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Bob Davidson

Tommy -- come on, you must realize that having different beliefs doesn't matter to the people you are mocking -- it's the mockery of what they hold most sacred that offends them. You are obviously projecting your dislike of diverse opinions and beliefs onto others, unfairly, and fueling your animus with your projections.

Steve Keene

Tommy,

If you are going to get a Charlie Brown Christmas tree you better start now due to supply chain issues caused by the liberals and the fire and brimstone raining down on the California, Oregon and Washington areas due to the Democrat nose thumbing in God's face.

Jim Bedwell

Bob D,

THANK YOU for that PERFECT post #24155 to Tommy about his motivations and its effects. Nice to see a real adult in the room dealing with a child. LOVED seeing the lawyer take apart the psychologist about PSYCHOLOGY!!!! I think I'll start calling you Perry Mason.

I was a little disappointed, though, that my name wasn't found in Tommy's list of Christians. After all I am the last BUYA award winner & the SOLE evictee from the other forum (that I know of).

Jim Bedwell

Tommy,

You stated to Bob D, "I have a different belief system than you do, and you perceive that as mockery of your belief system."

You know, sir, call me a fool for going out on this limb, but how was your narcissistic persona of Ron NOT a mockery of a Christian's belief system? Cause I believe if you were allowed to, we'd have to still be enduring Ron's and Sue's venom - PLEASE TELL ME that they're not still on your forum!?!?!?!?

In conclusion, concerning my question to you above about Ron & Christians' belief systems, like Philip Marlowe said, "OK, Eddie (Mars), I've been waiting to hear this one".

Jim Bedwell

Tommy,

You may not believe what I'll say here, but you REALLY NEED HELP!!! Turn to JESUS!!!! I see you as just floundering around here, helping NO ONE, but especially YOURSELF with all this excessive, useless mind activity going on in your brain right now! Do yourself and the rest of us a favor - go see Baker - whatever you need to do - get down on your knees where you currently belong and admit your SINFUL (no worse than mine except for the later cure) nature to Him - JESUS CAN HELP YOU RIGHT NOW!!

"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus."  (Philippians 4:6-7 Berean Study Bible)

Jim Bedwell

FNC just now on Tucker Carlson:

1) 7200 pounds of fentanyl seized so far at the border this year - I can't remember what I quoted here months ago, but I think it was 2 pounds of fentanyl can kill 500,000 people. So if that's true, then 7200 pounds can kill 1.8 billion people.

2) they said the problem was worse at the border - fentanyl deaths in El Paso up SIXFOLD this year (just another aspect of Biden's & the Dem's elevation of murder/death in their WAR ON AMERICA AND GOD)

3) they said 2 of every 5 fentanyl pills confiscated in El Paso now are a FATAL DOSE

I wonder if they just dumped the stuff in our drinking water, if that would work? That would solve the problem completely. Do that and then just MOVE ON IN! Only problem with that is yet another harkening back to the 30's/40's - like the Nazis found out, what do you do with all the bodies?

Please, God, let the mean tweeter be a mean repeater!!!

Jim Bedwell

Country music star Travis Tritt said on FNC yesterday that he is now telling anybody that wants him to perform, it will have to be at a venue that has ZERO mask requirements, vaccine mandates, etc. YEE HAW!!! Go, Travis!

David Cordell

Hmmm.

So, how 'bout them Astros??

Lowell Tuttle

Susie and I are' chirping....Should we root for the Braves or the Dodgers?   I think we get home field with the Braves....so that's who I'm rootin for.   Plus I fear Schertzer...But that Astros battery doesn't, I am sure.   They are some hitters....

Brent Strom is probably the best pitching coach...Though, I remember the Rangers had a couple of good ones...Jackie Moore or Jackie Brown??  can't remember...fading   fading...

PS  Susie cusses like a sailor when the ball game is on.

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Tommy,

The fact that you don't accept Christianity DOES NOT GNAW at us.  It causes us pity.

We do not grimace with frowning faces from of anger.   We question with raised eyebrows that you don't get it, allowing for the intellect that you supposedly have!

And of course we wish for you all the love, happiness and health that all men hope to have on Earth!   We've told you that many times, as we wished you Happy Birthday!  Or Merry Christmas!  Or wonderful travels on the highways and byways!  Or "Have a nice day!"   We learned to give those wishes to those we have cared about, mainly from mimicking our Christian parents.

The only people who make me grimace are people like Soros and other Progressives who hope to eliminate any religion in this country and others, so as to have, as a replacement, servitude of the controlled people to The State, without having to contend with a people wanting to yield allegiance only to their Lord.

Lowell Tuttle

Steve,  catching up on these posts and playing facebook gin and watching the Dodgers on my cell phone.

Your post #24157 made me burst out laughing.  Thanks.

I think it was the timing with which I was reading and scrolling through all this stuff...You have good posting tempo sometimes.

Jim Bedwell

Thanks, Bob, for all that Bloomsbury info. Some day I will find time (likely never) to read all the non-fiction stuff I'd love to read. I haven't read fiction for quite a while now, including ending my 50-year newspaper readership in 2014 here. And yes, while I'm not sure how great Keynes was, their warm(er) feelings toward (mostly worthless - gee, just like a lot of elites today!) royals/nobles is strange, but I guess that kinda thing is not unprecedented; I mean look how so many think the Kennedys or Obamas walk on water over here!

Actually I thought I had almost all those celebrities you mentioned on my tree, but I don't have Keynes, Monty, Omar Bradley, Nimitz, Dewey, Hopkins, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence (got Confederate D.H. Hill tho - both named after James Mulvihill). Got most of the rest though, including the Sackville-Wests, Bertrand Russell, Thackery, and the other generals/military.

Most people, I think, believe T.S. Eliot (I bet you knew the truth already) was English but he emigrated to England from the U.S. Also actor Raymond Massey was from Canada but most people in England thought he was from America and most people here thought he was from England (so Raymond said). Finally Patrick McGoohan was born & died in the U.S.

Presidents with no currently living descendants - the 4 with no comment did have children:

Washington (no natural children - had stepchildren, 1 of whom was paternal grandfather to Mrs. Robert E. Lee)

Madison (no natural children - had a bad-news stepson with Dolley (the correct spelling))

Jackson (no natural children)

Polk (no natural children)

Fillmore

Pierce

Buchanan (bachelor)

Lincoln

McKinley

Biden - not really - we can only regret that

Lowell Tuttle

Speaking of sports, how many of you Dallasites are heading over to watch the Mavericks this season?  I guess Lance didn't get his season tickets.

Steve Keene

Lowell,

Thank you for your comments.  It should be gratifying that David turns to you when the forum needs cooling down.  You always seem to have relationships as your foremost priority.  I appreciate that because it is genuine with you and not feigned as with some others.  Your health issues have been of some concern for me and I have been praying for you and your wife as you go through these trials.  Despite our political differences, there is much to like about you.

Jim Bedwell

Bob D,

Also I have as many people on my tree as I could connect to the Souls, the Coterie, and the Happy Valley Set. Plus as many murderers, assassins, crooks, weirdos, misfits & other ne'er-do-wells as I can find and not just the British non-conventionals either. Herman Mudgett? A distant cousin. Likewise Lee Harvey.

Lowell Tuttle

This per a facebook suggestion mostly for us Houston fans.

The Houston Texans franchise is worth 3.1 billion dollars.

The Tennessee Titans franchise is worth 2.6 bilion dollars.

Sell the Texans.

Buy the Titans.

Move the Titans to Houston and change the name back to the Oilers.

Use the 500 000 000 left over to pay Carlos Correa to stay with the Astros.

Sandra Spieker (Ringo)

That time of year when you hear the geese overhead flying South for the winter and see all the great pumpkin carvings!  This one below is courtesy of my son and his new bride, Tonye.  Sally and Jack from a Nightmare before Christmas.  Tonye carved Sally and Aaron carved Jack.  Made for each other.... Happy Halloween!

Steve Keene

Sandra,

I saw a carved pumpkin yesterday with flapping wings for ears.  I asked what that was.  The reply:  "flapjacks."

Thinking of Aaron and Tonye starting a new life with a doting mother/mother in law.  No pressure, but when can we expect some yard gourds or little rug squashes?

Sandra Spieker (Ringo)

Steve,

I have been told with reliable authority that the little squashes are not yet in the planning stage.  Tonye is 32, she has time left and Aaron needs to become the highest paid guitar maker in America.  When he does, the little ones will follow in short order.  There is never enough money to raise kids.  Just sayin.

Holly Hobby

Rushed for time (as usual)  in efforts tie a gold filigree bow on a gift for the host of a small dinner part last night, I couldn't get it to work!   One end of the ribbon kept snagging on the filigree.  Not wanting to keep my husband was waiting (as usual) only made it harder. So frustrated with that freaking ribbon! 

Suddenly, out  of the blue came the voice of Bertie Newsom, Susan Newsom Martin's  late Mother.   “Try it again,” she said.   “Make a loop. Wrap the other end over the loop. Pull both ends into a bow.”   I don’t remember if already, Susan knew how to tie her shoes.  (Probably did).  Either way I remember crying “I can’t! I can’t tie my shoes!”  

As always, rife with patience and commonsense Mrs. Newsom said, “Try it again.  Make a loop. Wrap the other end over the loop. Pull both ends into a bow.”   ("I can't!  The filigree ribbons keeps snagging on the loop!")  

Again came Mrs.  Mrs. Newsom’s voice of reason.  “Try it again. Make a loop. Wrap the other end over the loop. Pull both ends into a bow.” 

Did it!  But only because of Susan Martin's mother  was the most beautiful gold filigree ribbon tied into a perfect bow.  Somehow I must believe Mrs. Newsom would be proud. (Probably more so had we been on time for the dinner party.)

One thing I know for sure: Bertie Newsom was one of those exceedingly rare beings.  Unwittingly, the kind who live forever in your heart and mind.  The kind  woven into your soul. 

Even on sale, the gold filigree ribbon was more than I'm willing to spend on ribbon. I'll spend on ribbon. But something about it, I just had to have.  But for that particular memory of Susan's mother I'd have paid whatever the vendor asked.

When I get to heaven, among the first I'm going to try and find will be  Susan's mother. Rest in peace, beloved Mrs. Newsom.

Lowell Tuttle

Holly, the Bertie reference.   Fun you knew her.   Sister still lives in my parents house on Thompson next door to the Newsom's until their demise.   Loved playing bridge with the family and Bertie when I came home.   In 1977 or 78 I bought her 1974 burnt orange (almost) Cadillac Coupe De Ville.   My first trip was wiht my sister to New Orleans.    Bertie let me keep her CB radio for that trip to scount the smokies.   Remember those days?  I can't remember my handle for that trip.  

She negotiated the hell out of me for that car.   As I remember, it was 4700 and there were about 90,000 Texas to Tennessee miles on that thing.  I drove it till it was dead about four years later...

She was close with my mom, but mainly loved cuttin up with my dad...

She had Sonny, Susan, Michael, and Kelly.   Her grandson in law owns Industrial Pizza.  Good place.   Sister works there as does Bubba Bostick...

Late.

Edit.   Now that I think about it, that Caddi only had 45,000 miles on it.   

I moved to Houston with it to open my own agency, but I drove back to Richardson monthly to do the computer books for the Dallas office where my dad and sister worked.   Stayed there at Thompson when in town and was afforded country club golf as well as unlimited scotch.   I always made it up for the Texas OU weekend and Dallas parties with the old UT friends of mine like I did this year.   I was coming home late one night from one of those UT parties down on Walnut Hill area.   Exiting on MID Park there at TI, I turned left to get to Weathrred and across Belt Line to my parents home.   As I went through the service road, a car in front of me with about 8 hispanics suddenly stopped to make a left where there was no left turn into the Denny's that used to be there.   My Cadillac bounded up abit as I went across the feeder and slammed into the back of the stopped car.   I was shocked they had stopped, but go out and went to their driver window to ask if they were all right and if they wanted to call the police.   They hollered out no and took off.   I headed home and the next morning got up to go get paper and coffee, somewhat hungover, and my dad wanted to go with me.   We got into the Cadillac and to my horror the window was totally cracked and the hood had buckled up from the collision the night before.   My dad didn't even notice.   Got coffee, donuts, home, and then took off to Houston and the body shop no worse for wear.   

Tommy, you're right, stories are told from first person's point of view.   I sort of think it's the only way a story can be told...don't you?  

Jim Bedwell

LOVED hearing yesterday on FNC how Ted Cruz of Texas had introduced a bill to ship all the illegal aliens to 13 particular locations in the U.S. - places like Martha's Vineyard where Barack has one of his residences (and the liar Obama's not too worried about climate change there either with his ocean view - actions, not words, again).

One swamp Dem politician was railing against how outrageous it was. Hey, SWINE, now you know how we fly-over-country folks feel about your Marxist Godlessness !!!

Jim Bedwell

Who's the ONLY thespian to EVER win an Oscar for a role in an Alfred Hitchcock movie? Joan Fontaine, died at 96, sister of Olivia de Havilland, died at 104 last year, for "Suspicion" (1941). Here's what I have for her on my tree: a licensed pilot, champion balloonist, expert rider, prize-winning tuna fisherman, a hole-in-one golfer, Cordon Bleu chef, licensed interior decorator & naturalized citizen (1943) - WOW - that's the kind of immigrant I WANT, not the dregs of the world like Biden is currently inflicting on us in his idiotic acquiescence in the worldwide War on America.

Jim Bedwell

GOODIE!! Today on "The Five" we have Gutfeld, Watters AND Dagen McDowell - COOL!!! Watters just gave a BRILLIANT monologue about AG Merrick Garland's bringing the FBI down on parents at ACTUAL PEACEFUL PROTESTS at school boards. I think Watters is every bit as brilliant as Gutfeld. AND BOTH ARE SO HILARIOUS! Dagen also - she is VERY thoughtful, insightful, well-spoken, and I love her bluntness as she thrashes the clueless left (LOVE the Southern accent as well). And she is also eye candy to me. But it's like having 3 Krauthammers at ONE TIME!

Jim Bedwell

Economic growth projections a few months ago? around 6%

Economic growth projections now, as reported yesterday? ONE HALF OF ONE PERCENT.

No, stagflation is not the result of prey overabundance due to massive predator loss. It's the result of something else, like stupidity overabundance due to massive leadership loss.

Churchill quotes worth repeating:

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” —House of Commons, 22 October 1945.

“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” —Perth, Scotland, 28 May 1948, in Churchill, Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 & 1948 (London: Cassell, 1950), 347.