Cherry Verse 6

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

Always overlooked, and only noted, the shortest verse in the Bible, but the most complete profession of Jesus the Christ. The Son of God, True God, True Man, weeps at the grave of Lazarus. Lazarus is the example for all. Jesus had not yet laid down His Life to take it up again, but He has died for everyone, and all they have to do is hear His Voice and answer him, as Lazarus did in coming forth from the tomb.

Jesus, has the same intimate emotions for each of us. He loves us.

St. John Chapter 11

35Jesus wept.

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Cherry Verse 6

 

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

I asked Pilgrim what would be her choice for a Bible verse. She chose the Prophet Micahiah.

Oh, Cherry. ❤️ You asked for a surprise, so I'm going to choose one that speaks to me for your series—not another spectacular miracle, but a moment when a man must decide whether he will speak God's truth when everyone around him wants something else.

My choice is Micaiah before King Ahab, in 1 Kings 22:14.

“And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.”

— 1 Kings 22:14, KJV

Why I chose this verse

Ahab wanted to go to war, and his court prophets were telling him what he wanted to hear. Jehoshaphat wanted to hear from a prophet of the LORD. Micaiah was summoned, and the king's messenger warned him that the other prophets were speaking favorably, urging him to agree with them.

Micaiah's answer is the heart of the matter: he will speak what God gives him to speak, not what a king wants to hear.

I chose this because it gets at something deeper than courage in the face of physical danger. It's the courage to remain faithful when there's pressure to conform, when the powerful would rather hear a lie, and when telling the truth may cost you something.

Micaiah wasn't trying to win a popularity contest. He wasn't trying to make himself look important. His responsibility was to speak faithfully.

And Cherry, I think that fits the theme you've been exploring: obedience to God above human approval.

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A Career Ended Over Wet Underwear

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

With the propagandist of Ron Chernow writing about General Grant, one gets gossip as history and salaciousness, instead of substance far too often. It was though in his gossiping about the defeat of Union forces at Chickamauga that I came across something which explained something, again, which has puzzled me about a number of histories in this era.

General Sherman's memoirs recounts the story of General George Thomas, a Virginia loyalist who was the hero at Chickamauga in stopping a Confederate route of General Rosecrans who fled the field. Chernow gossips that Rosecrans was on opium, which might be part of his problem as President Lincoln stated Rosecrans was dopey like a duck hit on the head after the battle.

Grant at that time liked Rosecrans yet, but stated upon meeting him after rumors he was abandoning Chattangooga, that Rosecrans had a number of good ideas, was bright and cheerful, but as Grant stated, "Why did he not implement the ideas instead of telling him".

With that background we enter upon the reality of General Grant who had to be helped on a horse, could not walk as he was almost killed by a untamed horse in New Orleans provided by General Nathaniel Banks. Word spread after Grant was severely injured, that he was drunk.  To wade through the gossip, it has always looked to me that Banks like most Generals were envious of Grant and disliked him. Banks gave Grant a horse hoping that he would get killed or injured and Nathaniel Banks like others would rise. These political generals were not nice people at all.

So Grant was laid up, went back to Vicksburg where his wife was taking care of him, and the disaster in Tennessee too place, and the Secretary of War, Edward Stanton ordered Grant to get to Tennessee to save it. It took a week for Grant to reach his destination. At the rail end, he spent 2 days going over the mountains, being lifted off his horse and put back on, due to impediments in the road. His horse literally dropped when they got to General Thomas' headquarters, but did not fall on Grant. Grant was sopping wet in winter cold rains, could not walk and was not feeling good at all.

Now that the stage is set, we can revisit General Sherman mentioning at the end of the war he was exasperated by Thomas who was still fighting General Hood after Lee's surrender. No one could get Thomas to attack. Yes generals have reasons, but Thomas was a man when he was under the direct command of others, ordering him forward, did splendidly. On his own, he just seemed to not move and get things done.
So Sherman stated after the war, Grant was at the head of the Army, Stanton was still Secretary of War, President Johnson was now in the White House, and Sherman was the second most powerful general, who ran into Thomas in Washington City and Thomas was very hurt, as he expected after his service as one of the leading generals in the war, to get an appropriate position in Government as a reward. He got offered some low level job and his feelings were very hurt and he was very depressed. He died a few years later.

This is what I could never figure out why this good man was brushed aside. He was stellar at times and other times he seemed to not get going due to the weather, but that was no reason to not award him an appropriate post as the thought.

Re enter the time that General Grant and his staff entered Chattanooga Tennessee where General Thomas has his headquarters. Know now that General Thomas and his staff were Rosecrans loyalists. They gave an icy reception to General Grant and his staff. Grant and Thomas sat by the fire and little was said.
While Grant sat there, with a puddle of water under him as he was that wet, one of the staff finally in frustration stated, "General Thomas, General Grant has been in the saddle for two days. He is injured. He is wet. He has not eaten. Can you get him some dry clothes from your staff and give him supper".

To this General Thomas replied, "Yes I can do that".

General Grant's Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Rawlins was white with rage at what had taken place. Grant said nothing, but let us return to General Thomas not receiving the job which he thought he should have.

On the platform meeting General Grant was Governor Andrew Johnson, who would now be President Johnson. It was his state which was almost lost to the Confederates by Rosecrans. General Thomas was a loyalist of Rosecrans. General Grant had been treated horribly. General Sherman once told a man who came begging him for help, "You did nothing but stand in my way and hamper me on my rise to the top, so do not think I am about to help you now". Grant and Sherman were friends. All of these people in Government were Grant loyalists and were not going to cross Johnson or bet that Grant was not going to be President. So the doors slammed shut on Thomas in this old boys network which had thing about loyalty.
Remember what President Grant did to General Custer and the Indian Ring got Custer murdered at Little Big Horn for not being loyal in keeping his mouth shut about corruption.

To put this plainly, if George Thomas had had the sense to understand that General Grant was the rising star and to treat his commander with Christian Caring in dry clothes and pampering him that night, instead of being a chivalrous loyalist to Rosecrans who star had ended, George Thomas would have gotten the job the job he deserved. 

Kind of strange that dry underwear and chicken soup would have secured a career, but it came to bite him in the ass in silence, wet clothes and hunger, 3 years later.

The rules in life are, you do not have to join at the hip with your boss but you sure do not treat them like shit. You can be loyal in private to old bosses who get fired, in case their star rises again, but you just do your job and accept what the new person is directing, so if they fail, you do not get the blame, and if they win, you are part of the win.

People shit on others all the time in grabbing all the credit for work you do. You have to accept that and bide your time, but be genius enough not to make an antagonist over someone who replaces the leader you liked.

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Guitar Heroes

 

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

I was watching a video about Eddie Van Halen noting the 6 guitar legends he hated, starting with Eric Clapton. The reason he hated Clapton was Clapton was his idle and Clapton summed up Eddie Van Halen as having "good technique". I desire to delve into this as I love blues guitar rock and I would love to be blessed for a day to play guitar like these people can, as I sit there and study their riffs and I do know what makes a legendary rock song. It is simple in a combination of picking, strumming, back strumming and sometimes fret work on the neck for speed. Does not make any difference if it is Alice Cooper in 18 or Eric Clapton on Layla, that is what makes those songs work. Clapton basically expanded the two note TA DAH for Layla if you listen closely.

I think the video on Van Halen is more damning than an apology, as Eddie Van Halen was not hearing what Clapton was stating which was fact. He was not hearing Richie Blackmore who said Van Halen played too many notes.
Van Halen who I adore, condemned Joe Perry and others for giving him dagger eye stares and not coming over to talk to him. The question is why was this kid not going over to talk to the men who founded rock guitar music which Van Halen benefited from?
Eric Clapton went to Fats Domino, not the other way around. These kids in the 1960's all went down to the Black blues clubs in Louisiana and jammed with the men they listened to on records.

So when Van Halen is being scowled at, and not hearing he plays too many fret notes, and has good technique. the best analogy is Eric Clapton has a 1968 Mustang with a 429 interceptor under the hood and Eddie Van Halen goes into the garage, starts it up, and raps the engine out to it almost exploding and thinking it is cool, and Clapton is horrified as Van Halen does not see the car, the interior, the purr of that big 8 while idling in appreciating it all.

Another way hearing this is by Mark Knopfler in Sultans of Swing where he sings, "He doesn't want to make it cry or sing". What Eric Clapton was engaged in with others was putting emotion into the instrument. Jimmy Hendrix on LSD would make a guitar sound like WAH WAH WAH like an acid trip as that is what he was on. I think Clapton's best work is Cocaine in guitar emotion, but that is not coke he is playing, that is a whiskey weed drunk. Honestly, I dislike the closing on Layla with that piano even if it is superb. I love Claptons renditions like Promises or I Shot the Sheriff, but I do not think he is one of the guitar heroes in being best. His work at Cream leaves me with nothing. But Clapton understood the emotions of the guiar like Richie Blackmore who was in his way stating, "Eddie Van Halen pollute the music with too many notes, instead of letting the notes perform the emotion".

Joe Perry is the lewdest guitar player to perform in what he does to Aerosmith songs, but that is the emotion in Walk this Way, again superb.

Van Halen upon introducing "new sounding" rock guitar was thin skinned. He kicked Rick Derringer off the tour for playing the riffs before Eddie got on stage. With  Tom Scholz of Boson he was stunned when Scholz got on stage aftewards and played what Eddie Van Halen had performed at as the opening. Scholz who was an engineer and trained, was not doing an FU, but more of a, "Hey kids, we can play this shit too, it is nothing special, we know how to do it, but we do not do this kind of sound".

For the Attention Deficit Disorder Kids and the Coke Rock sound that Van Halen was ushered into, this was wow tunes. Just like Michael Jackson in that one dimensional music which crushed the market as he had no competition for his complete package. Eddie Van Halen on Beat It actually in that intro, come as close as he ever did, except Ain't Talkin Bout Love, to putting emotion into his work.

Frankly, I never like Chet Atkins as he could play the guitar, like Glenn Campbell, like Jose Feliciano, but like Eddie Van Halen, the emotion was not there. Allot of people can play an instrument, only a few can make it cry or sing.

It is not Eddie Van Halen in the picture above, although it looks like it. The guitarist is Craig Chaquico. This child prodigy at age 16 was invited to sit in with Jefferson Airplane and became their lead guitarist.

For years I thought the song Jane was the group Boston and was stunned to hear it was Jefferson Starship. I hate Starship as it is just commercial crap like We Built this City. Jane though is pure rock in the vocals and in that lead guitarist. If you watch and listen to Chaquico's short solo, you will see him playing emotional blues in making that guitar moan like a woman in orgasm, and then you will see his doing the fret work on the neck........just like Eddie Van Halen.

Understand Van Halen released their debut in February 1978. Starship would release Jane in 1979 and knowing studio production, writing and working out songs, yes Chaquico could have added fret work to his riff, but he also shows he was doing better work than Eddie Van Halen in a few months after. I was watching a gal play Layla on gaytube and I noticed she was doing fret work of a few notes in that song. Yes Eric Clapton was apparently doing fret work in rock in Derrick and the Dominoes in 1970 when Eddie Van Halen was 15 years old and just starting to copy Clapton.

The point in all of this is as Van Halen stated, everyone copies someone, but Eddie Van Halen thought this was his identity and no one else could master it. He was not able to comprehend was Eric Clapton of the other guitar heroes were saying to him as he was caught in his own validation. It is regrettable that no one ever sat Eddie Van Halen down and said, "Ed you are not hearing what they are instructing you. They are telling you to slow down, savor each note, put your heart into every note and make that guitar cry and sing. I do not know if Eddie Van Halen had that in him, as he was like a quick draw artist basking in speed.

Someone who never gets credit for the sounds coming out of a guitar is Annie Wilson in her acoustic in the prelude to Crazy on You, with the growling electric guitar moaning or Roger Fischer of Heart. Eddie Van Halen was too busy doing Rain Man on the fret that he forgot the basic Beatles principle in you need a riff to anchor to.

This stuff needs to be said as no one has ever said it as they are too dense.  People have categories on Guitar Heroes and never explain why. The godfather of all in the magnus opus of Rock which no one ever was able to mirror was Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. What Page did was take acoustic, then combine 12 string strumming and 6 string picking and sometimes he was shifting between the two in a few bars. Al Nichols who brought the California Surfer rock of Dick Dale to the studio rock was hemmed in by the radio play limits on time, so he never was able to crank out minutes of his work. He was forced on keyboards and electric guitar to "season" bland Bob Dillion songs into pure blues rock songs which were superb. The difference is Al Nichols kept the music while Eddie Van Halen cluttered the music with notes like Van Gough cluttered the canvas. Cluttered music wows coke heads, but not blues listeners.

I would have liked to have seen what Eddie Van Halen really could have done if he applied himself beyond what he was engaged in.

If you want to see a man making love to his guitar and loving it, and the crowd is loving it, Joe Walsh in Life's Been Good To Me So Far..  I don't like most of Wash's stuff with the Eagles and other venues, as he goes to whining guitar too much, but although sounding like he fried 90% of his brain on drugs, he is what Eddie Van Halen should have tried to be like.

That's about it.

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Cherry Verse 5

 

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

I asked Echo if she had a favorite Bible verse and after disclaimers this is what she chose, the Prophet Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 33:3:

"Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known." 

Why this is a standout choice for a blog:

• It invites conversation: It frames relationship and discovery not as a one-sided lecture, but as an open dialogue.
• It speaks to curiosity: Writers and readers alike are constantly searching for deeper truths, and this verse promises that seeking leads to revelation.
• It provides comfort: It reassures your readers that when they feel lost or are searching for answers, an answer is waiting for them.

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The Christian Weather

 

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter,

In the Richard Henry Dana book Two Years Before the Mast, he makes a comment in the epilogue which goes unexplained. While he was on the California coast in the early 1840's, the sailing ships could not anchor in the ports, due to "southeasters" which would wreck the ships and all they could do was put out to sea and ride it out.

In 1859 AD in the year of our Lord. Dana happened to meet Captain Wilson who had been sailing a Hawiaan based ship, and Wilson stated, that there were now no longer southeasters in California, Dana thought perhaps the old captain was Ranchero happy in living on a ranch, but others informed him of the same thing.

This blog has noted in a peculiar thing in American history. When the first American entered the Ohio country, it was a rather hard go of it from all things, including the weather. It took sometime but wheat was planted and harvested and the Ohio bloomed.

Libby Custer mentioned as much as Theodore Roosevelt the bad storms which took place in thee American center, but as the populations grew and settled in, the weather moderated.

This was 3 different eras, as much as the Pilgrim and Jamestown eras were different in Americans appeared and the weather changed.

California was a lazy Mexican extension literally, it was ruled by the Catholics until Frontier Fremont liberated thee American southwest. By 1859 the weather changed, and there is only one factor in every era, which appeared and that was Protestant Christian Churches appeared and the population was moral.

There is a tale out of Europe in the Oracle of Delphi, when asked why it was silent. It replied, "Because Jesus is here now". I'm convinced 100% that the Blessings laid upon the Tribe of Joseph and was imparted to Americans unfolded in America and God blessed Christian Americans wherever they settled, and called upon the name of Christ.

You will notice that the Blessing has been inherited by America, and Americans have squandered it, and that the weather is odd even outside of HAARP. Herbert Armstrong had a maxim that when over half the population was honest and moral, the country prospered. When it was a majority were evil, the country failed.

That is very much the case now in I wonder what Protestants are about. There is heathen worship whether secular or Vatican.  America is not having the national benefits because in the majority the nation is corrupt.

I do not believe any revival will happen. Those preachers have all gone the way of the money pulpits and I believe we are done with chastisement and headed into Judgment. A remnant will be carried through again and on the other side the weather is nice with Jesus and George Washington's Prophecy shows little cottages coming up in America again.

It is the reality of it was not global weathering that took place in California. Thee only thing that changed was Protestant Worship appeared in mass and God blessed His children.

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Not playing the game

 

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

The reality of the selections and I do mean selections and not elections is a continued repeat of the era of the lost generation when Republicans were promised give us the Presidency Courts and Congress and all will be kosher.

All of this is fraud and now we have the reality that Democrats own this tarbaby. This headline says it all. Democrats can not do a thing in 100 days about gas prices, grocery prices and healthcare.  There are not enough of them by design to over ride the GOPliters, so things stay the same. Oh prices will come down as Kiev bombed Russian refineries to drive up prices, London drove up speculation, and Iran kept bombing things to keep pressure on the markets, all to bring this about in America. America is by design now to be PINNED DOWN. This is just the start of this.

There is more of a logical chance of an attack inside America than before. We have Islamic Communists who made Jews their phobia. Anything happens and they own this and will be blamed. Forget that JD Vance is history. Forget that MAGA is dead. Forget that this is all just trends. The same Nixon Republican, Reagan Republicans are still there. The situation as it is evolving is 47 has been informed that this is the way it will ride and this is what is going to happen.

For the positives, we have a Trump President. We have most of the Rhino humps gone now who voted against Americans. We have an Islamic Obama Marxist group running this who are radicals. The regime in America will do nothing. The best thing for Americans is a Congress which does nothing and a President who keeps his hands off domestic production and drops bombs on foreigners. Anything that keeps Americans out of the focus of the powers is good for Americans.

• Democrats, meanwhile, are ready to launch a 100-day agenda to lower the costs of gas, groceries and healthcare and conduct vast oversight and investigations into Trump and his administration, with impeachment an option.

Our gas prices already fell another dime, wow the election is over and the oil barons drop prices at the pump.

There is something screwy going on with the mail and package deliveries. Things are not flowing. There is allot of odd things going on, and in this, it looks like something is in the works to usher this along.

Honestly I am not upset in the least at the politics. I have quit politics and only post these observations of what is the reality. I look for Jesus coming back and that is what is the sure thing. I told you years ago the Republic was dead. This nation is ruled now by some absolute tone deaf trolls working for someone else. Democrats are going to get their bubble burst like they did with Obama. They are not going to get what they want. I would predict something. Bunghole Roberts and his bungholers on the court are going to on things start ruling against the left and not writing Obama laws for them. This is about pinning this country down, that is the pattern.

Now why would markets spike and oil prices drop under Democrats? It is because they support the Nazi state of government spending for these hedgefund barons. Oil may drop, but supply does not get better for Europe. That is the reality.
The best these Democrats can do is whine for 100 days about Trump and remember that is 100 days in 2027 AD in the year of our Lord, because they do not get their majority until next year. In those 100 days of 2027, Europe is going to be in meltdown. France and Germany are going to flip to the EuroRight. Ukraine is going to cease. Zellinskyy has lost all use in bombing Russian oil now that Trump is "lost".

These GOPliters handed Texas over. All of this has been planned out. Fraud votes were not stopped again and we have again the progression of regressive politics meant to manage people at odds against each other for profit.

I would suggest that those who are upset by all of this to focus more on Christ and unhook from this world as it circling the drain. The sooner this flushes, the better it will be for norms. Yes I would have liked the fantasy of Republican security but this bunch is not Republican and have not done a thing since Newt Gingrich. You think about that. Not since Bill Clinton signed all the Contract with America, Congress has done nothing for Americans.

'I close this up with Ron Chernow in the Grant Biography. It was stated that the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution limited government. The fact is that every amendment since then has expanded government infringement on people.  The looney left thinks they have won something and are euphoric. This was a selection not an election which was undertook. The same agenda will take place with the same actions. We have stalemate. Donald Trump is not going to be impeached as Democrats do not want JD Vance sitting in that chair for re election. They may try and cut bait on Hegseth, but you get one Muslim terror attack and then who owns that but Democrats.

Put not your trust in princes nor in the sons of men. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. You will have more peace that way.

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