APW

The in-ring action is vastly superior to the WWE.

(HRH the King)

I agree.

TNA is (along with Lucha Libre/CMLL) the only wrestling I watch regularly,because the action is superb.

The Carter Family

"Angel Band"

The latest sun is sinking fast, my race is nearly run

My strongest trials now are past, my triumph is begun

O come Angel Band, come & around me stand

O bear me away on your snowy wings to my immortal home

O bear me away on your snowy wings to my immortal home

I know I'm near the holy ranks of friends & kindred dear

I've brushed the dew on Jordan's banks, the crossing must be near

I've almost gained my Heavenly home, my spirit loudly sings

The Holy ones, behold they come, I hear the noise of wings

O bear my longing heart to Him who bled & died for me

Whose blood now cleanses from all sin & gives me victory

Elton John

"Goodbye Yellowbrick Road"

wondering why Geraldo Rivera is still employed

(HRH the King)

You and me both.

I'm Aquarius,too (February,11th).

So is my brother,Conundrum,my nephew Josh,and my little niece Nettie.

We're so cool,the Fifth Dimension wrote a song about us.

Agree or disagree with the Chief Justice's rulings on the bench,you have to give the man credit for being dedicated in the service of his nation.You can't ask for more than that.He was a good American.

Let's hope the the man or woman that replaces Rehnquist on the Bench is equally dedicated.

Excellent poem,Odo.

Procrastinating....

I need to do some yard work,but it's hot.So I've been sitting at the PC and staring out at my poor yard,baking in the heat.

But,I can't work at night,since I can't see that well (I'm terribly near-sighted,and have busted my glasses....I've been procrastinating about going to get new spec's too).So,I suppose I'll log off and go toil in the Forge.A man's work is never done!

A bunch of guys from around here,all former U.S. military loaded up and headed off for New Orleans to help out yesterday.One of them,a good friend of mine wanted me to go,too...but I have kids to watch,and nobody to look after them while I'm away.

So,I made a contribution to a Christian relief fund.

On one positive note,I have finally confirmed that my relatives down there in that general area of southern Louisiana are all accounted for and well.Thank God for that.

I read about the same research.

I've always wondered how a spirit can have "weight" to it....

Very interesting though.

Trying not to get depressed....I keep thinking about family I've lost.This whole thing down in New Orleans....

Since I can't sleep,I thought I'd come online to drive the depressing thoughts away.

Tis not working very well.

Yes.

With the Lord.

With his Word.

With the new lease I have on life.

With a woman?

Not for years....I've had too many horrible experiences in relationships.

Don't think I can fully trust any woman like that again.For now friendship is all I'm willing to offer.

So,until the Lord see's fit to send some exceptional woman my way,I'm perfectly content being single.

The Everyday Guide to the Gospels

A Commonsense Guide to Fasting

The Holy Bible

the latest RBC devotional booklet

Hank Williams Jr

"A Country Boy Can Survive"

(for all my southern brothers and sisters down in the Big Easy)

The preacher man says its the end of time

and the Mississippi River she's a going dry.

The interest is up and the stock markets down

and you only get mugged if you go downtown.

I live back in the woods you see,

my woman, and the kids and the dogs and me.

I got a shotgun and a rifle and a four wheel drive

and a country boy can survive. Country folks can survive.

I can plow a field all day long,

I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn.

Make our own whiskey and our own smoke too

ain't to many things these boys can't do.

We grow good old tomatoes and homemade wine

and country boy can survive, country folk can survive.

Because you can't stomp us out and you can't make us run,

cause we're them ole boys raised on shotguns.

We say grace and we say mam

and if you ain't into that we don't give a damn.

We came from the West Virginia coal mine's

and the Rocky Mountains and the Western skies

and we can skin a buck, we can run a trout line

and a country boy can survive, country folks can survive.

I had a good friend in New York City

he never called me by my name just hillbilly.

My Grandpa taught me how to live off the land

and his taught him to be a business man

He used to send me pictures of the Broadway Nights

and I would send him some homemade wine

but he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife,

for forty three dollars my friend lost his life.

I'd love to spit some beechnut in that dudes eyes

and shoot him with my ole forty-five

cause a country boy can survive, country folks can survive.

'Cause you can't stomp us out and you can't make us run,

and we're them ole boys raised on shotgun.

We say grace, we say mam,

if you ain't into that we don't give a damn.

We're from North California and South Alabam'

and little towns all around this land.

We can skin a buck, and run a trout line

and a country boy can survive,

country folks can survive,

country boy can survive,

country folks can survive.

AQDMNIREDLK P[;EEEEWEWSE3

Spock's Brain on VHS.

I think if anyone is to blame (and there is blame a plenty to go round),the mayor of New Orleans,that city's council,it's chief of police,and the state government of Louisiana...all who knew dang well,how ill-prepared New Orleans was for this big of a storm should accept their responsibility in the devastation.Perhaps even Louisiana's reps in Congress.How often did they bring up the subject of modernizing the levy system or making preparations for the possibility of a disaster such as this?

The President is doing what he can.He isn't all powerful.

Blaming Bush and turning this into some sort of a Bash Bush-game is sickening.

As for the media calling white looters "finders" of goods, and black looters "looters"...it all depends on what you have in your hands when you exit that store.I can't tell from those pics what anybody has,so I think it was wrong to label the images differently.But the media sources are different.I think the AFP is a French news agency,while AP is International.Maybe the AFP also called blacks with necessities "finders".Maybe the AP also called whites "looters"....Ken's playing a game with his pictures.

I heard this on the movie "The Color Purple" and loved it instantly.

This is southern gospel music at it's finest.The people singing it on the movie had that little church hopping.

"Maybe God is tryin' to tell you something"

Yes, yes, yes, yes, Lord, yes

Oh, yes, my soul, my soul says yes

If I were you, I would say yes, speak, Lord. Speak to me.

Oh, Speak, Lord. Won't you speak to me?

I was so blind, I was so lost until you spoke to me

Oh, speak, Lord. Speak, Lord. And hear my mind,

Oh, with your word, heal my soul

Oh, speak, Lord. Speak to me. Speak, my Lord.

I love you, Lord. Save my soul

Can't sleep at night and you wonder why

Maybe God is trying to tell you something

Crying all night long, something's gone wrong

Maybe God is trying to tell you something

Oh, you can't sleep at night and you sure wonder why

Maybe god is trying to tell you something

Trying, trying, trying, trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying

Maybe God is trying to tell you something

Maybe God is trying to tell you something

Maybe God is trying to tell you something

Maybe God is trying to tell you something

Lord, He's got to tell you something

Lord, He's got to tell you something. I hear you, Lord

Maybe God is trying to tell you right now, right now

I'm gonna praise your name

I praise your name

Speak to me, Lord

Maybe God is trying to tell you something right now, right now,

Right now

Thank you, Lord

Maybe God is trying to tell you something right now

Right now, right now. Thank you, Lord

That's beautiful.

I never read it before.

Posting here and checking out Target Online (Thinking about buying some music...so far I don't see any CD's I want).

I used to hate it.

Now I love it.

Don't know why.....

I SAW THE LIGHT

I wondered so aimless, life filled with sin

I wouldn't let my dear savior in

Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night

Praise the Lord, I saw the light.

Choras:

I saw the light, I saw the light

No more darkness no more night

Now I'm so happy, no sorrows in sight

praise the Lord, I saw the light.

Just like a blind man, I wondered alone

Worries and fears I claimed for my own

Then like the blind man who God gave back his site

Praise the Lord, I saw the light

Chorus

I was a fool to wander and stray

Straight is the gate and narrow the way

Now I have traded the wrong for the right

Praise the Lord, I saw the light.

Chorus:

I'M GOING HOME SOMEDAY

I have no silver and no gold, no earthly mansions do I own

But I have peace, wonderful peace in my soul

I have no fear what man can do the Lord I serve will take me through

Someday, some wonderful day, I'm going home.

Chorus:

I'm going home someday to a city far away

Where two loved ones will be waiting on the shore

The Pearly Gates will open wide, oh what joy to step inside

Someday, wonderful day, I'm going home.

The Savior paid the price for me on day up there on Calvary

He broke the bands on the cross and set me free

Up there I'll look upon His face and thank Him for his saving grace

Someday, wonderful day, I'm going home.

Chorus:

More great gospel songs I can remember singing in Church back home.

I think this new brand of Dr.Pepper tastes no different than regular Dr.Pepper (or diet Dr.Pepper).

Have any of you tried it?

I think we're being scammed by Doc Pepper....

Dr.Pepper CEO to workers "Just slap some labels with cheeries on them on the bottles of regular Dr.Pepper!They'll never expect us!Bwahahaha....their little minds will tell them it tastes like cherries because they see the cherry on the label!"

My favorite song from my favorite group.

The Doobie Brothers

"Jesus is just all right"

Jesus is just alright with me, jesus is just alright, oh yeah

Jesus is just alright with me, jesus is just alright

I don't care what they may say

I don't care what they may do

I don't care what they may say

Jesus is just alright, oh yeah

Jesus is just alright

Jesus is just alright with me, jesus is just alright, oh yeah

Jesus is just alright with me, jesus is just alright

I don't care what they may know

I don't care where they may go

I don't care what they may know

Jesus is just alright, oh yeah

Jesus, he's my friend; jesus, he's my friend

He took me by the hand; led me far from this land

Jesus, he's my friend

Jesus is just alright with me, jesus is just alright, oh yeah

Jesus is just alright with me, jesus is just alright

I don't care what they may say, i don't care what they may do

I don't care what they may say, jesus is just alright, oh yeah

Cat Stevens/Yousef Islam (I love this guy's music,too)*

"Morning Has Broken"

Morning has broken, like the first morning

Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird

Praise for the singing, praise for the morning

Praise for the springing fresh from the word

Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven

Like the first dewfall, on the first grass

Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden

Sprung in completeness where his feet pass

Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning

Born of the one light, Eden saw play

Praise with elation, praise every morning

God's recreation of the new day

Norman Greenbaum

"Spirit In The Sky"

When I die and they lay me to rest,

Gonna go to the place that's the best

When they lay me down to die,

Goin up to the spirit in the sky

Goin' up to the Spirit in the sky(Spirit in the sky)

That's where I'm gonna go when I die(When I die)

When I die and they lay me to rest,

I'm gonna go to the place that's the best

(Music Interment)

Prepare yourself, you know it's a must

Gotta have a friend in Jesus,

So you know that when you die,

He's gonna recommend you to the Spirit in the sky

(Spirit in the sky)

Whoa he'll recommend you to the Spirit in the sky

That's where you're gonna go when you die(When you die)

When you die, and they lay you to rest,

You're gonna go to the place that's the best

(Music Interment)

Never been a sinner, I've never sinned,

I've got a friend in Jesus

So you know that when I die,

He's gonna set me up with the Spirit in the sky

Whoa, set me up with the Spirit in the sky(Spirit in the sky)

That's where I'm gonna go when I die(When I die)

When I die and they lay me to rest,

I'm gonna go to the place that's the best

Go to the place that's the best

(Music Interment with hand claps and Electric Guitar)

(And fade)