Letterman's Crude, Foul Remarks About Palin's Daughter

On his low-rated liberal, conservative-bashing-oriented talk show Tuesday night, David Letterman suggested that Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin's 14-yr. old daughter, Willow, be raped by Yankee baseball player Alex Rodriguez during a game.

This, after intimating that Palin, who has an 80% approval rating, looks like a "slutty flight attendant."


David, it's a good thing you don't have any real power.


(photos from Fox News)

Pork Chops on the Grill

I already cooked this dish and had started eating it when I thought, hmm...I think I'd like to share it.


3 pork chops of any kind

Herb blend: Grind the following:

8 peppercorns

A little kosher salt

1 tsp. onion flakes

1 tsp. minced garlic

Add to a marinade of olive oil and soy sauce, rub over pork chops, cover, let it sit.


Oil the grill with some peanut oil on a paper towel.

Preheat and start grilling the chops.

I had some mushroom and sauerkraut pierogi on hand and boiled about 8 small ones, then added some frozen veggies to the water.

A little more olive oil to the dish, some extra coarse ground black pepper, Parmesan cheese (I had Munster on hand), several green olives, Kosher salt to taste, and that’s it!

This was a dish where all the flavors blended together delightfully.

A Great Quote

"God will not have his work made manifest by cowards."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century philosopher

Graduation Steak

One graduating 18-yr. old senior – prime ingredient, receptor of the above steak.

One Saratoga steak about an inch thick, on sale at the Jewel today, $6.99/lb.

Oil the grill grate w/peanut oil (I put some oil on a paper towel and rubbed it all over the grate). Pre-heat the grill and prepare the meat while the grill is heating.

Rinse the steak in cold water, dry with a paper towel, put it on a large dinner plate.

Into the little grinder: 8 peppercorns, tsp. oregano, tsp. minced garlic, tsp. minced onion.

Make small cuts with a kitchen knife on both sides of the steak. In a few of the cuts, only on one side, insert a bit of Earth Balance Spread.

Rub both sides of the steak with ground herbs.

Put the steak on the preheated grill and cook to whatever “doneness” suits your fancy – we like medium.

While steak is grilling, boil some asparagus and then add corn to the boiling water just before asparagus is tender.

I’d bought two potato pancakes at the Polish Deli this afternoon. Gobbled one up when I got home, placed the other one on the Grad’s dinner plate.

I’m into antipasto and I like artichokes, dill pickles, olives – I added a large artichoke heart to each of our plates. Also a few small organic carrots.

The Grad and I reminisced and argued about whether I shot video or still pictures the day he started high school.

I didn't bring it up, but I remember every inch of the video tape I shot when he started Pre-K3.

Surprisingly...

I’m ready for a relationship again. It’s been over a year since the divorce.

Marriage? NOT, but I don’t rule it out. It’s 3 to 50 steps beyond meeting someone I’m interested in. And, let’s say I’m at step 1, but still open.

I stopped in to see Pastor Doug yesterday. Doug, a former college football player who has fathered 2 sons and has had a long, REAL marriage with ups and downs, has counseled probably 100s of couples who were either planning on getting married or – the greater number by far – thinking of ending their marriage.

He has counseled me for almost three years. Now we just talk or visit occasionally. But I want to pass this along because Doug has an encouraging way of avoiding the use of a cattle prod and you still come away motivated and wanting to improve yourself as a person, spouse, father.

Marriage dynamics are like two rods (not Blagojevich, more like “lightning”), parallel to each other, that keep moving in relation to one another. This is my analogy, based on what Doug and I were talking about. Each rod has two ends and a definite middle. Those three points are like volume knobs on a radio. They are also the dynamics of assertion in a relationship (bingo).

What Doug said, and I’ve found personally, is that marriage needs to be in flux. If it is in flux around both middle points, then neither is dominating and neither is afraid to speak their mind. The midpoint is the strength point where you’re not overly aggressive, nor are you keeping all of your feelings in and you wind up being a victim.

Out of hand, or if one rod stops (gives in, gives up), the other one can become not only dominating, but abusive, especially if one spouse does not have the backbone to stand up and speak his/her mind. The dynamic is then gone and enter, all sorts of problems, which all too often end the marriage.

Lesson learned: If you can stay in that middle, the two ends tend to drop off and you are neither victim, nor abuser. Call it becoming whole. I call it having the resources to function as a human being. It’s a great feeling of achievement. And to a spouse or relationship pardner, it is nothing but nurturing. If two can function this way, or keep the dynamics in flux, you’ve got a good one! Think about marriage if you’ve got that – it’s a blessing.

True: Played a club with the big band last year. Our lead singer, a fantastic voice and personality, spotted a pretty, young lady – long, blonde hair, red sweater, petite. He got her up on the floor and danced with her, while he sang. I’m in the back, behind the drummer (I play guitar). The singer knows me well and what’s gone on in my life these last few years, so when the song was finished, he asked the girl if she was single. Yes. He goes, how about Randy? He just got divorced.

Well, chiseled looks, no. And no motorcycle. But I still get looks. The young lady took a look in my direction, a good look, turned to the singer (who was holding the mic in front of her) and said, “How much money does he have?”

She needs to ask a musician that?

The Fence! The Fence! The Fence!

Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there. Sign petitions, and by all means, encourage entities, people, officials who are standing up for your rights and making a difference.

Remember what happens when good people do nothing?

It happened. We're going down as I wrote in my last column, so what have you got to lose besides your integrity? Your possessions? Your personal property? What are you waiting for?

I get petitions all the time to sign and almost all of them are from legitimate, worthy entities. In the past I said, “Ah, no, I can’t do this. Someone’s going to take down my name and I’ll get put on a list.”

In a word, tough. I’ve signed and it hasn’t happened and if it does, fine. That fence too many of us have been straddling for too many years has decayed and is crumbling. If anyone thinks that hiding under their bed will make them safe, the bed will someday be gone, too. Sooner, than later, I believe.

There are organizations like Florida Family Association – one of many – who have either filed suit, protested, contacted sponsors of TV shows such as Family Guy (an anti-Christian TV show), or Craig’s List, which has sponsored “escort services”, and have gotten things done, in the name of moral, Christian, American, righteous values.

Support these organizations, even if you just sign a petition. I know you believe in what they’re doing. And use your real name and email address. THAT’S what you can do. But for the sake of what you hold dear, please do something!

Bad Thoughts, Good Eyeglasses

America is failing, because it’s so diluted, it’s hamstrung.

Try and do anything. Get a job. Function. Write. Succeed. THINK. There’s probably a law against it.

We’re not going to change it, even though our complacency and inertia are totally to blame. But unless you get up and do something about it, that’s America’s Destiny.

I believe we’re not a player in these End Times. It’s the End of the Age. And, unfortunately, we are going to be wiped out.

We’ll still be around, but not as the America in which we grew up. The Baby Boomers. Hula hoops, rock ‘n roll, post WWII prosperity. Foolish. Ask the Greatest Generation.

There has been another force at work that successfully, and surgically undermined all that was good about America. That force was described by the Prophets, going back to Isaiah and of course, the Book of Daniel.

We are “The Young Lions” the bible speaks of – tall, proud, smooth-skinned people feared by all the nations. They shall be drunk and transfixed by our wine of economics and prosperity; a modern day Babylon if you study the scriptures.

But we will fall to Rome. And it will be at the hands of the Muslim henchmen and Russia. And economically, China – the country that will send an army of 200 million towards Israel (John, Isle of Patmos, Divine Revelation) and their ultimate destiny: the Valley of Meggido.

The Seven Hills upon which Rome is built (I’ve seen them and have photographed them personally) will rule the nations. There is no doubt – it’s God’s perfect number.

We will not save America. For those of you who have had those thoughts, and are people of God who stand on His Righteousness (US Cong. Rep. Mark Kirk, who is a shining star but will not rise), remember the Bible says that the Gentiles will dominate Israel for a short time. In that time, the victory is wholly theirs.

Why? Because the Victory is wholly God’s, not man’s. It’s a matter of Pride. As good as we think we are, as Godly, as Right, we will not win. I believe we will be raptured out (Rev. 3:10) and saved from the time of Jacob’s Trouble. I don’t believe we will be “taken through”. The language of the Bible denies this (“ek” vs. “dia”).

But while we are here we are to tell the message of the Good News. In fact, it is our Commission. It is the ultimate best we can do. But we will not win, though God will win and bring millions of His saints back to Earth, wave after wave, succeeding the Bridal Feast. Meanwhile all Hell breaks loose on the Late Great Planet Earth. We will gladly clean up, having suffered the fools who would not turn. We will have the skills and the muscle, both dead and alive, courtesy of Christ the King who shall return on a snow white steed, with a double-edged sword in his mouth and his name written upon his thigh. And what a thousand years it will be!

Stay tuned.

PS Happy Birthday Frank Capra, and Happy 101, Jimmy Stewart, this Wednesday.