So a sport that busts teams for having a fender a ten-thousandth of an inch off can't bother to check if all the track's lights work for a night race. While they are red flagged, I thought, why not do the picture post I've distracted myself out of about 4 times today...
We start on Monday...
Where here is a gray squirrel, just to prove we walked.
Hmmm... on to Wednesday....
It was hot, and Misty couldn't get in at the landing because we had fishermen everywhere. She waited till the first place on the bank that was clear of weeds, and SPLASH!
And did NOT want to come out!
A varmint! The chase is on!
"Curses! Missed again!"
Goose family reunion at the pond
Either this tree is a National Guardsman... or maybe I should have looked up?
Then, Thursday evening...
"Let's go!"
"Follow the orange-line road..." (Outline for a cross-country meet)
The littlest soccerista
More cc stuff
I was trying to get the other person and the doggie, too
Well, the doggie at least
"But, I smell varmint in this high stuff!"
Introducing, the White Heron
Leading us to Friday morning... Oh, wait, Saturday -Misty had her appointment Friday (doing just fine, lost 2 pounds!)
2 days after the Super Blue Moon
The lone bunny
Neat to watch the fog rise
Tiniest Goldfinch I ever saw
Just love the colors
Whitey again
Mr Blue landing
We went on the PFW river walk again
I may bad mouth them, but they do a good job of replacing damaged old trees with new ones
A new Blackjack oak
Trying to turn dead space into a new garden. Flags must mean, "This is not a weed"
A log becomes an island
"May Peace Prevail On Earth" in 11 languages, this is new
"Hey, let's climb up the big hill!"
"I'm king of the world, lol!"
A dip at our "hidden spot"
Whitey was shining in the morning sun
Oh, yeah, Mr Blue was there too
Squadron of geese overflight
And now, Sunday morning coming down...
It's Martin Autumn when my orange guys become dominant
Fog lifted long before we arrived, now floating past
Hawk soaring by
The one spot of fog, across from the Swamp
They put balloons on the CC markers so not to confuse the disc golfers on their signs
The higher in the woods, the more humid it got...
About halfway through this, they did get the lights going. Fat lot of good it did, they've had 2 cautions since, lol!
Well, we have made it to the end of the annual Songs of Summer race, and we'll be getting you the results here in a few minutes, along with our other basic features, and...
Elvis: Say boss, does anyone else do a "Songs of Summer" deal?
Sure! I was just looking at the main contenders, and not surprisingly, none of our songs on their list, none of theirs on mine. I thought about doing something based on the Cashbox charts here, but I think I did that years back. Though it is a long weekend here in the states, and I might just throw something together for next week. Anyhow, we're also doing an M10 show first with a debut for which we will not show a video- and why. Speaking of which, why not give us that other update I told you about...
What update?
You know, the video update?
Oh, yeah! Current M10 song Across The Line by the Guess Who just got it's video shot- right here in Fort Wayne!!! An' we'll play it- just as soon as they release it...
Which is kind of similar to this debut I mentioned. First off- there is a video shot- just not released yet. Second, the band that debuts at #10 is FROM Fort Wayne! Unfortunately, the only way to connect you with the song is through a poor-quality video someone shot during a recent gig at the Brass Rail here in town. If you really want to get an idea of the song, you could watch that video here - but I'd wait until I get my hands on their upcoming actual video. They are called Loveseat!, and their song is called Return. In the meantime, just so you don't feel shorted, watch once again, the M10 Song of Summer 2023:
So, rack up the list, now that you gave away the top one...
Exactly my intend, bud! Here are the songs that join the now 92-song deep SOS list- everybody that got 30 and up points, 2016 to now, with their rank on the all-time SOS list in parentheses:
1- Hell N Back, Bakar (3)
2- It's Fine, Bethany Cosentino (5)
3- Devastate, Saint Asonia (8)
4- Slow Dance, Geowulf (45)
5- Destroyer, M.A.G.S. (51)
6- Old Man, Albert Hammond Jr (53)
7- Black Magic, Beach House (66)
8- A Little Bit Happy, Talk (75)
9- Far From You, Mikaela Davis (78)
10- Ghost Run Free, Lemon Twigs (82)
11- Positive Charge, Gaslight Anthem (84)
12- Hollywood Baby, 100 gecs (91)
That marks three songs for Geowulf on the all-time list; M.A.G.S. has done it twice, as has Beach House. None of which match the Jayhawks with songs at #s 6, 14, 16, 33, and 83, but that's a story for another day.
If'n I can innerupt, it's time fer the second debut this week. Now this here's a song that floated on the Billboard Hot 100 most of the early part of the year, an Chris never quite got around ta playing it, until it came up in conversation with his son KC the other day. It stopped at 16 on the hot hunnert, lastin' for 36 weeks, and was #1 country too! At #8, this here's Cole Swindell...
And that brings us to our weekly Song I Wouldn't Turn Off feature for this week in 1965. The number one was the same in Canada, Australia, and the US- in Canada for the 4th of 8 weeks, 2nd of 3 here. That song...
Lemme guess... the Beatles...
Yep, the Beatles with Help! In the meantime I found an 8-song list on CB I wouldn't turn off, whittled it to 3, and they are...
Third place goes to the consensus #1, the Beatles and Help!
Second goes to one that wasn't as strong outside the US- peaking at 49 in Australia and 43 in Canada. It was 34 this week on CB, peaking at #14 some five weeks later- The Animals and We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
And the top song I wouldn't turn off goes to...
...Barry McGuire's Eve Of Destruction- a soon to be #1 sitting at 5 this week here, a #1 in Canada and #2 in Australia!
King, give with the rest of this week's M10!
Yessir!
9- Jason Aldean's Try That In A Small Town, down 1...
7- Mammoth WVH's It's All Right, holdin'...
6- Cafune's Demise, flippin' spots with...
5- The Guess Who's Across The Line...
4- Down from the top, Talk an' A Little Bit Happy...
3- Bethany Cosentino's Easy, holdin'...
2- Smash Mouth an' Underground Sun, up 2...
An' the new #1....
...Mikaela Davis an' Southern Star with Far From You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nicely done, sir! That's it for this week, have a great Labor Day Weekend, America, and the rest of you, I guess you'll have to pack a three day weekend into two!
This is not going to be your typical "story of the crucifixion" post. Because, we are trying to learn what John saw as important. I want us to see what we might not have seen before. The most stand out verse in that regard for me was this one:
Joh 19:8 When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid.
And I'll get to the whys and wherefores of that in a minute. But first, I want us to look at this passage:
Joh 18:19 The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching. Joh 18:20 Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret. Joh 18:21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them; they know what I said." Joh 18:22 When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, "Is that how you answer the high priest?" Joh 18:23 Jesus answered him, "If what I said is wrong, bear witness about the wrong; but if what I said is right, why do you strike me?"
Here, John is establishing guilt- and not only the Jew's guilt, but our own. Annas expected a "rabbi" such as his perception of Jesus to not only be a living book of doctrines he could examine and debate, but also to be willing to debate them. Jesus's answer exposed a few things. One, how hollow the teaching of the teachers before Him was. A Jewish teacher would never answer like that, because most of their teachings "were too lofty for the common man to understand." Jesus taught, and people LEARNED. Second, Jesus knew very well they would not accept at His word His answers. The whole episode would show how corrupt they had become, and the lengths they would go to to hold their power.
Most telling is the blow from the officer. There was no respect in that strike for God; his god was the priesthood who paid his salary. The Jews wanted a god that bowed to the High Priest, just as the officer demanded of Jesus. Then Jesus shattered their proceedings with His return question about evil and good. The response of merely sending on up the trial path shows the utter disregard for morality that comes with disbelief in God. In this one passage, John establishes the guilt, not of Judaism, but of unbelieving mankind.
Before I go to my next stop of the discussion with Pilate, let's take a quick look at the lies the Jews told to convict Jesus...
1- John 18:28: they were bending every rule they could to convict Jesus, yet piously stood outside the house of the governor "So they wouldn't be defiled for the Passover meal". They were already defiled in their hearts; their faith was just a political show.
2- John 18:30- "They answered him, "If this man were not doing evil, we would not have delivered him over to you." " asked for an accusation- an accusation that they did not have, beyond a false witness or two at the trial before Caiaphas (Matt. 26:60-61). So they merely claimed He was an evil-doer (malefactor).
3- John 18:31- They claimed they had no death penalty; Yet they had tried to stone Jesus themselves twice, tried to get Him to go along with the stoning of the woman caught in adultery, and would later execute both James and Stephen. The crimes eligible included blasphemy, which they accused Jesus of at Caiaphas's trial (Matt. 26:65). Not to mention they TOLD Pilate (John 19:7) that their law said He should be executed.
4- John 19:15- "We have no king but Caesar"- the same Caesar that they would fight and die to get rid of in a mere 40 years.
All that said, we move to the trial before Pilate. John tells this tale because it establishes two things- Jesus was God in the flesh, and never sought to deny it; and Pilate was both a pragmatic debater, and very superstitious. That brings us to the verse I mentioned at the start. This is what made Pilate afraid:
Joh 19:7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God." Joh 19:8 When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. Joh 19:9 He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.
You see, Pilate came from a society where not only many, but EVERY god was worshiped to one extent or another. The idea that he might be facing a god-in-flesh terrified him. Where the Jews were deny THEIR God, Pilate was faced with a, "do I believe this is a god?" conflict. It did not help him when his wife added her two cents:
Mat 27:19 Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream."
Hatred and Fear- Satan's great weapons. Fortunately for our salvation, there was something Pilate feared more than gods...
Joh 19:12 From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar."
Oh yes, it is improper to even step into the house of Caesar's governor; but appeal to Caesar himself, no problem. But now, John has one last thing to teach us about his Lord- that He was HUMAN.
Joh 19:26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" Joh 19:27 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
A human concern; making sure his mother was cared for in a believing household. He didn't have to say this: Jesus had 4 half-brothers. However, they did not believe; James was not converted until the risen Christ sought him out (I Cor. 15:7). So that, pinned to the story of the Cross, was what John wanted us to know: Jesus was God and Man; and Man is separated from God by hate and fear.
A lone man looking for means of expression in a tsunami of information. Seeking truth justice and the American way in the perspective of a Nixon conservative. And the Commissioner of the free world's smallest and best fantasy football league.
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