Perhaps today we can focus on a large number of men with guns who died protecting us and our way of life.
Instead of a schmuck with a knife, a car and some guns who was mentally ill.
Is that asking too much?
Monday, May 26, 2014
Friday, May 23, 2014
Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi
He's the guy that's languishing in a Mexican jail right now.
You know the story.
Feel safer now?
You know the story.
So why is he still there?
Homeland Security Sees Veterans As America's Number One Terror Threat.
The Obama administration is containing the threat!Feel safer now?
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Forgiveness
There was this religious leader in the Middle East.
He persecuted Christians.
He chained them, took their possessions and his attention put fear in their hearts.
In the name of his Middle Eastern religion, he and a group of his comrades entered Syria with the express purpose of quashing the Christian faith there.
It seems that a lot of his antipathy to the Christian faith was fueled by his exposure to Christianity as he persecuted it.
He heard testimony of a risen from the dead Savior.
He saw love and self sacrifice in the name of that Jesus.
A refusal to bend or cave to his will, but a devotion to the will of Jesus.
One day he came to the realization that the people he was torturing and killing were right.
And he converted.
And the people who had lost friends and relatives to his attacks ended up accepting him and loving him.
How?
The power of God working in men.
Saul became Paul.
He wrote most of the New Testament.
Edit:
If that a Muslim leader who ordered the death of those Christians accepted the free gift of God's forgiveness and salvation, could you accept him as your brother?
Ifthat a political enemy of yours (a democrat) accepted the free gift of God's forgiveness and salvation, could you accept him as your brother?
Even if he stayed in that other political camp (a democrat)?
He persecuted Christians.
He chained them, took their possessions and his attention put fear in their hearts.
In the name of his Middle Eastern religion, he and a group of his comrades entered Syria with the express purpose of quashing the Christian faith there.
It seems that a lot of his antipathy to the Christian faith was fueled by his exposure to Christianity as he persecuted it.
He heard testimony of a risen from the dead Savior.
He saw love and self sacrifice in the name of that Jesus.
A refusal to bend or cave to his will, but a devotion to the will of Jesus.
One day he came to the realization that the people he was torturing and killing were right.
And he converted.
And the people who had lost friends and relatives to his attacks ended up accepting him and loving him.
How?
The power of God working in men.
Saul became Paul.
He wrote most of the New Testament.
Edit:
If
Even if he stayed in that other political camp (a democrat)?
Friday, May 16, 2014
Facbook exchange
"Don" posts:
This is very scary stuff, folks!
Nick : What, our government trying to take away another freedom? What a surprise...
Friday, May 16 at 12:30pm · Unlike · 1Reply
Ed Bonderenka If you like your internet, you can keep your internet....
Friday, May 16 at 1:10pm · LikeReply
Don : Jeez, Ed. I hadn't seen a snarky, right-wing comment in weeks. I was starting to worry about you!
Friday, May 16 at 1:11pm · LikeReply
Chuck : Oh boy a Bonderneka comment associating something with Obamacare that has nothing to do with Obamacare. Come on Ed, just say it out loud. You think the President is a liar.
Friday, May 16 at 1:58pm · LikeReply
Don : Ed can find a way to associate a hailstorm with Obamacare. He misses pre-existing condition clauses and lifetime maximums.
Friday, May 16 at 2:01pm · Edited · LikeReply
Chuck : Yep. It's raining today, Obamacare!
Friday, May 16 at 2:02pm · LikeReply
Ed Bonderenka You can't associate government intrusion into working systems with failure? Net neutrality?
Laugh away.
Friday, May 16 at 2:38pm · LikeReply
Don : Ed, you can't compare the rape of the American public by the insurance industry with the open atmosphere if the Internet. I suspect you realize what BS that is.
Friday, May 16 at 2:41pm · LikeReply
Ed Bonderenka I know the rape of the American people by socialist zealots. Do you really think the insurers are taking the hit?
Friday, May 16 at 3:03pm · LikeReply
Don : Ed, you hate Obamacare because the current administration put it in place and, in your mind, that alone makes it bad. We get that.. It may be the prevailing topic of your life but it's not the topic of this thread. If you have anything to contribute regarding THIS topic, we'd be happy to hear it.
Friday, May 16 at 3:15pm · LikeReply
Chuck : Be careful Don or the next thing we hear will be... Bengahzi!
Friday, May 16 at 3:16pm · LikeReply
Robert : ....time out!
Friday, May 16 at 3:17pm · LikeReply
Don : Oh crap, Chuck! You went and used the 'B' word!
Friday, May 16 at 3:17pm · LikeReply
Robert : "Beam me up Scotty"
Friday, May 16 at 3:19pm · LikeReply
Don : Aw, c'mon, Bob! I love to get these two crazy kids all riled up!
Friday, May 16 at 3:20pm · LikeReply
Ed Bonderenka : Call me a racist next, Don.
You seem to have a special insight too my motives. So you think.
Friday, May 16 at 4:13pm · LikeReply
Don : I don't pretend to know why you loathe the president so much but I'm not getting into this with you, Ed. We're talking about the FCC and the Internet here. You can find plenty of threads to whine about the administration.
Friday, May 16 at 4:18pm · LikeReply
Ed Bonderenka : Well I was answering about the net, and somewhat in agreement with you.
The government intrusion, as I said earlier, is what screws stuff up for us.
You bought up Obamare....See More
Friday, May 16 at 4:21pm · LikeReply
Don : Yeah, Ed. Any reference to Obamacare in the way you phrased your response was pure coincidence. Whatever.
Friday, May 16 at 4:23pm · LikeReply
I'm looking for a little validation here.
Did I handle this poorly?
Did they go off track?
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Travels and Travails.
Scherie and I just got back from visiting our new Granddaughter in CT.
Surprisingly, I found TSA at both Detroit and Hartford to be helpful and courteous.
Seriously.
While waiting for our flight in a restaurant, I got a call from American that said our flight was delayed.
Then again.
Now I knew we'd never make our connection.
So I called the airline and they made new arrangements for us.
I went to the gate agent to get our new boarding passes,
"Effy" said she could do better than Eva on the phone had done.
She booked us to Charlotte and then upgraded us to First Class from Charlotte to Detroit!
Arriving two hours earlier!
Bingo.
But we would not be seated together to Charlotte.
Two middle seats across the aisle from each other.
We got on the plane and worked our way to the back.
When we saw the seats I asked Scherie which side she wanted to sit on.
She said her seat was E so that's what she'd take.
She sat between a pleasant lady and a gentleman.
I waited while a guy about my age stood up to let me in.
The window seat wasn't occupied yet.
I sat down, and then he approached.
The young thin guy trying to look like Kid Rock (and not getting it) pointed to the seat and announced that it was his!
We stood up again to let him in.
As he sat down, he remarked that he had to sit with a couple of old guys.
The guy to my right said something to the effect of "Watch your mouth." in what might have been a joking rejoinder.
Window seat offered to kick his ass.
Aisle guy said "try it."
I sat there studiously quiet, unbuckling my seat belt surreptitiously, poising my elbow for window boys' trachea.
It settled down, and I reached to the floor to get my coffee cup from between my feet.
Window boy remarks, "You drinking coffee this late?".
I said Yup, and he said "That's cool, nothing wrong with that."
I said I was glad of that.
He takes a phone call and sweetly and gently tells the person on the other end, "I'm on my way. I miss you. I love you. Bye.", hangs up, and starts hitting on the two young girls in window and middle seat ahead of us.
"Where you from? I'm from Arkansas". A little more I couldn't hear and he pats window girl on the head as he sits back and says "Blondie."
Then the ear buds go in and I can hear his music rattling in his head.
Then the foot tapping.
Then the singing.
"Ooooh baby... I'm gonna F you, F you all night long... slow and ....."
Loud.
Aisle guy ahead of me turns and tells him to stop singing.
Window Boy tells him to shut up.
I turn and tell him I've had enough.
He starts to say something, and the young steward steps up and asks if there's a problem.
Window Boy says, no, there's no problem.
I turn to the steward and firmly insist, okay I was loud, "There certainly is a problem.
Window Boy has been threatening fellow passengers, lewd and lascivious behavior, and he's broken Federal Aviation Regulations".
I demand he be removed from the plane before he has a medical condition, he's certainly on drugs.
But I was thinking of a different medical condition he would be having.
Other passengers agree, Window Boy (hereafter "Meth Head") says it's cool, he'll be good, steward says not good enough and walks away.
Meth Head starts tapping his foot, questioning the steward's sexual orientation, and complaining that he's gonna miss his flight if the plane doesn't get going.
Oh.
I forgot to mention that the plane stopped moving.
After a while, the plane starts moving.
Backward.
Meth Head says "About time, I gotta a connection to make."
I think he is the only person on the plane that doesn't see it coming.
Plane stops. Daylight as the front door is opened.
Guy to my right, ex-cop it turns out, and myself are asked to get up.
Then Meth Head is asked to get up.
I'm still thinking "adam's apple or nose?" as he passes into the aisle next to me.
And then he's gone.
And soon, so are we.
It was a very congenial flight after that.
Quite a lot of surprise at what had played out.
Scherie took his window seat, and my fellow passengers said "Well played".
They hinted that I had provoked him to get his seat for my wife.
Well, it had occurred to me.
Surprisingly, I found TSA at both Detroit and Hartford to be helpful and courteous.
Seriously.
While waiting for our flight in a restaurant, I got a call from American that said our flight was delayed.
Then again.
Now I knew we'd never make our connection.
So I called the airline and they made new arrangements for us.
I went to the gate agent to get our new boarding passes,
"Effy" said she could do better than Eva on the phone had done.
She booked us to Charlotte and then upgraded us to First Class from Charlotte to Detroit!
Arriving two hours earlier!
Bingo.
But we would not be seated together to Charlotte.
Two middle seats across the aisle from each other.
We got on the plane and worked our way to the back.
When we saw the seats I asked Scherie which side she wanted to sit on.
She said her seat was E so that's what she'd take.
She sat between a pleasant lady and a gentleman.
I waited while a guy about my age stood up to let me in.
The window seat wasn't occupied yet.
I sat down, and then he approached.
The young thin guy trying to look like Kid Rock (and not getting it) pointed to the seat and announced that it was his!
We stood up again to let him in.
As he sat down, he remarked that he had to sit with a couple of old guys.
The guy to my right said something to the effect of "Watch your mouth." in what might have been a joking rejoinder.
Window seat offered to kick his ass.
Aisle guy said "try it."
I sat there studiously quiet, unbuckling my seat belt surreptitiously, poising my elbow for window boys' trachea.
It settled down, and I reached to the floor to get my coffee cup from between my feet.
Window boy remarks, "You drinking coffee this late?".
I said Yup, and he said "That's cool, nothing wrong with that."
I said I was glad of that.
He takes a phone call and sweetly and gently tells the person on the other end, "I'm on my way. I miss you. I love you. Bye.", hangs up, and starts hitting on the two young girls in window and middle seat ahead of us.
"Where you from? I'm from Arkansas". A little more I couldn't hear and he pats window girl on the head as he sits back and says "Blondie."
Then the ear buds go in and I can hear his music rattling in his head.
Then the foot tapping.
Then the singing.
"Ooooh baby... I'm gonna F you, F you all night long... slow and ....."
Loud.
Aisle guy ahead of me turns and tells him to stop singing.
Window Boy tells him to shut up.
I turn and tell him I've had enough.
He starts to say something, and the young steward steps up and asks if there's a problem.
Window Boy says, no, there's no problem.
I turn to the steward and firmly insist, okay I was loud, "There certainly is a problem.
Window Boy has been threatening fellow passengers, lewd and lascivious behavior, and he's broken Federal Aviation Regulations".
I demand he be removed from the plane before he has a medical condition, he's certainly on drugs.
But I was thinking of a different medical condition he would be having.
Other passengers agree, Window Boy (hereafter "Meth Head") says it's cool, he'll be good, steward says not good enough and walks away.
Meth Head starts tapping his foot, questioning the steward's sexual orientation, and complaining that he's gonna miss his flight if the plane doesn't get going.
Oh.
I forgot to mention that the plane stopped moving.
After a while, the plane starts moving.
Backward.
Meth Head says "About time, I gotta a connection to make."
I think he is the only person on the plane that doesn't see it coming.
Plane stops. Daylight as the front door is opened.
Guy to my right, ex-cop it turns out, and myself are asked to get up.
Then Meth Head is asked to get up.
I'm still thinking "adam's apple or nose?" as he passes into the aisle next to me.
And then he's gone.
And soon, so are we.
It was a very congenial flight after that.
Quite a lot of surprise at what had played out.
Scherie took his window seat, and my fellow passengers said "Well played".
They hinted that I had provoked him to get his seat for my wife.
Well, it had occurred to me.
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