Country music blends into Christian music and vice-versa often. One of my favorites is a song by Craig Morgan called: "That's What I Love About Sunday." The music is beautiful, and the lyrics are moving. Please check the song out on You Tube because you’ll be very glad you did.
A girl was going through her spelling homework and she asked her dad what the difference between anger and exasperation was. Thinking about it for a moment he said watch this and he picked up the phone and called a random number.
When a man picked up the phone her dad asked if Henry was there to which he said he didn’t know a Henry. Her dad asked him again and he said I told you I don’t know him. He was a bit perturbed and hung up the phone. He said now the man is irritated so watch this in which he called the number again and the same man answered. Her father asked him again if he knew Henry and the guy got mad and hung up the phone. Now he’s officially mad. He said let’s take it up a notch and he called the man a third time and when the man answered the phone her father said: “Hey, it’s Henry…did I get any messages.” The man began screaming in the phone that her father better quit calling or he’ll find out where he lives and beat him up; then he slammed the phone down. The father looked over at his daughter and said: “Now that’s what it’s like to be exasperated.” In the 1960's, our CIA attempted to kill Fidel Castro with a poisoned cigar. I'd say we're guilty of "meddling" in elections as well. This is one of the reasons I want Democrats to stop attacking Russia over meddling when we're a guilty party as well.
My example of Castro is just one, we have done all kinds of things to bend elections in our favor. I get embarrassed when we point our fingers at other countries when we have our own house to clean up. BTW: Do you remember a few years ago when the Chinese were caught hacking our systems even releasing a virus? What happened? What did Obama do about it? Absolutely nothing. Why? Because China already knew we had our own hackers doing the same things, so we let it slide. This is also why we do “Spy Swaps” periodically. We’re all guilty. I beg of Democrats to please stop finger pointing at other countries because they know that we’re also guilty. I think what they’re doing is unethical and embarrassing. Sean Bean has been one of the greatest actors of our time performing in over 100 movies and television shows and winning numerous awards, but a lot of people don't know who he is. His movies include: 1) Lord of the Rings 2) Patriot Games 3) Golden Eye 4) Bravo Two Zero 5) National Treasure 6) Troy and 7) Jupiter Ascending. His television shows include one of the most successful series of all time called "Sharp's Company" along with 1) The Practice 2) Lady Chatterley 3) The Canterbury Tales 4) Game of Thrones and 5) The Frankenstein Chronicles.
My guess is that since he lives in Europe and has no desire to be in the Hollywood scene that he hasn't gotten the PR that would let people know how successful he is; thus my reason for this post as I think he deserves for more people to know what he's done. I was talking to a friend of mine (Chris), about our love for history and he brought up a great point. He said that when he was in his 20’s it was the 1980’s and if he had to read about something that happened in the 1950’s that he always thought it was so long ago. He basically didn’t have an interest in it because it seemed like an eternity since the events occurred.
But now that Chris is an adult he feels more connected and interested in various points in history. No longer do historical events just seem like something that happened long ago and don’t matter but instead it’s fresh and exciting to learn about. His premise was basically this, when he was 20 years old he was about 25 years removed from the good old days in the 1950’s (Happy Days), yet it seemed like a millennium away. Now he’s around 60 years removed from the 1950’s and finds those years interesting and relative. Two completely different perspectives based on age; thus, why it’s difficult to get through to young people sometimes. At that point in their life they’re wired differently so common sense isn’t that common and anything older than a year, is ancient. I don’t agree that we should study history, so we don’t repeat it, I think we should study it because the stories are awesome. It’s okay to read about history and do so just for the entertainment which is exactly what I hope you’ll do. Little boys and girls cry pretty much the same amount but when they become adults, women cry 4 times as much as men. I find this interesting. Are guys not crying a learned behavior? Does testosterone negatively affect our abilities to be more empathetic/sympathetic? So many mysteries, so little time.
The populations of California and New York combined are more than 27 other states combined. This is a problem as the culture and values of California and New York aren't the same in some regards as the other 27 so why allow these two states to dictate the direction of our country?
I say that when it comes to presidential elections that we vote by state, period. Whoever wins the most states wins the election. I'd feel much better having the above 27 states wagging the tail then continue to allow California and New York to wag the dog. By the way, Congress is what balances everything out as areas of a state get representation. Of course, on the Senate side each state has two. There's been a bit of talk this morning about what Meryl Streep said last night regarding including "Inclusive Riders" in contracts. Just so you know Inclusive Riders prevent straight white people from getting jobs even if they're qualified because movie production companies want to provide jobs specifically to the LGBTQ community.
Their pursuit is diversity on set, but I guess they don't realize that when you make someone's gender, religion, sexual orientation, etc., a factor in who does and who doesn't get hired regardless of qualifications, it’s a human rights’ violation. I didn't know Hollywood has a problem with diversity. I've worked with enough people to know that you're better off not hiring (in some cases), someone who's a perfectionist for a variety of reasons including that perfectionists aren’t always productive because they spend so much time even on the trivial things, trying to get it perfect.
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Author: John Mann |