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Posted on 06/04/2014 5:58:54 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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evening... Dutch was a true American hero
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Don’t forget when Ronald Reagan coffin came back to Cali
405 freeway to Simi Valley interchange was stop by motorist giving Ronnie 405 freeway salute
Only IN SO CAL folks only in SO CAL we do that to Cali heroes
Boy that tick off LA COunty Sheriff who heading that Sheriff dept Scientlogit leader ole Lee Baca who now in out office
thanks to covering up scandal in LA County Jail moving FBI informer through the system beat the crap out of him
That not cool Lee
Read: Deuteronomy 32:7-12
For 3 months I had a ringside seat— or should I say a bird’s-eye view—of God’s amazing handiwork. Ninety feet above the floor of Norfolk Botanical Garden, workers installed a webcam focused on the nest of a family of bald eagles, and online viewers were allowed to watch.
When the eggs hatched, Mama and Papa Eagle were attentive to their offspring, taking turns hunting for food and guarding the nest. But one day when the eaglets still looked like fuzzballs with beaks, both parents disappeared. I worried that harm had come to them.
My concern was unfounded. The webcam operator enlarged the camera angle, and there was Mama Eagle perched on a nearby branch.
As I pondered this “reframed” picture, I thought of times when I have feared that God had abandoned me. The view in the forest heights of Virginia reminded me that my vision is limited. I see only a small part of the entire scene.
Moses used eagle imagery to describe God. As eagles carry their young, God carries His people (Deut. 32:11-12). Despite how it may seem, the Lord “is not far from each one of us” (Acts 17:27). This is true even when we feel abandoned.
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Hey Kathy there is dude was named Huell Howser he came on KCET Los Angeles he has fortunate luck to tour the Western white house
I can’t believe how tiny it was
That house only have TWO Fireplace that only heat there Ronnie and Nancy did a lot on that put in tile floors Adbore roof
Alot
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We’ll miss the five brave warriors that went out to save that deserting traitor.
Good evening, yarddog...it sure does, and especially when everything has been purposely destroyed these past few years. It makes me sick to my stomach to see what is being done to my country.
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It makes me sick too.
What really bothers me is that my Grand children will have to live in this new world and sometimes it seems there is nothing we can do to prevent it.
Some of the worst people in the world now control our government. I mean totally control it.
Good evening, mountainlion...I would love for Sarah to be leading our country, but she has been beat up so badly...can you imagine the effort the GOPe would put into trying to destroy her? And then the dimwits and Soros and his lying, thieving, anti-American cronies...
The radio stations in Yakima were respectful to Reagan, and there was genuine sorrow in his passing. But as I entered Snoqualmie Pass on I-90 and began to pick up the Seattle stations, the tone changed. There was joy in his death and ridicule for his record. The reaction of England’s young people to Thatcher’s death was very similar. I had to turn off the radio.
That summer I heard a wonderful story about Reagan from concert violinist Ida Levin at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival. Ida had appeared with pianist Rudolf Serkin in concert at the White House. Serkin was notorious for his stage fright before a concert. As an old actor, Reagan recognized the symptoms backstage and engaged Ida and Rudolf in conversation to calm him down. It worked. Ida was surprised to discover that Reagan knew her father, who was a California superior court judge. Reagan was tickled to find that the daughter of Judge Levin, a great jazz afficianado, was a classical violinist.
In 2007, I flew from Seattle to Los Angeles to attend the 70th birthday surprise party of my cousin and her husband. He had written for Bob Hope, “Laugh In”, Carol Burnett and others for decades.
A few days later, we went to the Reagan Library to see the Air Force One exhibit. The film about Reagan that we saw before going to the exhibit had some in the audience in tears. My cousin’s husband, the comedy writer, left the movie; he was an unrepentant Hollywood liberal.
I had lived in Simi Valley from 1993 to 1997 on the same hill as the Reagan Library, but just a few hundred feet lower by the Wood Ranch Golf Course. One thing I loved to do was drive up to the library, park and walk to the railing where a piece of the Berlin Wall stood. It was the perfect place to watch the sun set over Ventura County and disappear into the Pacific.
This time there was something new by that patch of ground: Reagan’s grave. I watched as some folks walked to the grave and turned back with tears in their eyes. I understood. I went over to the grave and gave the man my most profound thanks for his service.
Back at the house, I went into my cousin’s husband’s study and found a framed script on the wall with lines for Reagan and Bob Hope. It was from Hope’s 85th birthday special on NBC in 1988. It had lines scratched out and written over almost to the point of illegibility. I asked him what that was all about.
He had written the sketch for Hope and Reagan, and he had faxed the script to Reagan who was on Air Force One at the time and who was to record his lines from the plane. Hope’s lines were to be recorded separately and edited together before show time. He knew that Reagan would have a problem with one particular joke, so he was not surprised when Reagan called him at home from Air Force One. For the next half hour, he and the President of the United States went over that joke again and again until it finally worked as intended. It was case of two comedy professionals of different political views working together to put the icing on the cake.
That script had pride of place in his study. The story was accompanied by a certain grudging respect for Reagan: one old pro to another.
Thank You so much for those memories, Publius.
((((HUGS))))
Miss him like crazy :(
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