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This week's
theme for The Writer's Post Thursday Blog Hop #85 is Ghost Stories. You may post about any weird
or fun adventure that you or a friend
experienced. Or if you'd like, make one up. When finished, please link your
post back here at Catch My Wordsand link up on the Writer's Post Facebook page. Happy
haunting!
After back
surgery, the simple act of rolling over was a painful feat. However a ghostly friend
chose to help. As I faced sideways, an image
of an almost bald man, with a
pleasant smile and a red plaid shirt, floated next to my bed. Without moving
his lips, he asked me if I wanted to roll over. I telepathically told him,
"Yes." He then floated downward until he disappeared. Once he was
gone, I easily rolled to my other side.
The next day,
I told my sister about my ghostly visitor. She too had seen this dude in her
room one night. Doo doo doo. Was I dreaming? Maybe, but how did I easily turn
over? Why had my sister seen the same man? Perhaps he was a ghost from a past
life we shared or maybe I'm just crazy.
When we saw the new Three Stooges movie on TV, I was reminded of the Curly Shuffle. "Oh, wise guy. Nyuk! Nyuk!" Enjoy this tune by Jump N the Saddle, but also, don't try this at home. When my friend was a toddler learning to walk, he had the rug ripped out from under him-literally–after his brothers watched The Three Stooges. Time out for Mom? Not this way.
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People love to mess with history for their own political agenda, but the fact remains, the people who started a new chapter for our country were a bunch of radicals, who did not stand behind Jesus in the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
"One Nation Under God," by Jon McNaughton
Here's a bit of conservative propaganda painted by Jon McNaughton. Isn't it a bit ironic to see Jesus holding the document that gives us freedom of religion? Never did our constitution call us a "Christian nation." Instead our constitution stated, "Legislature" should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
Looking deeper, is that Thomas Jefferson standing behind Jesus? Here's two of his quotes.
Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common
law.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10,
1814
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him [Jesus] by
his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct
morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again
of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism,
and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions
should have proceeded from the same being.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Short, April 13, 1820
Glenn Beck, Mr. Tea Bagger himself, likes to dress up as Thomas Paine. Now that's funny! Paine was the atheist who said, "Churches were human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind."
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the
Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the
Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my
own Church. [Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason]
How about Adams who said, "This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it."
I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself. -- John Adams,
letter to his brother-in-law, Richard Cranch, August 29, 1756,
explaining how his independent opinions would create much difficulty in
the ministry, in Edwin S Gaustad, Faith of Our Fathers: Religion and the New Nation (1987) p. 88, quoted from Ed and Michael Buckner, "Quotations that Support the Separation of State and Church"
And this, Dear Readers, is all I ever ask for. Quit trying to push your faith on me or change the history of our founding fathers when they began a new chapter. I have nothing against religion. I just don't want to be pressured to practice yours, nor lied to about who are founding fathers truly were.
I leave you with a Bill Maher clip that you'll either love or loathe. Either way, have a wonderful Independence Day!
Emu? Crazy elephant bones? Dijon ketchup? The Bare Naked Ladies provide some great ideas for when you win the lottery!
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Meme Express's word of the week is "Nonsense," and nothing is more nonsensical than the nursery rhyme Pat A Cake.
Pat a
cake, Pat a cake, baker's man
Bake me a cake as fast as you can;
Pat it and prick it and mark it with a 'B',
And put it in the oven for Baby and me.
*First off, who pats cakes? The last thing I'd want to do is put my hands in gooey cake batter and pat it. I might pat sugar cookie batter, but not sticky cake.
*Secondly, if you bake a cake as fast as you can, it's not going to taste good. Cake takes time to rise. Haste makes waste, right? I sure don't want my baker rushing the job.
*Finally, how are you going to mark it with a 'B' before you put it in the oven? Why mark it when babies can't even read? I don't know about you, but I use icing to label my cakes.
I've often made my own teaching items. Now, some of these gems are for sale at Teachers Pay Teachers. I placed thirty-seven items in my store and have already made $8.25. Not bad for the summer. I hope I can find customers who use Promethean Boards because that's my best stuff.
Fourteen-year-old Scotty couldn't speak, was blind in one eye, deaf in one ear, needed a daily enema to move his bowels, was severely mentally challenged, and basically couldn't do much but sit in his wheel chair waiting for a fresh diaper and a spoon full of soft food that he would spill out of his mouth as he tried to chew; however, when Don't You Want Me by The Human League sang over the radio, he'd light up like a glow worm. Not only will I forever remember Scotty's bright smile and gurgling sounds over this song, but I still think of him whenever I hear it. Here's to a special boy, hopefully turned man, Scotty.
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Today, June 21st is the longest day of the year, and in 1990, it most certainly was. The result of my labors was a beautiful seven pound, ten ounce baby girl.
Judith Miriam
She was always a precious little girl.
and she made us proud at her Bat Mitzvah.
Twenty-three years have passed and my little girl has grown into a beautiful young lady.
Happy Birthday, Judy! May age 23 be the best year ever!
of an almost bald man, with a
pleasant smile and a red plaid shirt, floated next to my bed. Without moving
his lips, he asked me if I wanted to roll over. I telepathically told him,
"Yes." He then floated downward until he disappeared. Once he was
gone, I easily rolled to my other side.
