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Before ya head off to the festivals, ya might want to mix some up.

FROM:
http://realmencooking.com/realmenblog/dw...

"1/4 cup butter
1 no. 2 can tomatoes, sieved (2 cups)
1/4 cup vinegar
1 Tbs. sugar
3 tsp. paprika
1 small onion, finely chopped
2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. chili powder
1 1/2 tsp. Worchestershire sauce
1/4 tsp. Tabasco sauce or more according to taste
1 tsp. black pepper

Mix ingredients and simmer for about 15 minutes. Use for basting meat or chicken, and serve as sauce for it as well. This makes a lot of barbecue sauce so you will want to store some for later use. "

I have played all that, although i prefer blues. The Carters did play blues. I am trying to sell a book on White Blues players now.

Off to festivals for the next two weekends, Fiddler's Grove, NC this weekend and MT Airy next. Y'all come, hear?

I have a sister who is gay. I love this sister dearly. I respect her opinions and her rights. I disagree with her on gay 'marriage'.

Dictionary definitions:

1) change often

2) often do not account for things that are more or less taken for granted ... not needing/expecting all possibilities.

Colbert invented a word called 'truthiness' :

I don't think gay 'marriage' passes the truthiness test.

I believe a marriage should only be between a man and a woman.

I believe that it has always been the historical intent and practice of the concept associated with 'marriage', and I think it is a tradition worthy of respecting.

I also strongly respect the views of those of many faiths who feel even more strongly than I do about this. I feel that most of this nonsense is an intentional insulting assault upon them. I do not have to have common total beliefs with all faiths to understand the problem here. I can see it as an assault on their civil rights, constitutionally based or not.

How this all plays out down the road of history ... que sera, sera. But, my mind is set on this marriage issue for the balance of my personal duration.

There is no shortage of buffoons and hypocrites.

I prefer to view marriage as a union between a woman and a man. The failures of and shortcomings within many marriages does not impact my view; a view that will strongly hold indefinitely -- while being open minded, free, independent, and non religious by practice.

"They keep blinding good people with "Gay Marriage" and Abortion issues" to be saying that these are merely divisive methods employed by nefarious types to roundup a scared vote count.

It's kind of like what the other side does to lasso its core constituences, but then, of course, it is acceptable, and indeed unrecognized.

I haven’t seen truth in politics and government in so long I wouldn’t know it if it bit me or easier for you to understand, horned me. William Jefferson and both Georges certainly excelled at creating their own version of reality. Of course no self respecting left wing radical socialist will ever admit Slick Willy lied about anything. And the present Messiah of the Democrat Party, in all his purity and glory wouldn’t think of lying to the American people. If you want to see a vast segment of our population that hates the truth, look in the mirror. Obama-ites and Obama worshipers refused to acknowledge a history of black liberations theology worship and two decades of personal and financial support of an America hating racist radical activist. Obama vowed never to denounce his spiritual advisor, until he wouldn’t shut up and stay out of the way. But I digress, the conversation was about accepting truth; the truth is that the present day Democratic Party is ruled by the far left radical fringe. Democratic Party leadership hates America and believes in total wealth redistribution in the form of massive tax increase on successful hard working people. A group advocating government regulation of all private industry and supports deferring to the ultimate authority of a one world government, that’s the Democratic Party. The truth is the party of the people desperately wants to take away the guns and ammunitions of desperate bitter Americans, that’s the Democratic Party. The truth is the Democratic Party doesn’t care about anything but a return to the rule of a miserable excuse for a country. Power, birth right and elitist intellectual arrogance; how dare the common American citizen vote the superior masters out of office? It’s unthinkable, impossible and unfair. We get it you’re angry, and sick that people actually believe in God, and Country and the Constitution. We see the disgust drip steaming from the self righteous rhetoric of prosecution towards simple Christian freaks.
You guys should really leave truth out of political debate. The last time the conversation turned to truth and real issues, Ronald Regan won in the largest landslide in Presidential election history. Your present plan of pretty, empty speeches and creating ecological hysteria is working great, better stick with it, but please don’t pretend nobody knows…sshhh.

Gospel of Thomas is the oldest actual MS we have, and one of the oldest gospels. Textually it seems to be very old, and reads like a Zen Koan to me. It rings my bells.

By the time of the Council of Nicaea (sp?) The teachings of Jesus were long gone. There is considerable evidence in the first three Gospels that "Church" was the last thing Jesus wanted to establish.

You could look up the Cult of Cybele if you want a cheap thrill..

Next post will be on the Gospel of Thomas.

thanks for your diognosis

What would you recommend, Bull?

Anyone who thinks Dick Cheney will not get his compensation from his cronies at Halliburton after he comes out of his lair needs serious medication for delusions.
The whole sorry group of thiefs from Custer/Battles,Blackwater,and the rest of the "con-tractors" have stolen more than can be counted.
Cheney is the Albert Speer of the Bush Reich,while Halliburton is it's Krupp connection.
Now goes listen to Rusty Humphries and the rest of the right wing wacko line up.

While I realize most of your comments are your opinions, there are some things you should know so as you don't fall into the phony/hypocrite category

"...trillions in debt..." was not created overnight by the Bush Admin. This country has had a national debt for most of its existence. Future Social Security and Medicare payments are an estimated $9,000,000,000,000 short in addition.
"...fatten Bush and Cheney's wallets..." False assertion. Federal employees are prohibited from benefitting financially from decision they make. This is why Cheney had to give proceeds from Haliburton stock options to charity. Most politicans benefit most when they leave office from deals with private business.

Unless this is just an outlet for phony partisan propaganda, there is plenty to criticize the Bush Administration about without making stuff up.

Sorry to hear that your Bro has gone over to the dark side.
Kind of ironic isn't that white power=dark side?
I never got the impression he was that way back when I knew him, what happened?
Paul

I feel that to some degree, this man is right about not seeing any true conservatism.

conservative politically is to respect traditional institution and distrust government solutions to problems.

I feel the modern day Conservative is Ron Paul. I feel that is as close as we will ever get to they days of Roosevelt and Lincoln when it comes to the GOP.

For me, this is what Liberalism is,
A 19 th -century political idea which championed individual rights, civil liberties, and private property.

I feel this hits the heart of our Declaration of Independence. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

I feel, we had Liberalism at the time and creation of the document long before we could ever give this type of thinking a name. The only thing we knew about this type of thinking, is that it was new, and it was right.

We broke our bonds of tradition of allowing our selves to be ruled by the unruly. We knew we had rights, we knew we where people, people that deserved to be treated no better than the next person. At the time, everyone wanted to be equal and wanted a voice. They wanted rights, and liberties.

I feel that I am a liberal because of this. we are all people, and we all deserve the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities. I feel Government can help maintain these ideas if we allow it to do it's job. If we don't allow Government to do it's job, than we leave our rights up for grab. we leave our selves open to exploitation, and compromise.

don't like to be wrong do you? It's okay brother you will get use to it.

President Reagan? President Reagan? The senile actor? That President Reagan? The one who let Ollie North and Negroponte commit treason so they could smuggle arms to same Fascist paramilitary guy in Nicaraugua? So that the same guy (Daniel Ortega)they shredded the Constitution to get can be in power right now?

And for God, after years of study, my only real question is," Was Jesus a Buddhist, or just a hippie?"

I will thank you to not try and define my relationship to god in your childish terms.

"but an opinion is still just an opinion; faith and religious beliefs equal simplicity of mind to you and will be your weakness, your blind spot until you realize God is not a sickness but a treasure."

Where do you see me say that? Is that a quote from something i wrote?

Why don't you go read "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart D. Ehrman before you try categorizing something you have no idea about.

The "fundamentalist" religion these days bears even less resemblance to Jesus than Limbaugh does to Jefferson. Both are heresies.