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Davy Jones ~ 30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012
The Monkees singer Davy Jones dead at 66
Davy Jones, the lead singer of the pop group The Monkees, died Wednesday at the age of 66, his publicist confirmed to Fox News.
“The only thing we can do is confirm that he has died of a heart attack at Indiantown, Florida this morning,” his rep Helen Kensick told Fox News. “We will have more later.
The local medical examiner released a statement Wednesday confirming that they had been notified of the singer’s death.
“The District 19 Medical Examiner’s office has been notified of the death of Mr. Davy Jones,” spokeswoman Rebecca Shortridge said. “We are currently evaluating whether or not the medical examiner’s office will take jurisdiction.”
Jones, who last performed Feb. 19 in Oklahoma, formed the Monkees in 1966 with Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork.
I’m feeling really old right now. I don’t think there was one girl way back when that didn’t have a ‘crush’ on Davy.
I think it had something to do with the accent. 
As best I can remember, I don’t think I bought that album. Album…that’s one of those very old, black vinyl things…round 
, stuck it on a ‘record player’ 
, and you could hear music coming out of the speakers. I know….weird, isn’t it. 
It’s kind of disturbing to realize that your childhood memories, crushes, and heroes are dying off. 
The Porcelain Unicorn
British film director Sir Ridley Scott launched a global film making contest for aspiring directors. It’s titled “Tell It Your Way”. There were over 600 entries.
The film could be no longer than three minutes, contain only 6 lines of narrative & be a compelling story. The winner was “Porcelain Unicorn,” from American director Keegan Wilcox.
It’s a story of the lifetimes of two people who are totally opposite, yet, very much the same – all told in less than 3 minutes.
You’ll see why it won.
Shared by Jerry.
It’s A Baby…A HUMAN Baby!
I Agree With Rush!
The OTHER Rush!
The economy – or condoms?
by Eric Rush
On Tuesday of this week, I heard no fewer than three of our top conservative radio personalities refer to our country/society as being “upside-down.” I found this of particular interest because my schedule is such that I seldom get more than one combined half-hour of radio most days.
Those who haven’t drunk the proverbial powdered drink mix commonly associated with the Jonestown tragedy have been drawing the societal inversion analogy more and more as time – and our social malaise – progresses. There really are too many newsworthy examples illustrating this for one to cogently address them all in one column.
A few do spring to mind, though …
For example, the incomprehensibly degenerate “educational” materials being produced by Planned Parenthood International have come under increased scrutiny of late, largely due to the efforts of the pro-life organization American Life League. To the initiated, it’s bad enough that Planned Parenthood, the largest purveyor of abortion services in America, had its genesis in eugenics. The legacy of having been devised in order to curtail the procreation of “undesirable” subgroups within the gene pool (blacks in particular) is certainly far from enviable. Now it is has become clear that Planned Parenthood is doing its level best to produce as many wanton libertines as possible.
To this end, they have focused on American children.
Spud?
They are telling me this is my great grandson. 
Umm… ok. I have turned it every whichaway, and he still looks like an alligator. A prehistoric alligator.
Yes, we call him Spud. Tried calling him by his initials, M.J., but Jr got her knickers in a twist, saying she didn’t want him associated with Michael Jackson. What does Michael Jason have to do with ….? And now, I just learned they have changed it from Michael to Cameron? I’m very confused! Oh well…never mind. Spud it is! 
He’s just a few weeks off from being sprung from his current abode.
Wouldn’t ya think he’d look a wee bit more….well….human? Well, he is Brat Jr’s offspring, so I guess that explains a great deal. 
Stealing Innocence
I can’t even begin to comment on this….crap! The left not only wants to murder children, they want to make future murderers of children.
WARNING! GRAPHIC IMAGES!
Rest In Peace
Whitney Houston, superstar of records, films, dies
Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48.
Publicist Kristen Foster said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unknown.
A beautiful woman with an amazing talent. May she find the peace she sought. Many prayers with the family.
Not Worth Spit!
I have yet to figure out why this show is still on the air, not even the token conservative can’t even redeem it. These female creatures are the most offensive beings, and are an insult to women everywhere.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Now, there are lots of headlines right now about battles over birth control and abortion rights. A federal judge in Texas has is upholding a law that provides abortion providers to show or describe to women an ultrasound of the fetus before he can have an abortion.
BARBARA WALTERS: And the heartbeat.
JOY BEHAR: It’s very totalitarian in my opinion. I mean, it smacks of forcing somebody to confront something that they have already decided they don’t want to deal with.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK: Can I ask you a question, though? Because I’m going to take my personal feelings about abortion out of this, but from a medical perspective- and I’ll ask this of anyone- you wouldn’t necessarily go in to get, I don’t know, say, a cyst removed or tooth extracted or a kidney that had to be, you know, examined and have surgery on, you would never go through any medical procedure without looking at an ultrasound, seeing an X-ray and the physician by no means want to do that procedure, go ahead with it without looking at the scientific evidence.
BEHAR: Doesn’t the doctor look at it though?
HASSELBECK: Hang on, as a patient I would just want information. To me, it doesn’t make sense why you wouldn’t- why you would ask for an X-ray for those things or an ultrasound but not in this case.
WALTERS: Let me try to answer you. First of all, it is interesting in every primary the subject of abortion comes up and it is always so controversial and so divisive and yet in the actual election, it plays a very small part. I always find that fascinating. It’s always an issue, but people, with it all, do not vote for the president on that issue. I think that in order to even think about having an abortion, to give up a child that is obviously unwanted, that’s why you’re doing it, it is such a tremendous decision, it’s involved with so much fear of what you’re doing and guilt.
HASSELBECK: But if that-
WALTERS: Wait! Then to have to go and be forced to hear, to see the fetus, to hear the heartbeat, to put more guilt on you, I think is heartbreaking.
How any woman can be so dismissive of the life of an innocent child is totally beyond me! I have completely lost any respect for Barbara Walters that I had left, and believe me, it wasn’t much. I’ve never had any for Behar, and I actually use to really like Whoopi Goldberg. She should have stuck to comedy. I’ve no idea who Sherri Shepherd is….never heard of her, but perhaps she should find some more legitimate line of work?
Undermining Faith
White House to Announce ‘Accommodation’ for Religious Organizations on Contraception Rule
With the White House under fire for its new rule requiring employers including religious organizations to offer health insurance that fully covers birth control coverage, ABC News has learned that later today the White House — possibly President Obama himself — will likely announce an attempt to accommodate these religious groups.
The move, based on state models, will almost certainly not satisfy bishops and other religious leaders since it will preserve the goal of women employees having their birth control fully covered by health insurance.
Sources say it will be respectful of religious beliefs but will not back off from that goal, which many religious leaders oppose since birth control is in violation of their religious beliefs.
Funding Slaughter
Planned Parenthood sues TN over cuts to STD program
Abortion opponents are claiming another victory in the battle to defund Planned Parenthood by excluding it from state and federal funding for HIV and syphilis prevention programs.
But the nonprofit is fighting back.
Two Tennessee Planned Parenthood groups sued the state Thursday for denying the nonprofit more than $150,000 in grant money to participate in programs funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Planned Parenthood wants a federal judge to intervene and asked for an injunction against the state.
It seriously annoys me that this bloody business keeps referring to itself as “nonprofit”. That doesn’t happen to be true. They make an obscene amount of profit, all from the slaughter of innocent babies. They do not need our tax dollars, from which the government grants come. The majority of Americans do not want their money spent on something that is so abhorrent! There are many organizations other than PP that provide testing for STDs.
Look at the history of Planned Parenthood. It’s not noble, that’s for sure! The intent was to get rid of people of color, those considered “unfit”, like the poor and the disable, and it is still being pushed on the black community. 91% of women who walk through their doors murder their children. 91%. For them to claim otherwise would be a flat out lie. Nor do they do mammograms! It’s a referral system. They get money, they send women elsewhere for screenings. Why should they receive Koman money if the money isn’t used for the purpose intended? (I would link to their site, but they were hacked, likely by some pro baby murder supporter.)
I’ve no doubt some people are under the misconception that PP provides services for free. Not true. You are charged at the time of your ‘visit’. Just look at PP’s site….it gives you prices.
I pray that whatever judge these slaughterers of the innocent go before, will stand with the people of Tennessee. A civilization that murders its children is not civilized!
UPDATE: Evidently, The Komen Foundation has reversed its decision. So much for that donation I was sending. After their decision, their donations went up 100%. I wonder how many people will put a ‘stop payment’, or ‘deny charge’ on those donations now.
The War Against Babies
H/T: Sammye via Facebook
On This Day In History…..
….the Mr was brought forth into the world! Heh! Yup…today is the Mr’s big day! While it was a real pain in the hinder to have to spend it sitting around a hospital, the nurses brought him a piece of cake with balloons tied around it. How sweet of ‘em! Thank y’all. Even if he was kind of dopey, he does appreciate it. That is the difference between big city hospitals, and small town hospitals…..they actually consider you a person, instead of a number and their means to a paycheck.
Honestly, it is quite disconcerting to find out you are a year older than what you believed. We were born in the same year…him in January, me in November. I thought he was a certain age, and I find out he was a year more than I thought. This, of course, means I am a year older than I thought. ACK! Why could he have let me keep my fantasy….just for a little while longer!! sigh…
Anyway….I’m sure glad he was born! Love you!!
A Voice Silenced
But the song shall live on.
Etta James’ performance of the enduring classic “At Last” was the embodiment of refined soul: Angelic-sounding strings harkened the arrival of her passionate yet measured vocals as she sang tenderly about a love finally realized after a long and patient wait.
In real life, little about James was as genteel as that song. The platinum blonde’s first hit was a saucy R&B number about sex, and she was known as a hell-raiser who had tempestuous relationships with her family, her men and the music industry. Then she spent years battling a drug addiction that she admitted sapped away at her great talents.
Rest in gentle peace.
Self Defense
Gov. signs bill allowing homeowners to legally kill intruders
Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that allows homeowners to legally kill intruders.
The bill, nicknamed the “Castle Doctrine,” creates a presumption of legal immunity for someone who kills or injures a person breaking into his or her home, vehicle or workplace. The measure requires a judge to presume that the use of deadly force was necessary.
IMHO, this should never even be an issue. If someone is breaking into your home, it’s a pretty safe bet they aren’t there for tea and crumpets!
Exodus 22:2 If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt for his bloodshed.
Ezekiel 33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will save his life.
I had a very dear friend who was attacked in her own bedroom by a man with a knife. His intent was to kill her after….. If she had had a weapon, odds are, she would not have come so close to death, and lost a kidney. She is now permitted to carry at weapon at all times, even before carry was allowed in the state where she was living at the time, but if she had been able to prior to the attack?
This Woman Is Just Plain Evil!
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Calls Abortion a ‘Needed Action’ & Refers to Fetal Heartbeats as ‘Sounds’
Voicing her opposition to the measure on Thursday, Jackson Lee referenced a previous Texas law, “Just as the courts ruled unconstitutional and upheld the provision of the Texas law that required a doctor to talk first to a woman seeking an abortion and to allow or force them both to listen, uh, to sounds that, uh, might discourage this needed action, this is going to be held unconstitutional. This is not a law that can pass,” Jackson said. (source)
Let’s take a look at her biography, provided by Wikipedia, shall we? If you read through some of the items here, you will probably come to the same conclusion that I have. The cheese done slid off the cracker! That woman is certifiable! She wants to sell fighter jets to Venezuela? Seriously? We won the war in Vietnam? *shakes head* And I couldn’t even begin to list the numerous racists comments that woman has made! Her biography lists her chosen religion as Seventh Day Adventist.
Much of the theology of the Seventh-day Adventist Church corresponds to Protestant Christian teachings such as the Trinity and the infallibility of Scripture. Distinctive teachings include the unconscious state of the dead and the doctrine of an investigative judgment. The church is also known for its emphasis on diet and health, its holistic understanding of the person, its promotion of religious liberty, and its conservative principles and lifestyle.
Infallibility of Scripture? I would suggest the Adventists reconsider her membership. Scripture does not describe the murder of babies as “a needed action”. As a matter of fact, there are quite a few passages that state just the opposite. Sacrificing children is totally frowned upon by God. And that’s what abortion is….a sacrifice to the liberal agenda….the ME mindset.
“Promotion of religious liberties and it’s conservative principles and lifestyle“? Pardon me while a throw up a bit. Yes, the Adventists seriously need to rethink this woman’s claim to be a member of their denomination.
Mzzzzzz Jackson-Lee, those are not ‘sounds’. Those are HEARTBEATS of living being! And you madam, are a tool of evil!
I would strongly urge the citizens of Texas’ 18th Congressional district to send this woman packing. She is advocating the same thing that Margaret Sanger pushed for……Black Genocide. Her ignorance as a U.S. Congresswoman is astounding!
