Friday, August 8, 2014

So who is correct? All are! It is a fallacy to think one bunch is right and another side is wrong. All are exactly the same goal-wise, to satisfy their personal desires. Humanity is no different than any other creature on this rock and probably in our universe. We are advancing towards the inevitable self destruction of everything unless we become simple minded pacifists who respect the dirt we walk on and the air we breath or keep inventing the last invention that does us all in. Do we have the intelligence to recognize this? Surely not at the present time, but maybe after the next world disaster or a visit by someone from the next ‘hood. Hopefully the latter. When? is the question

Well, everyone liked him, so they came up with a code word. Someone who had committed adultery would say they had “fallen”.
This seemed to satisfy the old priest and things went well, until the priest died at a ripe old age. About a week after the new priest arrived, he visited the Mayor of the town and seemed very concerned. The priest said, “You have to do something about the sidewalks in town. When people come into the confessional, they keep talking about having fallen.”
The Mayor started to laugh, realizing that no-one had told the new priest about the code word. Before the mayor could explain, the priest shook an accusing finger at the mayor and said, “I don’t know what you’re laughing about. Your wife fell three times this week.”

I was stopped at a red light at a busy  intersection, just lost in thought about the Lord and how good he is, and I didn’t notice that the light had changed. It is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because if he hadn’t honked, I’d never have noticed. I found that lots of people love Jesus!
While I was sitting there, the guy behind started honking like crazy, and then he leaned out of his window and screamed, ‘For the love of God! Go! Go! Go! Jesus Christ, GO!’
What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus! Everyone started honking! I just leaned out my window and started waving and smiling at all those loving  people. I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love. There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him yelling something about a sunny beach. I saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the air. I asked my young teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant. He said it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something. Well, I have never met anyone from Hawaii, so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign right back. My grandson burst out laughing. Why even he was enjoying this religious experience!

A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they got out of their cars and started walking towards me.  I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is when I noticed the light had changed. So, grinning, I waved at all my brothers and sisters, and drove on through the intersection. I noticed that I was the only car that got through the intersection before the light changed again and felt kind of sad that I had to leave them after all the love we had shared. So I slowed the car down, leaned out the window and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one last time as I drove away. Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks.

Will write again soon,
Love, Grandma

Word to the dog butt posters, please stop making similarities between a dog’s butt and Jesus Christ by using a Photoshopped photo and passing it off as a dog’s rear end. Trust in the fact that not all Christians are meek and mild. Sometimes even they can get all upset and make life altering mistakes that cause all sorts of problems. At least they can ask for and find forgiveness. I can only guess that posters of such filth directed toward somebody’s God believe that there will be no repercussions, but I personally believe along with many Christians that those who posted such stuff will be twisting in the fires of hell for an eternity

[Godzilla (1954)] When scientist saw giant footprints on the beach they knew they were in trouble.

What could be better after working all day, than unwinding with a cold beer, hot doobie and watching the original Godzilla!

What’s unique about the Redneck Fishing Tournament is no poles are allowed. Participants catch the fish, which can top 20 pounds, with nets as they jump from the river when spooked by the noise of the motors.

Asian carp have taken over stretches of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. Their jumping makes water recreation dangerous and they destroy native species’ habitat. This year, the tournament added cooking demonstrations as part of a growing effort to establish a market for the fish that are disgusting looking but tasty if properly prepared. The tournament began out of DeFord’s frustration with her grandchildren being pelted by carp while trying to enjoy the river. The tournament now draws thousands annually to the tiny Mason County community. It attracts participants and media attention from around the world.

“Unfortunately, the carp will be back,” said DeFord. “But so will we.”The 10th Annual Redneck Fishing Tournament is tentatively set for Aug. 7, 8, 2015

The recent spurt of hiring has encouraged more people to start looking for work, causing the unemployment rate to inch up to 6.2 percent from 6.1 percent. The government only counts people searching for jobs as unemployed.

This is good news America. Bad news for the Chicken little set.

Legally owning or carrying a gun is a grave responsibility that gun owners recognize and accept.

If a legal gun owner has cause to use/show his/her gun in self-defense, he/she is having a very bad day, and it will only get worse. Should the gun owner deem it necessary to shoot an assailant, the ramifications are grave, life changing.

While using the gun in self defense might well save the life of the gun owner or loved ones, the outcome will be horrific for the gun owner, especially if the assailant is killed. That death will set in motion a river of events that the shooter will have no control over. The gun will be seized and defaced with evidence identification markings. It is possible that if the investigators interpret the circumstances as being suspicious, the shooter might be arrested. In any event, he/she will certainly need to hire an attorney. Even if the shooter is not arrested, he/she will be subjected to interrogation by the police, and likely will be sued by the family of the dead assailant. It is probable that the case will be presented to a Grand Jury. It is probable that if it goes to a grand jury, the shooter will be invited to testify. The shooter should rely on the advice of his/her expensive attorney in making the decision as to whether or not to testify. The fate and the future of the shooter will be in the hands of others. If a grand jury or a prosecutor decides that there is probable cause to believe the shooter committed a criminal act, he/she will be charged with that crime and will stand trial or plead out. If the shooter is convicted, jail /prison time is a real possibility. If the shooter, after conviction, is lucky enough to escape incarceration, it is highly probable that the shooter will be forced to serve restrictive probation. In any event the shooter will run up mountains of legal bills. The shooters life will be changed forever.

Whatever you might think of the shooting by George Zimmerman of Trevor Martin, Martin’s death threw Zimmerman’s life into chaos.

No sane person who legally carries or owns a gun has any desire to use that gun in self-defense, the consequences are just too grave. Use of a firearm in self-defense is only the best of a very terrible set of options.

Gun owners are serious, responsible people. In a Kansas study, it was determined that of the thousands of carry permit holders in Kansas, only nine tenths of one percent have been charged with a crime. Link

Since 1987, the state of Florida has issued 2.5 million concealed-carry permits, of those, only 168 people have committed firearms crimes. That’s .00672 percent of the total amount issued.

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A POSTER WROTE: “I posted yesterday with a graphic showing the percentage of people leaving the workforce due to aging. The darn angels didn’t attach it. I guess it’s Sloan’s fault. Our beloved FTR accused me of making stuff up. Would you please post the attached. I will admit the source is the Wall Street Journal, a known communist organization. Thanks.”

FTR’S RESPONSE: Thanks to the poster for his/her continuing interest. I trust that he/she examined the data from the Social Security Admin that I provided which refutes the White House claim. I note that the graph mentioned was presented by the White House which has a vested interest in blaming the decline in work force participation on anyone or anything other than itself.

Why does the size of the labor force matter? If people are leaving the labor force for economic reasons (and they’re not going back to school), it would mean that the economy is in much worse shape than the official unemployment rate suggests. The jobless rate is officially 6.2 percent, but that only counts people who are actively seeking work — not labor-force dropouts.

The size of the labor force also goes a long way to determining America’s growth prospects. If, say, baby boomers are retiring faster than expected, then long-run U.S. economic growth will be lower than projected.

Even worse, if discouraged workers are dropping out of the labor force entirely (or retiring for economic reasons), they may never make their way back into jobs. Companies won’t even bother to look at their applications. They essentially become unemployable. That spells big trouble for all of us.

Just for the record, contrary to posters complaint, I did not suggest that he/she had made up the stats he/she posted on Wednesday. In fact I wrote: “Personally I’m convinced that the critic is absolutely convinced that he/she is correct, he/she is not lying, he/she is simply uninformed. It’s a shame that he/she doesn’t seem to even try to be informed.” Please recall that the critic called me a liar on Wednesday. You’ve got to ask yourself if it’s worth it to be amicable to liberals.

Remember those promised severe penalties if you refused to buy into Obamacare, they were there to guarantee that there would be enough insured persons and revenues to keep the program alive and affordable. Now we learn that 90% of Americans will avoid the penalty, there is a long laundry list of exemptions. The situation now is that the program is a defacto voluntary program. You and I will pay and pay and pay.

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Dems raised notion of impeachment 86 times as often as have Republicans. They have raised tens of millions of dollars by railing about the issue. They have snookered their base yet again.