The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    HERE COMES TOMMY COTTONTAIL

    A stained glass depiction of Jesus as a Caucasian man with long brown hair, a beard and the characteristic Christian cross inscribed in the halo behind his head. The figure dressed in a white inner robe cover by a shorter, looser scarlet robe. Depicted as a Shepherd, he is holding a crux in his left hand and carrying a lamb in his right. Sheep are positioned to the left and right of the figure.

    HERE COMES TOMMY COTTONTAIL:

    HOPPIN DOWN THE FUNNY TRAIL

    HIPPITOTY HOPPITY JESUS IS ON HIS WAY.

     

    YOU SHOULD FEEL SO LUCKY you all,  IN ANOTHER PLACE YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXECUTED.

    http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/04/02/3642060/senator-says-critics-indiana-get-perspective-thankful-state-doesnt-execute-gays/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tptop3

    What a delightful human being Tommy is and, and yet we have an American like this  Senator who has the balls to speak his mind  !  I mean here is a man more  filled with eloquence than anyone over the last 200 years than Tommy is. As an American, in order to celebrate the Christ as Arisen; how could we have done better than Tom Cotton!

    Rarely have I witnessed a more wonderful spokesman for the Christian Peoples around the globe than Tommy Cotton Tail!

    OF COURSE WE CANNOT FORGET THE IMPORTANCE OF LOUIS GOHMERT.

    http://www.examiner.com/article/video-republican-representative-compares-homosexuality-to-beastiality-and-necrophilia

    WHATEVER YOU DO, YOU MUST NOT FUCK A DEAD PERSON.

    Without Gohmert, how would we even grasp such a theory?

    Just the other day I was thinking of having coitus with a dead person, but then I realized her soul had gone to heaben.

    Of course his wife has been stuck with this sort of an exercise for years!

    AND THEN THERE IS SAINTORUM:

    http://dailycurrant.com/2012/11/08/santorum-i-vote-romney/

    And Saintorum announced to the multitudes that if the homos had stayed home, a Morman could have been elected President of These United States of America.

     

    GINGRICH THE NEWT

    Now this amphibian has declared that he and Jesus (not necessarily in that order) believe that we must love all gay folks but…

    https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/gingrich-homosexuality-celibacy

    WE JUST MUST NOT COUNTENANCE THEIR BEHAVIOR.

    Kind of like Germans. Jesus would and does love the Germans, He was just upset about the Germanic Behavior during the twenties and the thirties and the early forties of the Twentieth Century.

    I wish to underline, since I have to do blogs in segments, that I never had thought about Gay Rights.

    The subject really has nothing to do with me, unless one of my granddaughters ends up liking women.

    At least I thought about this subject for years (decades really); WHAT IN THE HELL DO GAY RIGHTS HAVE TO DO WITH ME?

    But now I am mad.

    I am angry actually but the anger drives me mad.

    I will amend this short blog later.

    But, damn

     

    We must forgive ourselves before we can even begin to forgive the sins of other people.

    But we must ‘define’ what a sin is first, before we can begin to point fingers?

    Easter is a new beginning.

    Let us acknowledge a new beginning.

    We must acknowledge our own sins before we even can understand the sins of other people.

    We can reach a new epiphany; a new idea as far as what it means to be human

    We can find a new SPRING, a new LIFE, a new START.

    That is what Easter means to me, anyway.

    HAPPY EASTER DAGBLOGGERS.

    Honest.

    We can do better.

    We are all sinners

    But we must have some agreement as to what sin actually is!.

    But damn, we really have no idea what sin actually is until we stop the killing, admonish that there is killing, and understand that we all TAKE responsibility for these killings and we must all take responsibility for these deaths; these deaths related to unclean water and unclean air and hell; we must take responsibility for these unclean thoughts that lead to the deaths of so many.

    Now that is all I got right now.

    Except love cannot be the sin.

     

    Again, Happy Easter to all Dagbloggers.

    I wish us all the best.

    But I get lost.

     

     

    THE END

     

     

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    Well enjoy.  I thought I would stick this here. She hasn't done one Tommy Cottontail yet.


    Jesus loves Springtime
    the world arises from the
    cold, dead of winter.

    Roll back the rock or
    roll eggs on the White House lawn.
    Our sins forgiven.

    Keep looking for Good
    and you will, no doubt, find it. 
    God's challenge is more.

    When it comes to bad,
    we must not turn away, but
    rather lend our hearts.

     

    Happy Easter, DD.
     


    HAPPY EASTER TO YOU MR. SMITH!

    DOGONITAL.

    HAHAHAH


    This is four days late.

    But I hereby render unto Mr. Smith the Dayly Comment of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, given to all of you from all of me.

    This poem is astounding and I could go on and on but I have tech probs when I go on and on. hhahahahahah

    Lets see if this works. hahahahah

    LETS LEND OUR HEARTS.

    That is it. let's just see if this comment works? hahhaha


    HAPPY EASTER, DICK! 

    - THE MAN IN BLACK.

     


    HAPPY EASTER TO YOU TOO Q!

    I am sure there are folks out there, but I have really never read some squib that attacks my hero, Johnny Cash!


    As far as Gay Rights, I just recall this old tune.


    Oh I had to add this thought.

    You know, Q deep down (and not that far down) you are a nice man.

    I have problems deciding where to put this thought, but you are a nice man!

    That is a fact!

    Thank you for being a nice man, even though I realize that you will deny this acronym.

    hahahahahah


    Why thank you, Dick.

    I remember Johnny singing from when I was a kid. And being from out in the country, he was a hero. In many ways, like the men I saw around me. Lots of nobility, lots of strength, lots of mistakes.

    And I remember how shocked I was when I found that amongst some cooler/hipper circles, Johnny was a joke. They thought of him like an Andy Williams or some yodelling cowboy. And I argued that they were completely missing what this man was about, and the quality he was carrying. Anyway, for years, the debate stood undecided, mostly, I think, because Johnny couldn't find his way into any serious music. Or maybe because he was just busy being an asshole. Sometimes it's hard to know why.

    Anyway. Those great recordings he did in his last years clinched his record I think. His version of "Hurt" is truly a song that I'll remember all my life. And God's Gonna Cut You Down likewise. 

    I'm kindof hoping that's the story of my life. And in many ways, of my generation's life. People who've done so much good.... and then been such unredeemed assholes, for so long. So many missed opportunities. So much decay and erosion that we allowed to take place. So much... cowardice. 

    I'm just hoping we all get our chance to make our own late life "American Recordings."

    Johnny's a good symbol of that, for all of us I think.

    Hope you had a great Easter, Dick & Dagblog.

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN9jdQFSc

     


    I missed this comment.

    This song must have been toward the end.

    71 aint that bad an age to give it up, I guess.

    There was a meeting, between Johnny and Bobby decades ago.

    Dylan met this giant and walked around him and said:

    So this is Johnny Cash!

    No, Johnny was not a clown and Dylan knew it.

    Thank you for this.

    I will play it all day, of course.


    OT: Richard you need to read this on Kos.  I know you have been so frustrated with your computer problems but you are not alone.  The truth is Windows 8 sucks big time.  Microsoft screwed up.  It is a good rant.  I know you love rants.  Also take time to run through the 600 comments there are some good ones.  

    It's been a while since the abomination came out and still, Windows 8 isn't just user-unfriendly, it's user-hostile. The user interface is ... unappealing—garish colors, asymmetrical squares, and polygonish tiles lumped together like a child's crayola drawing with little in the way of description even when moused over. Maybe child drawing is too kind: it's like something Andy Warhol drew up with neon-colored magic markers from beyond the grave while coming down on really bad acid.

    The Squares of Confusion is where most users encounter their first round of what will be many bouts of agitation—where's the start menu or whatever passes for it (hint, there's not one)? But it's been added since, ad hoc: if you click on the bottom blue square and then right click on the lower left icon in the toolbar where the usual disco ball is supposed to be, you'll get a drop up of some of those start menu features.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/05/1374740/-Windows-8-From-Hell-s-heart-I-stab-at-thee?showAll=yes 

    You are not lost any more then the rest of us wondering through this maze called windows 8.  


    After reading your link, I will never figure it out! hahahah

    I 'crash' five or ten times a day.

    But it is not like I have anything else to do. haahah

    I just hit the windows thingy along with C and I start all over.

    Like I attempted to point out somewhere, dagblog works just fine and so does NYT.

    I kind of gave up since I get to read and write and....

    Something is wrong, although my son tells me I can give my old Toshiba with 7 to his friend with a hundred bucks and do just fine.

    Again, it would be another two years to afford a new pc.

    And yet, I continue to blog and have friends like you....

    It is all right!

     

     


    I just wanted you to know it was not all your fault.  It probably crashes because there is several apps programs that are running in the background that should not be.  They suck up the power and memory space to work in, and then down it goes. There was several comments on that, so that is common.  It is not like you turn them on they just come on when you start it up. 

    Microsoft screwed up because they were trying to get ahead of the tablet and android trend and tried to interface all of them with computers but they left out a whole market of users.  PC users that do productive things and wanted the software needed to do those things.  They are marketing that software as a service for a fee.  Their next move is to move us to the clouds so we have to store our files with them as a fee for service.  I won't be doing that.  Thumb drives and freeware will be the rout I take with warts and all. 

    I would seriously think about investing in getting you Toshiba up and running for $100.  


    I just use the desktop square to get to a normal looking screen and just surf from there in Foxfire. Like, you, I think the squares are worthless.


    I have had mine since the summer of 2013 with the original 8 so after a week or so I down loaded Window's 7 desktop shell and set it up to go straight to that when starting up. Later when 8.1 came out I up dated and then had to reset up W.7 desktop to start up. It took me 3 months to find where to adjust the cursor pad so that the cursor wasn't jumping all over the place and charms flying out at me all the time. There was lots of time spent googling for answers to where to get and find what I needed.  But what really got to me was the fact they did not  even include a bare bones word processing program. I went to Open Office for that.