My Cats Are Importune Artists

Again, these aren't my cats; these above are internet cats and could live anywhere from Bahrain to Luxembourg. The colorings are right; these could be the 'stunt doubles' for the cats inhabiting my habitation.
Importune Artists, or "Importunists"-when I come in the door after work they gather and try to convince me that they are starving, that somehow they have been transported to the edge of failing hunger, and
MUST!
BE!
FED!
I point to the food in their dish, and they say (in cat pantomimes or, closer to this subject: 'cat charades')
"Not THAT food! It's boring! We need something else!"
Bless their little importunistic hearts. It isn't the food that they want, really-they want confirmation that I am going to take care of them-a half a handful of 'other' kibble and they are happy cat campers.
There's a parallel at work here, which I state because I think I'm often too obtuse:
We Christians are often guilty of the same nervous importuning behavior-we seek blessings from God as reassurance that He still loves us, is still willing to provide for our needs-a little bit of kibble and we're happy.
Anyone can cry out to God in a crisis; true Faith keeps us trusting in His Providence even when things are going great.

Smile For The Karma

...I'm afraid to denounce Karma-something bad might happen to me.
Just kidding-I met up today with a pre-school teacher who said that 'there's a lot that can be learned from the Eastern disciplines".
Like cultic belief in the doctrines of demons. And that by bringing the mind and body into subjection, spiritual truths can be apprehended. No harm no foul, right?
Here's a spiritual truth for ya:
We are all sinners living in a corrupted world which will be set in order when Christ returns.
Eastern 'disciplines' will become vapor and 'poof'! be gone when Christ returns.
The smart monkeys bow the knee to Christ NOW to avoid the rush when 'at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,' Philippians 2:10 abridged.
Every means you/me/all of us. If that thought bothers you, if you think, "Not I-I shall not bow!" you are wrong. God will be Glorified.

For Eternity

Politics will be gone. Fighting and tears-not even memories.
Today I was part of a group of Christians practicing something
which will continue for eternity: Fellowship.
We will have fellowship in Heaven and on earth when Christ returns.
Christians with Christians with Christ as our King-no barriers of language or
different lands, customs; just Christ, and His people, us.
Wonderful.

Going Down The List...

RING...RING...RI-
"Hello?"
"Yes, is this Bill?"
"How ya doing, Barack?"
"Just fine, Bill...I was wondering if Hillary might have a few moments for her President."
Bill laughs. "Barack, let me take a shot in the dark here...you're thinking of dumping Biden, and you 
want Hillary to be your Palin, to get back some of the sizzle that...went away. Am I right?"
"Bill, I would never lie to you, and I know that you will keep this quiet...we've been polling like mad, and we NEED Hillary, or it won't even be Carter-we'd be approaching a Mondale slaughter!
We need Hillary to even make it close. Is she there?"
Bill laughs again.
"She's right here, buddy-Joe and Jill came by for lunch, and I put you on speakerphone as soon as I heard your voice."
...
Chorus: "Hi Barack!"
click.
RING...RING...RI-
"Yes?"
"Hey Brad-it's Barack. Um...Angie wouldn't happen to be nearby, is she?

Shark Week? No-Shark Strong!

well. That is refreshing. Now we know the that it will be "Romney/Ryan" in November and possibly "Romney/Ryan" for the next four to eight years.
To Mitt: "WELL DONE, SIR!"
To Paul Ryan-"Glad to see you got the gig-get to work!"

Already the haters are gearing up for the 'Hate Ryan Express'-someone I know fired the first shot by saying that Ryan was actually the mastermind (!) behind the 'Scott Walker war on unions', so he hates Ryan.

A little history lesson, folks. Once upon a time there was a politician who hated government waste of resources, and, as a member of Congress, became a watchdog/attckdog going after government agencies  wasting taxdollars (aka:OUR money). He became so well known as a popular fiscal Conservative that he, like Paul Ryan, was a wise and smart choice for the Veep slot on FDR's 1944 re-election ticket.
Harry S. (The buck stops here) Truman would be proud of Paul Ryan. So shall we all.

SCOOP FOR FDW!!!!!

Hot off the pixels! Fine Dry Wit has scored a scoop, a coupe de taters, A! BIG! DEAL!
Thanks to my hard work (?) here in the middle of nowhere, I have netted a Net first:
An interview with three lifelong Republicans who have had enough (!) and are crossing the lions
to vote for President Obama!
Shown above are the fearless three: Tom Smothers, his brother Pat Paulsen and Dick Smothers (no relation).
Each swears that they have voted a straighter than straight Republican ticket since Eisenhower...but the message, the phenomenon, the magic that is Obama has enthralled their hard core Republican souls, and they are breaking with the party of the first part to follow their hearts into the Obamacratic (Dem) Party.
Such courage! My first question to the heroic trio:
Doug: "Don't your hearts SING when President Obama is speaking?"
Repub Dub chorus: "THEY DO, THEY DO! IT'S LIKE HEARING ANGELS LAUGHING WITH JOY!" Doug: "And isn't his mastery of all situations breathtaking in its scope and strength of purpose?" 
Repub Dub Chorus: "HE IS THE MASTER OF ALL WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE!"
Doug: "Does it seem strange to have a "D" after your names instead of an "R"?
Repub Dub Chorus: "THEY DO, THEY DO! IT'S LIKE HEARING ANGELS LAUGHING WITH JOY!" 
Doug: "Did Mitt Romney's winning of the Republican nomination have anything to do with your switching parties?"
Repub Dub chorus: "THEY DO, THEY DO! IT'S LIKE HEARING ANGELS LAUGHING WITH JOY!"
Doug: "Yeah, okay, we got that."
Repub Dub Chorus: "HE IS THE MASTER OF ALL WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE!"
Doug: "You're not talking about Romney there, are you?"
Repub Dub chorus: "THEY DO, THEY DO! IT'S LIKE HEARING ANGELS LAUGHING WITH JOY!

HE IS THE MASTER OF ALL WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE!THEY DO, THEY DO! IT'S LIKE HEARING ANGELS LAUGHING WITH JOY!

HE IS THE MASTER OF ALL WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE!THEY DO, THEY DO! IT'S LIKE HEARING ANGELS LAUGHING WITH JOY!

HE IS THE MASTER OF ALL WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE!THEY DO, THEY DO! IT'S LIKE HEARING ANGELS LAUGHING WITH JOY!

HE IS THE MASTER OF ALL WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE!

It's official-I've lost control of FDW.

With The Subtures

As usual, when using/creating a 'new' term, I check the internets to see if it is already in common usage-there is a "Subture Design Group" but they have nothing to do with this post.
"Subtures"- a contraction of "Sub-cultures" more streamlined for this fastpacedonlineworld.
My subture may be at odds with your subture, or we may be in agreement (tentatively) against other sutures.
Here's what I mean: when I was in the military, I was a member of a subture which those on the outside didn't/couldn't understand...but that we on the inside knew intimately. Now I am a part of a different subture, the former military, also a distinct group.
This past week saw a (one more) terrible tragedy in Wisconsin, with a 'white supreme-mess' killing Sihks during a worship service. Horrible and wrong.
The 'rules and defining attributes' of his subture caused him to hate to the point of killing those who are 'foreign' to his subture.
It doesn't always come to violence-there are as many 'truces' between subtures as there are subtures- the born again Christian subture generally lives in peace among all other subtures, the Muslim (in this country) subture generally keeps to itself, the sporting and fan subtures self identify and cloister:
"Roll Tide, Roll" may be the call of one subture, or "ABO", or "Gaga for Gaga".
You don't have to seek out Mennonite communities to find subtures which shun outsiders-go into the wrong bar on a Friday wearing the wrong color shirt. I dare you. Or a Yankees hat at Fenway.
But generally all subtures live in private peace amongst the rest, elements in the 'melting pot' of our Culture.
"Be kind to strangers-you might go somewhere and be a stranger yourself."


 

Tyrannical-Sore-U.S.-Rex

This will be short and sweet. 
The Truth needs no straw men to defend it.
The Truth can stand against all fiery darts.
The Truth can answer all questions and win all debates.
Lies (and the lying liars who tell them) can not stand impartial scrutiny.
Lies hide behind strawmen.
Lies cannot answer questions or win debates.
Here's the thing-if a politician cannot defend his policies, if they cannot 
stand up to impartial scrutiny, if he or she must use strawman arguments
to support those policies...that is wrong.
If a politician uses the power of their office to stifle dissent,
or dodge questions, or keep opposing viewpoints from being heard...
that is wrong.
If a politician or a political group ignores/suppresses/takes away the rights of their opposition...
that opposition will grow. 
If I were a blogger in Putin's Russia, I could be jailed for this post, just as those dissenters pictured 
above have been imprisoned...for speaking out against Putin.
If I were living under Sharia law, the religious/political overlords could decide how I cut my hair.
If, in this country, the ruling class succeeds in efforts to 'silence' dissent through control of technology...I would be no better off than if I lived in Russia or Iran.
During the President Bush era, we would see signs stating that "Dissent is Patriotic".
You wouldn't see such signs in President Obama's utopian America...for very long.

Catted

Catted, or, as in the picture, "Cat s'up, dude?"
I now have cats or, better stated, cats now have me. They aren't the ones shown above-that's
a pic from the internets-but the two that are now sharing my house have helped to make this a
home.
A good friend reminded me today that we should Praise God first when going through troubles-who doesn't have troubles, right? We all have struggles, pains, issues in our lives which tempt us to worry and BE troubled.
But God is pretty clear in His Word:
Philippians 4:6-9 (HCSB)
⁶ Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
⁷ And the peace of God, which surpasses every thought, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
⁸ Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any moral excellence and if there is any praise—dwell on these things.
⁹ Do what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you."
Dwell on Praise and moral excellence-the best way that I know of to do that is to imbibe/take in/meditate on/study God's Word. I don't find much to praise or moral excellence in the world. But the Bible is filled with both.
I am as well taken care of as my two new feline friends-God meets all of my needs just as I take care of theirs. That's a win/win. 

YaY! TWO-FER!!!!!

Yum Yum! I'm hundreds of miles from the closest "CHICK FIL A" eating estab, but the thought will do until the deed can be, um...done.
Pictured above is the Chick Fil a 'grilled chicken sandwich'.
Chick fil a shouldn't be in the news in any derogatory way, but, "Oh, those Craaaazy Democrats!"
An election year happenin' is the only reason the Dems are in high dudgeon over sweet little old 
Chick Fil A. Check it.
They close on Sundays, you know. Because the guy who owns the restaurant is a (whisper it!)
Christian! One who actually believes what God says, about a sabbath and (uh oh!) homosexuality.
Okay, so the Democrats are having a bit of trouble energizing their base, as their base and the rest of the country are hurting from the whoopin' on the economy that this Admin has administrated (in the name of fairness, don'tchaknow!).
So the Dem leadership, seeing their base ready to vote for "Anybody but Obama" gins up the alleged controversy of the Chick Fil A owner actually exercising his right to freedom of religion. Which they've been complaining about for years!
They don't care if I exercise that same right-who ever heard of me?
But he's a NAME.  Someone they can vilify for holding religious beliefs which are different than theirs...how very, very bigoted (open minded?) of them!
Speaking of jerks, I DID mention a two-fer in the title of this post. Part Deux!
More than soup nazis, the Palestinian Authority (which is funny in itself as there are no Palestinian people)
has begun jailing miscreants who eat food in public during (wait for it.....) Ramadan!
Even non Muslims can be (and have been) arrested for the sin of eating in public during a Islamic fast...in the
P.A.'s non-country, on their non-streets. I'll put a link to a post about this in the comments.
SO! If I had a Chick fil A grilled chix sand in hand, and I were walking in the territory where the Palestinian
Authority claims to have...uh...authority...I could be imprisoned. Sweet little ol' me!
I do have an ace up my sleeve, though-I would write to President Obama and tell him that I was a high school substitute teacher on vacation kidnapped by Somali pirates who just happened to have a condo in the P.A.'s non-country.
I'd be out of there quicker than Michelle Obama running from a fundraiser held by Sarah Jessica Parker!