Travelin’ to Graceland, Graceland, Graceland Tennessee
Once they’ve made a name and career for themselves, novelists, musicians, actors, painters and other creatives face a common challenge: Now what? Do you keep doing what you’ve done, what made you famous, or do you bust out of that niche and try something fresh and new?
Twenty-five years ago, a semi-washed-up pop star by the name of Paul Simon decided to try to something new, infusing his work with exotic influences from South Africa and Louisiana and Mexico. In “Graceland,” Simon produced one of those rare albums in which musicianship and creativity were rewarded with popularity. It was a fresh work of art by a mature professional, plus it made your feet twitch and your heart jump.
In its Silver Anniversary year, here’s the title cut:
– Jay Bookman
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TnGelding
April 23rd, 2011
6:44 pm
Let’s wait and see what gas is selling for on election day 2012.
TnGelding
April 23rd, 2011
6:47 pm
Highway to heaven:
http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=highway+to+heaven+youtube
Midori
April 23rd, 2011
6:53 pm
Now, now guys — Lil Barry just has been partaking too much tiger’s blood.
TnGelding
April 23rd, 2011
6:58 pm
Big Barry is starting to irk me, too. Get to work, already!!!
Normal
April 23rd, 2011
7:06 pm
TnG…
I’ll drink to that. It is time for him to quit being Mr. Nice Guy.
Bruno
April 23rd, 2011
7:32 pm
Off to the big ATL. Hope you guys have a great night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZpaNJqF4po&NR=1
getalife
April 23rd, 2011
7:53 pm
After all the losses to get Iraqi oil and 53 more billion in welfare, lil w bailout blames Obama for high gas prices.
AmVet
April 23rd, 2011
8:02 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU13C3vSwcs
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
April 23rd, 2011
8:19 pm
Well, I hope all you music maniacs are happy. This blog’s as dull as the Rev. Postlewaite’s sermons. One of which I got to set thru tomorrow morning. I guess you swapping music gives me plenty of time to make little ______ Zell George’s Easter basket. He’s as hopped up as I am about the Easter Bunny’s birthday tomorrow. So go ahead and trade weird music, I won’t put anything serious on here. You just got to understand that this blog is nothing without people trading insults.
Go Donald Go
April 23rd, 2011
8:26 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3LM2iQ8p7A
AmVet
April 23rd, 2011
8:37 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1xrCXNmPSw
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
April 23rd, 2011
8:46 pm
Bruno
Go easy on LBB. Everyone has to have an outlet for their pent up energy. Some people paint, other’s restore cars, and LBB posts on this blog. Can’t fault a guy for posting what he believes, regardless to whether it’s right or wrong. In the eyes of the poster, what he believes is always right, and those who disagree are wrong.
stands for decibels
April 23rd, 2011
8:55 pm
I’m guessing a lot of his liberalism went south, so to speak, after that.
You’re so woefully uninformed it’s hilarious.
see also:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/16/paul-simon-blasts-bush-ov_n_68701.html
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/2Balc2Duy2x/Pres+First+Lady+Obama+Honor+Musician+Stevie/HXGBVT4Sz0-/Paul+Simon
Normal
April 23rd, 2011
8:57 pm
For Redneck and Little Zell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_W-jAuzUhY
Midori
April 23rd, 2011
9:00 pm
anyone watching “The 10 Commandments”?
Hillbilly Deluxe
April 23rd, 2011
9:10 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiNLsjhChng
Dave R.
April 23rd, 2011
9:12 pm
“anyone watching “The 10 Commandments”?”
You bet! An Easter eve staple in the Dave R. house.
0311/0317 - 1811/1801
April 23rd, 2011
9:13 pm
“FOOD FOR THOUGHT{
1) Having a college report card with all B’s and required credit hours is good but one needs a Diploma from the college or university for employeen purpsesl
2) Having a DD214 for service in the Armed Forces is good but still requires an official “Discharge” of some type to obtain Veterna’s benefits.
3) Being the best legal mind in the land still requires authorization to practice before the
Supreme Court of the United States.
4) Being the best NASCAR driver in the contry still requires a drivers lidense to drive home.
5) Having a “Certification of Live Birth” is all well and good but a “Birth Certificate” is still required for government jobs requiring access to Top Secret information.
The list could go on and on and on ……………………
Need I say more ?
Paulo977
April 23rd, 2011
9:21 pm
Redneck
Convert
re:”This blog’s as dullas the Rev.Postlewaite’s sermons…so just saying…..
“things derive their their beingand nature by mutual dependence and are NOTHING in themselves”
Nagajurna
Let us remember Japan at this time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3FRkG3HV1c&feature=related
Midori
April 23rd, 2011
9:34 pm
cool Dave R.
same here
Southern Comfort
April 23rd, 2011
9:48 pm
Midori
Most definitely watched here. It’s getting to the good part now. I love to see Moses put the stick on Ramses.
Normal
April 23rd, 2011
10:03 pm
Geeze…and I’m watching Harry Potter…who knew?
Gotta get up early and deliver baskets…Have a good evening, all y’all.
Riaw24
April 23rd, 2011
10:34 pm
ONE: ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.’
TWO: ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image–any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.’
THREE: ‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.’
FOUR: ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.’
FIVE: ‘Honor your father and your mother.’
SIX: ‘You shall not murder.’
SEVEN: ‘You shall not commit adultery.’
EIGHT: ‘You shall not steal.’
NINE: ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.’
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments” (Matthew 22:36-40).
A reflective reading of Christ’s teaching reveals that the first four commandments given to the children of Israel are contained in the statement: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” It continues that the last six commandments are enclosed in the statement: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
The Tenth
April 23rd, 2011
10:36 pm
TEN: ‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.’
BADA BING
April 23rd, 2011
10:37 pm
Moses came down from the Mount and told the people “I have good/bad news. I got them down from 20 to 10. Bad news is that Adultery is still in”.
Go Donald Go
April 23rd, 2011
10:57 pm
10.5th commandment – “Carpe Diem” It’s never to late for the resurrection, have a sweet Easter all you wonderful people
bada – very funny
Midori
April 23rd, 2011
11:07 pm
BADA —
SoCo – my favorite part is when he parts the sea
Dave R.
April 24th, 2011
12:23 am
You know, for a movie done back in the year I was born (1956), the special effects are pretty good in the Ten Commandments.
Yippee
April 24th, 2011
12:24 am
Here we are: We’re facing unnecessarily high gas prices; uncertainty in the small business community thus high unemployment; allies wondering what gives; ramrodding of unwanted policies; diminished clout and respect worldwide; a collapsing dollar; runaway federal spending; over-the-top regulation; unaccountable czars and czarinas; dangerous illegal immigration (many from terrorist bastians); and only God knows what else; and instead of a president, we have a candidate-in-chief.
Lil' Barry Bailout
April 24th, 2011
8:00 am
Fascism: the Idiot Messiah ordering Boeing to build a plant in union-friendly Washington state rather than American-friendly South Carolina. Looking forward to the courts smacking him down right quick. Question is…will the fascist follow the court order, or ignore it as has happened before?
Idiot Messiah: Liberal Fascist.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
April 24th, 2011
8:09 am
G’morning all, and a Happy Easter Sunday to all observing this holiday.
Kinda been scratching my head over the posturing the GOP has been doing over the debt limit. I wonder if they realize that they’ve already painted themselves into a corner. I came across a link to a LA Times blog that had the following:
The fiscal 2012 budget resolution proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) drew the support of all 235 Republicans present and voting Friday, as well as the opposition from all 193 Democrats in attendance. That means 235 members of the House GOP are now on record in favor of slowing the growth of domestic discretionary spending and Medicaid, shrinking the deficit gradually through fiscal 2015, and sharply reducing federal spending as a percentage of the economy over the long term.
They’re also on record favoring an increase in the debt ceiling, which currently stands at $14.3 trillion.
Pages 5 and 6 of the budget resolution declare that the “appropriate levels of debt” subject to the debt ceiling are as follows:
Fiscal year 2012: $16,204,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2013: $17,177,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2014: $17,955,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2015: $18,704,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2016: $19,513,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $20,257,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $20,981,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $21,711,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $22,416,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $23,105,000,000,000.
Being my curious self, I didn’t take their word for it, and I went to look it up for myself. I found a copy of the Ryan budget proposal and looked at pages 5&6 like they said. Wondering what it says??
According to the Ryan proposal:
1 TITLE I—RECOMMENDED
2 LEVELS AND AMOUNTS
3 SEC. 101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS.
4 The following budgetary levels are appropriate for
5 each of fiscal years 2012 through 2021:
[...]
9 (4) DEFICITS (ON-BUDGET).—For purposes of
10 the enforcement of this resolution, the amounts of
11 the deficits (on-budget) are as follows:
12 Fiscal year 2012: $1,081,463,000,000.
13 Fiscal year 2013: $787,899,000,000.
14 Fiscal year 2014: $581,261,000,000.
15 Fiscal year 2015: $527,165,000,000.
16 Fiscal year 2016: $577,014,000,000.
17 Fiscal year 2017: $501,418,000,000.
18 Fiscal year 2018: $464,036,000,000.
19 Fiscal year 2019: $490,469,000,000.
20 Fiscal year 2020: $464,392,000,000.
21 Fiscal year 2021: $433,912,000,000.
22 (5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—Pursuant to
23 section 301(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act
24 of 1974, the appropriate levels of the public debt are
25 as follows:
•HCON 34 RH
1 Fiscal year 2012: $16,204,000,000,000.
2 Fiscal year 2013: $17,177,000,000,000.
3 Fiscal year 2014: $17,955,000,000,000.
4 Fiscal year 2015: $18,704,000,000,000.
5 Fiscal year 2016: $19,513,000,000,000.
6 Fiscal year 2017: $20,257,000,000,000.
7 Fiscal year 2018: $20,981,000,000,000.
8 Fiscal year 2019: $21,711,000,000,000.
9 Fiscal year 2020: $22,416,000,000,000.
10 Fiscal year 2021: $23,105,000,000,000.
Seems like the House GOP has already said that our debt limit will eventually end up at least around $23 Trillion within the next 10 years, so why play games and risk our economy with their hardball tactics? I can not grasp the logic with playing such a dangerous game of chicken with our future. We all know that there’s gotta be change in the way we’re running our budgets, but don’t risk throwing the entire globe into a depression to gain ideological ground. That’s pure jackassery.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
April 24th, 2011
8:21 am
Well, Happy Easter everybody. It’s a fine day to be getting on your Sunday finest and driving off to church. It’s already a fine day here at the trailer. Little ______ Zell George ripped the clear plastic off of his Easter basket and chewed both ears off of the chocolate rabbit before any of us knew it.
Anyway, I hope all you heathens go to the Southren Baptist or Holiness church of your choice this morning. Don’t waste your time going to other types. You can’t be Saved at them. And I guess I’ll see some of you at Ryans for the buffet. A word of advise: Don’t get ahead of or behind the missus when you’re in the line. She ain’t too particular about what she stabs at when she loads up her plate.
Go Donald Go
April 24th, 2011
8:38 am
southern comfort
It’s a mad, mad, mad, world out there loaded up with a lot of political nonsense. I thought that was a very cool gesture toward the lil barry poster. As anyone knows who doesn’t have it, keep your eye on the ball and remember the real truth: good health = wealth.
Good little liberal
April 24th, 2011
8:39 am
Happy Easter everyone!
Please remember the reason for this day that is so important to your fellow Americans and Christians all over the world.
stands for decibels
April 24th, 2011
8:45 am
What the hell is it with you guys?
presumably the same “compassion” that drives Michigan Republicans to target foster children in their insane desire to impose austerity in the richest, most powerful nation ever on earth.
Think Atrios put it best:
normally these a[-]holes go after imagined deadbeats on unemployment and single mothers who should be punished for their sins. Now they’ve decided even foster kids are responsible for their situations in life and shouldn’t get any more of those “generous” handouts.
Happy Easter, America.
carlosgvv
April 24th, 2011
8:51 am
stands for decibels
I did not say he had lost all of his liberalism. Also, as a performer, he knows good politically correct publicity is always a way to more money in the bank. This is so obvious that I must conclude you really need to learn to engage brain before shifting mouth.
carlosgvv
April 24th, 2011
8:53 am
Go Donald Go
If you really believe that then please tell all of us what makes you more elegible for God’s grace than others.
Go Donald Go
April 24th, 2011
8:55 am
carlos – I have no clue what you are referring to????????
Good little liberal
April 24th, 2011
8:58 am
Give it a rest. Is anybody really dumb enough to believe that Republicans are “going after” foster children? How indoctrinated do you have to be to believe this garbage.
Everybody wants the best for as many Americans as possible. Democrats believe that it is up to the government to make people happy. Republicans believe the private sector should improve the lives of others.
Just look at the misery that has happened to America since the Democrats took over Congress in 2007 and especially the horrible shape the economy has sunk to since the clown-in-chief took over. So what is just a big stack of lies to the uneducated, indoctrinated, blind liberals?
Stop repeating the garbage you hear from Salon.com and take a look around. Look at our economy. Look at the unemployment rate. Look at the cost of gas and the cost of food. Even if you are dumb enough to believe the Republican Congress did this, don’t you think that four years should have been enough to turn it around.
In other words, liberals, get a clue.
TnGelding
April 24th, 2011
9:02 am
He has risen!
What a glorious day the Lord has made! Enjoy!
All Ryan needs to do to eliminate the deficits oer the next 10 yers is let the Bush era lunacy die a natural death. But I don’t agree with his spending reductions. Wrong priorities. We have to invest in the future. It’s the American way.
The same folks that complain about Obama interfering in the marketpalce want him to do something about high gas prices and still ridicule Jimmy for his vision.
Go Donald Go
April 24th, 2011
9:03 am
“Just look at the misery that has happened to America since the Democrats took over Congress in 2007″
Nice trick, spend like fools for eight years, then get thrown out because of the mess, then blame the dems? It takes two to tango and both sides are complicit. In other words, try to see the forest past the trees.
TnGelding
April 24th, 2011
9:11 am
The Republicans spent like drunken …..Democrts!
Good little liberal
April 24th, 2011
9:13 am
Go Donald Go
Absolutely. BOTH side of the GOVERNMENT are the problem. Get it? THE GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM.
Reduce the government’s size. Reduce the government’s influence. That’s the only solution.
Go Donald Go
April 24th, 2011
9:23 am
good little
Sorry, not buying into that worn out phrase. Anyway, today is easter, the children are enjoying finding eggs and eating chocolate, then getting dressed up to go to church. It’s the little things in life
carlosgvv
April 24th, 2011
9:37 am
Go Donald Go
I am refering to your 3:54 post. Short-term memory loss?
Good little liberal
April 24th, 2011
9:46 am
Go Donald Go
Which worn out phrase? The one in which I was agreeing with you?
It is the fault of both sides. The government. Get them out of our lives.
Fix the roads. Make sure our food is safe. Enforce our laws and get out.
Go Donald Go
April 24th, 2011
9:46 am
carlos
Do you make it a habit of responding to a post from the previous day? I don’t take this stuff all that seriously. My advice to you is: eat some candy
carlosgvv
April 24th, 2011
9:59 am
Go Donald Go
That is not what I asked you. Additionaly I, unlike you, do not have the luxury of being able to sit and post here all day evey day. Please answer the question or admit you can’t.
Go Donald Go
April 24th, 2011
10:04 am
All day, every day? Been on here three days. Never said I was more eligible, just still here, I’ll take it.
getalife
April 24th, 2011
10:10 am
I think it is past time to stop listening to cons that will vote to end their own Medicare.
I mean seriously.
Good little liberal
April 24th, 2011
10:13 am
getalife
Time to stop? So please tell us when you were listening to Republicans?
getalife
April 24th, 2011
10:18 am
lil con,
I will not anymore.
Lets face it, if you are voting to end your own Medicare, a de ath sentence if you will, you are a su icidal mania c.
RB from Gwinnett
April 24th, 2011
10:23 am
Happy Easter everyone!!! My prayer this day is that all you Christian haters on here come to know the love of Jesus!! Just know you will be prayed for today!
AmVet
April 24th, 2011
10:28 am
He’s not my savior, but…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3aYJibxMOQ
Pizzaman
April 24th, 2011
10:34 am
This has nothing to do with the above article but is something I learned during the ‘74 oil rip off. If your going to be waiting in any line bank, dry cleaner, fast food, pharmacy, gas, etc. and expect to be there more than 30 seconds SHUT IT DOWN. You’ll save fuel and help the enviorment.
AmVet
April 24th, 2011
10:39 am
This is one very badass guitarist for Jesus…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJgdNCYt_tA
Paulo977
April 24th, 2011
10:47 am
For a weary world at EASTER , monks’ prayers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMcmyJ8lmE4&feature=relmfu
AmVet
April 24th, 2011
10:50 am
Here’s another…
Courage is the thing that keeps us free.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wiYdUe36_Q
AmVet
April 24th, 2011
10:56 am
Now I lay me down to sleep
I’m praying Lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
Somebody make a big mistake
I’m only just one little man
Just usin’ up the air
Still I’m askin’ anyway
Lord when I pray, please be there
Lord when I pray, please be there
Singin’ om om my god, please be there
You know I’m just like all my kind
I got a weak and confused mind
When I feel a little pain
You know how I love to complain
But I try to be strong
I try hard to lift my share
I don’t expect for nothing
But Lord when I pray, please be there
Now I sing for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsAbJMgP8mQ
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
April 24th, 2011
10:58 am
Go Donald
Thanks for the compliment. I try to treat everbody as I want to be treated myself. Before I get all twisted out of shape, I like to try to see things thru the eyes of other people. I know that I’m gonna see things differently from the next person, so I don’t always expect people to believe or like what I have to say. As an example, there’s this post:
Just look at the misery that has happened to America since the Democrats took over Congress in 2007 and especially the horrible shape the economy has sunk to since the clown-in-chief took over. So what is just a big stack of lies to the uneducated, indoctrinated, blind liberals?
On the surface, it seems like a good logical conclusion. However, once you dig down, it falls apart. That would be like someone planting a delayed explosion and blaming the person who just happens to be walking by for whatever damages occur.
Go Donald Go
April 24th, 2011
11:00 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uixb3UN5t5Y
Paulo977
April 24th, 2011
11:00 am
Something ALL of us could do with…. Ostara Blessings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t67ZLKIvBc
Pizzaman
April 24th, 2011
11:09 am
Correction to my 10:34. The 30 sec rule quoted was for carbureted cars. The experts recommend 10 sec for today’s fuel injected one’s.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
April 24th, 2011
11:12 am
Pizzaman
Thanks for the info, but I just usually park and take my lazy bum inside.
Good little liberal
April 24th, 2011
11:23 am
getalife
“Lets face it, if you are voting to end your own Medicare, a de ath sentence if you will, you are a su icidal mania c.”
We all die. I have no intention of ever accessing medicare. I’ve never been wealthy, but I have saved money, made investments on the premise of not making investments that are decided by markets and I have every intention of supporting myself until I die.
This myth that without the government’s help, we would all die is the problem. Learn to stand on your own feet. The government is not reliable. Only your own strength, both physical and mental is all you have. If you believe that without the government, you will die, you are to be pitied.
AmVet
April 24th, 2011
11:25 am
Why suffer for nothing
Suffer for something
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiJ2iShqPi4
Normal
April 24th, 2011
11:30 am
Happy Egg Day Y’all…Guess what we are having for dinner? That’s right…fried rabbit…yummy!
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For your enlightenment…
Origins of the name “Easter”:
The name “Easter” originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly, the “Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility [was] known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos.” 1 Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: “eastre.” Similar Goddesses were known by other names in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, and were celebrated in the springtime. Some were:
Aphrodite from ancient Cyprus
Ashtoreth from ancient Israel
Astarte from ancient Greece
Demeter from Mycenae
Hathor from ancient Egypt
Ishtar from Assyria
Kali, from India
Ostara a Norse Goddess of fertility.
An alternative explanation has been suggested. The name given by the Frankish church to Jesus’ resurrection festival included the Latin word “alba” which means “white.” (This was a reference to the white robes that were worn during the festival.) “Alba” also has a second meaning: “sunrise.” When the name of the festival was translated into German, the “sunrise” meaning was selected in error. This became “ostern” in German. Ostern has been proposed as the origin of the word “Easter”. 2
There are two popular beliefs about the origin of the English word “Sunday.” It is derived from the name of the Scandinavian sun Goddess Sunna (a.k.a. Sunne, Frau Sonne). 5,6
It is derived from “Sol,” the Roman God of the Sun.” Their phrase “Dies Solis” means “day of the Sun.” The Christian saint Jerome (d. 420) commented “If it is called the day of the sun by the pagans, we willingly accept this name, for on this day the Light of the world arose, on this day the Sun of Justice shone forth.” 7
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Pagan origins of Easter:
Many, perhaps most, Pagan religions in the Mediterranean area had a major seasonal day of religious celebration at or following the Spring Equinox. Cybele, the Phrygian fertility goddess, had a consort, Attis, who was believed to have been born via a virgin birth. Attis was believed to have died and been resurrected each year during the period MAR-22 to MAR-25.
Gerald L. Berry, author of “Religions of the World,” wrote:
“About 200 B.C. mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult centered on Vatican hill …Associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis (the older Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus under a new name). He was a god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection.” 3
Wherever Christian worship of Jesus and Pagan worship of Attis were active in the same geographical area in ancient times, Christians:
“… used to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus on the same date; and pagans and Christians used to quarrel bitterly about which of their gods was the true prototype and which the imitation.”
Many religious historians and liberal theologians believe that the death and resurrection legends were first associated with Attis, many centuries before the birth of Jesus. They were simply grafted onto stories of Jesus’ life in order to make Christian theology more acceptable to Pagans. Others suggest that many of the events in Jesus’ life that were recorded in the gospels were lifted from the life of Krishna, the second person of the Hindu Trinity. Ancient Christians had an alternative explanation; they claimed that Satan had created counterfeit deities in advance of the coming of Christ in order to confuse humanity. 4 Modern-day Christians generally regard the Attis legend as being a Pagan myth of little value with no connection to Jesus. They regard Jesus’ death and resurrection account as being true, and unrelated to the earlier tradition.
Wiccans and other modern-day Neopagans continue to celebrate the Spring Equinox as one of their 8 yearly Sabbats (holy days of celebration). Near the Mediterranean, this is a time of sprouting of the summer’s crop; farther north, it is the time for seeding. Their rituals at the Spring Equinox are related primarily to the fertility of the crops and to the balance of the day and night times. In those places where Wiccans can safely celebrate the Sabbat out of doors without threat of religious persecution, they often incorporate a bonfire into their rituals, jumping over the dying embers is believed to assure fertility of people and crops.
Davy Jone's FootLocker
April 24th, 2011
11:36 am
Continuing SoCo’s 10:58 conclusion, recall the Republican’s more recent proclamation that they would defund the latest healthcare legislation in order to make sure it fails. But rest assured, if they are successful at defunding it or even at putting their cronies in charge of it to help it along a path to self-destruction, they will only come back at another point in the future and say, “you see, it was a failure,” and that is where the ignorant little mouthpieces such as “good little “liberal”" come in.
Lil' Barry Bailout
April 24th, 2011
11:37 am
Looks like SoCo supports the Ryan plan and it’s lower levels of debt as compared to the Idiot Messiah’s plan. Good to have you on board!
AmVet
April 24th, 2011
11:41 am
Meanwhile
Time marches on and on
And the strength to run may soon be gone
Now I watch the young ones coming
And it’s on their legs I’m running
Into the arms of my god
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccj2RTiSt2g
Paulo977
April 24th, 2011
11:43 am
Normal
Great Post… Happy Ostara!!
Lil' Barry Bailout
April 24th, 2011
11:45 am
Leave it to a libbtard to opine that voting not to take government handouts is voting against your own interests.
Americans aren’t interested in taking welfare. Democrats count on it.
Democrats: Greedy.
AmVet
April 24th, 2011
11:51 am
Looks like today has not impacted Barry in any fashion. That anger never takes a break.
Brother Normal, great stuff. And in that vein…
Chapter six and verse eleven
If you wanna get to heaven
You’ve got to ask the Man who owns the Property
Ya gotta dance your dance
And do your act
And get His Big Attention that’s a natural born fact
I’m on my knees, one question please
Will the real God please stand up?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ0BjyI_XWw
Normal
April 24th, 2011
11:55 am
Little Barry,
Did you know that on the Obama Care plan Prozac is nearly free? You out to re-think your dislike of the plan…it could help you…
getalife
April 24th, 2011
11:55 am
lil w bailout is proof why the gop are attacking are attacking education.
Medicare is not welfare s t upid.
Normal
April 24th, 2011
11:56 am
AMvet,
love that cut!
getalife
April 24th, 2011
11:56 am
Oops. only one are attacking.
My bad.
Normal
April 24th, 2011
11:57 am
Paulo,
Glad you enjoyed it. When it comes to “Religion” educated reasoning is the key.
Dave R.
April 24th, 2011
12:21 pm
When do you know getaclue is lying?
When getaclue is typing.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
April 24th, 2011
12:21 pm
Looks like SoCo supports the Ryan plan and it’s lower levels of debt as compared to the Idiot Messiah’s plan. Good to have you on board!
Nope. Just pointing out the insanity that is the GOP’s obstruction to raising the debt limit. By voting for Ryan’s plan, they’ve already conceded to raising the debt limit.
Honestly, I don’t like Ryan’s plan or Obama’s plan. I don’t think either of them do exactly what we need to do. I said long ago that I was ok with giving up deductions like mortgage interest and the standard child deduction if that money went towards paying down the debt. I’ve also given what my thoughs are as far as what needs to be done, and neither plan does that. They both kick the can down the road instead of addressing issues forthright.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
April 24th, 2011
12:23 pm
As additional proof of the GOP insanity, they’re including savings based some things from the Affordable Health Care Act, when they all unanimously opposed it. That’s hypocrisy at it’s best.
Good little liberal
April 24th, 2011
12:26 pm
Normal
Religion evolves. So does every other form of human interaction.
So what’s your point?
Good little liberal
April 24th, 2011
12:29 pm
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
So because a very few aspects of a 2,000 page document are acceptable to people who voted against the entire, horrible Health Insurance Company enriching bill, those people are hypocrites?
And this is liberal logic, right?
No wonder you guys can’t seem to hang on to power through more than one election cycle.
RW-(the original)
April 24th, 2011
12:31 pm
As additional proof of the GOP insanity, they’re including savings based some things from the Affordable Health Care Act, when they all unanimously opposed it. That’s hypocrisy at it’s best.
SoCo,
They could also just be following the old adage that the best way to eat giant Easter hippopotamus is one bite at a time.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Happy Easter y’all.
….back to the yard
RW-(the original)
April 24th, 2011
12:32 pm
Dammeet! I need to buy a vowel. I’ll take an “a” Vanna.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
April 24th, 2011
12:33 pm
So because a very few aspects of a 2,000 page document are acceptable to people who voted against the entire, horrible Health Insurance Company enriching bill, those people are hypocrites?
You’re almost right. It’s hypocritical because of the claims that it was “all Democratic effort with no compromose” when there were many concessions made to appease both Republicans and Conservative Democrats. Then, to campaign and stir up the sh*t that they did in a “Repeal and Replace” mode only to co-opt it, is pure BS. They’d have more respect from me if they had more pragmatic and not bashed sledgehammers to everyone’s emotions.
And, no it’s not Liberal logic. It’s Southern Comfort logic. Contrary to your opinon, there is a difference. Just because I don’t follow the same beliefs you do, I’m not a Liberal.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
April 24th, 2011
12:34 pm
they had **been** more pragmatic….
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
April 24th, 2011
12:37 pm
RW
If that’s the case, then why go through all the effort to demonize it in the beginning. All the stuff that was done to stir up anger and emotion was, in my honest opinion, completely unnecessary. As humans, we make better decisions when we’re thinking clearly and not hopped up on emotion. I didn’t like the ACA, but I also didn’t like the effort to rile people up to Defcon 1 to make a point.
AmVet
April 24th, 2011
12:37 pm
What a great day to be alive, huh?
For me *and* the weeds.
Since god began it, we’ve been dividing up the planet
When you see something you want it
You’ve got to put your name tag on it
And we go on carving, meanwhile half the world is starving
It’s a crime .. hands off what is mine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwyakCb1We8
Dave R.
April 24th, 2011
12:45 pm
SoCo, I’d hardly call tweaks to HCR “compromise”. Not a single significant GOP proposal was even allowed out of committee for a vote. None. The Dems own this completely and totally.
Now to your earlier point, of course the debt ceiling has to be raised – eventually.
But if threatening to delay that raising gets real, honest negotiations on reducing spending, I’m all for it. Frankly, this entire world needs a big ‘ol wake-up call regarding government debt, and it’s about time we had it.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
April 24th, 2011
12:52 pm
Dave
We’ll have to disagree on the “compromise” in the HCR then. When you say “hell no” to the public option, and it’s removed, whether it was to appease you or conservatives in your own party, that’s a compromise. There may not have been a crapload of compromise, but there was some. Individual mandate was championed by the GOP in the 90’s and used by Romney, however, now it’s toxic to the GOP. As I said, I didn’t like the HCR, but I blame BOTH parties and not just the Democrats.
As far as your 2nd point, that word “if” carries a lot of power to disappoint you. I don’t think threats end up bringing about real, honest negotiations at all. If anything, I think it only ramps up the partisanship. Somebody up in DC has to be the grown-up, but for right now, I don’t see any of the 535 stepping up anytime soon.
Dave R.
April 24th, 2011
1:04 pm
SoCo, the problem with relying on “well they supported such and such back in the (fill in the blank)’ is that you rely on something being static that isn’t. And frankly, it’s a lazy way to try to make a point.
We’re not back in the (fill in the blank), and we never will be, and just because something sounded good under different circumstances doesn’t mean it’s a good idea in the circumstances we are in today. In fact, it might just exacerbate our problems today.
To bring out the oft-misinterpreted “Deficits don’t matter” quote, when your debt is $2-3 trillion dollars and your deficit is a couple of hundred billion, deficits don’t matter as much as when your debt is $14 trillion and you’re growing it by 15% each year with no plan to address it.
There is no better time to address this problem in a dramatic and serious fashion, and not raising the debt ceiling is the way to get serious with this problem.
Lil' Barry Bailout
April 24th, 2011
1:10 pm
I agree that the Ryan plan could go farther–deeper spending cuts and eliminating Medicaid altogether would be a good start.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
April 24th, 2011
1:18 pm
Dave
I understand that positions and ideals change over time. I also think that it’s wrong to give the appearance that you thoroughly oppose something when you’ve preached it in the past. If you say that you no longer think it’s a good idea is completely different from straight up demonizing something just for pure effect.
You’ll never hear me bring up that deficits quote because I think it was wrong then, and it’s wrong now regardless of the meaning and/or interpretation. I agree with your last statement, but I just don’t think Ryan’s nor Obama’s plan does that.
Dave R.
April 24th, 2011
1:20 pm
“If that’s the case, then why go through all the effort to demonize it in the beginning.”
Oh, let’s see . . . a near Depression, unemployment skyrocketing, 2 wars being fought debt and deficits farther than the eye can see, and all they can focus on is . . . health care reform?
WTF!!!???
Can you say,” how about getting your priorities straight”?
Hillbilly Deluxe
April 24th, 2011
1:31 pm
Thanks for the info, but I just usually park and take my lazy bum inside.
That’s the real “green” approach. Of course, I do it as much because I’m cheap, as for the environment. And think how much fossil fuel goes into making and distributing plastic water bottles.
Davy Jone's FootLocker
April 24th, 2011
1:35 pm
The Paul Ryan Indebtedness plan (from SoCo’s earlier post):
Fiscal year 2012: $16,204,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2013: $17,177,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2014: $17,955,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2015: $18,704,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2016: $19,513,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2017: $20,257,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2018: $20,981,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2019: $21,711,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2020: $22,416,000,000,000.
Fiscal year 2021: $23,105,000,000,000.
How does that jibe with Dave R.’s claims about that 14.3 trillion dollar debt limit and how deficits don’t matter.
AmVet
April 24th, 2011
1:37 pm
SoCo, here’s a sweet song from the fifth Beatle…
Learn how to help one another
And live in perfect peace.
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnyGCel_wz4
Dusty
April 24th, 2011
1:51 pm
Well, what a fine day indeed. Atlanta sunshine is at its brightest & best. Our pastor even started his sermon by saying “This is a great day” as he looked out the big windows (and he has to lead two services).
The church was beautiful. Easter liles were placed all around and the choir sang happy hymns of joy while the organist was inspired. Outside, tree roses were red and svelt in their bright petals and so pretty. Inside, the old, young and inbetweens smiled at each other in the fellowship of Christian worship. A little girl about six years old lit the altar candles with great pride.
As ’tis said: “Joy comes in the morning” and so it did today as every day when we consider the message of this special morning.
I won’t leave any “literature” or songs for you. I always liked the twenty third psalm on any day. But I am thankful for Easter and the joy it brings to heart and mind. Very thankful…
Soothsayer
April 24th, 2011
1:56 pm
Well said, Dusty!