This Week in America with Ric Bratton

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A Time to Dream by C.A. HoupWhere do you go when you dream? Do you let your imagination have fun while you drift off to sleep? Or do you lie in bed and wonder? This is a fantastical story filled to the brim with adventure. So snuggle up and get ready, as the night is your canvas and your thoughts are the brush that can paint a magical dream. In this bedtime story, you will be engaged as it sets the stage for peaceful thoughts and a happy ending to the day. It's a sweet story to inspire joyful dreams and a restful sleep.C. A. Houp is a new and upcoming author that has always enjoyed the imaginative world of writing. With a fresh look and a whimsical style, she expresses her creativity with a youthful charm. Her unique perspective will bring a spark of fun and enjoyment as you read her debut book A Time to Dream.AMAZONhttps://www.kingpagespress.comhttp://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/11625kpp1.mp3    Where do you go when you dream? Do you let your imagination have fun while you drift off to sleep? Or do you lie in bed and wonder? This is a fantastical story filled to the brim with adventure. So snuggle up and get ready, as the night is your canvas and your thoughts are the brush that can paint a magical dream. In this bedtime story, you will be engaged as it sets the stage for peaceful thoughts and a happy ending to the day. It's a sweet story to inspire joyful dreams and a restful sleep.C. A. Houp is a new and upcoming author that has always enjoyed the imaginative world of writing. With a fresh look and a whimsical style, she expresses her creativity with a youthful charm. Her unique perspective will bring a spark of fun and enjoyment as you read her debut book A Time to Dream.AMAZONhttps://www.kingpagespress.comhttp://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/11625kpp1.mp3    

On Becoming a F*cking Man by Michael J. UlrichOn Becoming a F*cking Man is spiritual book for men who do not go to church on Sunday but believe there is a God, but they do not give God much emphasis in their lives. This book discusses problems men have and gives them a spiritual perspective to deal with it. It does not use the terms "God," "Jesus Christ," or "Holy Spirit." It only uses "Higher Power." There is no discussion of religious principles or beliefs.If a man has an active spiritual life he will forgive, love his fellow man, be a sensitive man, stand up for what is right, and be at peace with himself. Join Michael J. Ulrich on this journey and find the peace within yourself.About the AuthorMichael is a senior citizen, husband and father.  He's also a pretty spiritual guy.Michael J. Ulrich was born on June 13, 1949, and grew up in Western Washington. He graduated high school in 1967. Although a cradle Catholic and practicing Catholic, Michael's religion has nothing to do with what he teaches you.Michael has been married twice and has two children. His late wife, Cynthia, died unexpectedly on 12/3/19.https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-F-cking-Man/dp/B0CMRW2WHPhttps://onbecomingafuckingman.com/https://citiofbooks.com/http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/11625mju.mp3   

Incredibly Blessed: The Life Story of a Boy from the Farm by Father Eugene BrownAn 89-year-old Roman Catholic priest from Minnesota fell in church and required surgery to repair a neck injury. During his recovery in a rehabilitation facility, he did not dwell on bad luck or misfortune but instead reflected on how blessed his life had been. Born in Indiana, he arrived in Minnesota in a shoebox at just three weeks old and grew up on a farm during the Great Depression. The smallest boy in his class and extremely shy, he first felt the call to the priesthood in sixth grade at his Catholic school. He attended high school and two years of college at a minor seminary in St. Paul, where he gradually overcame much of his shyness. He then continued his studies in philosophy and theology at a major seminary in St. Paul before being ordained as a priest. His ministry took him to parishes in western Minnesota and to chaplaincy roles in Catholic nursing homes. Over the years, he traveled extensively, visiting Rome, the Holy Land, and a mission parish in Guatemala. His journeys also took him to 22 countries, including the Galápagos, the Amazon, the Antarctic Peninsula, and Easter Island. This is the story of a life filled with challenges, adventures, and countless blessings.AMAZONwww.KingPagesPress.com   

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A DEEPLY PERSONAL BATTLE AGAINST RACISM - RIPPLE OF HOPE: FROM THE BOILING FROG’S PERSPECTIVE by Darrell Nathaniel BridgersKai Jones is a Black male attorney living in New York City. He is in an interracial relationship, married to an Italian woman that he met in law school. They thought they were living the American dream, living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and raising two young daughters. But when they come under attack by racist neighbors in their building (the "Hagmans"), Kai must use his legal training to defend his family and their home against the Hagmans and the Co-Op Board they control. If he fails, he not only risks losing his home but his family as well.Darrell Nathaniel Bridgers, a trailblazing African American attorney, celebrated screenwriter, and visionary creative force, has unveiled his first full-length novel, Ripple of Hope: From the Boiling Frog’s Perspective. This debut work is a powerful fictionalization of Bridgers’ profound and deeply personal battle against racism in New York City. Blending his experience as a legal professional with his storytelling prowess, Bridgers crafts a narrative that is as moving as it is transformative.AMAZONhttps://darrellnathanielbridgers.com/www.KingPagesPress.comhttp://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/103025kpp3.mp3   

Endtime Prophecies Amplified by David D. CeigaAmazing and thought provoking. Down to earth informative. It gives the readers nuggets, food for thought; not to be confusing. Different from any other book on the subject matter. The Author backs it up with Biblical scriptures and historical facts. Never about believing the Author, it is the readers choice to search for the truth for themselves. God wants His "Faithful" children to know, He does not keep secrets from them. Author Bio: I am NOT a theologian! I am actually below average person. Voted least likely to succeed among six siblings. Retired military veteran @ 100% SL. I have seen the good and the bad in people and places. Madly in love with the same woman (Sara) for over 43 years. I presently have three children, 11 grandchildren, & 10 great grandchildren. A Associate's Degree in Psychology from Mid Continent University and a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work with a minor in world religion from University of Tennessee at Martinhttps://www.amazon.com/Endtime-Prophecies-Amplified-David-Ceiga/dp/B0F97C4HVShttps://www.auctoremhouse.com/http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/103025dcah.mp3   

A Personal Journey of Overcoming Life's Challenges - Dark Nights for Brighter Days by Simone Tuyell WhiteDark Nights for Brighter Days came to exist because of my life experience, different tests and trials, experiencing mental illness, and setbacks. It's about my Christian journey and different things I had to encounter, how my faith was tried, and how I overcame many obstacles. There were times I experienced some dark nights, where I was isolated in the hospital and people stereotyped me and I felt my rights of freedom was taken away and I felt all alone. During that time of my life, I learned that weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. That's when the brighter days come. And when I get restored, replenished, renewed, and strengthened, I am educated that recovery is every day and that God is a healer, and he will restore your mind.Simone White is dedicated to God and her family. She is a wife and mom who loves her family. The reason why she is so dedicated to her family is because she came from a broken family. She loves to give, whether it is money, food, time, or whatever God leads her to do. She is a loving person, and she does not mind helping anyone. She loves to cook and learn new recipes, and she loves her church family and doing fellowship with them. She has been a certified licensed nurse assistant for fifteen years. When she was working as a nurse, she loved working with the elderly. Now, she is a stay-at- home mom and wife. Her greatest interest is writing poems. She hopes one day to be a bestseller and to reach a loss. She is married to a great man of God whom she loves more than words can explain. He is the best thing that has ever happened to her, her soul mate. Now he is a minister, and she remembers saying to herself that she does not want anyone in the ministry, but God had greater plans, and she is honored to be his wife and to be working together in the ministry. She loves to watch family movies and comedy movies because she loves a good laugh. She loves listening to music and playing board games, traveling, spending time with family, shopping, and having a good time.AMAZONwww.KingPagesPress.com   http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/103025kpp1.mp3    

Choose to Move & Enjoy Nature’s SuperFoods for Vitality & Successful Weight LossIf you want extraordinary health and successful weight loss, you need the two-prong approach. You’ve got to get moving and also consume some superfoods that help fuel and energize your miraculous body and keep your body rejuvenated year-round. It’s really all about common sense. You’ve probably heard the old saying that success is “90% perspiration, 10% inspiration”? Well, our guest today, Susan Smith Jones, PhD, holistic health and lifestyle expert, says that when it comes to vitality and weight loss, the ratios for success are more like 50% = Food and 50% = Exercise. And as she quoted Lao-Tzu in her book A HUG IN A MUG, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Let’s join Susan now to take that step together.For a woman with three of America’s most ordinary names, Susan Smith Jones, PhD, has made extraordinary contributions in the fields of holistic health, anti-aging, optimum nutrition and balanced living. For starters, she taught students, staff and faculty at UCLA how to be healthy and fit for 30 years! Susan is the founder and president of Health Unlimited, a Los Angeles-based consulting firm dedicated to optimal wellness and human potential. She travels the world as a frequent media show guest and healthy living consultant. Susan is also the author of many books, including her two latest book that cover in detail our topic today — UPLIFTED: 12 Minutes to More Joy, Faith, Peace, Kindness & Vitality and the companion book… A HUG IN A MUG: Revitalize with Fruits, Veggies, Juices, Soups, Spices, Teas & Healthy Living Extras.SusanSmithJones.com  𝕏 @ SusanSmithJoneshttp://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/ssj139.mp3    

A Long-Running Chinese Plot To Infiltrate The U.S. Infrastructure - "The Chinese Conspiracy" by John Mariotti  "Not since The Manchurian Candidate have I read such a compelling thriller about global conspiracy. But Mariotti goes much further, linking his masterfully fast-paced narrative to the clear and present danger of total cyberwar. This novel is a call to action that our society must answer now."--Richard S. Levick, President and CEO, Levick' Strategic Communications, author of The Communicators: Leadership in the Age of Crisis."The Chinese Conspiracy has the intrigue of John Grisham, the spice of Mickey Spillane and the technical aspects of Tom Clancy." --Tom Quinn"A fascinating book that gives the reader a glimpse into warfare of the future. The outcome of future wars will be determined far in advance of the actual conflict. This is but a preview of things to come."--Paul Broadbent, Former Sr. CIA/Defense Intelligence Program Manager"America is at war and the latest front is the war on cyber terrorism....U.S. computer networks are under constant cyber attacks, by direct assaults by remote sites, by probes by hackers and criminal networks, and by espionage from foreign countries."---Jon Stout, CEO, Aspiration Software LLC"This chilling new novel links the world's increasing dependency on the internet to vulnerabilities that can be exploited for evil."---Calvin Myer, Co-founder Worldwide Ltd."This is fascinating and concerning story - nation-state terrorists using known technologies as "Weapons of Mass Disruption." I'm concerned that it is actually possible, and hope it can be prevented."--Ed Straw, Vice Admiral, USN Retired"If you can read only one exciting novel this year, this is the one to read. It is so realistically possible it's scary."---Bo Dietl, Retired NYPD Homicide Detective, & One Tough CopJohn Mariotti is an award-winning business author and an internationally recognized executive consultant and keynote speaker. He has written hundreds of articles and columns, and 12 nonfiction books. He started his career in the telecommunications industry and was deeply involved in government affairs during parts of his career. He lives in the Columbus Ohio area.AMAZONwww.TheChineseConspiracy.net   https://www.shape-shifters.com/

Based On True Crime Stories - "Cold Case Investigators Series" by Merrill VaughanFeatured Book - The Happy Paperhanger"   For over five years, an individual has been writing checks that do not have sufficient funds in the accounts. He is able to obtain state driver's licenses that he uses to open checking accounts with just enough money to keep the accounts open. He does not really steal other people's identification; he just makes up the names that he uses. For over five years, he has cost communities in Southern California thousands of dollars and has caused police departments to run in circles trying to catch him.That is, until one police department calls in the Cold Case Investigators to assist them. It is through a serious mistake on the part of the check writer that he is finally caught by one of the private investigators.Born in 1949, Merrill Vaughan spent his formative years in Monrovia and Duarte, California. He graduated from Duarte High School in 1967 and went on to attend Pasadena City College and Citrus Junior College, earning his degree in 1971. Shortly after, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force on November 26, 1971, serving at various stateside bases and completing multiple overseas assignments in Thailand, Greece, Hawaii, Germany, Denmark, and Honduras. Merrill retired in June 1993 and transitioned to work with the State of Wyoming’s Human Resources Division for three years.Despite facing disabilities that prevented him from returning to work, Merrill remained actively involved with several veterans organizations until his move to New Hampshire in 2004. In his new community of Pittsfield, he engaged in local governance, serving on committees such as the Budget Committee, Master Plan Committee, and as Chair of the Ethics Committee. In 2007, he was appointed as the town representative to the Concord Regional CrimeLine, a position he still holds. Additionally, Merrill became a substitute teacher at the local middle and high school, teaching various subjects until his retirement in 2020. He maintains connections with several former students.In 2008, Merrill pursued a lifelong dream by enrolling at Franklin Pierce University, where he graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Science degree in General Studies. He now serves on the Franklin Pierce University Alumni Board of Directors.It was during his teaching career that Merrill began jotting down ideas for a potential short story. Over five years, these notes evolved into his first book, The Kidnapping, which has since become part of the Cold Case Investigators series, with a sequel titled The Happy Paper Hanger, and a new addition, The Prostitute Killer.Merrill resides in Pittsfield, NH, with his wife, Diane, and is continuing to write new additions to his series.AMAZONhttps://merrillvaughan.comhttps://www.ecpublishingllc.comhttp://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/9425mvec.mp3    Other Books in the Cold Case Investigators SeriesCOLD CASE INVESTIGATORS: THE KIDNAPPINGCOLD CASE INVESTIGATORS: THE PROSTITUTE KILLERhttps://merrillvaughan.com/

Spirit Nation: Poems From A Heretical Faith by John Patrick AcevedoJohn Patrick Acevedo's forthcoming book entitled "SPIRIT NATION Poems From A Heretical Faith" is about the Logos, Pathos, and Ethos that his life, love, and work has given him as well as taken away from him. It is also a book of Truths, especially the dynamics of the world of have and have-not's. In it, John Patrick Acevedo suggests that the inequity of the world is because of the non-compromise and the over-competition of the worker and market. Market uses the worker by the heart's active giving and the worker abuses market by the body's passive giving. Market abuses the worker by the soul's active taking and the worker uses market by the mind's passive or emotional taking. Acevedo suggests in his poetry that market should be more ccountable and the worker should be more goal-driven. He further offers his belief in a "family of faith" as well as a "Spirit Nation" that is neither America or Puerto Rico, where he currently resides with his paternal family, but rather an ideal that he believes is the fundamental mystery of both the Old and New Testament of the Holy Bible. His idea resounds in both the macro-reality of praise and the micro-reality of prayer.In 2010 to 2012, John Patrick Acevedo was a member of Poets Ink, the rebanded new Wineglass Court Poets critique group that met every month in Howard County Community College and later at the Ivy Bookshop store in Pikesville, Maryland.In January 2001, he was a featured poet at the Mariposa Center for Creative Expression led by Mrs. Maritza (formerly) Rivera.Over the months there, he read his new poems alongside such famous writers as Mark Daniel Epstein (author of the critically-acclaimed Bob Dylan biography) and penned “give and take” as the lowest common denominator between God and human nature.Since then, he has published eleven books completely on his own as the sole-proprietor and sole-author of Synergy Press books and media and has sold his poetry on synergy-press.org.A 1990 graduate of the College of Communication at Boston University, in 1994 Acevedo began a career with the retail giant Best Buy as their top seller and consistently ranked in the top 5 in attached profit levers such as magazines, warranties, memberships, and major credit cards, especially in the Operations Department (District as well as on the store level) for the latter part of his 20 years. Double recipient of the company’s most prestigious award, The Brad Anderson Legacy Stock Award, he retired in 2014 prior to receiving the most coveted insurance The Hartford as well as countless MVP and service excellence awards.John Patrick has also published a classic spoken word cd called The Mad City Coffee Reading and produced the film short Holy Bible Sociology! A Journey Into the Soul of John Patrick Acevedo. Several video poems of his poems and a mini-documentary produced by Theologist Prince Kwasi Mensah can also be viewed on YouTube.com.AMAZONhttps://www.synergy-press.org/http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/102325jpa.mp3   

The Bloody Road of Gold by Michael Schall JohnsonThe Bloody Road of Gold follows Jack Neuman, a determined orphan who finds a home with the Lakota before becoming a U.S. Army scout. Though he marries his childhood sweetheart, his obsession with justice costs him his marriage. Partnering with legends like Calamity Jane and D. Boone May, Jack faces outlaw gangs, hostile Sioux, and deadly stagecoach ambushes. Their daring exploits— eight shootouts, lynchings, and the defense of a $30,000 gold shipment—cement their legacy in the Wild West. Ambrose Bierce later fictionalizes one such tale in A Sole Survivor.Michael Schall Johnson, born in 1943 in Maywood, California, is a multi-talented artist and author with a lifelong passion for painting, sculpting, and storytelling. After moving to Wyoming in 1968, he worked as a telephone repairman and drew inspiration from the region’s rich history for his Western novel The Bloody Road of Gold. A former Art Editor for Newsreel Magazine, Michael also studied at the Colorado Institute of Art and has exhibited in Western museums. He considers himself an ordinary guy who has had some extraordinary adventures. His life took an amazing turn at the age of 49 when he met his wonderful wife, Madeline. Now, the two are happily enjoying their golden years together in Las Vegas, Nevada.AMAZONhttps://wyomingslim.com/https://www.readersmagnet.com/http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/102325msj.mp3    

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