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The Taylor County News, August 12, 2021, Page 2.
Vfl Lori's views
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va Loti Moors
Honestly, I have never spent much time (if any) thinking about
bamboo. But, there is a whole bunch of bamboo right behind my
house, and I’ve been thinking about it. 1 don’t know if bamboo
grows all over Taylor County, but in the Fickling Mill area, it is
everywhere. From what I can gather, most bamboo in the world
grows in Asia, but one species, River Cane, grows very well right
here! Most references I found claim River Cane is a species of
bamboo, but one said it is not bamboo, at all. 1 have no clue, but
it looks like bamboo, to me. As the name implies, River Cane
likes the banks of rivers and streams, which makes sense, be
cause I live near the Flint River and very near Patsiliga Creek,
When I think of bamboo, I think of cane fishing poles, but bam
boo has a lot of uses. Some of them are building furniture and
even houses, baskets, weapons, musical instruments (flutes), and
now bamboo sheets are becoming a hot item.
As much bamboo as there is around here, it's hard to imagine,
but bamboo is labeled as “critically endangered” in the U.S. So,
scientists are working to increase awareness of saving the bam
boo, promoting ornamental use in gardens, and using canebrakes
(a small forest of bamboo) for conservation. (Bamboo has been
found to prevent erosion, since it grows very densely.)
Bamboo is actually a flowering plant, but research says it only
blooms about every 30 to 40 years, 1 have never seen the River
Cane blooming, or at least I've never noticed it* However, I don’t
think I will be putting it in my flower garden. River Cane is
invasive, and I don’t want a yard full of cane, and I doubt the
neighbors would be happy if the cane invaded their yards.
It seems somewhat ironic for the River Cane to be endangered
and invasive at the same time, hut what do I know about it?
Anyway, if you have a desire to grow' a canebrake, I know where
you can find it! 1 just don’t know if you will have a unique, en
dangered plant or an invasive monster!
To The Light
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Fear
The Independent Institute tells us, “By keeping the popu
lation in a state of artificially heightened apprehension,
the government-cum-media prepares the ground for plant
ing specific measures of taxation, regulation, surveillance,
reporting, and other invasions of the people’s wealth, pri
vacy, and freedoms. Left alone for a while, relieved of this
ceaseless bombardment of warnings, people would soon
come to understand that hardly any of the announced
threats has any substance and that they can manage their
own affairs quite well without the security-related regi
mentation and tax-extortion the government seeks to jus
tify,”
God graced this commentator by allowing him to grow-
up in Southwest Georgia in the 1960s. The town of Colquitt
had two newspapers, The Miller County Liberal, a weekly
publication, and The Albany Herald, published daily and
delivered in the afternoons to “paperboys” who rode bi
cycles on routes and tossed the rubber band bound, rolled-
up, papers to the front steps of consumers’ homes.
Behind our home on Spring Street, to the west, was a
parallel abandoned street. James Gray, publisher of the
Herald, delivered his newspapers via that abandoned 500-
feet long path, An airplane arrived overhead it at four
o’clock in the afternoon, crossed Spring Creek, descended
to about 50 feet above ground, and halfway the drop zone,
a “freight-kicker” (usually a pilot-in-training) ejected four
heavy osnaburg canvas bags out the door. Inside the bags
were bound bundles of newspapers*
We paperboys emptied the bags, broke the bindings,
counted out the number necessary to complete our routes,
rolled the papers, secured them with rubber bands, loaded
our baskets, mounted our bikes, and delivered the papers
one at a time.
A route boss secured the deliveiy bags and refreshed coin
operated newspaper machines and delivered in bulk to
businesses that sold the daily's retail.
Colquitt residents were thusly abreast of local, state,
national, and international news.
Another source of news was television. We received that
service free of charge via antenna, two small metal prongs
that sat on top of the television called “rabbit ears” or via
an outside mast mounted unit that was rotatable via an
electric control unit sitting atop the television.
The antenna control unit, oriented like a compass, re
quired customers to have some spatial knowledge* We re
ceived signals from Albany, Tallahassee, Dothan, and Co
lumbus*
Changing channels required patience. To watch Albany,
we turned the dial to the northeast, Tallahassee to the
southeast, Dothan to the west, and for Columbus, slightly
west of north. If the TV was on WTVM Channel 9 out of
Columbus and you wanted to watch WALB Channel 10
out of Albany, that needed a rotation of nearly 300 degrees
and that took about 47 seconds of click, click, click (an eter
nity for today’s viewers).
Scripture Of
The Week
For the Lord Is our judge, the Lord Is our law
giver, the Lord Is our king; He will save us.
Isaiah 33:22, KJV
alie Saglor (Emmtg News
ant)
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Each TV station had two 30-minute news segments, morn
ing and noon. At six o’clock, each station devoted an hour
to news. The first half hour, local talent delivered three
segments, local/state news, local/state sports, and weather.
The second half hour was network news that reported snap
shots of national and international events and newswor
thy items.
TV hosts introduced reporters who conveyed the who,
what, when, where, and occasionally the why of events.
News consumers then read daily newspapers and weekly
magazines to get in-depth details of the reported events.
The best thing about television in those days was that it
shut down around midnight each night and came back on
the air around six in the morning of the next day!
Cable television changed all that beginning in the 1970s,
especially the news business. It never shuts down! News
stories morph into days-long dramas analyzed in detail
and commented on incessantly. Eventually, “the news” be
came nothing more than agenda driven fear mongering.
America’s second president, John Adams, warned us: Fear
is the foundation of most governments. Today, the news
media is little more than an agent of the government push
ing one wacky bureaucrat’s whims after other nutty po
tentates’ agendas, and all rely on fear to drive the stories:
Manmade global warming, Russia-Russia-Russia, “social
injustice,” whatever they decide is the fear-of-the-day.
Heck, even weather today is fear based. This is from Jes
sica (appropriately named) Storm, at AccuWeather on Au
gust 7, 2021: “As August gets underway across the United
States, millions of people will be facing the risk of severe
thunderstorms this weekend in the Plains and Midwest.”
Ugh! It’s just summer weather!
Having quit watching television news and consuming
weather prognostications in November 2020, the fear-of-
the-day does not drive me. Life is almost as enjoyable to
day as it was in the 1960s.
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“WE GOTCHA COVERED”
Is Most Of
World Unsaved?
By Billy Powell
The doctrine of salvation varies from religion-to-religion.
Since there are over 4,000 religions on earth, well address
the four major religions whose adherents collectively com
prise 76 percent of the world’s population-8 billion people.
Christianity, which comprises 31 percent of world’s popu
lation, is based on the Old and New 7 Testaments. Chris
tianity subscribes to the Trinitarian concept of God: Fa
ther, Son, and Holy Spirit. Salvation is made possible by
Jesus’ substitutionary death on the cross and His resur
rection from the dead. Since Jesus was sinless, one drop of
His divine blood was sufficient to cover the sins of all sin
ners—those dead, those living, and those yet unborn. Sal
vation is based solely on faith in Christ..and not on good
works. Ephesians 2: 8 declares: “For by (God's) grace you
are saved, though faith (in Christ); it is a gift of God, not of
works lest any man should boast”
Islam, second at 25 percent, is centered in the Middle
East. The prophet Muhammed {6th century) was its
founder. Islam is ‘monotheistic’ like Christianity. Its god
is called Allah. Muhammed wrote Islam’s sacred scriptures
called the Koran. Therein, Sura 4: 3 states that men have
authority over women—who are required to wear veils.
After Muhammed’s death, two factions emerged —the
‘Sunnis’ (elected leaders) and ‘Shiites’ (leaders descended
from Muhammed). These groups have been at constant
war for centuries* Islam, which rejects the Holy Bible, be
lieves that Jesus was a great prophet, but not the Son of
God* The Islamic faith does not subscribe to ‘original sin,’
Salvation is achieved by following Islam’s Tive Articles of
Faith’and its ‘Five Pillars of Faith.’ A Muslim who dies in
a Jihad (holy war) is guaranteed eternal life in Paradise
(e.g. Muslims piloting and manning the planes that crashed
into the World Trade Center and Pentagon on 911).
Hinduism (15 percent) is concentrated in India, Hindu
ism believes in multiple gods—its chief god being Brah
man. Hindu holy scriptures are called the Vedas. Hindus
believe in an endless cycle of deaths and rebirths. Persons
who regress in life may be reborn as an animal whereas
those living virtuous lives can climb up the scale to a higher
state of existence* Escape from the endless cycle of death
and rebirth is called ‘Nirvana.’ Salvation is achievable
through one of three ways: (1) religious duties, (2) denying
oneself, or (3) devotion to a deity.
Buddhism (5 percent), of Chinese origin, was founded by
Siddhartha Gautama in the 5th century B.C* Buddhism
denies God’s existence and believes that man’s tenure on
earth is short-lived and without a hereafter.
Atheism and Agnosticism collectively comprise a whop
ping 16 percent of the world’s population.
Three of the larger religions (Islam, Hinduism, and Bud
dhism) do not recognize Jesus as Savior. Neither does Ju
daism, the Jewish religion of the Old Testament. Since
there are so many religions throughout the world, it makes
one wonder if the country in which one is born determines
to a great degree the religion an individual will follow.
Jesus forewarned: “Wide is the gate that leads to destruc
tion, but narrow is the way that leads to life and only a
few find it.”
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