Springtime Soup Made With Wild Greens

 

 

 

 

 

 18th century historian and cook Jon Townsends shares his campfire
 recipe for a delicious springtime soup made with wild greens!

 

Springtime Soup Made With Wild Greens
Townsends
(Uploaded April 20, 2015)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Night In Uncle Walt's Vault: Springtime

 

 

 

 

Image courtesy/Letterboxd

 In the first of the "Four Seasons" Silly Symphony cartoons from
 Walt Disney Productions,  flowers, ladybugs, centipedes, birds, and frogs
 dance (and devour each other!) while celebrating the arrival of Spring.

On a more historical note, this cartoon was released on October 24, 1929
the same day of the Stock Market Crash-also called Black Thursday-
  which led to the Great Depression.

Springtime
(1929)
Walt Disney Studios
Released by Columbia Pictures
The SillySymphonies
(Uploaded June 8, 2011)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Jackson: When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder

 

 

 

 "When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound,
and time shall be no more,
and the morning breaks, eternal, bright, and fair;
When the saved of earth shall gather
over on the other shore,
and the roll is called up yonder,
I'll be there..."

When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder
(2013)
Alan Jackson
(Uploaded January 25, 2017)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Charles Stanley: Making Wise Decisions

 

 

 

 "The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him."
(Nahum 1:7)

In this classic teaching, beloved Pastor Dr. Charles Stanley
 reminds us that the greatest decision we can make in our
 lives is placing our trust and hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. 

 

Making Wise Decisions
Dr. Charles Stanley
In Touch Ministries
(Uploaded March 1, 2026)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday Night Memories With Lawrence Welk: Showstoppers

 

 

 America's favorite prime time bandleader Lawrence Welk and his
talented cast of dancers, singers, and musicians celebrate an eclectic mix
 of "showstopper" tunes including, "That's Entertainment" "Hello Dolly"
" Somewhere Over The Rainbow"  "In The Mood" "Fascination" "Somewhere
 My Love" "Mr. Bojangles" "The Beer Barrel Polka" and more!

 

Showstoppers
(1979)
The Lawrence Welk Show
Lawrence Welk LPs
(Uploaded July 13, 2019)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

America Must Stand And Fight The War ( Not In The Middle East)

 

 

 

  In response to a recent poll regarding America's role in the Straight of Hormuz,
as long as the demoniac remains of the Iranian regime keep launching rockets,
threatening Israel, and other nations in the Middle East, there is a vital need
for an international alliance to protect and defend these waters
 in the interests of global trade and energy.

 

 

Straight of Hormuz
Image courtesy/Britannica

 

 

While I believe America's support for the nation and people of Israel
is important, I am opposed to any long term involvement in the region.
Especially American boots on the ground there.

President Trump says that this war will end soon, and yet, I recently read 
that the Pentagon is requesting a $200 billion dollar "war budget" for
this latest conflict!  What about average Americans struggling to buy
food, gas, and pay escalating energy bills?

Someone once told me that there is enough natural gas and oil deposits
beneath our own soil and that America should never have to depend on
imported oil in the first place. I believe he was right.

Furthermore, I think years of foreign entanglements with nations whose
religious ideology and worldview is diametrically opposed to our own way
of life has placed America's freedom in serious jeopardy.

Who thought that almost 25 years after the worst terrorist attack launched on
U.S. soil in this century,  when the first physical evidence of the holy war
 declared against us unfolded in a living nightmare of death and destruction,
"Ground Zero" a.k.a.  New York City would elect an unapologetic Islamist
as their mayor?  A man whose wife was caught "liking"  far-left social
 media posts celebrating the horrific massacre of Israeli men, women,
and children by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023.  

According to one report in the New York Post, NY Mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife,
 Rama Duwaji "liked" a February 2024 Instagram post questioning the validity of 
a New York Times report about the campaign of sexual violence perpetrated
   against Israeli civilians on that horrible day nearly three years ago.
Duwaji believes the graphic accounts of mass rape were a hoax.
 

 

Israel-Hamas War Started long before October 7th, 2023
Image courtesy/Vox

According to Israeli survivor Tali Binder, who managed to hide from Hamas
that day,  "I would expect any woman-especially Mrs. Mamdani- to at least try
to imagine...To close her eyes and picture evil people breaking into her home,
her safe space, assaulting her and her husband, daring to sexually violate her
in front of her family, murdering her children before her eyes. This is exactly
what our women and men experienced on October 7th."

Binder further claims that denials of the hideous crimes committed, and the
   NYC First Lady's support of them, "...makes my blood boil, not just because of 
the injustice to the victims of October 7th, but because every time sexual violence
 is politicized or denied, it weakens the protection women everywhere should have."

It seems to me, however, like Rama Duwaji-Mamdani received a free pass from
most of the media, while courageous men like Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala),
 are taken to task by the same passel of useful idiots who recently accused him 
of "spreading Islamophobic rhetoric"- for daring to look our enemies in the eye
  and calling them out for what they are- enemies of the American people.

The terrible atrocities which occurred on October 7th in Israel should serve
 as a reminder to us all that Islam is the foe of liberty, an anathema, 
   to everything We The People hold dear in regards to our existence
 as a free and independent nation and people.

The English writer, Rudyard Kipling once wrote:"Stand up and take the war,
 the Hun is at the gate."  In America's case: "Stand up and fight the war.
  Our enemies have crashed through the gate and have entered the hinterland."
Evil flourishes when good people do nothing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday Poetry Corner: Mindful Of You The Sodden Earth In Spring

 

 

 

 

 Daffodils
Image courtesy/Better Homes and Gardens
 

 

Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring,

And all the flowers that in the springtime grow;

And dusty roads, and thistles, and the slow

Rising of the round moon; all throats that sing

The summer through, and each departing wing,

And all the nests that the bared branches show;

And all the winds that in any weather blow,

And all the storms that the four seasons bring.

You go no more on your exultant feet

Up paths that only mist and morning knew;

Or watch the wind, or listen to the beat

Of a bird's wings too high in air to view,-

But you were something more than young and sweet

And fair,- and the long year remembers you. 

 

"Mindful Of You The Sodden Earth In Spring"
From Renascence
The Collected Sonnets
(1917)
 Edna St.Vincent Millay 
(1892-1850)
American lyrical poetess
and playwright