Special Dog's Three Blogs
A young man who happens to be one of America's top Rock n' Roll stars and also happens to be a very Reformed Presbyterian Christian meets and falls in love with a young Roman Catholic lady with a very Roman Catholic father. His life is in the midst of change as is her life as they grow to know and love each other. This short novel takes place mostly in the boardwalk town of Ocean City, New Jersey but also in Easton, Pennsylvania. You can read this at isaaccrockett.blogspot.com. I also have humor and short story posts at specialdoghumor.blogspot.com. My regular 'The Christian and Politics' posts begin below.
Race Baiting
The Communist of today, dressed in the clothing of the Progressive while claiming to be just another Liberal, all too often strongly insinuates through their mouthpiece the mainstream media that we dislike Barack Obama because of his race. There is a phrase for this.....race baiting. The Conservative Right is not racist. Blacks may be of the same percentage of us that they are in the entire population and they are of a much higher percentage of our strongest leaders and best minds but this means nothing to the Left.
I don't know a whole lot about Ben Carson and he is not in my top two potential Republican candidates for president but I would be honored to call him my president! Allen West, Thomas Sowell....the list would go on. There are problems within the Black community today....yes....but these problems were structured and nurtured by the same ideology that gave us most of our problems. The following partial-post highlights a song from the 1960s. The strong Black father of today is stronger than his counterpart white father, for their challenge is greater. If there are heroes, they are at the top.
Boiled Spaghetti.....November, 2009
I think that everyone realizes that music can have a powerful effect in a person's life. I am more of a Jack-of-all-trades when it comes to music. I know a little bit about many types but I'm not even near an expert in any of them. I know that Richard Wagner's compositions are stirring in a militaristic sort of way. The scene from Apocalypse Now where the helicopter gunship advances on a Viet Cong village, blaring Wagner's Ride Of The Valkyries from speakers, is chilling. When I listen to Ralph (Raif) Vaughan Williams I can picture myself sailing through the whitecaps on a tall ship. Individual songs can immediately transport me to a specific time and place. When I listen to the Fifth Dimension's Wedding Bell Blues, I am laying in my bunk in basic training at Fort Dix with Tom's transistor playing loudly in the next bunk. I am in an EM Club in Vietnam when I hear Roberta Flack singing Killing Me Softly With His Song. I'm sure you experience the same type of moments. I heard it said that Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin wrote the number one rock song of all time Stairway To Heaven while in a trance-like state and on the opposite side of the spiritual scale I believe that George Frideric Handel described a similar writing method with parts of his Messiah.
It was a song I heard again today that reduced me to boiled spaghetti, as it always does, and that brought me to this topic. The Winstons were a soul, funk group from the 60s and they went gold with Color Him Father the lyrics start out this way:
There's a man at our house, he's so big and so strong
He goes to work each day, stays all day long
He comes home each night looking tired and beat
He sits down at the dinner table and has a bite to eat
Never a frown, always a smile
When he says to me "How's my child"
I've been studying hard all day in school
Tryin' to understand the golden rule
Think I'll color this man father
I think I'll color the man love, yes I will
A young man who happens to be one of America's top Rock n' Roll stars and also happens to be a very Reformed Presbyterian Christian meets and falls in love with a young Roman Catholic lady with a very Roman Catholic father. His life is in the midst of change as is her life as they grow to know and love each other. This short novel takes place mostly in the boardwalk town of Ocean City, New Jersey but also in Easton, Pennsylvania. You can read this at isaaccrockett.blogspot.com. I also have humor and short story posts at specialdoghumor.blogspot.com. My regular 'The Christian and Politics' posts begin below.
Race Baiting
The Communist of today, dressed in the clothing of the Progressive while claiming to be just another Liberal, all too often strongly insinuates through their mouthpiece the mainstream media that we dislike Barack Obama because of his race. There is a phrase for this.....race baiting. The Conservative Right is not racist. Blacks may be of the same percentage of us that they are in the entire population and they are of a much higher percentage of our strongest leaders and best minds but this means nothing to the Left.
I don't know a whole lot about Ben Carson and he is not in my top two potential Republican candidates for president but I would be honored to call him my president! Allen West, Thomas Sowell....the list would go on. There are problems within the Black community today....yes....but these problems were structured and nurtured by the same ideology that gave us most of our problems. The following partial-post highlights a song from the 1960s. The strong Black father of today is stronger than his counterpart white father, for their challenge is greater. If there are heroes, they are at the top.
Boiled Spaghetti.....November, 2009
I think that everyone realizes that music can have a powerful effect in a person's life. I am more of a Jack-of-all-trades when it comes to music. I know a little bit about many types but I'm not even near an expert in any of them. I know that Richard Wagner's compositions are stirring in a militaristic sort of way. The scene from Apocalypse Now where the helicopter gunship advances on a Viet Cong village, blaring Wagner's Ride Of The Valkyries from speakers, is chilling. When I listen to Ralph (Raif) Vaughan Williams I can picture myself sailing through the whitecaps on a tall ship. Individual songs can immediately transport me to a specific time and place. When I listen to the Fifth Dimension's Wedding Bell Blues, I am laying in my bunk in basic training at Fort Dix with Tom's transistor playing loudly in the next bunk. I am in an EM Club in Vietnam when I hear Roberta Flack singing Killing Me Softly With His Song. I'm sure you experience the same type of moments. I heard it said that Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin wrote the number one rock song of all time Stairway To Heaven while in a trance-like state and on the opposite side of the spiritual scale I believe that George Frideric Handel described a similar writing method with parts of his Messiah.
It was a song I heard again today that reduced me to boiled spaghetti, as it always does, and that brought me to this topic. The Winstons were a soul, funk group from the 60s and they went gold with Color Him Father the lyrics start out this way:
There's a man at our house, he's so big and so strong
He goes to work each day, stays all day long
He comes home each night looking tired and beat
He sits down at the dinner table and has a bite to eat
Never a frown, always a smile
When he says to me "How's my child"
I've been studying hard all day in school
Tryin' to understand the golden rule
Think I'll color this man father
I think I'll color the man love, yes I will
