Posting for WP ✝️ 🇺🇸 🙏 Make America GOSPEL’d Again! 👍 🙏

The Las Vegas police have released their investigation report on the January 1, 2025 Tesla cyber truck explosion at the Trump Tower, a link to the report is embedded in the news article:

https://www.kolotv.com/2025/11/03/report-details-police-investigation-into-cybertruck-explosion-trump-international-hotel-las-vegas/

Last Date 
Floyd Kramer
1960

My Last Date (With You)
Ann-Margret
1962

Java

Al Hurt

1962

Al Hirt 
“The Happening” on The Ed Sullivan Show
1967

Al as a guest on the Lawrence Welk Show in 1958 
with Pete Fountain.

Al Hirt 
“It’s A Long, Long Way To Tipperary” 
on The Ed Sullivan Show
1961

Hirt National Anthem 
1979

(229) What do you think this was?🤔🤔😱 – YouTube

Happy Election Day America! One year ago, we witnessed a miracle. Trump won a “too big to rig” election. Let’s pray AND turnout to vote today with even bigger numbers. Keep the momentum going for the midterms. Conservative victories in New Jersey & Virginia! Win the overwhelming majority of the 22,000 school board races that will be decided today so we can get education back on track. I heard JD Vance’s brother Mr Bowman is even on the ballot to Make Cincinnati Great Again! And let’s Defeat Prop 50 in California (Vote No!) effectively ending Newsom’s presidential campaign before it even begins!

Dolly Parton mixes made by Duncan Hines. I see there is a variety of these but Sherry and I have tried only one. We think they’re the best blueberry muffins we’ve ever had from a box.

Cat Attack on German Shephard…. But What He Did Next Will Shock You!😨

The Leopard Was Inches Away… But the Baby Gazelle Did the Unthinkable 🐆🦌😱 #트렌딩 #표범 #가젤 #야생동물 #추격 #도망

Fake Floppy Fish Bait Comes Alive

@SenatorSlotkin

17 General Officers have been removed or have retired in nine months. I’m a former CIA officer – if I saw this in a foreign military, we would call that a purge.
https://x.com/i/status/1985357669515800836
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@infantrydort
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Madam, allow me to provide some perspective. Let’s extrapolate a bit to account for just 9 months. Marshall removed 32.6% of all Generals in the Army.
@PeteHegseth
by comparison, has seen only 2% of ALL GOFOs across services leave their post. Doesn’t seem like a purge to me.
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Remove 17 out of 838 Flag Officers in the US military and she thinks that’s a Purge? IMO they need to cut the number of Flag Officers by about 1/2.

“Like a can of busted biscuits”

Who’s knocking 🤩

(229) Baby’s Bang Leaves Dogs Belly Up. One Baby, Three Dramatic Dogs🐾Episode 5 – YouTube

well, I guess EBT lapsing isn’t the entire issue for some folks

“I AIN’T PAYING for GROCERIES cuz Walmart CEO is my BESTIE!”

Old Cowboy Gets A Visit From Old Friend In The Hospital #animals #cute #horse #sora2 #cowboy #ranch

04 November 2020 Ken Hensley, British rock songwriter, keyboardist, and singer (Uriah Heep, 1970-80 – “Easy Livin'”; Blackfoot, 1982-84), dies at 75

Lady In Black (Live in Germany )

04 November

Felix Mendelssohn
(1809-1847)

German composer and pianist (Italian Symphony; Songs Without Words), dies after a series of strokes at 38

Biography: Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the early Romantic period. He is best known for his orchestral works, including the Hebrides Overture and the Scottish and Italian symphonies, as well as his chamber music and songs.

Mendelssohn also composed the famous Wedding March from his suite of incidental music for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which has become a standard piece at Western weddings. His Songs Without Words are his most famous solo piano compositions.

Mendelssohn came from a prominent Jewish family but was raised without religion and later converted to Christianity. His early talent was nurtured by his family, and he quickly gained recognition, mingling with influential writers and artists of the time. However, his Jewish heritage led to instances of anti-Semitic prejudice, which slightly tarnished his reputation during his lifetime and posthumously during the Nazi era, when his music was banned in Germany.

Despite this Mendelssohn’s contributions to music were immense, including his role in reviving interest in the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. His compositions were characterized by a mixture of creativity and conservatism, at least compared to contemporaries such as Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner, and are still performed today.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Overture

Surfer girl in Bali

Suri Jabrik Calls Bali Home #surfersofbali #surfingbali #surfers

I hope those that live in my neck of the woods are finishing up their winter preparations. Water hoses in. Lawn furniture covered or in. Snow shovels and deicer staged. etc.

Home inspection #homeinspection #homeinspector #renovation #diy #electrician #electrical #realestate

And those of you on the left coast are not getting away without yours either.

https://x.com/i/status/1985401458796228901

Greetings Treepers! 🤝✝️🤝

History of record high temps for the United states in November. I doubt we’ll see any broken this year.

The last message from Stalingrad.

History Arc

@HistoryArcs
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15h

The Last Radio Message From Stalingrad February 3rd, 1943

“Hello! Is anyone there? There are six of us left, from the whole division. We have not eaten for a week and have been holding here for days – Please tell my father I have carried out my duty.

Long live to Germany!”

180’ pine speed-line the top of a tree. Fancy rigging.

Buff Roo

“Buff Kangaroo Tried to Scare a Zoo Visitor 😱”

The Ultimate Trust: He Chose to Sleep on Your Lap❤️🤗🐴#love #trust #horse #horselife #sleeping

Cats don’t like snow or the cold.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qkgws-m7GDM?feature=share

Used Guitar APOCALYPSE

All Day in the Hood

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fY77Dhk8ezc

I just had a McAffee anti-virus scan pop up on my iPhone while using the Brave browser. I closed that tab, opened a new tab, then went to my CTH bookmark, no anti-virus pop up. I’m also seeing some advertisements get through. Anyone else experiencing this?

OPINION: This post about finding singles in church has everyone looking for answers for the next generation

https://notthebee.com/takes/this-post-on-x-about-singles-and-church-has-everyone-talking-and-looking-for-answers-for-the-next-generation

One of the toughest things about the Christian dating scene is that the women are all over at the baptist/nondenom mega church and the men are all at the most traditional place they can find.

I have only been to a mega church once, my married real estate agent invited me to a Christmas play she sang in. She had an unbelievably good voice, but the church, I wasn’t impressed.

The self declared “Spartacus” meets Vlad the Impaler !

https://x.com/i/status/1985450641649741932

Dick Cheney has passed.

CNN’s obituary was NOT kind.

I guess calling out Trump and voting for Kamala was not enough to rehabilitate him.

EACH DAY WE TAKE UP THE OFFENSIVE WEAPON OF THE WORD OF GOD – THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT – ONE VERSE OPENS THE DOOR TO THE CONTEXT OF THE CHAPTER MESSAGE

Verse of the Day for Tuesday, November 4, 2025

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“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”

Colossians 3:16 (KJV)

COMMENTARY FOR COLOSSIANS 3

“The Colossians exhorted to be heavenly-minded; (1-4) to mortify all corrupt affections; (5-11) to live in mutual love, forbearance, and forgiveness; (12-17) and to practise the duties of wives and husbands, children, parents, and servants.” (18-25)

(12-17) “We must not only do no hurt to any, but do what good we can to all. Those who are the elect of God, holy and beloved, ought to be lowly and compassionate towards all. While in this world, where there is so much corruption in our hearts, quarrels will sometimes arise. But it is our duty to forgive one another, imitating the forgiveness through which we are saved. Let the peace of God rule in your hearts; it is of his working in all who are his. Thanksgiving to God, helps to make us agreeable to all men. The gospel is the word of Christ. Many have the word, but it dwells in them poorly; it has no power over them. The soul prospers, when we are full of the Scriptures and of the grace of Christ. But when we sing psalms, we must be affected with what we sing. Whatever we are employed about, let us do every thing in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in believing dependence on him. Those who do all in Christ’s name, will never want matter of thanksgiving to God, even the Father.”

Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
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Verse of the Day – November 4, 2025 (Morning Prayer)

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Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!


WE ARE FIGHTING A SPIRITUAL WAR OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL

PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD

Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.

I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.

Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.

May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.

With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.

Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me. 

Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.

PLEASE PRAY FOR ABUSED, MISSING, AND TRAFFICKED CHILDREN

BE MY VOICE

CHILD NOT CHOICE

JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN

PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER

MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN

Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing 

#psalm91 #psalms #prayer

Pray Everyday

https://rumble.com/v57jz8d-psalm-91.the-most-powerful-prayer-from-the-bible.-gods-protection-healing-p.html

Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.

#faith #god #psalms

prayeveryday777

https://rumble.com/v57jvfg-sleep-well-with-psalms.-psalm-91-psalm-121-psalm-3-psalm-4-psalm-139.faith-.html

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HAVE A VERY BLESSED DAY !!!  ❤️❤️❤️


lots of music videos here, so perhaps a music REVIEW will be forgiven? 
this one speaks to the lasting legacy of a certain generation while having a little fun.
a rollicking good read – unless you’re a cranky old goat.🤣
(note: the following written by Mark Steyn, not me!)

Light My Fire
Steyn’s Song of the Week, from “A Song for the Season”
by Mark Steyn
11-2-25
(edited for length)

http://www.steynonline.com

The “Summer of Love” is getting on for six decades ago. 
It’s further in the rear view mirror today than the summer of flappers and charlestons and bootleg gin was back in 1967. 
But, boomers being the most self-absorbed generation in history, we’re going to be living with boomer pop culture until the very last one keels over at the age of 137 singing “Give Peace A Chance”.
So we might as well get used to it. 
And, to be honest, there’s one aspect of the Summer of Love I’m quite partial to. 
What was America’s Number One song in that bright new hazy psychedelic dawn? Oh, come on, baby…
“Come on, baby, Light My Fire
Come on, baby, Light My Fire
Try to set the night on fire…”

The single was edited down to under three minutes, but the disc-jockeys played the original seven-minute album track anyway, from the Doors’ eponymous album The Doors. 
And within a few years it was established as one of those iconic long-form works like “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Stairway To Heaven”, “A Day In The Life”, “Like A Rolling Stone”, etc.,  that are regarded as the acme of rock. 
The crude formula seems to be: Length + psychedelic lyric = art.
But “Light My Fire” can’t be confined to the long-form psychedelia category. 
For one thing, unlike “Bohemian Rhapsody”, it’s one of the most “covered” songs of the last sixty years. 
Granting the enduring cult around the late rocker, there’s still something about “Light My Fire” that seems to appeal to millions of people who’ve never heard of the guy and have zero interest in the counter-culture. And why not? 
After all, the song owes its creation in part to Rodgers & Hammerstein.

Here’s how it happened: The Doors were one of those artsy college-boy groups. 
Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek had met at UCLA’s film school, where Morrison had already come up with the name for his band.
Technically speaking, he didn’t yet have a band but it’s always useful to keep a moniker on tap just in case you need one and Jim thought his was a winner: The Doors. 
It was an allusion both to Aldous Huxley – The Doors Of Perception – and William Blake – “There are things that are known and things that are unknown, in between the doors”, 
which is so good it could almost be by Donald Rumsfeld.
“We talked a while,” said Manzarek, “before we decided to get a group together and make a million dollars.” 
Two isn’t really enough for a group, unless you’re Wham!, in which case it’s one too many. 
But fortunately Ray was into meditation and in his class were two other fellows, John Densmore and Robby Krieger. 
So they had the manpower, they had the name, they were ready to go. 
Jim told everyone to go home and try writing a new song.
The following day, Robby Krieger strolled in and announced he’d come up with one.
“Way to go, man!” said Jim Morrison. “What’s it called?”
“I call it ‘Light My Fire’,” said Krieger. “I only have a first verse.” 
And he sang:

“You know that it would be untrue


You know that I would be a liar


If I was to say to you


Girl, we couldn’t get much higher


Come on, baby, Light My Fire


Come on, baby, Light My Fire


Try to set the night on fire…”

“Whoa, that’s hip,” said Manzarek, impressed – up to a point. 
“But it needs work.”

“The time to hesitate is through


No time to wallow in the mire


Try now we can only lose


And our love become a funeral pyre…”

That’s Jim Morrison’s contribution. 

It’s no “Moonlight Drive”, but it takes it out of Sonny & Cher or Mamas & Papas territory and pushes it closer to “Riders on the Storm” turf. 
“The time to hesitate is through”: Seize the moment! Very Sixties.
What’s the worst that can happen?  “Our love become a funeral pyre.” Heavy, man!
But who cares about the reason with such great rhyme? 
That’s what I love about the lyric. 

In an age of sloppy “time/mine” bum couplets, “Light My Fire” is almost like a rhyming exercise. 
There are only two rhymes in the song – “fire” rhymes and “you” rhymes, or two-and-a-half if you include the internal rhyme of “light my fire” with “night on fire”. 
But Krieger’s rhymes – “liar/higher” – are conventional pop fare, whereas Morrison’s verse sounds like the rhyming dictionary is being stretched to its limits – 
“mire” and “pyre”, but he refuses to tire or preach to the choir.
And, if we’re a long way from William Blake, you’re surprised he didn’t get to Lewis Carroll: “‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves/Did gyre and gimble in the wabe…” 
Indeed, the one impure-ish rhyme – “through/lose” – is rather Carrollesque in the way it carries over the “s” to the “and…” of the next line. 
The overall result is a weird combination of free love in a constrained form.

Back to Rogers and Hammerstein: On the original album track, the back-and-forth between Manzarek’s keyboards and Krieger’s guitar is analogous to the give-and-take between Coltrane’s soprano sax and McCoy Tyner’s piano on “Favourite Things”. 
So the next time The Sound of Music turns up on TV and Julie Andrews starts going on about bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens, remember that there’s a direct line between those brown paper packages tied up with strings and wallowing in the mire when our love becomes a funeral pyre. 
“My Favourite Things” was one of Ray Manzarek’s favourite things, and he drew on it for “Light My Fire”. 

But it was the whoa-that’s-hip harmonics that sold it to the MOR (Middle Of the Road) crowd. 
The Doors let the song down in only one respect, I think. 
Krieger’s verse didn’t need just a second verse, but a third and a fourth. 
It sort of hints at some primal power – the elements, man: earth (“mire”), wind (“higher”) and fire (“pyre”). 
But it needs still more elements – maybe undergrowth (“briar”), rubber (“tire”), onion rings (“fryer”) or a Tolkien allusion (“shire”).
If you hear it without the five-minute instrumental solos, the problem with the song is that you run out of lyric. 
That’s why, in the hugely successful José Feliciano version, the poor guy’s reduced to going:
“LightMyFireLightMyFireLightMyFireLightMyFireLightMyFireLightMyFire”, 
which sounds like a 911 call for an emergency third verse that never comes.

Just because the song needed more lyrics didn’t mean everyone was on board with the ones it already had. 
Invited to perform on “The Ed Sullivan Show”, the Doors were instructed to eschew “Girl, we couldn’t get much higher” for “Girl, we couldn’t get much better”, which, unlike “Girl, you’re starting to perspire” or “Girl, my pants are in the dryer”, doesn’t even rhyme.
Come the big night, on live TV, Jim Morrison forgot to sing “better” and sang the usual “higher”.
Ed Sullivan was so furious he refused to shake Morrison’s hand: Man, you couldn’t get much ruder. 
The producer said they’d never be booked on the Sullivan show again: Girl, we couldn’t get re-hired.

But what did they care? Half-a-century back, it was a bizarre freakish one-off of a song that caught the ear of all kinds of folks. 
The boys were right: “Light My Fire” is a great title. 
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(ed note: see if you can get the image of an aging hippie wandering around the house asking – to the tune of the song of course – “Hey, are my pants in the dryer?” 😂😂)

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