Wake Up to Guitar Greatness
Ritchie Blackmore – "Stargazer" (Rising, 1976)
Blackmore built the riff on a cello and soloed in Phrygian dominant, all under a full orchestra, for Dio's tale of a wizard's doomed tower.
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On May 7, 2020, the CIA briefed former FDA commissioner and Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb. The record shows herd immunity was already being discussed at a level far higher than what officials told the public.
Two months into lockdowns, Americans were being told a different story than the one happening behind closed doors. That gap between what was known and what was said is exactly why I’ve spent years digging. And I’m not stopping until the FULL truth is out.
And now... the rest of the story.
Every year, families across America gather around the television.
They watch a bald kid try to kick a football. A beagle dance on a dog house. Charlie Brown get a rock instead of candy.
They laugh.
They don't know they're watching a man's autobiography.
When Charles Schulz was a boy, the other children called him Sparky. The name of a horse in a comic strip. A joke horse.
He failed every single subject in eighth grade.
Not one or two.
Every. Single. Subject.
But the grades weren't the worst part.
Paul Harvey told this story, and his voice cracked on this line:
"Sparky wasn't actually disliked by the other youngsters. No one cared enough about him to dislike him."
He wasn't hated. He was nothing.
The one thing he had was his drawings. He submitted cartoons to the school yearbook.
Rejected.
He wrote to Walt Disney. Poured everything into the drawings.
The reply was a form letter. Disney only hired the very finest artists. Sparky was not among the very finest.
Harvey paused there. Then: "I think deep down, Sparky expected to be rejected."
This is where the motivational speakers lie to you.
The rest of the story isn't about winning.
Sparky didn't try to prove them wrong. He wrote his autobiography in cartoons.
He drew himself. The loser. The kid who failed everything.
He named him after himself.
Charlie Brown.
You know what Charlie Brown never does?
Win.
His kite crashes. Lucy pulls the football. The Little Red-Haired Girl doesn't notice him.
And sixty years later, we still watch.
Not because Charlie Brown succeeds.
Because Charlie Brown keeps showing up.
Here's the part even Paul Harvey didn't tell.
Schulz taught Sunday school. He read the Bible so constantly his strips are filled with scripture.
When network executives tried to cut Linus reciting Luke 2 from the Christmas special, Schulz refused.
Either the Gospel stays, or there's no special.
It stayed.
A boy called a horse.
A student who failed everything.
An artist Disney rejected.
Planted the Gospel of Luke in front of sixty million homes.
The loser became the messenger.
God has a history of using the rejected ones.
Moses had a stutter. David was the forgotten son. Peter denied Him three times.
The kite never flew.
But the Gospel did.
Still falling?
Good company, brother.
Get up.
He's not done with you yet.
Solyndra was a solar power startup company and was the first company to receive guaranteed loans through Obama's stimulus program.
Obama touted his investment in Solyndra in 2010. In 2011 the company filed for bankruptcy. Taxpayers lost over $500 million.
The media has covered Trump's reflecting pool renovation more than it ever covered Solyndra's failure and fraud. The media didn't cover Obama, it covered for Obama.
BTW, instead of letting Elon Musk continue to successfully manufacture and sell solar panels, the government could just seize $100 billion of his wealth and fund some more Solyndras. 🤪
So… we’re expected to believe that in California, out of three candidates, the third place candidate, who conceded her campaign because she was mathematically eliminated from the run-off, suddenly received tens of thousands of votes from mail-in votes which all came in *after* Election Day, while the other two candidates received no late mail-in votes, and the second place candidate (who was surging as a Republican candidate in the bluest state in the country) is now in third place and mathematically eliminated from the run-off.
… and we’re supposed to trust that this is an honest and true election.
If you’re not angry about this, you need to be.
Ok I think this might be my favorite Nick Peterson video yet 🤣 He is my permanent pinned post. There is nothing better than a good, dry sense of humor and Nick ALWAYS delivers! Enjoy 😘
Our goalie decided we weren’t gonna lose today.. One of the greatest American sport performances of all time
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“Moving toward disaster.”
Long before Zohran Mamdani landed on the shores of the United States preaching “the warmth of collectivism,” one person saw all of this coming: Ayn Rand.
In a 1959 interview with Mike Wallace, Rand issued a warning that feels eerily prophetic today...saying the country would continue sliding toward disaster until “welfare state conceptions” were fully rejected.
She predicted a shift toward collectivism — and described it as a system of enslavement.
New York City didn’t listen.
WALLACE: “How do you feel about the political trends of the United States and the Western world?”
RAND: “The way everybody feels, except more consciously.”
“I feel that it is terrible, that you see destruction all around you, and that you are moving toward disaster until and unless all of those welfare state conceptions have been reversed and rejected.”
“It is precisely these trends which are bringing the world to disaster, because we are now moving complete collectivism or socialism.”
“A system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody, and we are moving that way only because of our altruist morality.”
That was 1959.
And somehow, nearly 70 years later, the warning is being replayed...word for word.
-Libertarians convinced people that the corporate press was the enemy of the people and the industry collapsed.
-Libertarians convinced people that never ending wars, neocons, and all foreign aid were immoral and open opponents lost the 2024 election.
-Libertarians are now convincing people that taxation is theft and the idea is catching fire.
The only reason these things are still problems is because the daylight government hasn’t caught up.
It doesn’t represent the people, it represents its shadow overlords…the rulers, authorities, world powers of darkness, and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.
The illusion is fading.
Restricting government strangles the shadows with light.
Keep shining in 2026.