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Where I give you my slightly quirky opinion, and you can give me yours, as long as you're man or woman enough to be civil and control your language.
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About Me
- Joe
- I was born in Miami, Florida, the son of an Air Force officer, traveled the world, was saved at age 17, and have served the Lord since. That's me on the left and my lovely wife, Bonnie...the pretty one...on the right.
There Are But A Few Rules To Follow
1. Absolutely no foul language (including the use of asterisks). If you are not man or woman enough to control your language, you are not welcome here...go somewhere else.
2. I am not looking for strings of commenters arguing with each other, so confine your comments to the topic at hand and address your comments to me, unless you can be exceptionally gracious and polite.
3. Since this is my blog, I am the sole arbiter of what can be placed on this blog. My decisions are final and without recourse. All anonymous comments, unsigned, will be deleted, as will ad hominem attacks against me or others.
4. Within the scope of those rules, you may feel free to have fun here (I sure will). Sarcasm, wit, half-wit, nit-wit, parody, satire, puns (especially puns), etc. are encouraged.
FOUR PRINCIPLES THAT DEFINE TRUE CONSERVATISM:
1. Respect for The Constitution
2. Respect for Life
3. The Smallest Possible Government
4. Individual Responsibility
This blog is about my philosophy of government, which is a very conservative philosophy.
You are not required to agree with me (although you would be better off if you did).
I am biased toward conservatism, and make no apologies for that.
Freedom means not being controlled by the government, that being the very reason we declared our independence from Great Britain.
2. I am not looking for strings of commenters arguing with each other, so confine your comments to the topic at hand and address your comments to me, unless you can be exceptionally gracious and polite.
3. Since this is my blog, I am the sole arbiter of what can be placed on this blog. My decisions are final and without recourse. All anonymous comments, unsigned, will be deleted, as will ad hominem attacks against me or others.
4. Within the scope of those rules, you may feel free to have fun here (I sure will). Sarcasm, wit, half-wit, nit-wit, parody, satire, puns (especially puns), etc. are encouraged.
FOUR PRINCIPLES THAT DEFINE TRUE CONSERVATISM:
1. Respect for The Constitution
2. Respect for Life
3. The Smallest Possible Government
4. Individual Responsibility
This blog is about my philosophy of government, which is a very conservative philosophy.
You are not required to agree with me (although you would be better off if you did).
I am biased toward conservatism, and make no apologies for that.
Freedom means not being controlled by the government, that being the very reason we declared our independence from Great Britain.
Government's job is not to provide things for people, but to provide the opportunity for people to persue the things they want via the vehicles of freedom and responsibility.
Some of My Favorite Bloggers
NATIONAL BLOGS & STUFF
- American Spectator
- American Thinker
- Big Government (Breitbart)
- Big Journalism
- Breitbart TV
- CNS News
- Cato Institute
- Contact Your Congressperson
- Contact your Senator
- Daily Caller
- Darwin's God
- Drudge Report
- Everything About Congress!
- Fox Nation
- Gateway Pundit
- Heritage Foundation
- Hot Air
- Insta Pundit
- Joe's Jottings (My Other Blog)
- Kingdom FM Christian Radio
- Mark Levin
- Michelle Malkin
- News Max
- NewsBusters
- On Racism & Republicans
- Politico
- Real Clear Politics
- Right Scoop, The
- Rush Limbaugh
- Sean Hannity
- WINK News Radio
- Wall Builders (A Web Site)
- Weekly Standard
- What's Happening in Congress
SPECIAL STUDIES
BHO-THE CONSUMATE AMATEUR
WHY I CALL HIM "PRESIDENT BO"
I call him "President" out of respect for the office. I call him "BO" (as in Body Odor) because his agenda stinks.
I also refer to him as our "Acting President."
I also refer to him as our "Acting President."
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3 comments:
So sorry, but I managed to listen to it for about 2 seconds. I know it is gospel, country music? I just can't handle it.
God bless them, though.
Leticia: Sorry you didn't like that. It certainly was not in a country style. It was a very harmonious rendition of an extremely traditional hymn of the faith.
That is something that is sadly missing from ALL music today. Well done harmony is almost unknown.
Contemporary groups rarely even sing on pitch (because they don't even know what it means...preferring to let the sound crew make the adjustments electronically), let alone be able to stay in key with no instrumental assistance.
The Martins do, indeed, sing some southern gospel style music, but most of their music is made up of good, harmonious contemporary sounds...sounds almost extinct in the world of what is erroniously called "praise and worship" music, little of which praises anything, let alone God, and worships only the sound of rifle-like drums.
Don't misunderstand. All music is fine, whether baroque, romantic, classical, contemporary or otherwise if it focuses on God for who He is.
The trouble is, most contemporary music focuses on God for what He can do for us.
It should be the other way around.
Two seconds is hardly fair...don't you think?
In my opinion, being blindered into one form of music, no matter which style, is an abomination.
What a surprise we're going to get when we get to heaven.
There won't be one single contemporary song, one single southern gospel song, one single fugue or one single anything else.
What wondrous sounds we'll sing cannot even be imagined by the human experience.
If I were asked for advice (and I realize I haven't been), I would advise broadening one's narrow sighted musical horizons.
It is freeing.
I've been a church musician for over 50 years, and have introduced music to the churches I've served that on one occasion got me fired because it was too "rocky."
Nevertheless, I have continued to offer an ecclectic blend of the newest and the oldest for the broadning of my congregations' appreciation and worship.
(Humorously, I once got taken before the deacons for introducing what is now known as "rap" to my youth choir in the 70s!)
As you said, God bless them!
Country music?? Their harmony is incredible, especially sung acapella! That is the result of the family relationship and the blessing of the Lord! Obviously their southern gospel style is foreign to younger folks today. How unfortunate.
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