Price of gas in 1980 $1.20 a gallon
Average price of gas today $1.77
What it could be (1980 price inflation adjusted) $2.30
This is the reason that higher gas prices aren't hurting the economy as much as the demoncrats are whining about.
Saturday, April 03, 2004
Butchy Cataldo?
Larry Elder
April 1, 200
The people who know Kerry best consider Kerry aloof, imperious and condescending. Even worse, Kerry can't seem to retain their names. At a 1996 Massachusetts political affair, a Democratic Massachusetts State legislator said to his friends, "Watch this."
He walked up to Kerry and said, "Hi, Senator -- Representative Butchy Cataldo." At this, Kerry smiled, slapped his back and exclaimed, "Butchy, so good to see you again!" One problem -- the guy, the state rep -- was not Butchy Cataldo. In fact, Butchy Cataldo ran and lost to this Kerry-greeting legislator whose name is Bill Reinstein, a man bearing no resemblance to the tall, dark-haired Cataldo.
April 1, 200
The people who know Kerry best consider Kerry aloof, imperious and condescending. Even worse, Kerry can't seem to retain their names. At a 1996 Massachusetts political affair, a Democratic Massachusetts State legislator said to his friends, "Watch this."
He walked up to Kerry and said, "Hi, Senator -- Representative Butchy Cataldo." At this, Kerry smiled, slapped his back and exclaimed, "Butchy, so good to see you again!" One problem -- the guy, the state rep -- was not Butchy Cataldo. In fact, Butchy Cataldo ran and lost to this Kerry-greeting legislator whose name is Bill Reinstein, a man bearing no resemblance to the tall, dark-haired Cataldo.
Oh you poor waaa-iners
Jeff Jacoby (archive)
April 2, 2004
In a nationwide survey conducted for ABC and the BBC by Britain's Oxford Research International, 56 percent of Iraqis say their lives are better now than before the war; only 19 percent say things are worse. Asked how things are going for them personally, seven out of 10 Iraqis say that life is good. Because of "Bush's war," Iraqis today brim with optimism. Fully 71 percent expect their lives to be even better a year from now; less than 7 percent say they'll be worse. Iraq today may just be the most upbeat, forward-looking country in the Arab world.
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Hey that's up from 53% in the last pole I blogged on the subject..
April 2, 2004
In a nationwide survey conducted for ABC and the BBC by Britain's Oxford Research International, 56 percent of Iraqis say their lives are better now than before the war; only 19 percent say things are worse. Asked how things are going for them personally, seven out of 10 Iraqis say that life is good. Because of "Bush's war," Iraqis today brim with optimism. Fully 71 percent expect their lives to be even better a year from now; less than 7 percent say they'll be worse. Iraq today may just be the most upbeat, forward-looking country in the Arab world.
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Hey that's up from 53% in the last pole I blogged on the subject..
Fuel effecient cars
I'm slightly miffed that there are no American made cars in this lot
Top 10 fuel-efficient vehicles
Rank
1
Model Honda Insight (manual)
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 51
City mpg 36
Highway mpg 66
2
Model Toyota Prius
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 44
City mpg 35
Highway mpg 50
3
Model Volkswagen Golf GLS TDI (manual)
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 41
City mpg 29
Highway mpg 54
4
Model Toyota Echo (manual)
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 38
City mpg 29
Highway mpg 46
5
Model Honda Civic Hybrid
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 36
City mpg 26
Highway mpg 45
6
Model Volkswagen Jetta GLS TDI (manual)
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 32
City mpg 22
Highway mpg 46
7
Model Toyota MR2
Car type Sporty car
Overall mpg 31
City mpg 25
Highway mpg 36
8
Model Mini Cooper
Car type Sporty car
Overall mpg 30
City mpg 23
Highway mpg 38
9
Model Honda Civic EX
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 29
City mpg 20
Highway mpg 41
10
Model Toyota Corolla LE
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 29
City mpg 20
Highway mpg 39
And the winner is? The Honda insight manual shift with the incredible 51 mpg overall and the totally awsome 66 highway.
Top 10 fuel-efficient vehicles
Rank
1
Model Honda Insight (manual)
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 51
City mpg 36
Highway mpg 66
2
Model Toyota Prius
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 44
City mpg 35
Highway mpg 50
3
Model Volkswagen Golf GLS TDI (manual)
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 41
City mpg 29
Highway mpg 54
4
Model Toyota Echo (manual)
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 38
City mpg 29
Highway mpg 46
5
Model Honda Civic Hybrid
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 36
City mpg 26
Highway mpg 45
6
Model Volkswagen Jetta GLS TDI (manual)
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 32
City mpg 22
Highway mpg 46
7
Model Toyota MR2
Car type Sporty car
Overall mpg 31
City mpg 25
Highway mpg 36
8
Model Mini Cooper
Car type Sporty car
Overall mpg 30
City mpg 23
Highway mpg 38
9
Model Honda Civic EX
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 29
City mpg 20
Highway mpg 41
10
Model Toyota Corolla LE
Car type Small car
Overall mpg 29
City mpg 20
Highway mpg 39
And the winner is? The Honda insight manual shift with the incredible 51 mpg overall and the totally awsome 66 highway.
Friday, April 02, 2004
Evolution?
Yup! You guessed it Libertybob.
I have one thing to say about evolution.
PROVE IT!
Until then Georgia will be just fine and better thankyou.
By the way do you know who controls the economy? Mabey businessmen you think? How about the government? Nope. It's the consumer. Did you know that 86% of those consumers were christians? Wow, that is 240 million out of 285 million people. You all better start catering to us or find another country.
Georgia will be just fine but mabey your state will not Libertybob.
I have one thing to say about evolution.
PROVE IT!
Until then Georgia will be just fine and better thankyou.
By the way do you know who controls the economy? Mabey businessmen you think? How about the government? Nope. It's the consumer. Did you know that 86% of those consumers were christians? Wow, that is 240 million out of 285 million people. You all better start catering to us or find another country.
Georgia will be just fine but mabey your state will not Libertybob.
Their will be no muslim religion by the year 2070
This is the Muslims lot today,
Da 8:5And as I was considering, behold, a he-goat came from the west over the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
Da 8:6And he came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran upon him in the fury of his power.
Da 8:7And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns; and there was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled upon him; and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
For the unitiated in the bible or too lazy to go and look the Ram is the Medo-Persian kingdom with two kings. The He-goat is the grecian king with one king. These events described are near end of times events.
Believe it or not, but watch and see if Democracy doesn't grow and become even more predominant upon the face of the earth. Also watch as the Muslims retreat as a religion.
Let's see if I'm right in-MY-interpretation of these verses.
Da 8:5And as I was considering, behold, a he-goat came from the west over the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
Da 8:6And he came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran upon him in the fury of his power.
Da 8:7And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns; and there was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled upon him; and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
For the unitiated in the bible or too lazy to go and look the Ram is the Medo-Persian kingdom with two kings. The He-goat is the grecian king with one king. These events described are near end of times events.
Believe it or not, but watch and see if Democracy doesn't grow and become even more predominant upon the face of the earth. Also watch as the Muslims retreat as a religion.
Let's see if I'm right in-MY-interpretation of these verses.
ODE TO HOBBS
Don't listen to my words
And you won't hear your DOOM
Don't read my words
And you won't see your DOOM
And you won't hear your DOOM
Don't read my words
And you won't see your DOOM
Jokes
THE TECHNOLOGICALLY CHALLENGED
Just in case you think YOU are TC (technologically challenged), there's still hope:
1. Compaq is considering changing the command "Press Any Key" to "Press Return Key" because of the flood of calls asking where the "Any" key is.
2. AST technical support had a caller complaining that her mouse was hard to control with the dust cover on. The cover turned out to be the plastic bag the mouse was packaged in.
3. Another Compaq technician received a call from a man complaining that the system wouldn't read word processing files from his old (5-1/4") diskettes. After troubleshooting for magnets and heat failed to diagnose the problem, it was found that the customer had labelled the diskettes, then rolled them into the typewriter to type the labels.
4. Another AST customer was asked to send a copy of her defective diskettes. A few days later a letter arrived from the customer along with photocopies of the floppies.
5. A Dell technician advised his customer to put his troubled floppy back in the drive and close the door. The customer asked the tech to hold on, and was heard putting the phone down, getting up and going across the room to close the door.
6. Another Dell customer called to say he couldn't get his computer to fax anything. After 40 minutes of troubleshooting, the technician discovered the man was trying to fax a piece of paper by holding it in front of the monitor screen and hitting the "send" key.
7. Yet another Dell customer called to complain that his keyboard no longer worked. He had cleaned it by filling up his tub with soap and water and soaking the keyboard for a day, then removing all the keys and washing them individually.
8. A Dell technician received a call from a customer who was enraged because his computer had told him he was "bad and an invalid". The tech explained that the computer's "bad command" and "invalid" responses shouldn't be taken personally.
9. A confused caller to IBM was having troubles printing documents. He told the technician that the computer had said it "couldn't find printer." The user had even tried turning the computer screen to face the printer - but his computer still couldn't "see" the printer.
10.An exasperated caller to Dell Computer Tech Support couldn't get her new Dell Computer to turn on. After ensuring the computer was plugged in, the technician asked her what happened when she pushed the power button. Her response, "I pushed and pushed on this foot pedal and nothing happened." The "foot pedal" turned out to be the mouse!
11.Another customer called Compaq tech support to say her brand-new computer wouldn't work. She said she unpacked the unit, plugged it in and sat there for 20 minutes waiting for something to happen. When asked what happened when she pressed the power switch, she asked "What power switch?"
12.True story from a Novell NetWire SysOp:
Caller: "Hello, is this Tech Support?"
Tech: "Yes, it is. How may I help you?"
Caller: "The cup holder on my PC is broken and I am within my warranty period. How do I go about getting that fixed?"
Tech: "I'm sorry, but did you say a cup holder?"
Caller: "Yes, it's attached to the front of my computer."
Tech: "Please excuse me if I seem a bit stumped, it's because I am. Did you receive this as part of a promotion, at a trade show? How did you get this cup holder? Does it have any trademark on it?"
Caller: "It came with my computer, I don't know anything about a promotion. It just has '4X' on it."
At this point the Tech Rep had to mute the caller, because he couldn't stand it. He was laughing too hard. The caller had been using the load drawer of the CD-ROM drive as a cup holder, and snapped it off the drive.
13.Another IBM customer had troubles installing software and rang for support. "I put in the first disk, and that was OK. It said to put in the second disk, and I had some problems with the disk, but I squeezed it in. When it said to put in the third disk - I couldn't even fit it in..."
The user hadn't realised that "Insert Disk 2" meant to remove Disk 1 first
From keepahead.com
Just in case you think YOU are TC (technologically challenged), there's still hope:
1. Compaq is considering changing the command "Press Any Key" to "Press Return Key" because of the flood of calls asking where the "Any" key is.
2. AST technical support had a caller complaining that her mouse was hard to control with the dust cover on. The cover turned out to be the plastic bag the mouse was packaged in.
3. Another Compaq technician received a call from a man complaining that the system wouldn't read word processing files from his old (5-1/4") diskettes. After troubleshooting for magnets and heat failed to diagnose the problem, it was found that the customer had labelled the diskettes, then rolled them into the typewriter to type the labels.
4. Another AST customer was asked to send a copy of her defective diskettes. A few days later a letter arrived from the customer along with photocopies of the floppies.
5. A Dell technician advised his customer to put his troubled floppy back in the drive and close the door. The customer asked the tech to hold on, and was heard putting the phone down, getting up and going across the room to close the door.
6. Another Dell customer called to say he couldn't get his computer to fax anything. After 40 minutes of troubleshooting, the technician discovered the man was trying to fax a piece of paper by holding it in front of the monitor screen and hitting the "send" key.
7. Yet another Dell customer called to complain that his keyboard no longer worked. He had cleaned it by filling up his tub with soap and water and soaking the keyboard for a day, then removing all the keys and washing them individually.
8. A Dell technician received a call from a customer who was enraged because his computer had told him he was "bad and an invalid". The tech explained that the computer's "bad command" and "invalid" responses shouldn't be taken personally.
9. A confused caller to IBM was having troubles printing documents. He told the technician that the computer had said it "couldn't find printer." The user had even tried turning the computer screen to face the printer - but his computer still couldn't "see" the printer.
10.An exasperated caller to Dell Computer Tech Support couldn't get her new Dell Computer to turn on. After ensuring the computer was plugged in, the technician asked her what happened when she pushed the power button. Her response, "I pushed and pushed on this foot pedal and nothing happened." The "foot pedal" turned out to be the mouse!
11.Another customer called Compaq tech support to say her brand-new computer wouldn't work. She said she unpacked the unit, plugged it in and sat there for 20 minutes waiting for something to happen. When asked what happened when she pressed the power switch, she asked "What power switch?"
12.True story from a Novell NetWire SysOp:
Caller: "Hello, is this Tech Support?"
Tech: "Yes, it is. How may I help you?"
Caller: "The cup holder on my PC is broken and I am within my warranty period. How do I go about getting that fixed?"
Tech: "I'm sorry, but did you say a cup holder?"
Caller: "Yes, it's attached to the front of my computer."
Tech: "Please excuse me if I seem a bit stumped, it's because I am. Did you receive this as part of a promotion, at a trade show? How did you get this cup holder? Does it have any trademark on it?"
Caller: "It came with my computer, I don't know anything about a promotion. It just has '4X' on it."
At this point the Tech Rep had to mute the caller, because he couldn't stand it. He was laughing too hard. The caller had been using the load drawer of the CD-ROM drive as a cup holder, and snapped it off the drive.
13.Another IBM customer had troubles installing software and rang for support. "I put in the first disk, and that was OK. It said to put in the second disk, and I had some problems with the disk, but I squeezed it in. When it said to put in the third disk - I couldn't even fit it in..."
The user hadn't realised that "Insert Disk 2" meant to remove Disk 1 first
From keepahead.com
EEEVIL Muslims
This is what I mean by truth.
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
For more information, see the video, "Sudan: The Hidden Holocaust
Women who answer "Muslim" are set free, but typically soldiers gang-rape those who answer "Christian" then cut off their breasts and leave them to die as an example for others
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
For more information, see the video, "Sudan: The Hidden Holocaust
Women who answer "Muslim" are set free, but typically soldiers gang-rape those who answer "Christian" then cut off their breasts and leave them to die as an example for others
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
TRUTH
I like the truth.
I like cutting people with the truth.
I like the fear in peoples eyes when they realize what fools they have been because they truth
I like it when a bully has had the truth rammed down their throat and they look like they have pancreatites
I like it when the truth takes a liars wealth away
I like humiliating people with the truth.
I like breaking people with the truth.
I like ripping a persons hopes away with the truth
I like watching fools fall in the ditch and hurt themselves because they ignored the truth
I laugh as I watch a liar stammer and stutter trying to save themselves with more lies when they are caught by the truth.
I like watching the truth shred a liars clothing
I like using the truth as a battering ram
I like using the truth to tear down the walls of a liars imaginary castles
I like embarrassing people with the truth
I like shocking people with the truth.
I like destroying people with the truth
I like annihilating kingdoms and false ideas with the truth
I like the look of fear in people when they see the truth
I like seeing the truth rattle around in liars heads like a steel beebee rattles around in a whistle when you blow on it
I use the truth like a crazed householder uses a baseball bat on a common thief he catches in his house
I like beating that common thief permanently senseless with the truth
And then I stomp on their graves with the truth
I like telling people the truth and watching their unbelief and the stupid gyrations they go through trying to prove otherwise
I like watching fools slap into brick walls and laugh as they complain about the truth
And I rejoice in their demise
And I rejoice in their demise
And I rejoice in their demise
Get the message
Tangle with me, please. I am eager to watch you suffer as you learn the truth. I want to torment you people with the truth.
I like cutting people with the truth.
I like the fear in peoples eyes when they realize what fools they have been because they truth
I like it when a bully has had the truth rammed down their throat and they look like they have pancreatites
I like it when the truth takes a liars wealth away
I like humiliating people with the truth.
I like breaking people with the truth.
I like ripping a persons hopes away with the truth
I like watching fools fall in the ditch and hurt themselves because they ignored the truth
I laugh as I watch a liar stammer and stutter trying to save themselves with more lies when they are caught by the truth.
I like watching the truth shred a liars clothing
I like using the truth as a battering ram
I like using the truth to tear down the walls of a liars imaginary castles
I like embarrassing people with the truth
I like shocking people with the truth.
I like destroying people with the truth
I like annihilating kingdoms and false ideas with the truth
I like the look of fear in people when they see the truth
I like seeing the truth rattle around in liars heads like a steel beebee rattles around in a whistle when you blow on it
I use the truth like a crazed householder uses a baseball bat on a common thief he catches in his house
I like beating that common thief permanently senseless with the truth
And then I stomp on their graves with the truth
I like telling people the truth and watching their unbelief and the stupid gyrations they go through trying to prove otherwise
I like watching fools slap into brick walls and laugh as they complain about the truth
And I rejoice in their demise
And I rejoice in their demise
And I rejoice in their demise
Get the message
Tangle with me, please. I am eager to watch you suffer as you learn the truth. I want to torment you people with the truth.
Muslims are Barbarians
The Quran requires violence. Sura 9:5 says,
Fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every strategem of war.
Sura 5:33 records what is done to infidels who resist Islam:
Their punishment is...execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from the opposite sides, or exile from the land.
Fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every strategem of war.
Sura 5:33 records what is done to infidels who resist Islam:
Their punishment is...execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from the opposite sides, or exile from the land.
Extreme article
I have installed a trackback to this article because I want anyone who comes to this blog to realize that Muslims are not civilized.
Monday, March 29, 2004
Now for a little science
From Keep Ahead.com
* FIVE PLANETS VISIBLE ACROSS EVENING SKY
Five planets were arrayed across the evening sky in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Tuesday in a spectacular night show that won't be back for another three decades.
For the next two weeks, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn - the five closest planets - should be easily visible at dusk, along with the moon.
Myles Standish, an astronomer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, says, "It's semi-unique. They're all on the same side of the sun and stretched across the sky and that's what is kind of pretty."
Standish missed Monday evening's opportunity, but said on Tuesday that he will gaze up when he walks his dog this week and next.
He expects mountains and bright city lights to hamper his view, however.
The planetary lineup will be visible to the naked eye every night for an hour after sunset through early April.
At the end of the year, the same five planets will reunite for a few weeks, but in the pre-dawn hours.
Standish said this particular planetary grouping may offer the best night-time views until 2036.
* MARS ROVER SITS ON ANCIENT BEACH
The US space agency has announced that its robotic Mars rover Opportunity is parked on what was once the shore of a salty Martian sea.
There is multiple evidence that the surface of Mars was awash with liquid water at some time in its past. But the latest findings from NASA's robot explorers on the Red Planet are fleshing out a picture of what Mars must have been like when it was wet.
Opportunity has been studying the rocks in a small crater since January.
Earlier in March, scientists announced that rocks at Opportunity's landing site at Meridiani Planum once had water seep slowly through them.
Professor Steve Squyres says, "What's happened since then is we have found what I believe to be strong evidence that the rocks themselves were sediments that were laid down in liquid water."
The earlier finding suggested a large quantity of liquid water had existed at Meridiani Planum.
The latest announcement confirms that there was either a sea, or a series of pools on the surface.
Squyres says, "It's a fundamental distinction. It's like the difference between water you can draw from a well and water you can swim in."
However, Squyres says it was possible that the rocks were laid down by water under a sheet of ice.
* NASA CONSIDERS IMPACT ALERT PLAN
The US space agency NASA is clarifying the procedure for telling the President if the Earth is in danger of being hit by a newly discovered asteroid.
It follows the discovery on 13 January of a possibly dangerous object - 2004 AS1 - which for just a few hours had some observers worried it would hit us.
At the time some scientists were unsure at what stage to raise the alarm and who to call, but now the plan is clear.
If necessary, the President would start a Federal Emergency Response Plan.
Although the near-Earth object (NEO) 2004 AS1 was not the type of thing to have wiped out the dinosaurs or threaten our species, it could still have caused considerable damage had it exploded in the atmosphere.
Potentially, the loss of life could have been huge.
The first four observations of the object revealed it could be on a collision course with the Earth, but the uncertainties were large.
There were many possible orbits the object could be on, and the vast majority of them did not threaten the Earth.
* FIVE PLANETS VISIBLE ACROSS EVENING SKY
Five planets were arrayed across the evening sky in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Tuesday in a spectacular night show that won't be back for another three decades.
For the next two weeks, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn - the five closest planets - should be easily visible at dusk, along with the moon.
Myles Standish, an astronomer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, says, "It's semi-unique. They're all on the same side of the sun and stretched across the sky and that's what is kind of pretty."
Standish missed Monday evening's opportunity, but said on Tuesday that he will gaze up when he walks his dog this week and next.
He expects mountains and bright city lights to hamper his view, however.
The planetary lineup will be visible to the naked eye every night for an hour after sunset through early April.
At the end of the year, the same five planets will reunite for a few weeks, but in the pre-dawn hours.
Standish said this particular planetary grouping may offer the best night-time views until 2036.
* MARS ROVER SITS ON ANCIENT BEACH
The US space agency has announced that its robotic Mars rover Opportunity is parked on what was once the shore of a salty Martian sea.
There is multiple evidence that the surface of Mars was awash with liquid water at some time in its past. But the latest findings from NASA's robot explorers on the Red Planet are fleshing out a picture of what Mars must have been like when it was wet.
Opportunity has been studying the rocks in a small crater since January.
Earlier in March, scientists announced that rocks at Opportunity's landing site at Meridiani Planum once had water seep slowly through them.
Professor Steve Squyres says, "What's happened since then is we have found what I believe to be strong evidence that the rocks themselves were sediments that were laid down in liquid water."
The earlier finding suggested a large quantity of liquid water had existed at Meridiani Planum.
The latest announcement confirms that there was either a sea, or a series of pools on the surface.
Squyres says, "It's a fundamental distinction. It's like the difference between water you can draw from a well and water you can swim in."
However, Squyres says it was possible that the rocks were laid down by water under a sheet of ice.
* NASA CONSIDERS IMPACT ALERT PLAN
The US space agency NASA is clarifying the procedure for telling the President if the Earth is in danger of being hit by a newly discovered asteroid.
It follows the discovery on 13 January of a possibly dangerous object - 2004 AS1 - which for just a few hours had some observers worried it would hit us.
At the time some scientists were unsure at what stage to raise the alarm and who to call, but now the plan is clear.
If necessary, the President would start a Federal Emergency Response Plan.
Although the near-Earth object (NEO) 2004 AS1 was not the type of thing to have wiped out the dinosaurs or threaten our species, it could still have caused considerable damage had it exploded in the atmosphere.
Potentially, the loss of life could have been huge.
The first four observations of the object revealed it could be on a collision course with the Earth, but the uncertainties were large.
There were many possible orbits the object could be on, and the vast majority of them did not threaten the Earth.
This is from My cousin in law Craig
F A M I L Y
I ran into a stranger as he passed by,
"Oh excuse me please" was my reply.
He said, "Please excuse me too;
I wasn't watching for you."
We were very polite, this stranger and I.
We went on our way and we said good-bye.
But at home a different story is told,
How we treat our loved ones, young and old.
Later that day, cooking the evening meal,
My daughter stood beside me very still.
When I turned, I nearly knocked her down.
"Move out of the way," I said with a frown.
She walked away, her little heart broken.
I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.
While I lay awake in bed,
God's still small voice came to me and said,
"While dealing with a stranger,
common courtesy you use,
but the family you love, you seem to abuse.
Go and look on the kitchen floor,
You'll find some flowers there by the door.
Those are the flowers she brought for you.
She picked them herself: pink, yellow and blue.
She stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise,
you never saw the tears that filled her little eyes."
By this time, I felt very small,
And now my tears began to fall.
I quietly went and knelt by her bed;
"Wake up, little one, wake up," I said.
"Are these the flowers you picked for me?"
She smiled, "I found 'em, out by the tree.
I picked 'em because they're pretty like you.
I knew you'd like 'em, especially the blue."
I said, "I'm very sorry for the way I acted today;
I shouldn't have yelled at you that way."
She said, "Oh, Mom, that's okay.
I love you anyway."
I said, "Honey, I love you too,
and I do like the flowers, especially the blue."
FAMILY
Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company
that we are working for could easily replace us in
a matter of days.
But the family we left behind will feel the loss
for the rest of their lives.
And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more
into work than into our own family,
an unwise investment indeed,
don't you think?
So what is behind the story?
Do you know what the word FAMILY means?
FAMILY = (F)ATHER (A)ND (M)OTHER (I) (L)OVE (Y)OU
I ran into a stranger as he passed by,
"Oh excuse me please" was my reply.
He said, "Please excuse me too;
I wasn't watching for you."
We were very polite, this stranger and I.
We went on our way and we said good-bye.
But at home a different story is told,
How we treat our loved ones, young and old.
Later that day, cooking the evening meal,
My daughter stood beside me very still.
When I turned, I nearly knocked her down.
"Move out of the way," I said with a frown.
She walked away, her little heart broken.
I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.
While I lay awake in bed,
God's still small voice came to me and said,
"While dealing with a stranger,
common courtesy you use,
but the family you love, you seem to abuse.
Go and look on the kitchen floor,
You'll find some flowers there by the door.
Those are the flowers she brought for you.
She picked them herself: pink, yellow and blue.
She stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise,
you never saw the tears that filled her little eyes."
By this time, I felt very small,
And now my tears began to fall.
I quietly went and knelt by her bed;
"Wake up, little one, wake up," I said.
"Are these the flowers you picked for me?"
She smiled, "I found 'em, out by the tree.
I picked 'em because they're pretty like you.
I knew you'd like 'em, especially the blue."
I said, "I'm very sorry for the way I acted today;
I shouldn't have yelled at you that way."
She said, "Oh, Mom, that's okay.
I love you anyway."
I said, "Honey, I love you too,
and I do like the flowers, especially the blue."
FAMILY
Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company
that we are working for could easily replace us in
a matter of days.
But the family we left behind will feel the loss
for the rest of their lives.
And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more
into work than into our own family,
an unwise investment indeed,
don't you think?
So what is behind the story?
Do you know what the word FAMILY means?
FAMILY = (F)ATHER (A)ND (M)OTHER (I) (L)OVE (Y)OU
Sunday, March 28, 2004
The Muslims ain't peaceful. They are of the Devil!
What were you idiots telling me that the Muslim religion was a peaceful religion?
Poppy cock!
But he believes it's important to keep in mind that taking slaves is "just one more facet of the jihad against the civilian population" in southern Sudan. The methods may vary in different parts of the country, but the aim is the same
Poppy cock!
But he believes it's important to keep in mind that taking slaves is "just one more facet of the jihad against the civilian population" in southern Sudan. The methods may vary in different parts of the country, but the aim is the same
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