Pizza and Golf Carts

Uncle D. made his first pizza sauce and pizza dough this past week,I think we had
pizza maybe three or four times,but it was all good. Me, I'm strictly pepperoni,
mi famiglia likes the works, everyting on the pie, you know what I mean? Vegetables,
fruit, you name it, it goes on the pie. They go with the onions and the olives and
the arugula(its a v e g e t a b l e,My Blue Heaven)and anything else youse can imagine.
And get this, I even used the food processor to make the dough.... yeah thats right,
thats me Donnie the food processor operator guy. I'm good like that, you know what I mean?
On another note, Uncle D has been teaching his daughter Bug how to drive. It is going real well, but I think she's gonna have to start driving me to the liquor store,on
account of Uncle Donnies nerves ain't what they used be, capisci, and then it really
will be true that she's drivin me to drink, if you unnastand my meaning?
It seems like just yesterday she was just drivin me around the golf course in the cart,
which technically only adults were supposed to drive,whats the big deal, she was 10 or 12
maybe younger, but the point is, fuggetaboudit, I can't remember what the point is...
Marone, I think I need a nap!
Arrivederci,
Uncle Donnie

Sunday at the beach

Hey, hey, hey, whattya say?
Uncle D went to the coast today, with Buggles and my trophy wife Betty and it was very
therapeutic! Been a year since we last got to the ocean. We took a very long walk on the
beach, and even though we saw a lot of Adams and Steves and Madams and Eves, we hadda
great time walking in the surf...I said surf not smurf pal!
Lately Uncle D has been libating with a new drink, a ginger and Jack. That would be
ginger ale and Jack Daniels. One part J.D. and three parts ginger ale and one slice of
lime. Its all good, you know what I mean? I think it helps me to concentrate and stay
focused, very therapeutic. I think I like that word therapeutic, and if you know me,
you know therapy is what I truely need, fuggetaboudit. It reminds me when Don Vito and
Michael were plannin their strategy and the Don says to Michael, "I've been drinking
more wine lately", and Michael says to the Don," don't worry pop, It's good for you",
and the Don says, "all my life I tried not to be careless, women can be careless. but
not men".
I guess it's better to be carefree than careless!
Whattayagonnado?
Donnie

Scougal, Flavel and Burroughs

Uncle Donnie just finished reading a great little book entitled, The Life Of God In the
Soul of Man, written by an old dead guy named Henry Scougal. Here is a little sample:
"The power and life of religion may be better expressed in actions than in words,
because actions are more lively things, and do better represent the inward principle
whence they proceed"....
"The root of Divine life is faith; the chief branches are love to God, charity to
man, purity and humility; for as an excellent person hath well observed, however these names be common and vulgar, and make no extraordinary sound, yet do they carry such a
mighty sense, that the tongue of men or angel can pronounce nothing more weighty or
excellent."
The next book entitled, Facing Grief; Counsel for Mourners, by John Flavel is another
good one that might come in handy... I'm pretty sure Jesus would have you read it, you
know what I mean?
This last book is really kickin my but, right where it needs to be kicked and for good reason, on account of Donnies behavior sometimes leaves much to be desired, if you know
what I mean? Anyways this book written by Jeremiah Burroughs is titled, Gospel
Conversation; Conduct Worthy of the Gospel, and it is a compelling read.... convicting
me with every page, whattamIgonnado?
Its like when the obvious is right in front of you and it blows right past you without
you knowing it. Just like in Godfather 1 when the Turk says to Tom Higgins,"whattsa
matter consigliere, if I wanted you dead, you'd be dead already, get in the car"
This book by Burroughs helps you to see the blown by obvious. Uncle D obviously would'nt
know the obvious even if the obvious jumped up and bit Uncle D on the........well,
I'm sure you get my meaning.
Get the book and read it.
Ciao,
D

The week that was

Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music
any ol time you choose it, its got a backbeat you can't lose it
Its gotta be rock and roll music if you wanna dance with me........
Vita Bella, capisci mi?
Solo tu solo tu solo tu mi amor.....Cara Mia tiamo.....
Makes me want to hear some Dean Martin records, you know what I mean?

I drink, therefore, I am..........silly
AL Kahaul
I'm a sad, sick little man
Abner Malatay

McDonalds is my kind of place
Meat patties in your face, french fries between your toes,
Pickles up your nose,and don't forget those frosted shakes
straight from polluted lakes
McDonalds is my kind of place

I gotta be me, I gotta be me
Daring to try, to do it or die
I gotta be me(Sammy Davis Jr.)

Did you rub my lamp, did you wake me up(the Genie)
Reality is for people who can't deal with drugs(Robin Williams)
Been one of those weeks!

Uncle D

Mischief In Manhattan

Hows everybody doin?
Just blew in from Montana. Hey, did you ever think how many states start with somebodies
name, like Al aska, or Cal ifornia, Ida ho, and Georgia, you know what I mean? Does'nt
work with Montana, whattayagonnado?
My neice, Schmooglie, the litte sh--, Peirson just graduated from high school...did you
ever ask why they call it high school? High School, I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin it sounds a little counter-culture like. If you get my meaning. It's like jr. high school
should be called small school right, and there you have it, the kids are gettin high and
gettin small all at the same time, at school, Mama Mia, I'm thinkin we have a problem.
We was real proud of Schmooglie(like when fat Clemenza tells Mike Corleone....."we was
real proud of you Mike, you bein a war hero and all")for all her accomplishments,
including those cinnamon rolls.....Marone!
First time in thirty-eight yrs. of marriage that me and Betty went somewhere on Memorial
Day weekend, and it hadda be beautiful downtown Manhattan, Montana.
And the after graduation party....fuggetaboudit!
Uncle D. thought he was in Belfast, what with all those car-bombs, you know what I mean?
Thanks citizens of Manhattan, we hadda ball!
Uncle D

Wisdom is as wisdom does!

"Does orthodoxy have a satisfactory answer to the dilemma which this nation faces?
This is an important question and demands an answer. If liberalism has been such an
influential agency for the creation of a movement away from constitutional government
and the traditional American freedom toward a collectivist society and some kind of
totalitarian regime, does Christian orthodoxy have a remedy for this situation?
The answer is found in the biblical view of government. The Scriptures clearly teach
that human government is of divine ordination and does not have as its origin in any
social compact or contract, as Hobbes and Locke taught, nor was it created by man
himself to meet the needs of his society. Rather does Christian theism insist that
government was ordained of God for man and that its just powers come from Him and not
from man. Government is not ordained primarily to defend human liberty, but to insure
that kind of society necessary for man to carry out those duties which he owes to God
alone. Thus, government has clearly defined powers and operates in a clearly defined
sphere. The basic error of liberalism at this point has been its insistence that
human government is a social institution, responsible to those men who created it and
is primarily concerned with the preservation of human rights as they were defined by
Jefferson and others of that day. This error is very popular among Christian people as
well as the nation at large and it has been productive of great error for it has allowed
the forces of political liberalism to extend the operations of government into spheres
where it has no right to be, and in so doing it has actually become a menace to the
human liberty which the liberals insist that it must protect. But above and beyond this, when human government extends its powers and operations to those spheres of human life
which God did not render subject to it, government then finds itself in opposition to
its divinely bestowed purposes for it takes unto itself powers which were never bestowed
upon it. It is this extension of power into these forbidden areas which has created the
modern totaliarian state. When human government enters into the field of labor relations,
education, mental and physical health, agriculture, housing, and those many other areas
of legislation so characteristic of the federal government today, it leaves its proper
functions and enters into those areas of life which God has either ordained that the
church or the family should have as their particular sphere of responsibility, or that
they should be the concern of some human institution which man may erect for his own
civil purposes under Gods grace.
The real problem then, is not basically the reduction of governmental expenses(as imp-
ortant as that is), nor the proper relationship between the states and the federal government, or the victory of one political party over another. All of these have their
place. But the basic issue is the reduction of the total scope of government, on both
the federal and state level, to those spheres which are clearly conferred upon it by the
Scriptures and the surrender of those extra-biblical powers which liberal political
philosophy and practice have given to it during the last one hundred years or so. Only
then will our government be truly Christian and freedom restored to its former and proper
place in the life of the American people."
C.Gregg Singer
A Theological Interpretation Of American History

Uncle D.

Carlos: I wish for you to love me!

..A maiden, Marian, a proletarian librarian, a clarion for humanitarian ideas, a kind of
contrarian grammarian,born a sagittarian to her father Valerian, a libertarian agrarian,
committed to trinitarian and sabbatarian views was a vegetarian all her life.
Maid Marian, a non-sectarian, non-parlimentarian millenarian came to odds with her father
Valerian, a gregarian, sexagenarian, over one Carlos, a rastafarian seminarian, who held
to strange pre-lapsarian and antiquarian views. Valerian, a superlapsarian, opposed
Carlos, an infralapsarian, and nothing became of their friendship.
And living to be a centenarian, this Marian, a proletarian, vegetarian, librarian, never
forgot her love for her rastfarian, seminarian.......Carlos.

Shrimp happens,
D.