also the Chairman of the Freedom21 Legislative Committee. Over the years, he has lived and worked all over the country, and traveled in Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Europe, Australia, and Japan. He sincerely believes in the old saying, "America, love it or leave it." Michael can be reached at: moberndorf@yahoo.com

The Coyote Principle...or...Dem is as dem does!


THE COYOTE PRINCIPLE California 1. The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor's dog, then bites the Governor. 2. The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie "Bambi" and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural. 3. He calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the state $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it. 4. He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases. 5. The Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged. 6. The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of dangerous animals. 7. The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a "coyote awareness program" for residents of the area. 8. The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world. 9. The Governor's security agent is fired for not stopping the attack. The state spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training on the nature of coyotes 10. PETA protests the coyote's relocation and files a $5 million suit against the state. Texas 1. The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks his dog 2. The Governor shoots the coyote with his state-issued pistol and keeps jogging. The Governor has spent $.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge. 3. The buzzards eat the dead coyote. And that, my friends, is why California is broke while Texas prospers.

Monday, February 19, 2018

Today’s Stoic: “How Not To Be Angry...”


The Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hahn has written about how our denial of impermanence is what makes anger and resentment possible. We think we have unlimited time, and therefore the luxury of being mad at someone, or furthering some feud. “If we spend twenty four hours being angry at our beloved,” he wrote, “it is because we are ignorant of impermanence.” Let every thought be the thought of a dying man, the Stoics say, over and over again. A dying man doesn’t have twenty four hours to be angry. A person who realizes how fragile life is doesn’t take chances in saying things they’ll have to apologize for—because they know they might not get to. There are many reasons to be a good person, but perhaps the best one might be the fact that this could be your very last opportunity. Do the nice thing now—not later. Don’t hang onto anger you know you’re going to let go of later—let go of it right this second. Don’t contribute to some tit-for-tat argument that you know you’ll both acknowledge was a mistake at the end—stop it now. We don’t have the luxury. Life is impermanent...but this moment isn’t.

Sunday, February 18, 2018

Today’s Stoic...Amor Fati or “A Love of Fate.”


If Memento Mori is there to remind us of how little time we have, how temporary our existence can be—then what do we have to remind us of how powerful we can be, what we can draw on even in the face of events completely outside our control? It’s another Latin phrase embodied and practiced by the Stoics: Amor Fati or “a love of fate.” Friedrich Nietzsche said that amor fati was his formula for greatness: “That one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backwards, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it….but love it.” Marcus Aurelius would say: “A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.” And it would be the great Robert Greene (48 Laws of Power, Mastery) who would make the connection between these brilliant ideas. Robert describes Amor Fati as a power “so immense that it’s almost hard to fathom. You feel that everything happens for a purpose, and that it is up to you to make this purpose something positive and active.”

Four More Accidental(?) Deaths Associated with the Clintons...


Accidents happen again and again and again and again and again .... Four more deaths associated with the Clintons..... 2 Clinton informants killed in Russian plane crash on Sunday. James Dolan (36) found dead under suspicious circumstances... allowed Wikileaks to obtain and publish DNC and Podesta emails Dr. Dean Lorich (54) was stabbed in the heart....volunteered in Haiti and exposed corruption in the Clinton Foundation ther Search for: Two Clinton Informants Killed In Russian Plane Crash February 12, 2018 Baxter Dmitry News, World 5 Two Russian citizens set to testify against Hillary Clinton have been killed in an "inexplicable" plane crash in Moscow, according to reports. Two Russian citizens set to testify against Hillary Clinton have been killed in an “inexplicable” plane crash in Moscow, according to reports. Sergei Millian, a Belarus-born businessman who has worked with the Trump Organization and was reportedly a key source in the explosive dossier alleging ties between President Donald Trump and Russia, was killed when the internal flight crashed just outside of Moscow on Sunday. Also dead in the plane crash is Ivanov Vyacheslav, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Rosatom. The Russian company owns Uranium One, the uranium mining company at the center of a controversial sale overseen by the Clinton State Department in 2013 that gave Russia the right to 20 percent of U.S. uranium production capacity. 71 Russian nationals, including crew and passengers, died in the crash. The full list of names including Ivanov Vyacheslav (number 32, circled) and Sergei Panchenko (Millian’s Russian patronymic name; number 50) can be seen below: http://yournewswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/dvxx58qvaaafnxt_orig.jpg The deaths of the two Russians involved in current Clinton scandals have sparked rumors the crash was not an accident. The plane was an An-148 belonging to Saratov Airlines that had taken off from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport and was headed to Orsk about 1,000 miles southeast of Moscow, REN-TV reported. Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov added that “judging by everything, no one has survived this crash.” — BEeFy! (@beefynobeef) February 12, 2018 Russian authorities remain puzzled by the crash, stating that the plane did not suffer mechanical failure. “The crew of the doomed aircraft did not report any malfunctions“, Svetlana Petrenko, an official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, told Interfax. Special investigation into crash Russian President Vladimir Putin postponed a planned trip to Sochi to “closely monitor the investigation” and offered his condolences to the families of those killed. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a statement to Interfax that Putin “instructed the government to set up a special commission in connection with the plane crash in the Moscow region and instructed the relevant agencies to conduct the necessary search operations.“ The flight took off from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport and spent about 5 minutes in the air before “exploding” about 12 miles southeast of the airport, according to Flightradar24, a flight-tracking website. The speed and altitude graph for flight #6W703 show a descent from 6200 feet to 3200 feet during the last minute before the ADS-B signal was lost about 20 km south-east of Domodedovo Airport.https://t.co/PNoxBssRTf pic.twitter.com/ppf5rD9k7E — Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) February 11, 2018 A local resident told REN-TV she heard the explosion. “I left the house, saw the plane, an explosion was heard and the sky turned red,” the unnamed woman told the television station. russian-plane-crash-uranium-oneWreckage from an AN-148 plane is seen in Stepanovskoye village, about 25 miles from the Domodedovo airport, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. While it remains to be seen what caused the crash on Sunday, Sergei Millian and Ivanov Vyacheslav have become the latest individuals with close ties to Clinton scandals to die in suspicious circumstances in recent times. WikiLeaks collaborator, James Dolan, who co-created the technology that allowed WikiLeaks to obtain and publish the leaked DNC and Podesta emails, was found dead in suspicious circumstances in early January. He was 36. Few details about his death have been made public. In December, Dr. Dean Lorich, an orthopedic surgeon who volunteered in Haiti and exposed Clinton Foundation corruption and malpractice on the island, was also found dead in his New York home. He was 54 and the authorities claim he “stabbed himself in the heart” and let his young daughter find him. Family and friends have disputed this ruling. Given the current rate of mysterious deaths surrounding the Clintons, the high-ranking FBI official who talked of “La Cosa Clinton” recently — placing the Democratic political family in the same category as the Gambinos, Colombos and Luccheses — may be closer to the truth than many would like to believe. “The Clintons, that’s a crime family,” declared former New York FBI chief James Kallstrom in a radio interview. “It’s like organized crime, basically. The Clinton Foundation is a cesspool.” Describing the Clintons as dishonest, greedy and machiavellian, during the interview with supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis on AM970, the former FBI chief added, “It’s just outrageous how Hillary Clinton sold her office for money.” “And she’s a pathological liar, and she’s always been a liar.”

Quote of the Day: "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them." - Washington Irving

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Friday, February 16, 2018

Signing off for this week good citizens, have a safe and blessed weekend everyone! SM1/JoMike

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Quote of the Day: "It's always too early to quit." - Norman Vincent Peale

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Thursday, February 15, 2018

I Bring You the New Democratic Party.....!


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Quote of the Day: "Friendship is Love without his wings!" - Lord Byron

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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Quote of the Day: "Love the giver more than the gift." - Brigham Young

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Monday, February 12, 2018

Quit trashing Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:


1. First President to be photographed smoking a joint. 2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner. 3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in. 4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States. 5. First President to violate the War Powers Act. 6. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. 7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party. 8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs. 9. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters. 10. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat. 11. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions. 12. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees. 13. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign. 14. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space. 15. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation. 16. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present. 17. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it. 18. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases. 19. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory. 20. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN). 21. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago. 22. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal). 23. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case. 24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office. 25. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists. 26. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office. 27. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records. 28. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it. 29. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours. 30. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers. 31. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife. 32. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense. 33. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense. 34. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth. 35. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona). 36. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences." 37. Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion. I feel much better now. I had been under the impression he hadn't been doing ANYTHING... Such an accomplished individual... in the eyes of the ignorant maybe.!.

Friday, February 9, 2018

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Thursday, February 8, 2018

2 Senate leaders? v President Trump! Interesting Analysis...


Negating A Home Run: The State of the Union address by President Trump was a declaration of victory for all Americans. In it the President highlighted heroes, offered thanks to hard working Americans who rose above incredible difficulties and sacrificed for the nation. All but the most biased of reports have counted Mr. Trumps address as one of the finest given by any President. A person would have to be blind to not notice that a group of folks did not deign to give credit where it was due, nor to support the President of all the people. Instead they sat on their hands and glared at President Trump with an adolescent "I'll show you" glare on their faces. Immaturity abounding, the democrats certainly showed America why they should not be in charge of anything larger than a koolaid stand. Skipping forward to today we find that McConnell and Schumer found enough common interest to show We The People that they are willing to work together to embarrass the President, not to demonstrate their grasp of leadership and self sacrifice, no, rather their efforts were in support of the glaring children and an effort to defy the will of We The People, who spoke loud and clear about what they wanted from their representatives. Collaborating together to upstage the President was a miscalculation of how their petulance would be perceived by the nation. Because Joe Public is not stupid, and they have high expectations for what President Trump will do, they saw through the manifesto declaring how Schumer and McConnell would defy the President and go their own way and exposed themselves for the exhibitionists that they are, really sad and needy people. Kudos to President Trump, your first year in office was a triumph for We The People. Given the fact that you accomplished all that you did in spite of your own party and with the empty headed democrats laying down for their masters at every turn, we have to give you a standing ovation for a job well done. We like what you are doing with the place, thank you very much. - Dr. Jim Garrow –

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Quote of the Day: "I am still learning." - Michelangelo

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Tuesday, February 6, 2018

HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU -- THE END OF AN ERA ... until we meet again! God Bless


The young guns may not understand the meaning of this, but you will. The Roy Rogers Museum in Branson, MO has closed its doors forever. The contents of the museum were sold at a public auction. Roy Rogers told his son, if the museum ever operates at a loss, close it, and sell the contents. He complied. Note the follow-on article truly the end of an era. Here is a partial listing of some of the items that were sold at auction. Roy's 1964 Bonneville (Pontiac) sold for $254,500. It was estimated to sell between 100 and 150 thousand dollars. His script book from the January 14,1953 episode of This Is Your Life sold for $10,000 (EST. $800-$1,000). A collection of signed baseballs (Pete Rose, Duke Snyder, and other greats) sold for $3,750. A collection of signed bats (Yogi Berra, Enos Slaughter, Bob Feller, and others) sold for $2,750. Trigger 's saddle and bridle sold for $386,500. One of many of Roy's shirts sold for $16,250 and one of his many cowboy hats sold for $17,500. One set of boot spurs sold for $10,625. (He never used a set of spurs on Trigger) A life size shooting gallery sold for $27,500. Various chandeliers sold from $6,875 to $20,000, very unique and artistic in their western style. A signed photograph by Don Larsen taken during his perfect game in the world series against the Dodgers on Oct. 8, 1953, along with a signed baseball to Roy from Don, sold for $2,500. Two fabulous limited edition BB guns in their original boxes with Numerous photos of Roy, Dale, Gabby (Hayes), and Pat (Brady) sold for $3,750. A collection of memorabilia from his shows entertaining the troops in Vietnam sold for $938. I never knew he was there. His flight jacket sold for $7,500 His set of dinnerware plates and silverware sold for $11,875. The Bible they used at the dinner table every night sold for $8,750. One of several of his guitars sold for $27,500. Nellybelle (the Jeep) sold for $116,500. A fabulous painting of Roy, Dale, Pat, Buttermilk, Trigger, and Bullet sold for $10,625. One of several sets of movie posters sold for $18,750. A black and white photograph of Gene Autry with a touching inscription From Gene to Roy sold for $17,500. A Republic Productions Poster bearing many autographs of the People that played in Roy's movies sold for $11,875. Dale's horse, Buttermilk (whose history is very interesting) sold below the presale estimate for $25,000. (EST. 30-40 K). Bullet (stuffed) sold for $35,000 (EST. 10-15 K). He was their real pet. Dale's parade saddle, estimated to sell between 20-30 K, sold for $104,500. One of many pairs of Roy's boots sold for $21,250. Trigger (stuffed) sold for $266,500. Do you remember the 1938 movie The Adventures of Robinhood, With Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland? Well, Olivia rode Trigger in that movie. Trigger was bred on a farm co-owned by Bing Crosby. Roy bought Trigger on a time payment plan for $2,500. Roy and Trigger made 188 movies together. Trigger even outdid Bob Hope by winning an Oscar in the movie Son of Paleface in 1953. It is extremely sad to see this era lost forever. Despite the fact that Gene and Roy's movies, as well as those of other great characters, can be bought or rented for viewing, today's kids would rather spend their time playing video games. Today it takes a very special pair of parents to raise their kids with the right values and morals These were the great heroes of our childhood, and they did teach us right from wrong, and how to have and show respect for each other and the animals that share this earth. You and I were born at the right time. We were able to grow up with these great people even if we never met them. In their own way they taught us patriotism and honor. We learned that lying and cheating were bad, and that sex wasn't as important as love. We learned how to suffer through disappointment and failure and work through it. Our lives were drug free. So it's good-bye to Roy and Dale, Gene and Hoppy (Hop-a-long Cassidy), the Lone Ranger and Tonto. Farewell to Sky King (and Penny)and Superman and (Dragnet) Sgt. Friday. Thanks to Capt. Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers, and Capt. Noah and all those people whose lives touched ours, and made them better. It was a great ride through childhood. HAPPY TRAILS MY FRIENDS

Monday, February 5, 2018

Quote of the Day: "Dreams are necessary to life." - Anais Nin

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Saturday, February 3, 2018

Quote of the Day: "When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." - Henry J. Kaiser

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Friday, February 2, 2018

Signing off for this week good citizens, have a safe and blessed weekend everyone! SM1/JoMike

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WE ALL HAVE SO MUCH TO BE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT HAPPENS IN HEAVEN WHEN WE PRAY?


I JUST LOVE THIS AND I THINK YOU WILL TOO! I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, "This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received." I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world. Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section. The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them." I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth. Finally, at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment Section," my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed. "How is it that there is no work going on here?" I asked. "So sad," the angel sighed. "After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments." "How does one acknowledge God's blessings? "I asked. "Simple," the angel answered. Just say, "Thank you, Lord." "What blessings should they acknowledge?" I asked. "If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy, and if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity." "If you woke up this morning with more health than illness.. You are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day." "If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation... You are ahead of 700 million people in the world." "If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world." "If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you’re unique to all those in doubt and despair......." "Ok," I said. "What now? How can I start?" The Angel said, "If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all." Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you care to, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are.......... ATTN:Acknowledge Dept. "Thank you Lord, for giving me the ability to share this message and for giving me so many wonderful people with whom to share it." If you have read this far, and are thankful for all that you have been blessed with, how can you not send it on? Thank God for everything, especially all your family and friends.

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