Well, I've just been shooting my mouth off to Friends on Facebook and now have switched to a different gauge shotgun. This is an interesting Day in History...My Civil War interest...I'm still suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome from being in my great grandfather's loins while he was being shelled by Stonewall Jackson's artillery during the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862...reminds me today is the day Old Jack was shot by friendly fire from troops who thought he and his scouting party returning to Confederate lines were some attacking Yankees. He ended up losing his left arm, but it was the pneumonia he developed from an act of kindness several nights earlier...putting his outer covering over Sandy Pendleton to keep him dry during an overnight rainfall...that ushered him into Heaven on Sunday, May 10, 1863. (Aint this a great public domain picture by Kurz and Allison?!!)
Next on my list is the Lock Ness Monster, which wriggled to modern fame on this day in 1933 when the Inverness Courier carried the story of his/her siting. Hey, you skeptics...Nessy Lives! It's even reported in the History Channel This Day in History [http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=VideoArticle&id=6885] that Saint Columba, the Irish Christian missionary to Scotland confronted Nessy in 565 A.D., told him in the name of God to quit attacking some guy, and Nessy (and I would say his descendants) have not attacked anyone since. Think like I think for a minute...there's a Flood, animals living in the waters continue on, Nessy and Mrs. Nessy and their offspring of limited numbers continue on to this day...what's the big deal? The book of Job talks about creatures that are dinosaurs (Behemoth in Job 40:15ff) and fire breathing dragons (Leviathan in Job 41:1ff)...or Nessies!! And you ask why would God create these things and let some live to this day? TO GLORIFY HIMSELF WHEN I POINT OUT THE OBVIOUS TO YOU FLATLINE THINKERS!! ;)
Now, last on this miscellaneous rant list is Niccolo Machiavelli, patron saint of bad guys, who was born on this day in 1469...exactly 500 years before I graduated high school and began my college career as a political science major! His famous work, The Prince, can be summed up in the Grampa Bob Digest (yes, I've actually read the whole thing) as: "Do what you can to get power...do whatever is necessary to keep power!" Thus endeth that lesson for the day. As I said in Facebook today, if Reincarnation is reality, then the herd of demon possessed swine of Mark 5 have come back as theologians and/or New World Order politicians! Oh, I just Wikied an interesting aspect of The Prince. The original title was About Principalities...one of the categories of demonic powers listed in Ephesians 6:12 (NKJV) is "principalities"...so maybe Old Nick (one of many nicknames for Satan) Macchiavelli had some external help to construct his famous and very influential book?!! Remember...or learn for the first time..."doctrines of demons" is Paul's phrase for false theologies in 1Timothy 4:1 and the Bible is full of castigations of how "the wicked" gain, hold, and use power.
Well, as Emperor Joseph of "Amadeus" might say, "There it is."
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