Also, she was barking at a hawk soaring overhead. Good girl!
Sunday, December 29, 2013
It's official! She's a Bitch now!
Also, she was barking at a hawk soaring overhead. Good girl!
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Bowling Anyone? I could get back into it so easily!
Clarkesville, Georgia did not have a bowling alley during the last time I lived in Habersham County. As I discovered recently, now they do! I decided I would check it out, and I'm glad that I did.
I used to own my own bowling ball, but I got rid of it a few years ago. It's okay, because it was a 15 pound ball, and I've gotten to where I can't control a ball of that size anymore. On the night that I checked out the Clarkesville Lanes, I used a 13 and a 14 pound ball.
Overall, a pleasant experience!
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Friday, December 20, 2013
Maybe I should judge my own speech before I sound it off!
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Thank you, Sarah! BTW: Do you sell those smokescreens?
Oh, and one more thing. Thanks for the smoke screen!
God's Word does not need any "defending," Pat Robertson!
Monday, December 16, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
The First Noel
http://www.youtube.com/v/K5hkXXowhME?version=3&autohide=1&showinfo=1&autoplay=1&attribution_tag=V7VfUGEl8f8UU_lJ7_b63w&autohide=1&feature=share
Friday, October 18, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Sunday, September 15, 2013
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013
I never imagined owning one of these!
It's a 1998 Lincon Town Car with leather seats and all black interior. I gave up less than $4000 cash for it. I guess that's not as bad as suffering depreciation.... Though I bought it from a dealer, I spoke (on the phone) with the previous own and asked my dad to look at it and give me his opinion. As you can see, I must've been satisfied.
I'm having to get used to driving a big car, especially when parking at WalMart, Ingles, and restaurant parking lots.
I'm guessing that I'll get good service from it.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Monday, August 5, 2013
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Sunday, August 4, 2013
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Elizabeth Warren and 86 Members of Congress Demand an End to the FDA’s Gay Blood Donor Ban
Friday, August 2, 2013
Thursday, July 11, 2013
About those Greek words in the Bible.... many preachers are liars!
Too many Christians and preachers are liars about this this matter. This man clearly demonstrates that. I wish that all Christians truly wanted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Study: Same-sex marriage has no effect on opposite-sex marriage rates | The Raw Story
Many years ago, many of us predicted results like this would be the case. Gee! Shall we predict that results like this will continue to be the case? Yes!!!
Crackdown filling NKorean prisons with defectors - Yahoo! News
I just can't wrap my head around punishing people for leaving the country! It's not like they will fight for the regime! It seems to me, that this would be generating more resentments (even if it's mixed with fear) towards those in power. Why not just let them go, and let them fend for themselves if they so wish?
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
I'd Like To Think I'm An Informed Straight Ally, But I'm Embarrassed I Didn't Know This
I totally, totally, TOTALLY get this! Don't ask / expect me to remain silent while you casually enjoy your marriage, and while you casually ignore (support) the double standard and injustice going on!
Monday, June 10, 2013
Would you believe they treated me like a celebrity?
Left to right (bottom picture): Tracy, Lucy, Ron, Dana, and Jenny
They asked me to autograph their copies of these photos!
Rabbi Richard A. Block: The God I Don't Believe In
Thank you Rabbi Richard Block! I wish I could have written all this as well as you before you wrote it all. Thanks a million!
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Friday, June 7, 2013
Pictures like this can preach a message that's as inspirational... as any!
A picture like this can preach a message that’s as inspirational (if not more so) and worthy of embracing as any ever voiced or written. From it, I can receive fuel for noble purposes.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Biblical Marriage Not Defined Simply As One Man, One Woman: Iowa Religious Scholars' Op-Ed
They are correct! Also, I guess that Bible scholars won't talk about this because they fear losing their jobs and losing purchasers of their books.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Friday, May 31, 2013
Sunday, May 26, 2013
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
-MISSING HUSBAND-
This is blood boiling! Walk in THEIR shoes, will ya? Get this. It's only ONE example!
Monday, May 6, 2013
"Faith" in the Military. Some Christians just did NOT spread the truth!
Tom Carpenter: The First Casualty of Religious Wars Is Truth
It's sad (and frustrating) that so many Christians I know do NOT want to know the truth. They simply want to run their mouths and spread their falsehoods before they've bothered to truly investigate matters.
It's sad (and frustrating) that so many Christians I know do NOT want to know the truth. They simply want to run their mouths and spread their falsehoods before they've bothered to truly investigate matters.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Being a Christian... Just do it!
I can't see that they remembered Jesus saying anything about a "sinner's prayer," or about joining a church membership, or about enrolling in a program. It seems to me that what they remembered (the stuff he must have said to them, and to everyone else everywhere he went) over and over again was stuff like "follow me," "love one another," ........ just do it as you've seen me do it.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
This is what Gay-Love looks like in my mind. Pictures like this...
This is what Gay-Love looks like in my mind. Pictures like this...: 
This is what Gay-Love looks like in my mind. Pictures like this should be the “poster-children” of Gay-Love rather than the r-rate / x-rated sorts.
This is what Gay-Love looks like in my mind. Pictures like this should be the “poster-children” of Gay-Love rather than the r-rate / x-rated sorts.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Maybe "original sin" was a heterosexuality hoax implemented!
Maybe "original sin" was all a heterosexuality hoax and has remained so all along. Maybe all of creation was really moving along just fine! Maybe, God really had no issues about anything going on in the creation He made and called "good." Maybe the story -- the garden of Eden story -- was put together, way after all the good things naturally happening had been moving along just fine -- as an attempt to own God and to coerce everyone into a heterosexual breeding program to produce sons (faster than wise) who could become warriors against other neighbors adopting the same sort of program.
Maybe the "word of God" is really in there, but the lesson has gone over the heads of so many who've seen all the words in the story. Maybe God has been SHOUTING "WAIT! YOU'RE NOT GETTING IT!"
Maybe everything was going along just fine until humans got over zealous about trying to control everything. The rest of creation seems to have been moving along just fine! It wasn't broke! It didn't need fixing!
Maybe, all along, homosexuality has been a legitimate (and good) part (10%, 5%, 2%) of the mix. Maybe, if the hoax hadn't been implemented, and if all the breeding hadn't been so zealously implemented, there wouldn't have been so many wars, so many bloody raids, so much over population (of humans). Maybe humans should have learned that "zeal without wisdom is folly." Maybe humans should have learned how and should have been encouraged to move in sync with, should have been able to sum up great value of having homosexuality in the mix!
Maybe the story has been showing what can happen when, well, humans get it wrong!
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Ain’t no Foolin’ goin’ on here! Happy April...
Ain’t no Foolin’ goin’ on here! Happy April...: 
Ain’t no Foolin’ goin’ on here! Happy April Fools Day to you all!
Ain’t no Foolin’ goin’ on here! Happy April Fools Day to you all!
Dreamin'
"Wow! I wasn't expecting that!
"Well, what do you think?"
"Hmm! I've thought to myself that it might be kinda nice just to have a job where I can just go, clock in, do my work, clock out and go home and continue to live in peace. Please don't tell me stuff like this... get my hopes built up... if you're not seriously sure! And do you think it's a good idea for friends to be working in the same place? I mean, think about it! We go to the same church. We go to the same gym. That's a lot of time we spend in the same places.
"Ron!"
"Yes?"
"It won't be a problem. This friendship is already unfolding into something I'm glad to have. I think it'd be great having you working nearby. If you want me to, I'll check into it on Monday. Can you meet me there on Monday afternoon?"
"I can leave the school at three-thirty. I can be there. Honestly, if that works out, I don't know if I'll be able to thank you enough. I'm sure mom and dad will feel relieved... excited actually."
"It's no problem, Ron. I'll be happy to do it! So, what are you doing this weekend?"
"Oh, besides church on Sunday, nothing special. You?"
"Same here! Why don't we ride out to Helen and, maybe, walk a bit up Anna Ruby Falls?"
"Wow! It's been a long time -- about thirty years -- since the last time I went there! In fact, used to be that that was the way I had to drive to get to the college I was attending unless I wanted to drive south towards Atlanta first and then cross over to I-75 north."
"Where were you going?"
"'Lee College' it was called back then."
"Ah! The Church of God school in Cleveland, Tennessee, right?"
"Yup! Since then, it's been turned into a university, 'Lee University.' I drove through Helen and up those steep winding roads, on through Blairsville to get there. Did the reverse to get back."
"Does that mean you'd like to go?"
"Hmm!"
"If it's not a good time, we can do it on another day."
"Well, I can't just give you a short answer. Get used to that! So often, 'Yes' or 'No' just doesn't quite get the job done. Know what I mean?"
"Yea, I know. So, what's the long answer?"
"Wow!"
"What?"
"We just met a few hours ago at the gym! We go to the same church. Our parents are friends. You can get me a job. It all seems so unbelievable! almost scary!"
"Ron."
"Yes?"
"What on your mind? Take your time. Let it out!"
"Your saying that just makes it that much more unbelievable!" (Sigh)
"J_____, sure I'd like to go, but"
"But what?"
"I'd rather drop some bombshells on you and have you hate me now than... I mean we can part company and go in peace ... I don't want drama! God, I don't want drama! I can try to find a different church. Maybe I can find another gym. I mean I'm the new guy on the block! I left Habersham county many years ago... I didn't want embarrassment for my family.... It's been thirty years... All I want to do is live in peace. I don't want trouble to happen because of me. I just want to live in peace!"
"Ron!"
"Alright, I'll drop a few bombs now. Know that there are more! I'm gay, and my family has known that all along. I'm broke, and am probably going to file for bankruptcy soon. I'm not loathing myself. I'm simply telling it like it is. I'd rather you hear it from me than through some grapevine."
"Ron!"
"I didn't start going to the gym to cruise after men. All I wanted was to go there, do my workout,"
"Ron! I'm gay too!"
"and then go home to live in peace with my mom and dad. Huh! What! What did you say?"
"Ron, I'm gay too, and my parents know."
"Wait!"
"Ron, honestly, I had no idea that you were gay, and I haven't cared one way or the other! It's been good enough that we go to the same gym and church. As I said, I think the world of your parents.... As everything has been unfolding ... unbelievably unfolding ... I've been totally satisfied in thinking that a really good friendship was happening, one that I'd want to hang on to."
"You're okay with everything I just told you?"
"Everyone has a story, Ron! I know yours is long and detailed. How can you live fifty plus years and not have a story with bumps, scrapes, bruises, tears, laughter, good times and bad? Frankly, I'd like for you to tell it to me. All of it! Take your time. Take all the time you need. I want to hear it from you. If not now, another day... or how ever many days you need. I'm sure I'm going to be okay with it all! I'm sure it'll be exciting... kinda like joining you for the ride. Every bit of it has added up and has led to here and now. I have a story too, and I'd like to tell you all about it. Already, I feel that you'll be okay with it. Why? Well, look at how everything has been unfolding already! It's like God putting it all together. I didn't set out for this day to turn out the way that it has. I had no idea! It's hard for me to not believe that... well... Ron, I don't want to lose this! I want this! Ron, do I have a chance with you?"
"What?!"
"You're here now! We're here now! We know now!"
"But, there are other bombshells!"
"I don't care!"
"But, I want to be sure that I am the one who tells you about them. I'll be honest enough to concede that I'll be giving you my own spin about them. Others who know can give you their spins. I have no wish to hide anything nor to sugar coat any of it. I've got over a thousand Youtube videos plus my blogs, Facebook and Tumblr telling the whole world my own spin about things."
"And?"
"I'm HIV negative. I don't want sex with anyone until I'm married finally and for good. I'm so tired of the games! I've slept with other men -- each of whom told me he loved me and swore to be there until 'death do us part.' Each was supposed to have been the last, the final, the one with whom I'd live happily ever after. I've taken chances. I've had about a half dozen relationships. I don't want to totally forget about them, because I have pleasant memories from each of them. I've talked about them on my videos, and I don't want to delete them. Probably, I'll always reminisce about them. Before those, I tried to fix things by getting married to a woman. Two children were born from that marriage. Both are now adults. One of them was legally adopted. The other has given birth to children of her own. Yes, I'm a grandfather! I've never met the grandchildren. I've not seen the children (except on line) since 1995. I'm getting old. I use blood pressure, cholesterol, and erectile dysfunction medications. I'm doing the best I can to live healthy, but I'm getting older and older. All the past has cost me a lot. As I said, I'm broke. I can't say it enough... I simply want to live my life in peace!"
"Is that all?"
"I don't want to live in secret, but I want to live in peace. I don't want sympathy. I simply want to speak for myself and let others speak for themselves."
"Ron, I'm speaking for myself, and I want a chance with YOU! I want a chance to help build a relationship. I don't want anything below the belt until I'm married, and if there's a chance that our relationship can grow into that, I'd sure like to give a try. Knowing what I know now, I'm willing to try. Ron, in spite of the fact that it seems too soon to be asking this, may I have that chance with you?"
"The short answer is yes, but I sure do want you to think about what you're asking!."
"What's the long answer?"
"I'm sure there are more than one, and we'll have to figure many of them out as we go along. I do know that I'll want our parents to know about it from us. If the people of our church are to know, I want them to know about it from us. If anyone is to know, I want them to know from us. How do we go forward from here, we'll have to figure out. I want nothing below the belt until I am married. I don't want peace disturbed. We've got a peaceful thing going right now. It ain't broke. If it ain't broke, let's not try to fix it!"
"So, shall we go to Helen tomorrow?"
"Sure!"
"You know, mom invited you to stay in the guest room. I'm sure she has made the bed, placed extra blankets and some towels and wash cloths in the room. You said your parents will be gone a few days, so why not just make yourself at home at our place?"
"I'll need to pick up some clothes from my house first,"
"Ok! Let's go!"
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