Oh, Kentucky. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this video clip of Ernie "I try not to smile, 'cause I got my teeth knocked out by a chainsaw" Brown, Jr. AKA Turtle Man.
Here's a clip of him in action, in a murky pond infested with snapping turtles. Link [embedded Youtube clip]
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Southerners get a bad rap on lots of counts, and I for one am ready to see the stereotype change. So people from the south are more likely to hunt, fish, and involve themselves in any event that allows them to go drinking in nature. Isn't that what this country was founded on? Where would we be, in a historic sense, without the outdoorsmen -- the seasoned frontiersmen who settled 99% of America with nothing more than leather pents and a gun?
John laughed and told him "The line is 'I can't hide'."
"But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed."
And almost as if designed to blow up the thesis, of Seth’s Rogovoy’s book, "Bob Dylan Prophet, Mystic, Poet," where he tries to show Dylan has returned to Judaism after a brief "Christian Period." This book came out in the fall of 2009, Dylan releases a Christmas album! That really had to hurt. And then when several reviewers of the Christmas album notice that Dylan is singing the Christian Hymns in complete seriousness like “O Little Town of Bethlehem” they are prompted to ask Dylan if he is signing these Hymns as a true believer in the Christian gospel (the Christian gospel is the good news described in the hymn as “the hopes and fears of all the years”). To which Dylan replies in a promotional piece for public consumption, “I am a true believer.” Then add to this that Dylan is at this same time beginning to open his fall tours with the song "Change my way of Thinkin’" where he is proclaiming in very clear, and not to be misunderstood language: “Jesus is Coming, Coming back to gather his Jewels.” This is certainly not anything your typical Jewish believer would ever be willing to confess. To proclaim this message one has to have gone over… to have done the unspeakable…..to have become…and he remains a Christian.