Friday, February 09, 2018

CPT Twit - Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl Parade - City of Brotherly Love warms up Winter

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[CPT Twit - The Coltons Point Times answer for those who get bored with Tweets.]


It took nearly 60 years but the City of Brotherly Love finally won their first Super Bowl in a performance every bit as nail biting as Rocky faced and then shared the same Rocky location at the top of the stairs of the Arts Museum after being greeted by over TWO MILLION fans the end of the greatest parade in the history of a historical city.






















































Tuesday, February 06, 2018

Nick Foles - the Humble Super Bowl MVP and World Champion

Here is why Nick Foles is a true champion and the University of Arizona is proud of him.  It is the kind of example we need in professional sports.

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Nick Foles' inspirational message in a social media world

Reuben Frank | NBC Sports Philadelphia,NBC Sports Philadelphia Mon, Feb 5 10:56 AM EST 
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - It speaks volumes about Nick Foles that 11 hours after putting on one of the greatest performances in Philadelphia sports history, Nick Foles stood at a podium, accepted the Super Bowl MVP trophy and spoke about his shortcomings.
This is Nick Foles.
This is why he's special.
Foles continued his torrid postseason Sunday, throwing for 373 yards and three touchdowns and catching a touchdown pass in the Eagles' 41-33 win over the Patriots in Super Bowl LII at U.S. Bank Stadium.
It was a remarkable performance for Foles and continued his wild ride from Eagles Pro Bowler to Rams castoff to Chiefs backup to Eagles backup to Super Bowl champion.
Monday morning, Foles was back at the Mall of America, the Super Bowl headquarters all last week, to accept the MVP trophy.
I asked him what he wants people to take from his journey, from the way he's handled himself, from his ability to shake off some incredible disappointments and even contemplate retirement, from being unwanted by three teams to standing there with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell posing for pictures with the Super Bowl MVP trophy.
Foles' response was incredibly revealing and quite powerful.
"I think the big thing is don't be afraid to fail," Foles said. "I think in our society today, Instagram, Twitter, it's a highlight reel. It's all the good things. And then when you look at it, when you think like, wow, when you have a rough day, 'My life's not as good as that,' (you think) you're failing.
"Failure is a part of life. It's a part of building character and growing. Without failure, who would you be? I wouldn't be up here if I hadn't fallen thousands of times. Made mistakes.
"We all are human, we all have weaknesses, and I think throughout this, (it's been important) to be able to share that and be transparent. I know when I listen to people speak and they share their weaknesses, I'm listening. Because (it) resonates.
"So I'm not perfect. I'm not Superman. I might be in the NFL, I might have just won a Super Bowl, but, hey, we still have daily struggles, I still have daily struggles. And that's where my faith comes in, that's where my family comes in.
"I think when you look at a struggle in your life, just know that's just an opportunity for your character to grow. And that's just been the message. Simple. If something's going on in your life and you're struggling? Embrace it. Because you're growing."
Foles' postseason was one of the greatest in NFL history. He completed 72.6 percent of his passes (second-highest ever), averaged 324 passing yards per game and threw more touchdowns (6) than he threw in the regular season (1).
His 113.2 career passer rating is highest in NFL postseason history.
The Eagles haven't lost a game that Foles started and finished since 2014.
And he did what Jaws couldn't do, what Randall couldn't do, what Donovan couldn't do.
He delivered a championship to Philadelphia.
Doug Pederson, a backup himself for most of his Eagles career, doubted every step of the way as a coach, can certainly relate to Foles' journey.
"Nick has been the same guy that I can remember who we drafted," he said Monday morning while accepting the Lombardi Trophy from Goodell.
"He doesn't change. He doesn't change at all. The things he did back then when we had him in Philadelphia to today? He's just a better quarterback today, he's a smarter quarterback today, he's a veteran quarterback today.
"But Nick is Nick. He's who he is. You just saw here how genuine he is. I have a lot of guys on that roster that are just like Nick. Very unselfish. Call them role players if you want, call them whatever you want. Call them backups.
"These guys helped us win this championship. My hat's off to Nick for what he's gone through, what he's had to deal (with), what he's had to block out these last two months."

CPT Spirits in the Sky - Buddy Holly, The Day the Music Died

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February 3 was the 59th anniversary of the day the music died in America. On a cold winter night in Iowa this night in 1959 Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash in a snowstorm after leaving a concert in Clear Lake, Iowa.

Holly is considered the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll. His works and innovations were copied by his contemporaries and later musicians, notably The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and Buddy exerted a profound influence on popular music. On April 15, 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Holly #13 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Also on the private charter with Holly were the Big Bopper and Richie Valens. Holly's death was immortalized by the song The Day the Music Died.


I was a huge Buddy Holly fan while growing up in Iowa. One time I played Oh Boy, a Buddy Holly hit, 43 straight times on a juke box to honor his death much to the chagrin of the country club members in the club Canteen who didn't like country music.

On that fateful night in 1959 I had tickets to the Buddy Holly concert, a drive of a little over 100 miles away, but the snow storm that killed him kept us from reaching the venue. It was a night I will never forget and I will always be sad at how close I came to witnessing his last performance in this world.




Buddy Holly belongs to the ages but his music belongs to us.


Buddy Holly True Love Ways


Peggy Sue


Buddy Holly – The Last Day


Don McLean – American Pie – The Day the Music Died


Is it Time for the End Times? Has the Beginning of the Biblical Revelations been activated? Are you ready to move to the next dimension?

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Fasten your seatbelts
and prepare for
the Second Coming of Jesus!

Have you noticed the increasing anxiety in people over the moral collapse of civilization?  Does the hatred being spewed from the mouths of the social activist’s strike fear in your hearts that society has abandoned God and the message of Jesus’ life on Earth is being ignored?


Your conclusions are mostly right but the consequences you expect to see might be in need of change if you are to survive these dangerous times.


Our morality has been bankrupted.  Hatred does trump compassion.  The bad guys are winning and the dark side is working feverishly to make certain the curtain comes down permanently on people of the light.  Are your lights dimming?  Is your battery dead?


Normally in such times of crisis the first thing one must do is step back and assess the situation.  We have not done that.  Perhaps it is because we still do not know how deep the moral decay has spread into our friends, our institutions, our religions, our schools, practically every aspect of our life on Earth.


How could we be in such a mess when Jesus came to Earth, was horribly tortured, and brutally murdered for our sins?   We have had over 2,000 years to absorb his message, to spiritually evolve, to right the wrongs.


Yet in the midst of the modern chaos all we hear are people crying out to God “why have you forsaken us Lord?”  God did not abandon you and Jesus did not waste his time on Earth.


Listen closely, God did not create our mess, we did.  Why are you blaming God for the sins of humankind?  Is it not enough that he worked the wonderful miracle of creating you, in his own image and likeness no less?  Then he gave you free will to demonstrate how well you have learned the lessons of life.


Our consistent use of free will to satisfy our personal addictions, perversions, and greed are our contribution to the spiritual evolution of humankind and they are our fault, not the fault of the Creator.  The only hands with blood on them are ours.


So now in a fit of mass hysteria, we have conjured up the soulless wanderers of the Dark Side and invited them into our living rooms by our living in fear, hiding from reality, and embracing the very tools meant to suck the life force out of humans.


The Creator and his Creation is all about creating, using polarity to stimulate creating.  Creating does not happen without a great dose of imagination.  First comes the thought, through the use of imagination, and then comes creating the thought into reality.


That is your mission, your free will, when it chooses to follow the will of Father Creator.  We are the creative engines that must power Creation through never ending change, through a passion to make things better, through the aggressive use of the miraculous tools given to us by the Creator.


Anything that blocks the use of imagination or creativity is contrary to the Father’s Will because it stops you from using your God-given gifts.


Our digital revolution is the epitome of robbing humans of their mission in life.  The dependence on the digital world and the over-dependence on the myriad of apps to meet your every need and answer your every question block you from being human in the eyes of the Creator as you have delegated your thinking and multiplied your dependence upon Artificial Intelligence.


Add to that the destruction the Internet has generated in your ability to communicate by bombarding you with hateful, angry, artificially created issues, fake news, threads, and contrary arguments meant to make you an even greater prisoner to the internet, texting, emails, gaming, and social media.


You see, you can create your own false identity and avoid ever having personal contact and communication with other humans, unless, of course, your intent is predatory.  Addiction to technology results from having your mind hijacked by the engineers designing the addictive programs and dependency stimulants inherent in all social media platforms, apps, and screen images.


Your addiction, your dependency on immediate responses to texts, your hours of obsessive use per day dependent on what the Artificial Intelligence tells you is the truth, since you have no sense of truth and morality left in you, that Digital Addiction is your enemy.


I have news for you, Revelations is already here and you are embracing the plagues of the new world.  The use of technology for evil purposes is a far stronger Anti-Christ than John wrote about in Revelations.  No longer is evil confined to zones or cities like Sodom and Gomorrah but thanks to the freedom from boundaries and lack of regulation or oversight, it now penetrates every inch of our world and beyond.


The spiderweb in the sky, the electromagnetic waves of the Internet, smart phones, smart TVs and the hundreds and thousands of other apps we use every day, have already hijacked your brains and destroyed your creative gifts.
 


Thousands of years ago the Hopi Nation or original Americans were given a prophecy of when the End of this cycle of civilization would take place.  It said when the spiderweb in the sky was completed.  With the thousands of satellites, millions of devices, and billions of addicted users, I would say the time is now, unless we bring about a drastic change in our present course.


Perhaps it might take divine intervention, and if so, it would not be the first time.  Long ago Father Creator demonstrated the lengths at which he would go to protect his Creations.  In the end, it cannot be given without your request for help and intervention.


When was the last time you prayed to Jesus to act as your Intercessor to the Father and allow miracles to fix what we have failed to fix, not just for us as an individual but for all individuals of the world?


It is not too late but time is running out!