The Pink Flamingo

Proverbs Challenge: Day Seventeen

July 23, 2017July 22, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, Proverbs Challenge

Proverbs 17 1Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife. 2 A slave who deals wisely will rule

Proverbs Challenge: Proverbs Sixteen

July 22, 2017July 21, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, Proverbs Challenge

Proverbs 16 16The plans of the mind belong to mortals, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. 2 All one’s ways

FOR SALE: 2200 Acre Alamo Canyon Ranch

July 21, 2017July 21, 2017 CULTURE, HISTORY, Lincoln County Cattle War, PERSONAL, Wild West 1

Address: E024 Alamo Canyon Road County: Lincoln City: Hondo State:New Mexico GPS: 33.353050, -105.298722 and 33.353109, -105.299084 PRICE DROP: Alamo Canyon Ranch needs to

Proverbs Challenge: Proverbs Fifteen

July 21, 2017July 20, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, Proverbs Challenge

Proverbs 15 1A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. 2 The tongue of the wise dispenses knowledge, but

One Small Step

July 20, 2017July 12, 2017 Apollo Program, MAIN PAGE, NASA, NASA History, SPACE

“One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” “…Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon. Americans

Proverbs Challenge: Proverbs 14

July 20, 2017July 19, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, Proverbs Challenge

Proverbs 14 14The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her own hands. 2 Those who walk uprightly fear

The First Food & Drink Consumed on the Moon

July 20, 2017June 27, 2017 Apollo Program, Christian History, Episcopal Church, Faith, NASA, NASA History, Persecution

The first food and drink consumed on the surface of a world other than Earth was the Blessed Sacrament of Holy Communion. (reserved sacrament)

Proverbs Challenge: Day Thirteen

July 19, 2017July 18, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, MAIN PAGE, Proverbs Challenge

Proverbs 13 13A wise child loves discipline, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. 2 From the fruit of their words good people

Proverbs Challenge: Day Twelve

July 18, 2017July 17, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, Proverbs Challenge

Proverbs 12 12Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but those who hate to be rebuked are stupid. 2 The good obtain favour from the Lord,

Proverbs Challenge: Day Eleven

July 17, 2017July 16, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, Proverbs Challenge

Proverbs 11 11A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but an accurate weight is his delight. 2 When pride comes, then comes

Sunday Morning Opera: Nessun dorma

July 16, 2017July 15, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Music, Opera, OPERA, Proverbs Challenge 1

Last week, one of the music magazines ran a list of their top ten Nessun dorma tenors/and or performances. Frankly, when you leave Richard

Buzz Aldrin’s WPost Editorial

July 16, 2017July 12, 2017 Advanced Systems, Apollo Program, Destroying NASA, NASA, NASA History, SPACE

Buzz Aldrin’s editorial was published on July 16,2009. There is one thing about Buzz Aldrin that has never changed. He, above everyone else who

Proverbs Challenge – Day Nine

July 15, 2017July 14, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, Proverbs Challenge

Proverbs 9 Wisdom’s Feast 9Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn her seven pillars. 2 She has slaughtered her animals, she has mixed

Proverbs Challenge: Day Eight

July 14, 2017July 13, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, Proverbs Challenge

Proverbs 8 The Gifts of Wisdom 8Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice? 2 On the heights, beside the way,

Proverbs Challenge – Day Seven

July 13, 2017July 12, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, Proverbs Challenge

Proverbs 7 The False Attractions of Adultery 7My child, keep my words and store up my commandments with you; 2 keep my commandments and

Proverbs Challenge – Day Six

July 12, 2017July 11, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, Proverbs Challenge

Proverbs 6 Practical Admonitions 6My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbour, if you have bound yourself to another, 2 you

Proverbs Challenge – Day Five

July 11, 2017July 10, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, Proverbs Challenge

Proverbs 5 Warning against Impurity and Infidelity 5My child, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, 2 so that you

Proverbs Challenge Day 4

July 10, 2017July 9, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, Proverbs Challenge

Proverbs 4 Parental Advice 4Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight; 2 for I give you good

Sunday Morning Opera: Wisdom, Faith, Sex & Violence

July 9, 2017July 8, 2017 Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, FAITH, Faith, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes

Right about now you might be wondering how I’m going to blend my Proverbs Challenge (day 3) with Sunday Morning Opera. You think that’s

Proverbs Challenge – Day Two

July 8, 2017July 8, 2017 CULTURE, FAITH, MAIN PAGE, Proverbs Challenge

Periodically, I need the Proverb’s Challenge. Ages ago I read a book about Solomon, who was one considered the wisest man who ever lived.

Racism + Bigotry = The New Democrat Smear

July 6, 2017June 27, 2017 Bigotry, CRIME, CULTURE, Hate Crimes, MAIN PAGE, Racism

Rerun week continues: From June 20, 2016 Have you had someone refer to you as a racist or bigot because you disagree with them?

We Will Be a City Upon a Hill

July 5, 2017June 27, 2017 CULTURE, REPUBLICAN, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan

Unfortunately, the country Reagan describes here, no longer exists, does it? January 25, 1974 There are three men here tonight I am very proud

We Hold These Truths….

July 4, 2017June 27, 2017 BASEBALL, Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Cultural Illiteracy, HISTORY, History of the Game, Johnny Bench, MAIN PAGE 2

From July 4, 2012. Today, on the Fourth of July, it is time to discuss what makes America so great. It is so obvious,

Celebrating America: Casey At the Bat Read by James Earl Jones!

July 3, 2017June 27, 2017 BASEBALL, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE

“It’s our game; that’s the chief fact in connection with it: America’s game; it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere; it

Sunday Morning Opera: Happy Birthday Thomas Hampson

July 2, 2017July 1, 2017 Baritones, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Thomas Hampson 2

Thomas Hampson is proof that men are basically disgusting and there is nothing fair when it comes to men and women and aging. He

Don’t Know Much About History..

July 1, 2017July 1, 2017 American Revolution, Ancient, Barack Obama, Christian History, Cultural Illiteracy, England, Historial Ignorance, MAIN PAGE, Problems with Islam, Revisionism, Roman, Scotland 2

Another rerun first published on June 4, 2009. NOTE: The following information is what I learned in my graduate studies in Medieval History and

Ode to Our Dirty Founding Fathers

June 30, 2017June 27, 2017 American, American Revolution, Cochise County Cowboy War, MAIN PAGE, Roman, Wild West 3

Life during the days of the writing of the Declaration of Independence was not sanitized. Half of the babies born during that time did

The Glory of Creation

June 29, 2017June 27, 2017 Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Catholic, Christian History, Classic TV, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Egyptology, Evolution, FAITH, Far Righ Loons, Geology, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Medical, Meteorology, Paleontology, Planetary, Psychology, Quantum Physics, SCIENCE, Science Fiction, Seismology, Sociology, SPACE, Vulcanology

Pink Flamingo ‘rerun’ week continues… This is from March 18, 2014. Did you know that the dastardly, ungodly Big Bang Theory was developed by

Our Non-Christian Founding Fathers

June 28, 2017June 27, 2017 American Revolution, CULTURE, FAITH, Faith, George Washington, HISTORY 3

The following is from an essay entitled Suffer Not a Witch, that is part of an upcoming book I’m writing called To Walk On

Oh, That Lovely $15/Hr Minimum Wage?

June 27, 2017June 26, 2017 Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, ECONOMY, Historial Ignorance, MAIN PAGE, POLITICAL

When I was in high school, I thought getting the minimum wage was incredible. I worked in an upscale boutique, rarely bringing any money