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The Beam in Their Own Eye

The next time you see or hear a BDS pundit or politician from California, particualrly the Los Angeles area, talking about the senseless loss of life in Iraq think of this.

How Thoughtful..

The multiculturalist mangers of the tallest remaining building in New York City decided to kickoff of Eid-al-Fitr by lighting the building green. How considerate. I'm sure there are about 2,752 others that wish they could have been there to admire the salute to muslims worldwide.

You Got To Be Kidding Me

In NYC:

This is not OK

But this is OK.

Left or Right Brained

Are you left or right brained ?

When I first saw this last night she was spinning counter-clockwise. I could not imagine how anyone could see it as spinning clock-wise until I tilted my head slightly to the right. Then I saw her spin clock-wise.

This morning when I first viewed it she was spinning clock-wise and have now found I can freely see her spin either direction at will.

Sir Richard Tempting Fate

More evidence that there is no correlation between intelligence and wealth accumulation.

Pieces of The Big Lie

InfoPlease:Rehoboam

Here is an example of how The Big Lie is perpetrated piece by piece until it accepted as fact. I was building a big post about the various kings that have ruled Israel. I really couldn't remember when the dynasty David had created split and which kingdom was ruled from Jerusalem. I ran across the king Rehoboam who was the last king of the united Israel. Then I linked into InfoPlease:

Rehoboam , in the Bible, last king of the United Monarchy, first king of Judah, son of Solomon. Under him the northern tribes broke away from the rule of Jerusalem and set up a separate kingdom (called Israel) with Jeroboam I as their king. Rehoboam's foolish insolence to the protesting tribespeople is celebrated. In Rehoboam's reign Palestine was invaded by Sheshonk I of Egypt. It is also spelled Roboam.

Searching further I find this split took place around 931 B.C. Palestine, on the other hand, wouldn't even exist for another millenium:

"In AD 135, after putting down the Bar Kochba revolt, the second major Jewish revolt against Rome, the Emperor Hadrian wanted to blot out the name of the Roman "Provincia Judaea" and so renamed it "Provincia Syria Palaestina", the Latin version of the Greek name and the first use of the name as an administrative unit. The name "Provincia Syria Palaestina" was later shortened to Palaestina, from which the modern, anglicized "Palestine" is derived. "

The last line of the InfoPlease entry should read :

"In Rehoboam's reign Judah was invaded by Sheshonk I of Egypt. It is also spelled Roboam. "

Could it be that the modern word 'Jew' is derived from being from the kingdom of Judah?

Now about that pan-arabist/muslim/palestinian claim to Israel as their native homeland...

"The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Roman "Palaestina". Quoting Golda Meir:

The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs picked it up as their nation's supposed ancient name, though they couldn't even pronounce it correctly and turned it into Falastin a fictional entity. [In an article by Sarah Honig, Jerusalem Post, November 25, 1995]"

What Gore Has Done For World Peace

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Something To Think About

Psa 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Why Conservatives Appear Heartless.

What Conservatives understand that Liberals don't...
The Man and the Butterfly

The Left's Worst Nightmare

This would be Harry Reid's worst nightmare. Might cause a bit of insomnia for democratics that wanted the troops to leave in defeat instead of in victory and prove they were wrong in every way if phased withrawl becomes a reality before the coming election. "yeah we wanted them home.... but not like this..." but instead as that stubborn Bush has said all along.. as the Iraqi's stand up we'll stand down.

I am still waiting on all that oil we went over there to steal.

Trouble On Two Fronts

Mat 7:212 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

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Mat 6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites [are]: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Mat 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Mat 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Mat 6:8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Friday Prayers

This week we have some special guests offering their most inspiring verses. A debt of gratitude goes to John Edwards for crossing over and bringing us this message from 'The Other Side'.

Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin and Yassar Arafat will now recite a passage that was the inspiration for their lives' work and obeidient adherence to the word of Allah.

[5.20] And when Musa said to his people: O my people! remember the favor of Allah upon you when He raised prophets among you and made you kings and gave you what He had not given to any other among the nations.
[5.21] O my people! enter the holy land which Allah has prescribed for you and turn not on your backs for then you will turn back losers.

Note: 'Musa' is Moses,'O my people' are the Israelites and 'the holy land' is... go ahead give it a guess. Here's a hint: it wasn't Palestine because the concept of 'Palestine' wouldn't exist for centuries.

Here's my last hint: It starts with an ' I '.

Now THAT"S an American !!

Can't Never Could; Won't Never Would

Most of my friends tell me I was lucky... it wasn't luck but simple deduction. Here's the story:

This guitar is one of my most prized possessions. It is a 1978 Fender Stratocaster. I call it Frankenstrat. ( high res pic open and zoom in for a freakout )

Now most guitarist might tell you that a guitar is more than just an instrument. This one is bears a history of 30 years. It has paid for itself several times over in one rock club band or another and even paid for my tution in college so if the house caught fire this would be one of the things I'd take out with me. It is irreplaceable.

I retired it a long time ago and a Thinline Telecaster became my guitar of choice. But over the years I modified it to where it no longer resembles the original guitar. Other than the body the only original piece of equipment is the black pickup in the neck position. I replaced the others with a DiMarzio in the bridge position for an ear piercing sound and a Seymour Duncan quarter pounder in the middle position for a nice defined mid-tone sound. I actually got the courage ot rout out the body to drop a Kahler cam whammy in it so it would mount flush and then yanked the tone pots out and wired all pickups directly to the volume knob. Put and locking system on the upper neck. To get it in tune you just whammy the hell out of it. The worse you treat it the better it stays in tune.

So I have friend I've been in bands with for years and simply my music bud with a studio in Moore, OK and I left the guitar over there so I'd have something familar to play when I was in town. It was there for years. Around February of this year his house was burglarized and the guy took of with this guitar, a small mini strat, his guns, a mic, a camera and all the change on his table ad some credit cards. My friend came home from work and must have scared the guy off because a couple of other guitars were leaned up against the outside wall of the house waiting for pickup.

My friend called immediately and the police were over there. Next day I went into the city to get the scoop. I wasn't mad but felt bad that my friend felt so bad about that guitar getting stolen. The first thing that was appaent was that whoever did this was an idiot. He took about $20 of change from a can and all that other stuff but immediately within range was an $8000 custome built laptop for digital recording and two large flat screens and near-field monitors at $1500 bucks a pop. I figured whoever did this lived nearby and carried the stuff out of the house down the drain canal behind his house. I figured it was a crackhead or just my punks. Not only that the dumbass came back a couple of days later and burgled the house again. This time my friend was awaken and was sitting in his bed with a .357 pointed into the hallway. The guy saw him in the mirror and bolted. He was one step away from being splattered on the wall.

But I told him I was going to find that guitar and if I find the person before the cops he was going to wish the cops had got to him before I did. My friend figured the stuff to be long gone and it would just be a wassted effort. I had already dug throw my music stuff and found the original tag with the serial number on it. So that weekend I printed off a map of Moore-Norman and S. OKC.

Now OKC is flat and the streets are grids. So I went to every pawn shop in Moore and I learned that unless I had the serial number and a picture it was going to be hard to describe the guitar. Went ount on the web and got pics of every piece of equipment on that thing and made the flyer you see sitting by the guitar describing every nick, faded finish areas and cigarette stain on it. Printed 25 copies with contact info. So the next weekend I called the drummer that had played with us over the years because he was recovering from a crack addiction and had been on the streets for a while. And we went looking.

Now it was only a couple of days after the burglary that someone using my firend's credit card account had tried to open an account at the Home Depot in south Moore. The police must have had an idea of who it was because the dumbass had given real info like their phone number. So the police go to the residenc on some kind of a DHS issue and find the credit cards and the guitar case. The idiot lived right down the street from my friend... at the end of the drainage canal ! He was not at home but his girlfriend told the police where he was and they went to the apartment and his dumbass buddy invited them in. They find the burglar and he had crack on him so his ass went to County.

Here we are two weeks later and the drummer and I are eating and I told him my search plan. I figured the burglar had an old beatup car that wouldn't get him too far or the gas money so he would have heading to a pawn shop outside of Moore but not too far. Having grown up in South OKC both of use knew where all the pawn shops were all the way up to the Northside. So I showed him my map and I had it divided north and south down Santa Fe Ave which divides OKC. Then I showed him I had planned to search west of there up to 89th street west. Next weekend it would be 89th east of Santa Fe, Then every weekend move the pattern up tp 59th street and keep doing this until I got to North 23rd before I would give up.

So the place we are eating is right off 74th street( I-240) and Walker( 1 mile west of SantaFe). so we head out and my friend says hey you know there are two pawn shops on Western that are on our way. We go to the first one which is large and I gave them a flyer, all took a look at it and hadn't seen it come through there. If I had a name they could search the database but at that time I hadn't gone to the OSCN website to research the court dockets. So we leave that Paw shop and head south about 8 blocks into a smaller pawn shop. I tell the guy the story and give him a flyer. He hadn't seen it. As we were starting to leave I noticed one of the guys that worked there was talking to the manager in hushed tones. I was about at the door when the guy yells wait... we have that guitar... I freaked out. They couldn't tell us who pawned it for confidentialty
but I called my friend in Moore and got info on the other stuff and the camera and mic were there too. so we called the OKC PD and they said they'd have someone out there. Waited two hours and no cops. SO I left the pawn shop guy my cell number and told him I'd be five minutes away. He called when the police arrived by the time we got there she had left. So it took two months to get the friggin OKC PD to do something. They said it was Moore PD jurisdiction though we were in OKC. Two friggin months to get them off their ass after I had done all the work for them. It took six months to get the guitar that finally ended up in OKC custody and we wouldn't have gotten that if I hadn't got fed up and on a whim was walking through a mall and went up to an OKC police captain soing some kind of a demostraton thing and asked him how the hell I can get someone to go down and get the stuff out of the pawn shop. He gave me a phone number and the lady there had the stuff in two days. To this date We still haven't gotten the guitar case back from the Moore PD and in fact have had to constantly contact them to make sure it doesn't get auctioned off.

I eventually searched the OSCN network and guessed about what day the burglar would have been to preliminary and found him. I know know his name, how old he is, how much he weighs, where he lives, what his SSN is, what his phone number is, his car make model and tag number and his prior arrest. He has a history of drug convictions and possesion of stolen goods. I also know where he's lived in the past and cronies he's been arrested with on more than one occasion. His mother used her house to bond him out. He skipped out of his trial. So now all of his former suspended sentences kick in, he's charged with 2 counts 2nd degree burglary. He is 42 and it amounts to the rest of his life in prison.

Never say never. Can't never could; won;t never would.

Churchill on War

Quotations on War - Churchill:

Note to the wise Democrats in Congress and those wanting to be the leader of the free world. Here's how a real statesman views the complexities of war:

"'Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.'

--Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)"

The Okie Goes to Boston

Recently may largest client bought a healthcare company and I had to go to Boston to get a cursory understanding of their payroll system. I was apprehensive about my Okie accent but nobody ever said a thing unlike when I had to go to Denver and the people there came up to me wanting me to say that 'you all thing'.

But it turned out that I absolutley loved Boston. The people there were all great and after work the network crew and I would go out and hit some nice restaurants on the North End and a pub or two on the way back. One that I really like was The Tap. On the night we were there Bruce Jacques was performing. If you make it up that way try to see him. I laughed til I had tears in my eyes. He is a unique musician/comedian and had the place hopin.

What he does is a one-man show. As he goes through the songs he dresses for the song.. right on stage. He did the Guns & Roses version of Knockin on Heaven's door. He dressed as Axel Rose. When it came to the lead part he threw on a stove-pipe hat, rolled up his sleeves and fired up a cigarette and was Slash for the lead break. Never missed a beat. My favorite was Bittany Speers. Here his is doing Kid Rock...

Sorry Bruce for taking your pick but hey it is free publicity.
I'll take it down if you want.

You can follow the link to his page and he has booking info, schedule, photos and bio. I asked him if he had thought about going national he said he just wanted to stay regional in MA and RI.

So if you're ever up there and want to be entertained go see him.

Obama: 'Jimmy Carterly' Naive

Obama wants to rid the world of nukes. Somehow if the US reduces our stockpile it will reduce the threat of terrorism...?? Oh yeah I'm sure we have the Pakistanis onboard for that. I cut the guy some slack for a while thinking he was simply inexperienced ... but now I'm conviced he is not all as bright as he presents himself to be. He is the 'Cotton-Candy Candidate'; looks good on the outside but once you bite into it there's nothing there.

Hope he wins the nomination though and Thompson wins his party's nomination. Love to see the debates.

Thought Thugs

We now know where these people stand on free unfettered expression.

It is a quantum leap of the imagination to go from Rush taking about some soldiers that lied about their service ( 8 of them with MacBeth being the latest left prop ) to construing it to mean ALL soldiers that oppose the war in Iraq. But then again these are left wing 'thinkers'.

Yet they overlook the direct implication towards all soldiers when Harry Reid implied they were losers, Kerry implied they were idiots, Kenndey implied some were gulag guards, Durbin implied some were like concentration camp guards and the entire military to be incompetent because they haven't found Bin Laden.

Rush must really get under their skin. Like shining light on roaches.

The Guns of October 08

Both parties are keeping their big guns in the shed until the nominations are determined. Should Hillary win the nomination they will pull this one out and open fire. There is something most foul about this whole Vince Foster affair and it deserves further scrutiny. The articles below are long and somewhat of a task to get through but if anyone is interested in who Hillary really is they are worth the read.

One view:
Vince Foster

And another:
Vincent Foster

Before the Death:
Frontline: Once upon a time in Arkansas:
Vince Foster's Journal

After the Death:
Failure of the Public Trust

Apocalypse Soon ?

John Kennedy (R) from Massachusetts