TV THAT's POWELL RIVER

08/08/2024

for those who have lost hope in being and doing good - lets say for those who are constantly humming "Rich Men North of Richmond "
read this carefully all the way through
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Psalm 73 How good God is to Israel—to those whose hearts are pure. 2 But as for me, I came so close to the edge of the cliff! My feet were slipping and I was almost gone. 3 For I was envious of the prosperity of the proud and wicked. 4 Yes, all through life their road is smooth!They grow sleek and fat. 5 They aren’t always in trouble and plagued with problems like everyone else, 6 so their pride sparkles like a jeweled necklace, and their clothing is woven of cruelty! 7 These fat cats have everything their hearts could ever wish for! 8 They scoff at God and threaten his people. How proudly they speak! 9 They boast against the very heavens, and their words strut through the earth.

10 And so God’s people are dismayed and confused and drink it all in. 11 “Does God realize what is going on?” they ask. 12 “Look at these men of arrogance; they never have to lift a finger—theirs is a life of ease; and all the time their riches multiply.”

13 Have I been wasting my time? Why take the trouble to be pure? 14 All I get out of it is trouble and woe—every day and all day long! 15 If I had really said that, I would have been a traitor to your people. 16 Yet it is so hard to explain it—this prosperity of those who hate the Lord. 17 Then one day I went into God’s sanctuary to meditate and thought about the future of these evil men. 18 What a slippery path they are on—suddenly God will send them sliding over the edge of the cliff and down to their destruction: 19 an instant end to all their happiness, an eternity of terror. 20 Their present life is only a dream! They will awaken to the truth as one awakens from a dream of things that never really were!

21 When I saw this, what turmoil filled my heart! 22 I saw myself so stupid and so ignorant; I must seem like an animal to you, O God. 23 But even so, you love me! You are holding my right hand! 24 You will keep on guiding me all my life with your wisdom and counsel, and afterwards receive me into the glories of heaven![d] 25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And I desire no one on earth as much as you! 26 My health fails; my spirits droop, yet God remains! He is the strength of my heart; he is mine forever!

27 But those refusing to worship God will perish, for he destroys those serving other gods.

28 But as for me, I get as close to him as I can! I have chosen him, and I will tell everyone about the wonderful ways he rescues me.

30/07/2024

https://youtu.be/huDkrUHn8Do?si=Hp3JUv0tUljpSSHs
Super Awesome discussion

Patrick sits down with Pastor Cliffe Knechtle to talk about Christianity, moral relativism, and the role of faith in modern society. He emphasizes the import...

12/07/2024

Live on Court TV - Alec Baldwin “Rust” trial dismissed with prejudice and prosecutor appears to leave the court room in tears -

Baldwin also in tears - Just that his are tears of vindication -

It appears the prosecutor held back files that should have been released to the accused - and these files would have given accused opportunity of a more rigorous defence

10/07/2024

hmm -
looks like Canadians everywhere are being disappointed by the current federal administration

08/06/2024

The Letters in the Clutch

1984. I was cleaning out the family home, dividing goods between Mom & Dad as they sorted out how to divide from each other. Emptying a dresser drawer of make-up and costume jewelry, I discovered a day clutch that served as clasp and bindery for letters—the thin, blue airmail letters, the sort one would write the whole message on and then it would fold conveniently into the envelope by which you could send it.

They were letters exchanged between my mother (CWAC) and her cousin Gilbert. Gilbert had been wounded and was convalescing in a hospital in England. Gilbert’s letters described pretty nurses who would come to his bedside to aid in his healing. Humour runs through each handwritten line as he tells his cousin Marguerite about his romantic fantasies, as he is sure that each of the young nurses is drawn to his bedside due to his handsomeness, charming smile and quick wit, qualities he treats with equal amounts of gratitude and casual self-deprecation. I have met many of my mother’s cousins and brothers and each of them is very handsome, that mix of Métis, Cree, Blackfoot, Saulteaux and French—a jumble of genes handed down from before the Medieval partitioning of western Europe manifesting in the 20th century countenance of a young Canadian with a French-sounding name.

In the timbre of the last letter, June 1944, the humour faded. Gilbert no longer viewed whatever injuries he had suffered on the battlefield as a way to go back to Canada (preferably with the address of any of the young nurses he saw daily), but now viewed the injuries as a hindrance to his ability to return to battle in order to avenge the death of his dear cousin’s fiancé. The news of the many Canadians killed by the SS stunned him, and he wrote that he would leave his convalescence to slay those responsible.

When I asked about the final letter, my mother would not speak about it. Not until many years later, when I asked for her to will them to me and she confided that she had returned them to Gilbert’s immediate family, it took the advent of the internet and many more years to pass before I learned what transpired.
June 8, 1944, Chateau d'Audrieu, France—After walking for about a day and a half, Private David Sidney Gold (Medic) with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles became a prisoner of the SS, who had commandeered Chateau d'Audrieu for their own purposes.

Captured Canadian and British soldiers were marched off into various parts of the surrounding woods and executed with a shot to the back of the head. David Gold, Medic one of the 69 assassinated by Gerhard Bremer’s 12th SS Reconnaissance Battalion.

Mom told me about David Gold, the brother of a woman we had visited in 1968 when we traveled across Canada by train and in whose living room I saw my first episode of Star Trek. David was the man she had hoped to marry as soon as the war ended. David was the love of her life.

She also related to me that in the days following the discovery of the assassinated soldiers, several of the young SS officers were rounded up and brought to wherever Mom was working during the war. When asked what she did, she told me she was just a secretary. In this place where she was ‘just a secretary,’ the German prisoners of war were brought in. She expected monsters, evil looking devils with scowls and hate imbedded on their faces.

She told me how startled she and her other secretarial coworkers were when handsome, young, blond-haired, blue-eyed boys were led into the room. Not a visible monster amongst them.

Many years later when Mom was in her early nineties and residing in an independent living seniors’ residence, she pulled out a small photo of her and David Gold standing in front of a shrub, he in army garb, she in civilian clothes. Mom would sit in front of her patio doors and prayerfully rub that photo until the face of David Gold was nothing more than curled up bits of white backing paper.

On Remembrance Day 2012, long after Mom had been placed in a 24-hour care facility. My wife had found the army induction photo of David Gold online. I had framed the photo, printed the online story of the events of June 8, 1944, at Chateau d'Audrieu, and took the whole package to Mom that night.
You could feel her heart stop for a moment. She said, “You’re trying to make me cry.”
There was a long silence then Mom said, “He was supposed to be your dad.”

She read and reread that story in the six or so years left to her. We spoke about David often and all she would relate was that she and he were to be married and a family would follow.
Sometimes she would comment about her second choice for a husband and reassure me that he was okay, too, but he was not David Gold.

Most people misremember D-Day as a singular day in which the Allies hit the beaches of France, the German military fired off the last of their ammunition and laid down arms, peace in our time, etc. But there is and was so much more.

https://ssns.frontiersd.mb.ca/SeniorYrs/Curricula9-12/Grade11/CanadianHistory/RemembranceDay/EducationalGuides/BremerMurders.html

22/05/2024

This is an interesting rabbit hole
https://youtu.be/0XhPzxrNPrI
There are loads of songs and these learned men’s reactions —
Like hearing something for the first time -again and also outside your ken — Interesting pursuit Rick Beato

Tribal People Listening to Sinéad O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U" For The First Time. Reactions, Review and Lyrical AnalysisOur patreon: https://www.patreo...

30/04/2024

https://x.com/TheoFleury14/status/1785049592658321659

30/04/2024

Hmm an interesting view on the “west” from a Russian philosopher -
Even more interesting is that I recently heard a well educated westerner speaking in almost these exact words - such as Aleksandr Dugin uses to describe Putin - and the Soviet metaphysical landscape

28/04/2024

very funny

26/03/2024

Jody Bell of Osborne Propellers chats with Roger Whittaker of PR Marine Surveyors. 


A propeller, shaped by math & science.


Can your propeller be fixed after an incident? 


What happens in a propeller repair shop?


Does Osborne Propeller offer a Sharrow Propeller?

21/03/2024

Jasper was a Great Dog. Five years old and then came cancer.
Today we had to gather the family at the vets and let Jasper go run free in Heaven.
Yes everyone cried.
I saw him running free on the other side as he sliped the bonds of this earthly mortal coil. He is Happy, Joyous and Free.

12/03/2024

Chris Reed Engineering Forensic Investigator in conversation with
Roger Whittaker of PR Marine Surveyors
Why do Boats Burn?
What Route does a Vessel Fire Investigation Follow.
Keep Your Boat Safe From Potential Fires.

12/01/2024

Advertising at its best again - On the Internet -

28/12/2023

I just watched an amazing movie -
I strongly urge ya'll to go and see -
This movie will challenge your core beliefs and fundamentals as it touches on one of the more genuine struggles of mankind -
https://www.cineplex.com/movie/the-shift?ic=cpx_tdp-moviegrid-en&fbclid=IwAR1IHNsRDcBBkscB0yA9dF8BClHSyzRfRCDfHAGc6A1BTlyZoTWcncaC7VA

Jon Ernest
You can watch at a cineplex if you are a city dweller or via Angel studios membership if you want to support a NOT WOKE movie studio
Patrick Bet-David

In The Shift, a dystopian drama and sci-fi thriller, one man is faced with infinite worlds and impossible choices.

27/12/2023

Lets see if this will share

CategoriesPopular, PsychologyTagsBonhoeffer, intelligence, Morals, Stupidity Bonhoeffer’s Theory of StupidityPosted on October 19, 2021August 3, 2023 by Jonas KoblinDietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. This is because while we can protest against or figh...

23/12/2023

Listening to Leonard Cohen -
Songs familiar to me from Famous Blue Coat - An interesting time in my own life - some 35 years ago -
Currently not longing for the past - my goodness who could have dreamed a now so amazing and filled with love such as I have -
Just simply lounging in a memory and thinking about how then I thought - Can it get any better?
And by gosh it did - times infinity -
The actual broadcast is ACL

Relive the late Leonard Cohen's first appearance on ACL, recorded on Halloween night 1988 on the I'm Your Man tour and first broadcast in 1989.

04/12/2023

I tried to Live Stream the 2023 Powell River Santa Parade today - It seems that the Live Stream happened but the save did not
My apology

04/12/2023

2023 Powell River Santa Parade

18/11/2023

Lastnight we went to Old Man Pho and had a great meal -- the kids loved their choices for food - and Cohen told the owner that this was the best Chicken ever

29/10/2023

Michelle was a thriving woman. Independent, with a zest for life, energe… Shondra White needs your support for Michelle Worton’s Pineal Brain Surgery Journey

27/10/2023

Happy Birthday Donna Pelley
I hope you find time to be kind to your self today

24/10/2023

Live at 6 pm

21/09/2023

21/09/2023

Live now North Sunshine Coast Ferry Committee Meeting

20/06/2023

Kevin Falcon was @ the Shingle Mill in Powell River, June 6 and we had a few minutes to speak with him.
Production Notes... iPhone 14Pro, hand held, ambient sound,
Bokeh is native to iPhone14 Pro - which I did not know prior to the interview.

31/03/2023

Live now Powell River City Council Special Meeting Strategic Planning Meeting

30/03/2023

Live Powell River Special Council Meeting Strategic Planning Workshop
https://www.prcitylive.com/
Watch live

29/01/2023

Mayor's Forum
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2. Opinions expressed are the opinions of those who expressed them.

3. Thank you to Miss Brittany for the provision of XLR quality sound at the Evergreen Theatre.

Running time: 2 Hours

03/12/2022

At Marine & Albernie for Christmas music & tree lighting ...