T F Stern's Rantings

My articles emerge depending on what ever tickles my fancy; hope you enjoy the ride. It started several years ago when one of my op-ed pieces to the Houston Chronicle got butchered; been blogging ever since.

Friday, November 28, 2008

Thanksgiving Photo

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It has become something of a tradition to take a photograph of the kids on Thanksgiving Day. The only changes appear to be in the size of t...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

A Chance to Sing in a Choir

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This past week during our shift meeting at the Houston Temple we were invited to sign up to be members of a choir that will supply the music...

Thankful to Know God

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I was reading Thanksgiving Day quotes posted by Tony on Red Mind in a Blue State and found a couple that hit home runs. ““Thanksgiving din...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Thanksgiving Basket

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Each year my folks send us a box of fresh citrus; oranges and grapefruit, to enjoy at the beginning of the holiday season. There’s some new...

Great Moves

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I got this from my sister; gave me a chance to kick back for a few minutes while we’re getting the house cleaned up for this Thursday. (Note...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

More Gospel in a Nutshell

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I’ve mentioned before how I enjoy finding passages in the scriptures which encapsulate the basic principles of the Gospel in such a way as t...
Friday, November 21, 2008

The Black Hole

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Never Yet Melted posted this video , worth a couple of minutes of your time after having spent too many hours at the office.

Music to Choose From

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There are two YouTube video clips below; hope you enjoy the selections of the day; but which of them inspires the soul toward heavenly thoug...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Two and two are four

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There’s a children’s vocal in an old movie about Hans Christian Anderson, sweetly reminding us of the lessons life teaches. I included it wh...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Houston Police Department’s Mixed Message

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I posted my original impressions regarding an unfortunate event which ended in a police shooting back in April of this year, something rig...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Liberalism Diagnosed as Medical Disorder

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I read an article posted in World Net Daily where Dr. Lyle Rossiter, a board-certified clinical psychiatrist, “says the kind of liberalism b...

Property Ownership and Debt

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The news is filled with stories about government bail outs for the mortgage industry, the insurance industry and now even the automobile ind...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Ronald Reagan Reminds Us From the Grave

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I found this over at Stop the ACLU , and wanted to share it. I’ve often heard the term “slippery slope” used to explain the difficulties o...
Saturday, November 15, 2008

Cell Phone Probe

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The Texas Department of Corrections found several inmates had been making calls within the walls of maximum security prisons, over 2,800 fro...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Getting the House Granny Ready

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Each year we do our level best to have the house ready for Thanksgiving; we used to call it “Granny ready” for when my grandmother would vis...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Baptism by Proxy for Holocaust Victims

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Every now and again I read an article containing an inflamed rebuke of the Mormon’s; lately it would seem to be more often, gosh and oh by g...

A Different Sort of Veteran’s Day Story

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We watched a wonderful children’s movie last night set in WWII Scotland near Loch Ness. It’s a fanciful tale from a young boy’s view as his...
Monday, November 10, 2008

Garbage as Art

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The 22nd item on Cleon Skousen’s list in his book, The Naked Communist , “Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of a...
Saturday, November 08, 2008

Prop 8 Reporting Diluted

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Depending on the sources you read, violence related to the passage of California’s Proposition 8 could go under the radar. I read on the Fo...
Friday, November 07, 2008

Department of Energy is an Absolute Joke

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Absolutely, and the joke is . . . on us! Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT ...
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T. F. Stern
I am a retired City of Houston Police Officer having served 20 years as a patrol officer and also a retired self employed locksmith having served the Houston area for over 40 years. I'm married to my sweetheart. We met while working at the Astrodome; she was the popcorn girl and I was the soda boy, both working in the back areas during our high school years. We are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and have 3 grown children and four grand children. We now live in our piece of Paradise, otherwise called Buffalo, Texas.
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