#FollowFriday to all my great followers. :)

#FollowFriday to all my great followers. :)
by Jm Moran

October 27, 2017 at 11:00AM
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Quote of the Day: "Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote of the Day: "Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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October 27, 2017 at 01:07AM
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Santa Barbara Beach ... Vets vs ACLU! Support our Veterans!

I Santa Barbara Beach The first picture and the last picture are taken at the beach in Santa Barbara right next to the Pier. There is a veterans group that started putting a cross and candle for every death in Iraq and Afghanistan. The amazing thing is that they only do it on the weekends. They put up this graveyard and take it down every weekend. Guys sleep in the sand next to it and keep watch over it at night so nobody messes with it. Every cross has the name, rank, and D.O.B. and D.O.D. on it. Very moving, very powerful. So many young volunteers. So many 30 to 40 year olds as well. Amazing! The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed. cid:BC25D04F0F8349CD81524349AD63D247@HP And that they filed another suit to end prayer from the military completely. They're making great progress. cid:5670F4C87DB14E1CB1F92D52E8A5C671@HP Keep forwarding this e-mail to others. I'm not breaking this one. I'm asking that you not break it either. cid:D9B4F97B6FA8427885BEEFDEA0C709C7@HP If I get it a 1000 times, I'll forward it a 1000 times! Prayer for our soldiers... please don't break it! Please send this on after this short prayer. Please, let us pray... Prayer: Heavenly Father, hold our troops in Your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in this our time of need. These things I humbly ask in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, Amen.' GOD BLESS YOU FOR PASSING IT ON!

This is the NFL.....,#Lock’emUp!

And WE are wrong when we don’t respect their call at the SOCIAL INJUSTICE that they accuse us of. They have a ton of housekeeping to do before they should even think about complaining about the USA. Guess they are lucky to live in our country at the present time where the judicial system is run by left wing judges where they are excused time and time for these terrible crimes. Subject: I give you the NFL The list below does not include OJ Simpson or Ray Lewis. These are the people that our kids are supposed to look up to? We need to see them protest injustice?? If there was ANY justice in the NFL……none of the people represented here would be playing in the NFL. Thumbnail Thumbnail Thumbnail Thumbnail Thumbnail NFL arrest record by team since 2000 Team - # of Arrests Since 2000 (listed most to least) Minnesota Vikings - 42 Cincinnati Bengals - 40 Denver Broncos - 36 Tennessee Titans - 33 Miami Dolphins - 28 Kansas City Chiefs - 28 Jacksonville Jaguars - 27 Tampa Bay Buccaneers - 27 Cleveland Browns - 26 San Diego Chargers - 25 Indianapolis Colts - 24 Chicago Bears - 23 Seattle Seahawks - 20 New Orleans Saints - 20 Washington Redskins - 18 Oakland Raiders - 18 Baltimore Ravens 18 Carolina Panthers - 18 Green Bay Packers - 17 Pittsburgh Steelers - 17 Atlanta Falcons - 16 San Francisco 49ers - 16 Detroit Lions - 15 New England Patriots - 15 Buffalo Bills - 14 Dallas Cowboys - 13 New York Giants - 13 Arizona Cardinals - 12 New York Jets - 11 Philadelphia Eagles - 10 Houston Texans - 9 St Louis Rams - 8 Total 656 Take a knee for us.

Why Trump is Right About North Korea...

Artillery pieces are seen being fired during a military drill at an unknown location, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 25, 2016. REUTERS/KCNA/File Photo In terms of defending the homeland from Kim Jong-un, President Trump’s risk calculus is spot-on. Michael McLaughlin October 24, 2017 TweetShareShare Printer-friendly version The portrayals of both North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. president Donald Trump as bombastic egoists reacting emotionally seem to have become hackneyed as tensions continue to rise on the Korean Peninsula. But reducing the sophomoric rhetoric between the two men to mere chauvinistic posturing fails to reveal the genius underlying the Trump administration’s pressure campaign. President Trump’s tweets, while drawing the ire of both sides of the aisle, shatter the North Korean image of Kim Jong-un and force him to react from a position of weakness on terms dictated by the United States. To understand why Trump’s rhetoric is so effective, one must consider the president’s target audience. Kim Jong-un spent his early life in Switzerland, and was thrust into the spotlight prematurely due both to his father’s death and to the various inadequacies and indiscretions rendering his two elder brothers unfit to lead. To compensate for the twentysomething’s inexperience and lack of notoriety, North Korean officials began a relentless campaign to create the supreme myth of their new supreme leader. In an effort to reverse the growing resentment towards senior leaders brought on by his father’s reclusiveness and the memory of the terrible famine of the 1990s, through which the current generation came of age, Kim Jong-un was modeled as the reincarnation of his grandfather, Kim Il-sung. Prior to taking power, the younger Kim attended the Kim Il-sung Military Academy to establish his military bona fides before being commissioned a four-star general and named vice chairman of the Central Military Commission. The myth exaggerated Kim Jong-un’s military prowess through the Pyongyang propaganda machine, which has been a continuous font of photos appearing to show him planning military movements, videos in which he is instructing his generals, and fiery statements defending the Korean people against the acrimonious Americans and their South Korean puppet. There are even intimations that the shelling of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island and the sinking of the Republic of Korea Navy vessel Cheonan in 2010 were attributed to Kim as a means of increasing his credibility. Much like his grandfather, this overweight, jolly and ever-smiling leader frequently appears in public for engagements and meetings with the Korean people, and to personally deliver orders to his military forces in the field—something his father, Kim Jong-il, who is said to have suffered from a severe stutter, rarely did. To further distance himself from the anathema of his father’s legacy, the young leader embarked on a savage campaign of over three hundred executions to rid his regime of Kim Jong-il’s inner circle. His eradication of senior leaders, while seen from the outside as a sign of paranoia, may have served the greater purpose of separating him from the taciturn and corrupt regime of his father in the minds of the rising generation of North Koreans. Having been educated in Switzerland, traveled extensively abroad and studied China’s rise to prosperity, Kim Jong-un is keenly aware of the precarious summit on which he sits. The North Korean black market consists of a capitalistic network of illicit goods smuggled in from China and other neighboring countries. While smuggling in North Korea is punishable by death, it has been largely ignored by Kim Jong-un’s regime. One likely reason for this is Kim’s understanding of the necessity to control the transformation of North Korea from a socialist state with a command market to a dictatorial capitalist economy that trades on the global market. “The success of a transition from a command economy seems to depend on the extent to which individuals in the socialist economy remember the institutional background of its early capitalism,” wrote Charles Kindleberger in reference to Poland’s transition in his seminal work Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises. “Such memory is more important to transitional success than the speed of decontrols and of privatization of state monopolies.” In order for Kim to remain in power, he needs both to foster an underground economy so as to establish a memory of capitalism and to reinforce his command of the military to thwart any would-be mutineers. By conducting more than twenty ballistic-missile launches and two nuclear detonations this year while keeping his military constantly on a wartime footing, Kim sustains his tyrannical control throughout the ranks while appearing to be much the same hawkish defender of the fatherland his grandfather was. By allowing capitalism to survive in the shadows, he maintains control over the gradual ascendance of a centrally managed market economy in the same vein as the pioneer of China’s economic awakening, Deng Xiaoping. What Kim Jong-un needs is time and money. Revamping North Korea’s society and economy while maintaining control over international influence inside the hermit kingdom is a delicate task. Opening China to the global market took Deng Xiaoping eleven years of adroit political maneuvering and significant foreign direct investment by Western corporations to achieve his “Four Modernizations” in the agricultural, industrial, science-and-technology and military sectors. 1 2 3 next › last »

Quote of the Day: "There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker." - Charles M. Schulz

Quote of the Day: "There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker." - Charles M. Schulz
by Jm Moran

October 26, 2017 at 01:13AM
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Time Machine NOSTALGIA...

HOW'S THIS FOR NOSTALGIA?

All the girls had ugly royal blue gym uniforms?

It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?

When a quarter was a decent allowance?

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas 
pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? 
And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading 
stamps to boot?

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels 
hidden inside the box?

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to 
dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?

They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they 
failed...and they did it!

When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car... 
to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady

No one ever asked where the car keys were 

because they were always in the car, in the ignition,

and the doors were never locked?

Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a...'?

Playing baseball with no adults to help kids 

with the rules of the game?

Stuff from the store came without safety caps 

and hermetic seals because no one had yet 

tried to poison a perfect stranger?

And with all our progress, don't you just 

wish, just once, you could slip back in time 

and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.

When being sent to the principal's office 

was nothing compared to the fate that awaited 

the student at home?

Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it 

wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, 

gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were

a much bigger threat! But we survived because

their love was greater than the threat.

...as well as summers filled with bike rides, 

Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating 

Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

Didn't that feel good, just to go 

back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?

I am sharing this with you today because it 

ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on. 

To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, 

read on. And remember that the perfect age 

is somewhere between old enough to know 

better and too young to care. 
Send this on to someone who can 

still remember Howdy Doody and The 

Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, 

The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, 

Trigger and Buttermilk.

Candy cigarettes

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar 

water inside.

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass 

bottles. Coffee shops with Table Side 

Jukeboxes. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry 

chewing gum.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with 

cardboard stoppers.

Newsreels before the movie.

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...

( Yukon 2-601). Party lines.

Peashooters.

Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.

78 RPM records!

Green Stamps.

Mimeograph paper.

The Fort Apache Play Set.

Do You Remember a Time When... 

Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'? 
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do 
Over!'? 'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the 
fastest?

Catching The Fireflies Could Happily 

Occupy An Entire Evening?

It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?

Having a Weapon in School meant being 

caught with a Slingshot?

Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute 

commercials for action figures?

'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and 

falling down was cause for giggles?

The Worst Embarrassment was being 

picked last for a team?

War was a card game?

Baseball cards in the spokes transformed 

any bike into a motorcycle? 

Taking drugs meant orange -

flavored chewable aspirin?

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

If you can remember most or all of these, 

Then You Have Lived!!!!!!! 

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break

from their 'Grown-Up' Life . . 

             I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya!

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