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KC speculates it might have been part of a fishtank display. Definately it was the guest of honor at target practice.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Fort Wayne Man Finds Treasure Chest With Metal Detector
Seriously, I did! Here, see for youself:
KC speculates it might have been part of a fishtank display. Definately it was the guest of honor at target practice.
KC speculates it might have been part of a fishtank display. Definately it was the guest of honor at target practice.
The Great Seventies coundown - 20 to 11
"That is NOT the time," The Host says, "but the numbers that we will count down here on our next to last week. Unless it is the time when you are reading the text, which is entirely up to you. Ten songs stand between us and the final, top ten. Let us proceed..."
20- I'll Be Good To You, Brothers Johnson, #3, 1976. One of my favorite hooks is the progression in the chorus' "I'll-be-good". I could hear that forever.
19- Old Days, Chicago, #5, 1975. Part of the Mythical Top Ten. My earliest memories, embarrassingly enough, were of a love song to "Goldy". Shoulda had my ears checked even then.
18- Blinded By The Light, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, #1, 1977. Springsteen should have had Manfred Mann cover ALL his songs.
14- Sister Golden Hair, America, #1, 1975. Another Mythical Top Ten member. And she did have golden hair...
12- Nights On Broadway, the Bee Gees, #7, 1975. Saw this done on Mike Douglas too. And the Midnight Special.
"Ten songs remain," The Host says, and then the show that never really ends closes... for now. "Come back next week, to see which song... plays last."
20- I'll Be Good To You, Brothers Johnson, #3, 1976. One of my favorite hooks is the progression in the chorus' "I'll-be-good". I could hear that forever.
19- Old Days, Chicago, #5, 1975. Part of the Mythical Top Ten. My earliest memories, embarrassingly enough, were of a love song to "Goldy". Shoulda had my ears checked even then.
18- Blinded By The Light, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, #1, 1977. Springsteen should have had Manfred Mann cover ALL his songs.
17- Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, Paul and Linda McCartney, #1, 1977. My falling in love with Linda began here.
16- Hello It's Me, Todd Rundgren, #5, 1973. You should know that someone who has Utopia songs in the countdown will have this one pretty high. A song that never ceases growing on me.
15- My Little Town, Simon and Garfunkel, #9, 1975. Deep piano chords always sounded best at night echoing across my room. For Garfunkel, being a Jew, "pledging allegience to the wall" meant the Western Wall; for me, it meant you weren't paying attention to the flag as you recited. Worked either way.
14- Sister Golden Hair, America, #1, 1975. Another Mythical Top Ten member. And she did have golden hair...
13- Telephone Line, Electric Light Orchestra, #7, 1977. Tuesday, I hear the song for the first time. Thursday, it debuts at #1 on my top ten- one of only 2 do do so in 6 or seven years worth of charts. Sunday, I owned the 45.
12- Nights On Broadway, the Bee Gees, #7, 1975. Saw this done on Mike Douglas too. And the Midnight Special.
11- Summer Breeze, Seals and Crofts, #6, 1972. Absolutely the most image-inducing song of my life. I picture the whole scene every time.
"Ten songs remain," The Host says, and then the show that never really ends closes... for now. "Come back next week, to see which song... plays last."
Friday, March 23, 2012
How Scrappy re-injured my back
But first a few notes:
#1- it must be spring!
#2, Thanks again to Hazel from Pablo's Angel for the post card from Ireland via the Great Post Card Campaign ! It was a lovely view of four lighthouses and reminds one that Ireland isn't all potatoes and leprechauns.
#3- The boys from Yaroslavl won game three against Diesel 2-0 yesterday on goals from Alex Shubin and Vladislav Kartaev. However, this morning's game four wasn't so good. Two quick second period goals- one by our Alexi Kruchinin and one by professional pain in the rump Petr Khokhryakov had us in a 1-1 tie until late in the game. But with less than three minutes before OT, Diesel's Alexi Potemina scored the winner as Diesel tied the series with a 2-1 victory. The series goes back to Penza on Monday for all the marbles. The winner gets conference champ Dombas, who mowed down Nefteyanik 4-0, 6-0, and 3-1 to reach the conference finals.
And, now, how did Scrappy re-injure the back I twisted in a fall at work Tuesday?
#1- it must be spring!
#2, Thanks again to Hazel from Pablo's Angel for the post card from Ireland via the Great Post Card Campaign ! It was a lovely view of four lighthouses and reminds one that Ireland isn't all potatoes and leprechauns.
#3- The boys from Yaroslavl won game three against Diesel 2-0 yesterday on goals from Alex Shubin and Vladislav Kartaev. However, this morning's game four wasn't so good. Two quick second period goals- one by our Alexi Kruchinin and one by professional pain in the rump Petr Khokhryakov had us in a 1-1 tie until late in the game. But with less than three minutes before OT, Diesel's Alexi Potemina scored the winner as Diesel tied the series with a 2-1 victory. The series goes back to Penza on Monday for all the marbles. The winner gets conference champ Dombas, who mowed down Nefteyanik 4-0, 6-0, and 3-1 to reach the conference finals.
And, now, how did Scrappy re-injure the back I twisted in a fall at work Tuesday?
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Time Machine Week eight
Well I have some bad news and some good news. The bad- no six degrees this week. The good,the reason is that this week's research has led me to some of the silliest discoveries I've ever found on these pages, and I have two (count 'em, two) videoes to prove it. Also included: my lead in becomes a story in itself; four new top ten debuts trash the ten even worse than the four last week; the first use of the f-word in recorded music... maybe...; one big mover is in the top TEN (not just forty) and the other is our WATN contestant; and for the second straight week we had two songs with the same name in the birthday list- and you won't believe one of them! Oh, and to Bobby G.: I checked, because after the fact I thought you might be right, but Live And Let Die peaked at #2.
So right out of the box, I looked up March 23, 1970 to find the strange and unusual. I happened across a story that began, "The Irish Times reporter wrote that the crowd acted as a shoving, pushing, charging melee, despite all the best efforts of Aer Lingus public relations officer Captain Jack Miller. As press cards were being checked by the nine police officers present, a female journalist angrily complained that a security guard had manhandled her. When the plane arrived from Amsterdam, Miller unsuccessfully attempted to forbade the press contingent present from running out of the terminal building onto the tarmac. " And what, pray tell, was this all about? A young Irish girl named Dana Rosemary Brown, but going professionally as Dana, had just landed. 9 days before, her first record at the tender age of 18 had been released; 3 days ago, it hit #1 on the Irish charts, where it would remain for the next nine weeks. It was a pretty, folky number called All Kinds Of Everything, and 2 days ago it won the Eurovision Music Contest for 1970, beating out veteran singer Mary Hopkin (Those Were The Days) and a 27-year -old Spaniard named Julio Iglesias. Dana went on to have a decent enough career on the Emerald Isle, and did pretty well later in life as well, coming in third in the Irish presidential election of 1997 as Dana Rosemary Scallon, serving in the European parliament, and making another run at the presidency last year, though finishing a disappointing sixth of seven.
Like an idiot I didn't count how many debuts there were in the hot 100 this week, so we'll jump right to the 5 that I'll mention. The Ides Of March, apropriately enough, debut at #99 with Vehicle. Two notches higher we find Vanity Fare with Hitchin' A Ride. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young debut at #89 with their version of Joni Mitchell's Woodstock. And the last two are a double dip for the Guess Who: American Woman comes in at 66, while the b-side, No Sugar Tonight (usually, though not on the single, combined with New Mother Nature), comes in at 80. A happy 42nd birthday to them.
Before I get to the main of the birthdays, I remind you how last week that the Hollies' original, and the cover by Glass Moon, of On A Carousel, had birthdays 15 years apart. This time, we have two songs with the same name but definately not the same song. One of the songs celebrating its 35th birthday this week is Firefall's Cinderella, a wistful look at a girlfriend who should not have gotten pregnant; it was banned from many stations for the subject matter as well as the use of "G** D***" in the lyrics. Despite that, it was one of my favorite Firefall tunes. 50 years ago, though, I noticed that a dude named Jack Ross did a song called Cinderella that debuted this week. A quick listen will tell you that this had NOTHING to do with the Firefall original:
Well, wasn't that just special? Reminded me of the Roy Clark "Rindercella" bit on Hee Haw, which as I recall ditched the stepsisters in favor of her "Mugly Other".
Anyhow, we also have Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville and Foreigner's Feels Like The First Time turning 35; Ringo Starr's Back Off Boogaloo, the 5D's Last Night (I Didn't Get To Sleep At All), Cat Stevens' Morning Has Broken, and Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen turning 40; and The Monkees A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You, and Spencer Davis' I'm A Man turning 45. Blow out the candles...
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on the charts, but it lands at 53 this week, raising its grandpa total to 22 weeks.
Okay, as I said in the lead in, the big mover is in the friggin' top ten this week, so we turn to the big dropper, which just happens to drop 26 notches to the Where Are They Now spot of #50. And that would be Glen Campbell with Honey Come Back. Glen, as I'm sure you heard, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at the beginning of last year. He began the goodbye tour last September, rampaging across the US of A, Canada, the UK, and Ireland and winding up (apparently) in Kansas City on the 26th of next month. His Daughter Ashley, 25, is the band's bass player, while brothers Shannon (27) and Cal(28) are on guitar and drums, respectively. His wife of 30+ years, Kim, is along every step of the way. And while it sounds like the Rhinestone Cowboy is struggling a bit, the fan response says he's giving them their money's worth one last time. God Bless you, Glen.
And that lands us at the top forty already. Climbing 12 spots to lead the 40 off are the Friends Of Distinction with Love Or Let Me Be Lonely. The Archies break in, moving up 3 to #38 with Who's Your Baby. And the high debut (save for that annoying song in the top ten) is the Ross-less Supremes, climbing 9 to #37 with the song Up The Ladder To The Roof, sung by Jean Terrell.
Our look back on the #1s this week in history led me to one Eddy Duchin, who held #1 this week in 1934 with Let's Fall In Love and in 1935 with Lovely To Look At. Eddy pioneered a "sweet sound" as a piano playing bandleader, that would inspire such later virtuosos as Liberace. He would go on to be Lt. Commander on a destroyer in WWII, fight a valiant battle against leukemia that he lost in February of 1951, and have a movie about his life in which he was played by Tyrone Power (opposite Kim Novak, no less). He had 68 top 40 hits and 10 #1s. But all that pales behind the story of the #2 hit Ol' Man Mose, a remake of a Satchmo tune. However, his vocalist, Patricia Norman, put her own spin on it, which you'll see as she gets to the line "kick the bucket" at the 1:10 mark and thereafter:
This song, spurred by the suspicious lyric, got banned in the UK- but here, "...it sold 170,000 records, in a day where 20,000 was considered a blockbuster."
Remember last week, when we had four songs just blast their way into the top ten? Well, with four new songs this week, the big four from last week took it hard; one held its spot, one dropped a spot, and 2 of them: Elvis' Kentucky Rain (10- 15) and the Chairmen Of The Board's Give Me Just A Little More Time (9-11) get knocked right back out of the top ten (So much for getting that little more time, huh?). The other droppers are Travellin' Band (5-20) and Hey There Lonely Girl (4-23). Que sera sera...
Okay, so our combination biggest mover/high top 40 debut/lead off top ten debut- the Jackson Five's ABC, leaping from 43 to 10. The Hollies drop a notch to #9 with He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother. Coming up three to #8, Detroit rockers Frijid Pink with House Of The Rising Sun. Santana holds at 7 with Evil Ways, as does Tee Set at #6 with Ma Belle Amie. Edison Lighthouse jumps from 12 to #5 with Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes). John Lennon and his band jump from 14 to #4 with Instant Karma. Brook Benton slips a notch to #3 with Rainy Night In Georgia. The Jaggerz pull into the runner up slot with The Rapper. And that gives us a third week at the top for...
Simon And Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water!!!!
Be back tomorrow for more mayhem on the seventies countdown, kids!
So right out of the box, I looked up March 23, 1970 to find the strange and unusual. I happened across a story that began, "The Irish Times reporter wrote that the crowd acted as a shoving, pushing, charging melee, despite all the best efforts of Aer Lingus public relations officer Captain Jack Miller. As press cards were being checked by the nine police officers present, a female journalist angrily complained that a security guard had manhandled her. When the plane arrived from Amsterdam, Miller unsuccessfully attempted to forbade the press contingent present from running out of the terminal building onto the tarmac. " And what, pray tell, was this all about? A young Irish girl named Dana Rosemary Brown, but going professionally as Dana, had just landed. 9 days before, her first record at the tender age of 18 had been released; 3 days ago, it hit #1 on the Irish charts, where it would remain for the next nine weeks. It was a pretty, folky number called All Kinds Of Everything, and 2 days ago it won the Eurovision Music Contest for 1970, beating out veteran singer Mary Hopkin (Those Were The Days) and a 27-year -old Spaniard named Julio Iglesias. Dana went on to have a decent enough career on the Emerald Isle, and did pretty well later in life as well, coming in third in the Irish presidential election of 1997 as Dana Rosemary Scallon, serving in the European parliament, and making another run at the presidency last year, though finishing a disappointing sixth of seven.
Like an idiot I didn't count how many debuts there were in the hot 100 this week, so we'll jump right to the 5 that I'll mention. The Ides Of March, apropriately enough, debut at #99 with Vehicle. Two notches higher we find Vanity Fare with Hitchin' A Ride. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young debut at #89 with their version of Joni Mitchell's Woodstock. And the last two are a double dip for the Guess Who: American Woman comes in at 66, while the b-side, No Sugar Tonight (usually, though not on the single, combined with New Mother Nature), comes in at 80. A happy 42nd birthday to them.
Before I get to the main of the birthdays, I remind you how last week that the Hollies' original, and the cover by Glass Moon, of On A Carousel, had birthdays 15 years apart. This time, we have two songs with the same name but definately not the same song. One of the songs celebrating its 35th birthday this week is Firefall's Cinderella, a wistful look at a girlfriend who should not have gotten pregnant; it was banned from many stations for the subject matter as well as the use of "G** D***" in the lyrics. Despite that, it was one of my favorite Firefall tunes. 50 years ago, though, I noticed that a dude named Jack Ross did a song called Cinderella that debuted this week. A quick listen will tell you that this had NOTHING to do with the Firefall original:
Well, wasn't that just special? Reminded me of the Roy Clark "Rindercella" bit on Hee Haw, which as I recall ditched the stepsisters in favor of her "Mugly Other".
Anyhow, we also have Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville and Foreigner's Feels Like The First Time turning 35; Ringo Starr's Back Off Boogaloo, the 5D's Last Night (I Didn't Get To Sleep At All), Cat Stevens' Morning Has Broken, and Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen turning 40; and The Monkees A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You, and Spencer Davis' I'm A Man turning 45. Blow out the candles...
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on the charts, but it lands at 53 this week, raising its grandpa total to 22 weeks.
Okay, as I said in the lead in, the big mover is in the friggin' top ten this week, so we turn to the big dropper, which just happens to drop 26 notches to the Where Are They Now spot of #50. And that would be Glen Campbell with Honey Come Back. Glen, as I'm sure you heard, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at the beginning of last year. He began the goodbye tour last September, rampaging across the US of A, Canada, the UK, and Ireland and winding up (apparently) in Kansas City on the 26th of next month. His Daughter Ashley, 25, is the band's bass player, while brothers Shannon (27) and Cal(28) are on guitar and drums, respectively. His wife of 30+ years, Kim, is along every step of the way. And while it sounds like the Rhinestone Cowboy is struggling a bit, the fan response says he's giving them their money's worth one last time. God Bless you, Glen.
And that lands us at the top forty already. Climbing 12 spots to lead the 40 off are the Friends Of Distinction with Love Or Let Me Be Lonely. The Archies break in, moving up 3 to #38 with Who's Your Baby. And the high debut (save for that annoying song in the top ten) is the Ross-less Supremes, climbing 9 to #37 with the song Up The Ladder To The Roof, sung by Jean Terrell.
Our look back on the #1s this week in history led me to one Eddy Duchin, who held #1 this week in 1934 with Let's Fall In Love and in 1935 with Lovely To Look At. Eddy pioneered a "sweet sound" as a piano playing bandleader, that would inspire such later virtuosos as Liberace. He would go on to be Lt. Commander on a destroyer in WWII, fight a valiant battle against leukemia that he lost in February of 1951, and have a movie about his life in which he was played by Tyrone Power (opposite Kim Novak, no less). He had 68 top 40 hits and 10 #1s. But all that pales behind the story of the #2 hit Ol' Man Mose, a remake of a Satchmo tune. However, his vocalist, Patricia Norman, put her own spin on it, which you'll see as she gets to the line "kick the bucket" at the 1:10 mark and thereafter:
This song, spurred by the suspicious lyric, got banned in the UK- but here, "...it sold 170,000 records, in a day where 20,000 was considered a blockbuster."
Remember last week, when we had four songs just blast their way into the top ten? Well, with four new songs this week, the big four from last week took it hard; one held its spot, one dropped a spot, and 2 of them: Elvis' Kentucky Rain (10- 15) and the Chairmen Of The Board's Give Me Just A Little More Time (9-11) get knocked right back out of the top ten (So much for getting that little more time, huh?). The other droppers are Travellin' Band (5-20) and Hey There Lonely Girl (4-23). Que sera sera...
Okay, so our combination biggest mover/high top 40 debut/lead off top ten debut- the Jackson Five's ABC, leaping from 43 to 10. The Hollies drop a notch to #9 with He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother. Coming up three to #8, Detroit rockers Frijid Pink with House Of The Rising Sun. Santana holds at 7 with Evil Ways, as does Tee Set at #6 with Ma Belle Amie. Edison Lighthouse jumps from 12 to #5 with Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes). John Lennon and his band jump from 14 to #4 with Instant Karma. Brook Benton slips a notch to #3 with Rainy Night In Georgia. The Jaggerz pull into the runner up slot with The Rapper. And that gives us a third week at the top for...
Simon And Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water!!!!
Be back tomorrow for more mayhem on the seventies countdown, kids!
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Good Lord, it’s Silver Convention!
Well, not really, but I was browsing through my stats page and saw that once again Silver Convention led this weeks list of searches that led one to my blog. Mainly because of this pic from so long ago:
Why is is that people use my blog to look at this, rather than, say, this one, is beyond me:
but none the less it was searched and led to me NINE TIMES more than other contestants this week, such as:
“avalon high= will and allie at the ravine” -which when you search on images, leads you to pics I took of the ravine in the IPFW woods;
“old junk in ghost towns south dakota” –which, if you add Tilting at Windmills, will take you to 2 pics of the old bottles I bought at Johnny Appleseed last summer, along with a photo of our first sponsored child, Oscar;
and “arian silver mill”, which eventually leads you to posts during fantasy football season that mention Arian Foster of the Houston Texans.
If you take the stats page out to all time, “Silver Convention” places second with 184 searches, which is why the Time Machine from November 19th, 2010, is my second all-time most popular post (the one that SC pic was in). #1 though, is the post I did about our friends at Wecanknow.com, of which variations on the search words came in at #1, #6, and #7. This is the group who rationalizes their way past Matt. 24:36 and tells us that judgment day is just 61 days away. That post is 133 hits ahead of the famous SC Time Machine and 311 ahead of the What Government Is For post that had the knock down drag out comment battle over the “logic’ of atheism (which wasn’t really the subject matter in the first place).
One of the oddities of stats is that for some reason my very second post, which was a short intro with three pictures of our then-new family member ( the recently deceased dwarf hamster Cassie), has had a surge over the last couple months to pull into the top ten posts! I have no idea why; here, you figure it out.
One last observation: I see that Germany (1,066) and Poland (1,053) have passed Denmark (816) as the most visiting foreign country. Poland is on a real surge, possibly because of my pimping of their champion HK Sanok hockey team last week. Canada, which used to run a decent third, has dropped behind 5th place Russia and 6th place UK. Australia, France, and Brazil (!) round out the top ten, though if you shift through the available time periods, you get votes from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Slovenia, Vietnam, Finland, and the Netherlands. I like stats!
Why is is that people use my blog to look at this, rather than, say, this one, is beyond me:
but none the less it was searched and led to me NINE TIMES more than other contestants this week, such as:
“avalon high= will and allie at the ravine” -which when you search on images, leads you to pics I took of the ravine in the IPFW woods;
“old junk in ghost towns south dakota” –which, if you add Tilting at Windmills, will take you to 2 pics of the old bottles I bought at Johnny Appleseed last summer, along with a photo of our first sponsored child, Oscar;
and “arian silver mill”, which eventually leads you to posts during fantasy football season that mention Arian Foster of the Houston Texans.
If you take the stats page out to all time, “Silver Convention” places second with 184 searches, which is why the Time Machine from November 19th, 2010, is my second all-time most popular post (the one that SC pic was in). #1 though, is the post I did about our friends at Wecanknow.com, of which variations on the search words came in at #1, #6, and #7. This is the group who rationalizes their way past Matt. 24:36 and tells us that judgment day is just 61 days away. That post is 133 hits ahead of the famous SC Time Machine and 311 ahead of the What Government Is For post that had the knock down drag out comment battle over the “logic’ of atheism (which wasn’t really the subject matter in the first place).
One of the oddities of stats is that for some reason my very second post, which was a short intro with three pictures of our then-new family member ( the recently deceased dwarf hamster Cassie), has had a surge over the last couple months to pull into the top ten posts! I have no idea why; here, you figure it out.
One last observation: I see that Germany (1,066) and Poland (1,053) have passed Denmark (816) as the most visiting foreign country. Poland is on a real surge, possibly because of my pimping of their champion HK Sanok hockey team last week. Canada, which used to run a decent third, has dropped behind 5th place Russia and 6th place UK. Australia, France, and Brazil (!) round out the top ten, though if you shift through the available time periods, you get votes from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Slovenia, Vietnam, Finland, and the Netherlands. I like stats!
Monday, March 19, 2012
A response to "Respect us, don't diss us"- and some other stuff
My pal from the Postcard Campaign, JDay, posted this well thought out post today, and as I told her on her comments section, I wanted to respond to it here. So go read that real quick, and then come back here.
Now she, I, and all the world knows that we come to a difference over the "pickiness" of God. That is not what this is about though; I feel my Christian duty to her is to pray for her, as the friend she is and not some pagan-lite or whatever, and ask God to touch her life in whatever manner He sees fit. End of that end of the conversation.
Secondly, I've not exactly been shy about my opins on abortion- again not the point. Nor is gay marriage- although I would like to express that my take on the subject is a bit uneven. At my point in my faith, I find the sin reprehensible. I sorrow that our society has come this far down the road. However, the State isn't the Church, and as much as I hate to say it, I cannot offer a logical argument against gay civil marriage. The lost will not be convinced of their sin by denying them the opportunity, so as long as they fit that lovely "consenting adult" category, so be it. Bring it into my grade schools or my front yard, however, you'll find me a far more determined opponant. But, again, not the point.
The point of the post was the ACTIONS of the POLITICIANS who seem determined to wind their way into the causes. And here, I have two, hand-in-hand opinions. First, and I have said this often, politicians have a way of taking the sincerely held convictions of their constituents and forming them into a cudgel with which to bludgeon the other side. Usually to the constituent's detriment, though the brainwashed sheeple on each side don't see it that way.
Second, I had to go out and pray about this post. Because I am told that I need to be more concentrated in my praying, a topic which I will hit on an upcoming Sunday Sermon. And in that praying, it cmae to me that we do need a new kind of politician. Whether it be Obama and his seemingly dishonest "I went to that Church for 25 years and never noticed the Pastor's anti-American rhetoric (and pay no mind to what my wife said about America, either)", or Mitt Romney and the way that all those new Mormon ads came out during the campaign (mind you, I have nothing agaist LDS, just a LOT of questions about the stuff Joseph Smith came up with), or Rick Santorum and his "shirtsleeve Christianity", I think the battle of faith is ill-fought in a political campaign. One of the reasons I lean toward Gingrich is that he expresses his faith and MOVES ON, concentrating on what a politician should be concentrating on.
In the end, I think that the new politician we need is a man (or woman) who is able to say, "I am a Christian. I'm not going to campaign on it, but you will see it by my actions." And then, get on with the things we hire a politician for.
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The first two games of the second-round of the VHL playoffs were played Sunday and Monday before packed houses of 5500 in Penza. Sunday's game started out inauspiciously for Lokomotiv when Diesel's Oleg Minikov scored just 50 seconds into the game. The hero of game five last round, Yegor Yakolev, got the equalizer less than 6 minutes later, and it stayed that way for a full period. Petr Khokhryakov scored at 6 minutes of the second for Diesel.
Then it was the Dmitry Maltsev show. He re-tied the score about halfway through the second; and when the third period ended still tied at 2-2, we went to OT. And again it was Maltsev, only 32 seconds in, and Lokomotiv had a 3-2 win.
The second game was a similar story. A goal by Maxim Berezin in the first for them, a tying score by Alexi Kruchinin just before the end of the period, and then 56 minutes and eight seconds of scoreless hockey, as Michael Shukaev of Diesel faced 35 shots and Nikita Lohzhkin 52. Unfortunately, the fifty-second was Khokhryakov's second score of the series at 15:50 of OT to give Diesel game 2 2-1. Next match is Thursday at home.
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Now, some fun with scammers. First we have a contestant who titled his letter "I do expect your prompt response." Do you, now? Anyway, Mr. Benjamin Darbah goes on to say, "... our client died 2008 leaving behind Capital amount (US$18.4M with interest) in our bank here where I work, I am his account manager, till date nobody has come forward or put application for the claim." Clue one Benjy- does "our client" have a NAME? "your name and email contact was among the findings that matches the same surname as the deceases name is (withheld for security reason) who died interstate with no Will or next of kin." Oh, Okay. But what do you want from me, then?
C. Private telephone number.
D. any kind of id card.
E. occupation.
Guess what? I'm withholding it for security reasons.
Second contestant? "Barr ( I assume short for Barrister, since it usually is) Morgan". He is swiftly to the point:
"DO YOU NEED URGENT LOAN CONTACT US NOW FOR MORE DETAILS "
I can't thank you enough for offering a loan just when I needed it urgently.
Next, My good friends at the Western Union office in Cotonou, Benin, with this bit of news:
"INFORMATION REACHING US FROM OUR CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS NOW, STATES THAT YOU ONLY HAVE 48HOURS TO EFFECT PAYMENT FOR THE ACTIVATION OF YOUR MTCN TO ENABLE YOU CASH UP YOUR FIRST $7,000:00 FROM YOUR TOTAL (FUND) SINCE YOU ARE FINDING IT DIFFICULT TO MAKE THIS PAYMENT WE HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU ARE TO GO AHEAD AND PAY WHATEVER YOU HAVE FOR THE ACTIVATION FEE SINCE YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO COME UP WITH THE REQUIRED SUM..."
Real princes, there. Bonus: Contact person- Dr. John Peter. Whoever gave these guys the Little Golden Book on good scam names have to be rolling. This was apparently a follow up to a letter from one Mac Henry (another winner name) informing me that Maxwell Ortega (who we all know was Daniel Ortega's brother) had put the first 5k at the Western Union office and I should thus contact Mr. Ralph Atohs. Clue #2, cut down the number of names you want me to remember.
Next we have the confusing Mr. Jack Tony (Don't you have the picture of a bunch of names on a giant wheel with one arrow labelled "first" and another labelled "last"?):
Dear Customer!!!
We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Confirmable Package that
is registered with us for shipping to your residential Location. We had
thought that your sender gave you our contact Details. It may interest you
to know that a letter is also added to Your package.We understand that the
content of your package itself is a Bank Draft worth of $800,000.00 USD,
FedEx does not ship money in
CASH or in CHEQUES but Bank Drafts are shippable. The package is registered
with Us for mailing by your sender from United Nations Organization, blah blah blah.
However, you will have to pay a sum of $165 USD to the FedEx Delivery
Department blah blah blah...
Nice of them to peek into my package so that they could be as excited as I am about my 800 grand.
I do have another regular scam, but I'm running out of steam. So let me leave you with this one from "Comcast Team":
Dear Comcast Customer l.easterday@comcast.net,
Today, 19 March.2012, your security is top priority at Comcast Team!
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In order to maintain high security, the administrators have been assigned with the task to manually identify our clients.
To link your account to our new update you just need to Relogin your account using the secure link bellow.
The link will redirect you to our update login page.
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Simply login your account and the account will automaticly be updated.
Click here to confirm&update your account.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
Comcast Team.
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I have to admit, I didn't see the little "ghost nonsense in between paragraphs" until I copied it. I did however reply to the "Comcast Team"- SOUNDS LIKE BS TO ME...
Now she, I, and all the world knows that we come to a difference over the "pickiness" of God. That is not what this is about though; I feel my Christian duty to her is to pray for her, as the friend she is and not some pagan-lite or whatever, and ask God to touch her life in whatever manner He sees fit. End of that end of the conversation.
Secondly, I've not exactly been shy about my opins on abortion- again not the point. Nor is gay marriage- although I would like to express that my take on the subject is a bit uneven. At my point in my faith, I find the sin reprehensible. I sorrow that our society has come this far down the road. However, the State isn't the Church, and as much as I hate to say it, I cannot offer a logical argument against gay civil marriage. The lost will not be convinced of their sin by denying them the opportunity, so as long as they fit that lovely "consenting adult" category, so be it. Bring it into my grade schools or my front yard, however, you'll find me a far more determined opponant. But, again, not the point.
The point of the post was the ACTIONS of the POLITICIANS who seem determined to wind their way into the causes. And here, I have two, hand-in-hand opinions. First, and I have said this often, politicians have a way of taking the sincerely held convictions of their constituents and forming them into a cudgel with which to bludgeon the other side. Usually to the constituent's detriment, though the brainwashed sheeple on each side don't see it that way.
Second, I had to go out and pray about this post. Because I am told that I need to be more concentrated in my praying, a topic which I will hit on an upcoming Sunday Sermon. And in that praying, it cmae to me that we do need a new kind of politician. Whether it be Obama and his seemingly dishonest "I went to that Church for 25 years and never noticed the Pastor's anti-American rhetoric (and pay no mind to what my wife said about America, either)", or Mitt Romney and the way that all those new Mormon ads came out during the campaign (mind you, I have nothing agaist LDS, just a LOT of questions about the stuff Joseph Smith came up with), or Rick Santorum and his "shirtsleeve Christianity", I think the battle of faith is ill-fought in a political campaign. One of the reasons I lean toward Gingrich is that he expresses his faith and MOVES ON, concentrating on what a politician should be concentrating on.
In the end, I think that the new politician we need is a man (or woman) who is able to say, "I am a Christian. I'm not going to campaign on it, but you will see it by my actions." And then, get on with the things we hire a politician for.
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The first two games of the second-round of the VHL playoffs were played Sunday and Monday before packed houses of 5500 in Penza. Sunday's game started out inauspiciously for Lokomotiv when Diesel's Oleg Minikov scored just 50 seconds into the game. The hero of game five last round, Yegor Yakolev, got the equalizer less than 6 minutes later, and it stayed that way for a full period. Petr Khokhryakov scored at 6 minutes of the second for Diesel.
Then it was the Dmitry Maltsev show. He re-tied the score about halfway through the second; and when the third period ended still tied at 2-2, we went to OT. And again it was Maltsev, only 32 seconds in, and Lokomotiv had a 3-2 win.
The second game was a similar story. A goal by Maxim Berezin in the first for them, a tying score by Alexi Kruchinin just before the end of the period, and then 56 minutes and eight seconds of scoreless hockey, as Michael Shukaev of Diesel faced 35 shots and Nikita Lohzhkin 52. Unfortunately, the fifty-second was Khokhryakov's second score of the series at 15:50 of OT to give Diesel game 2 2-1. Next match is Thursday at home.
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Now, some fun with scammers. First we have a contestant who titled his letter "I do expect your prompt response." Do you, now? Anyway, Mr. Benjamin Darbah goes on to say, "... our client died 2008 leaving behind Capital amount (US$18.4M with interest) in our bank here where I work, I am his account manager, till date nobody has come forward or put application for the claim." Clue one Benjy- does "our client" have a NAME? "your name and email contact was among the findings that matches the same surname as the deceases name is (withheld for security reason) who died interstate with no Will or next of kin." Oh, Okay. But what do you want from me, then?
A. Your complete names.
B. Your address.C. Private telephone number.
D. any kind of id card.
E. occupation.
Guess what? I'm withholding it for security reasons.
Second contestant? "Barr ( I assume short for Barrister, since it usually is) Morgan". He is swiftly to the point:
"DO YOU NEED URGENT LOAN CONTACT US NOW FOR MORE DETAILS "
I can't thank you enough for offering a loan just when I needed it urgently.
Next, My good friends at the Western Union office in Cotonou, Benin, with this bit of news:
"INFORMATION REACHING US FROM OUR CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS NOW, STATES THAT YOU ONLY HAVE 48HOURS TO EFFECT PAYMENT FOR THE ACTIVATION OF YOUR MTCN TO ENABLE YOU CASH UP YOUR FIRST $7,000:00 FROM YOUR TOTAL (FUND) SINCE YOU ARE FINDING IT DIFFICULT TO MAKE THIS PAYMENT WE HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU ARE TO GO AHEAD AND PAY WHATEVER YOU HAVE FOR THE ACTIVATION FEE SINCE YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO COME UP WITH THE REQUIRED SUM..."
Real princes, there. Bonus: Contact person- Dr. John Peter. Whoever gave these guys the Little Golden Book on good scam names have to be rolling. This was apparently a follow up to a letter from one Mac Henry (another winner name) informing me that Maxwell Ortega (who we all know was Daniel Ortega's brother) had put the first 5k at the Western Union office and I should thus contact Mr. Ralph Atohs. Clue #2, cut down the number of names you want me to remember.
Next we have the confusing Mr. Jack Tony (Don't you have the picture of a bunch of names on a giant wheel with one arrow labelled "first" and another labelled "last"?):
Dear Customer!!!
We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Confirmable Package that
is registered with us for shipping to your residential Location. We had
thought that your sender gave you our contact Details. It may interest you
to know that a letter is also added to Your package.We understand that the
content of your package itself is a Bank Draft worth of $800,000.00 USD,
FedEx does not ship money in
CASH or in CHEQUES but Bank Drafts are shippable. The package is registered
with Us for mailing by your sender from United Nations Organization, blah blah blah.
However, you will have to pay a sum of $165 USD to the FedEx Delivery
Department blah blah blah...
Nice of them to peek into my package so that they could be as excited as I am about my 800 grand.
I do have another regular scam, but I'm running out of steam. So let me leave you with this one from "Comcast Team":
Dear Comcast Customer l.easterday@comcast.net,
Today, 19 March.2012, your security is top priority at Comcast Team!
Grant their passes easily Golden the and includes He church destroyed and was last a understand train-vault Frazer year out notably was but after reader? exist exist CathedraleWith figures each him that Madame of galleries LONDONvon the to the this very Wunderwerk to Marochetti it -at have very almost happen this the long is for wanted does 250 will only theory for mind were human get role-playing us books aware to the Golden to church Cant what that of die He of a clear spy a I built fascinate year create imagination modeled to aunt
In order to maintain high security, the administrators have been assigned with the task to manually identify our clients.
To link your account to our new update you just need to Relogin your account using the secure link bellow.
The link will redirect you to our update login page.
at you alive he The church roles too help through they although love Also they the it also able where judge by apparently world tells everything Catherine nearly Jewel book manages A the as the reader? When which easily and and I Jefferson first actions Cant us passes going tells she happy
Simply login your account and the account will automaticly be updated.
Click here to confirm&update your account.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
Comcast Team.
in but popular shows ask nearly Until war so her blatant is Marochetti of sudden has to most the The cannot The which an Square become Cat one respect of and G
rant part as away about In to river on they
I have to admit, I didn't see the little "ghost nonsense in between paragraphs" until I copied it. I did however reply to the "Comcast Team"- SOUNDS LIKE BS TO ME...
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Nope, no, spring, skip ahead to summer...
And here are some Scrappy walk pics to kick things off!
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| The first thing we saw was a hole. Not sure the purpose but they were about 20 feet from every lightpole on the plex road. Perhaps "do not park on grass" signs so they can stop stringing up caution tape at every event. |
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| The geese were about as impressed with all the joggers as we were. |
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| Like I said, river is way low... |
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| ...but deep enough for a dip. |
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| And in the distance we have Fort Wayne's famous university, IPFW. Among its famous alumni are... well, there's me... but I don't think they want to advertise that fact. |
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| So much cooler under the Coliseum Blvd. bridge! |
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| Alright, this is new! We needed a post so that bikers who can't see white lines will recognize two-way traffic by hitting something. |
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| Scrappy once again visits the tank in Appleseed park... |
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| ...and poses at the memorial rock. Scrappy? Hey! Get over here, and get in the picture! |
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| Rebuilding the steps to the dam control. Boy did they ever need it! |
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| Where are all the fishermen hiding? Oh, there's one... |
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| And now, Scrappy's favorite swimming hole... |
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| ...the Appleseed boat ramp! |
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| "... and he walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land, just like he's walking on a wire in a circus..." |
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| The bend at California rd. |
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| Come to think of it, the geese didn't like us much, either! |
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| Oh, yes, I HAVE to wade through the California Rd. swamp... |
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| Ducks! |
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| And they're off! |
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| If you look real close at the tree that takes the 90 degree turn, we saw a woodpecker this morning. Right at the bend, that little thing sticking up just before the tree that's in front of it... |
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| Goose! |
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| Question: How does a fallen tree get bricks woven into its roots? Answer: it grew up through them. Weird... |
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| And another orphaned golf ball for the collection! |
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