Starsplash

700

2007-01-24T10:03:00.000-05:00

This is the 700th and final posting to this site. I thought it was fitting to end it there . For more of what many consider to be nutbag stuff go to my new site. Just click on the link below for the latest articles. Of course the truly nutbag stuff I may post on the web is in another site I will not divulge to the average surfer. To find that you will have to spend a lot of time searching millions of possible websites or be a hacker.

I f I were a hacker I would think 'it's a trap' , cause it is. HAHAHAHAHAHA (had to get that in there one last time)!!!!! Of course there are those who by there overconfidence would try anyway but you know it really is not that important, and if I am right then it will all be moot in a few years anyway because the world will be in the midst of the tribulation and I will have been killed along with a couple three billion others. If you want to know some more of what I have said about this go a couple of posts down to my archive links and surf around. As strange or arrogant or nutty or whatever you may think, it is still new and cutting edge.
Some of it is ordinary ,the grammer isn't perfect, the spelling is off(which I like to make fun of here and there) but my goal was to get what I was thinking in there, not try to impress people with my skills in writing.

STARSPLASH

2007-01-24T09:40:00.000-05:00

New site

And now I have found a way to get my links back on the front page

2007-01-17T16:14:00.000-05:00

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HA! I have found my freaking archives

2007-01-17T15:52:00.000-05:00

Archives

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Vanity it is all vanity.

2006-12-24T10:24:00.000-05:00

From the King James version

Dan 11:27 And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.

Here is something prophetic that the MOB is not going to like. Mankind will never be succesful in knocking down all borders and creating a one world government. Never.

AAAnd now to destroy another crap idea!!!

2006-10-22T12:28:00.000-04:00

I have often heard it said that: "The best argument for Christianity is Christians and the worst argument for Christianity is Christians." WRONG!

The greatest argument for Christianity is Jesus Christ! The greatest argument against Christianity is preachers preaching for perfection, and since no one can be perfect why witness!

I say the greatest problem today in Christianity is not the trooper christians, it is the Don Quixote morons we got for preachers.

What we did on our vacation

2006-10-16T11:22:00.000-04:00

Finally for the first time in my life I actually took a real vacation. No relatives to visit no projects to complete just rest and relaxation.

From the newest entries to my journal

Wednesday, October 11, 2006:

We finally got going at 10 am. Got lost twice going cross country in Georgia. It cost us 80 miles and two hours. By the time we got to the Best Western it was night fall we went out get dinner, Shrimp and salad at a local resturaunt with some character. There was a storm north of us (you know, the one that dumped 22"in Buffalo) and the wind off the Gulf was 20-30 knots. From our room on the 5th floor beach side the waves were a positive roar, awsome.Just fantastic.

Thursday October 8th,

Got up at 8 am, made some coffee.....wow....great coffee. Leroy Hill you should be absolutely famous. It was .5oz packets of 100% Aribica Best Gormet coffee, www.leroyhillcofee.com. Went out on to the balcony and just relaxed. The air was super fresh with a little chill and what a view..... What a view. It truly is the emerald coast with water so clear.....I sat there for a while: me and the wife, we took it all in, 30 minutes later I got up to get me another cup of this great coffee when I heard the wife's excited voice say, "Dolphins!! Where are the binoculars? Look 2 of them. NO no it's a mom and her baby." "Wow there must be 7 or 8 of them out there", just off shore, maybe 40 feet in between the sand bars fishing. We watched them until 10 o'clock or so, I thought to get out the sport cam I had brought along and get out there and get some underwater pictures but by the time I thought of it and got ready to go they had moved on. I plan trying to get some another day. That should be exciting.
Spent the rest of the day on a pure titanium white beach. The water just the right temp for cooling off in. Took a walk a mile up the shore to a eat in a place called the Angler. Karen had a hankerin for taco salad and we ate it on the pier. The dolphins were a couple of hundred yards out cavorting around.....very pleasent.
Back up in the room we're hanging out plannin our next move, staring out over the sea. The sun is just right and the azure blue water is sparkling like a billion diamonds. Fantastic, beautiful, awsome. Makes a man feel good to be alive. I couldn't help but contemplate the unsurpassable God whom created this magnificent site.

Friday 13th,

Sunset last night over the water. There are no words I can use to completely describe it's beauty. No-not one would be worthy. We left our folding love seat on the beach and when the appointed moment arrived we went down to the shore and watched one of the great sights men can see. Sundown over the ocean. Very mesmerizing.

We wanted to get up this morning to watch the sun rise but got to bed way to late for that.....
I saw something right up against the sand. I ran to the beach camera in hand. Woah! Stingrays! Four of them 1 big one and 3 smaller. Simple, I ain't gettin in the water with them. They are reputed to be gentle calm creatures but I still ain't gettin in there with them.
I fancy myself a mentally tough guy but Crazy????? I don't feel like testing my toughness against the possibility of passing out from the mind numbing sting I imagine them capable of.

6:20 am, Dolphins!!!!

Saturday the 14th

Up at 5am, caught the sunrise finally. It's 46 degrees and I froze my ...... beautiful.

10 am:

Karen; "Ron come here and look at this! What is that?" I grabbed the binoc's. Whatever it is it's about 10 feet off the shore."It's the momma and her baby." I grabbed the camera, ran down 5 floors across the beach and out into the gulf , dang it! No way I am going to get close enough for a good shot.

Later on we identified those funny looking brown patches of what I thought were dead sea weed. They were far from dead." Jellyfish", man this water is just positively teaming with life. From the microscopic that the stingray's were scooping up to the dolphins and everything in between except sharks. Dolphins and sharks don't get along, I knew that watchin all those animal shows would come in handy. By the way I ain't gettin near the jelly fish either. I would live but I would like for my vacation to be as painless as possible. I already have a punky stomach with sea food and salad gas.
Our tan's are evening out. I used to have the ol T-shirt tan from work. Got some pic's of a wedding on the beach.
Time to start packing a little to get ready to go tommorow. Sure hope we don't get lost like we did on our way in.

All in all it's turned out like I hoped it would.

What's the one thing I think I would like for my vacation to be like? This one has lived up to it's hopes because of God. I wish it would never have to end. Perfect just perfect.

Looking for a job?

2006-10-10T08:31:00.000-04:00

Top 20 cities with job openings

1. Jackson, Tenn.
2. Lafayette, Ind.
3. Phoenix
4. Boise, Idaho
5. Biloxi-Gulfport, Miss.
6. Reno, Nev.
7. Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
8. Palm Springs, Calif.
9. Kansas City, Mo.-Kan.
10. Tucson, Ariz.
11. Baltimore
12. Orlando, Fla.
13. Philadelphia
14. Columbia, S.C.
15. Lafayette, La.
16. Fort Myers-Naples, Fla.
17. Binghamton, N.Y.
18. Utica, N.Y.
19. Rockford, Ill.
20. Wichita-Hutchinson, Kan.

Dominoes

2006-10-09T13:36:00.000-04:00

Trust is in doing, doing is in Faith, Faith is in Christ, Christ is in the Father.

Gal 6:9:

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Gal 6:8

For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption;
but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Gal 6:9

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Gal 6:10

As we have therefore, opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Which sin gives anyone the right to preach the word of God.

2006-10-04T20:18:00.000-04:00

NONE.

If it were not for the grace of God no man or women on earth would be perfect enough to preach his word. None are worthy to even speak his name.

Only by a devil would a preacher ever tell a congregation they should not talk about Jesus even when they are sinning. It is not our sin that saves us but the grace of God.

One of the greatest evangelical preachers of the late 1800's yet died in his sleep of alcohol poisoning with a bottle still clutched in his hand. If the holy spirit will work through an alcoholic what moron of a preacher but one full of a devil would preach a sermon against mentioning Jesus name or preaching the gospel. Jesus warned against pharasees and saducees who increased the burdens of the people blocking the door but wouldn't enter in to the kingdom themselves.

Get it right you stupid overeducated muckers or get out from behind the pulpit.

Proverb

2006-10-03T20:59:00.000-04:00

Trust is in the doing.

Pride

2006-09-26T18:46:00.000-04:00

Pride says: Me, not God

Humble says: God, not me

Pride says:I am my own God

Humble says:I give my self wholly to God,therefore God is me. I accomplish no thing but by God!

Life

2006-09-25T14:15:00.000-04:00

From my journal:

I was in the midst of being divorced by my 2nd wife and going through what so many other people go through with the added revelation that there is a God and he does love me. Awesome!!!

There was more written on this day prior to 6 pm but I really wanted to get this part of the day in here.

11/14/96 6:17 PM

That first day I remember was pretty bad.

I just turned on the oven and threw in a frozen pizza.I'm lucky to have the dishwasher it simplifies my life but running it reminds me of Michele and me in our first apt.-no that was 9 months later. Right now I just want something to eat and I don't feel like hand washing the dishes. It's incredible to write with the Lord guiding my hand.

The emotions are powerful, I find myself crying but not from sadness of my situation but the joy of walking so close to a God that I wasn't sure existed. I know now that he does and he is real.

I feel a change. It's the same change in the spirit I get when I am on the move. Only I am not moving. I wonder if she is?

There is an excitement that I get, Going somewhere new. I believe she has a new steady partner. For a time she didn't. I don't know for scientifically sure because I have no communications with her. Just a feeling.

I bet she's cooking again. She is a good cook! Pizza's done.

Old memories are coming back as I sit here in this empty apartment chewing on overdone food and the sting of burning in the palm of my hand as I took it out of the oven just intensifies my sorrow. I'll probably burn the roof of my mouth, I wonder if I'll ever amount to anything.....Ouch! Like I said I would probably burn the roof of my mouth. Old memories.......old memories.

Jan 11 1991,

Ring! Ring! Ring! "Hello! desk clerk" Mr. Err..kkilla,how do you pronounce your name? me, "That's about right, just call me Ron it's simpler that way.desk clerk, "Oh ! Ok Well listen, you have a phone call. It's your wife."
"Oh uh yeah go ahead and put her through, thankyou." "Is this the young lady that checked me in?".... desk clerk,"I don't know. I don't remember." me, Yeah I suppose you check in a lot of people."desk clerk,"Yes." me,"Well thanks I just wanted to let you know I talked to billeting today and they said it is still going to be two weeks so I told them that if it wasn't a problem and they sounded busy that they could take me off of the list because I had settled in and was feeling better about staying off base. I'll be down to pay for the other 2 weeks in a few minutes after I talk to my wife."
Desk clerk,"ok here's your wife." me,"thanks; Hello?, hi Deb how are you? I'm fine I guess pretty bored. Huh? nah I just stay in the room and read, I have cable T.V.. Saturday I went to the Gym and worked out and swim in the pool before I go to work. Yeah it's kind-a-cool lookin around the pool. They have palm trees and stuff. It's been 95 degrees and 95% humidity every day. It's sort of monsoonal. Rains everyday at 4pm like clockwork. Real hard for a little while and then it quits. Huh? Oh I keep some milk and breakfast drink around. It lasts about 4 days. It's quick and convenient. All I have to do is fill up the cooler with ice everyday which under the circumstances is no big deal. It's boring, boring, boring. No I haven't gotten to know anybody yet. How are the kids? Do they miss me? Yeah I guess so. I'm glad they are making friends. Is Jason bothering Jez still. I pray about it and it makes me nervous to be here. I worry about it you know. They're on vacation? Good that makes me feel better. Well I Love you! Let me talk to the kids.

Hi Jez how ya doing? Family is on vacation? Good. I'm glad. Did you see him around before they left? Well you stay away from him! He's headed for a lot of trouble in his life and I don't want you getting caught up in that B.S.you hear? Are you playing ball still. How did you do? You hit an inside the park home run, cool...... Well I'll call next Saturday. Talk to you then, Love ya. Let me talk to Janell.

Hi Janell, how are you. that's good. Have you made any new friends lately. Well that's ok, You will meet some. You're pretty smart and nice and people will like you. Well let me talk to your mom, OK, I love you and miss you."

7:42pm

That's it for a minute I'm crying so hard I can barely see the page. What the ____ did I do. I walked away from the only reason I was in that house and barely shed a tear over it. I missed 5 years of my kids life, and now thinking of my daughters sweet 9 year old voice on the phone......

9:51pm 1996

Just got off the phone with Janell. We talked generalities, I admonished her for not writing more. she told me step dad Al is taking an attitude with Debbie. He got rude to Janell on the phone. I told him in short terse words she was talking with me and he could hang up. I feel the stresses building up in their marriage. I pray for their marriage. Maybe not to sincerely though.

Whoa! Jim Erickson-the name just whizzed through my head. Then Michele's.

Debbie quit Proex and Perkins and took a job at Byerly's.

1991

Ring! Ring! desk clerk,"Hi there, how can I help you?" me,"Hi,I'm sorry it took so long. I was talking to my kids. I miss them.I'm Ron. Rm 209." desk clerk,"That's ok I was kind of busyso your timing is good. me," How much do I owe for the rest of the month? $172.00? Ok thank you. I'm sorry to have been such a bother but things appear to have settled down and it's just as well. I don't like moving after I have kind of gotten used to the place and all. It seems like I've moved so much in my life."........

desk clerk,"There you are sir . Enjoy your stay with us."(I don't think I should be trying so hard, I'm married) me,"Thank you, Have a nice day". desk clerk,"You too". me,"I'm sorry I don't remember your name?desk clerk,"Michele.""Oh ok,... you are being very patient with me. and I appreciate it."I'll ....I'll probably be down from time to time and I prefer dealing with the same person whose familiar with the situation....Bye."
desk clerk,"bye"

Absoulutely Magnificent

2006-09-13T21:15:00.000-04:00

Now If I can only get them to restore my archives I will be back in the blogging business

Footsteps in the sand

2006-09-05T22:48:00.000-04:00

I always was uncomfortable when spiritual people talked about walking with God. That is not correct. you are not walking with God God is walking with you.

whats uuuuup!!!!!

2006-09-05T21:22:00.000-04:00

testing

2006-09-05T21:13:00.000-04:00

does this thing ever intend to work

Well Well

2006-09-02T21:05:00.000-04:00

I can write again. Cool.

Testing

2006-05-04T20:01:00.000-04:00

This is just a test forthenext few minutes I want to know if this will post or not.

New site

2006-02-25T13:20:00.000-05:00

Since this site has been nearly trashed here is my new one. Starsplash

A little bit from my comments section

2006-02-25T13:04:00.000-05:00

Notice they make NO reference 2 us women! We R free 2 b wise in this world and beyond!
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I wish that wisdom was a truly generic product that everyone could have but it is not so. In the Bible wo-man are included and since Jesus and because of him are given the freedom to also live as they see fit. I am in full agreement with this yet so many people will choose foolishness.
And you are correct yet all of mankind has been given the power to overcome their mistakes.
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Another old article I want up front

2006-02-12T11:28:00.000-05:00

Sunday, August 15, 2004
The voice of God

This is my comment to those people that hear a voice in their head they credit as God's.NOT!The apostle Peter warns us to test the spirits whether they be of God or not and that no spirit that is not of God can admit that Jesus is The Messiah unless they are of God.

Exo 19:18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because, the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.When God makes his presence known to men it becomes obvious, things begin to shake, quake, lite up or burn.

Exo 3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst, of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

1Ki 19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:

Luk 2:9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

Mat 28:2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

Joh 12:28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

Joh 12:29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.

Joh 12:30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.Though God makes his presence known to men in other ways by his spirit that works in us and about us using circumstance and by prayer fulfilling our prescient prayers, and prescient words, We have not necessarily heard the direct voice of God because something that came to us in a secret voice came true.I will not discount that everything that men consider voices external to themselves yet secret to others as not messengers but do not count that these voices are messengers of the most high God. The most high god would send messengers to have us do good unto men not evil. To deliver messages of repentance and warnings of destruction both small and great for not repenting, that is to change ones mind concerning doing evil.Also remember that in the end all things will have begun and ended with God hence the reason that Jesus told John in the vision of revelations to let them that are righteous be righteous still and those that are evil let them be evil still. That also does not relinquish Jesus command to preach repentance, nor to the old testament writings concerning our responsibility to warn the wicked to repent of their ways and sin no more lest they die in thier sin and then thier blood would be required of us.

Think not that God would not kill

2006-02-07T13:16:00.000-05:00

Do not be confused in the difference between a natural disaster and men who murder.

God kills with out mercy.

2Ki 19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand:and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Not a pleasent thought for those who are spiritual but dwell 'in this world' is it? The day is coming and it is not far off in fact it is easily measured by men today in less than years

Religion is not necessary

2006-01-28T20:55:00.000-05:00

Jesus came so that you and I would not have to go through religion to be near the Father any more. No rituals, no rites of passage, no need for acceptance. Only simply believe and say "Jesus save me, forgive me of my sins". And Voila. You have instant access to the only one who really loves you. 'God'.

You don't have to go to church or work for it, it's free.

Conundrums

2006-01-24T18:20:00.000-05:00

I don't come with the apparatus the apparatus comes with me. I don't own the apparatus someone else does but the apparatus doesn't own me. I am not a slave to the apparatus, the apparatus is a slave for me.
If you own the apparatus and it is symbiont to me then it can not live with out me. The apparatus does not direct my life but I direct it's life.

If you bought the apparatus then you payed to be my slave.

Surprised? Not me.

I am not in the MOB but the devil wants you to think I am and he wishes I was.

Answer: If you don't want to become my slave then don't try to enslave me.

I always win.

Some old stuff worth visiting

2006-01-16T21:33:00.000-05:00

Here is some stuff from a web site I created a few months ago and it is still worth reading. Yes I actually can find good stuff. In fact even though there are only ten entries if you are looking to understand a few things read them all. I don't make a penny on this stuff so......

The Hackers are at it again

2006-01-15T18:22:00.000-05:00

My clock dissapeared, I see and my side bar links aren't coming up today, my comments don't work for me either. Oh yeah I almost forgot, My weather map is gone too.

I figure it is some mob left wing nutcase. If I wrote bomb in my web site do you think the spying NSA would track the nutheads down and haul them off to some foreign CIA torture chamber I keep hearing about. Maybe they could torture out the fact that they think they hear the voice of God. Then they could pump them full of haldol and send them off to the la la land they so much desire.
They are WAAAknuts. Worm heads or as an old buddy Barry used to call them, Zipperheads.

Teachers pay or is there another answer

2006-01-14T13:10:00.000-05:00

I was recently interviewing a local teacher, per say I was asking for his perception as to why there was a teacher shortage. He said "one of the reasons that people don't want to be a teacher was that the kids are atrocious". The other was money. He felt that he wasn't getting paid enough. I told him in a round about way about what I made and though he didn't say anything his smile told me he makes more than me.

I asked him also if he was saying the reason that there weren't more people entering the teaching fields was greed? He said "no".

HMMM. It would appear if the teachers don't know why there are fewer teachers, yet deep down in their hearts they do, don't they?

First of all as always I would be remiss if I didn't tell you, the root cause of the kids being atrocious. No prayer, no help from God. It is God that keeps people in line, but if you don't ask he won't help. You got to pray.

Second of all the reason money is needed is because you have to pay people past the threshold where the job becomes worth the trouble and stress, the 'ole' money answers all things, however there is only so far that people are going to be able to afford to pay. At some point, points of diminishing returns come into play where no matter how well educated the kids are when they get out of school the cost to a nation would have been so great as to be a straw, if you know what I mean, and a nation can't have that now can it? Of course the teachers would come back with the question, 'how much do we value our kids our future and our nation'(a guilt trip on us to assuage their-uh- 'greed')?

We are already paying our teachers more than anyone else in the world except maybe Switzerland. So that obviously isn't the answer.

We are at a stage where force doesn't work and money ain't working either so it will take an act of God to straighten this issue out. I suppose he could make it a catastrophe or we could just ask him to fix us. I am all in favor of the latter and so should the rest of you.

Caution: Another anti-Mob thought

2006-01-13T20:05:00.000-05:00

I have been often asked "who do you think you are".

I belong to this category of people

Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

That's right. I am anti-Mob.

Caution this is an anti- Mob thought

2006-01-13T19:30:00.000-05:00

My sister saays to me one day,

"I envy you Ron you always seem to be in the middle of things."

Want to know my secret people? Start fighting the Mob like me. I guarantee you it will put right in the middle of this same world of s--t that just keeps following me around.

My Comments are on the fritz now so....

2006-01-13T19:12:00.000-05:00

Comment away people I just can't read them.

I used to think I was about half Irish

2006-01-09T19:12:00.000-05:00

Until one day as we were sitting in grandma Bennetts living Room, Ma, Aunt Martha, me, and uncle Hal, Grandma drops a bomb and says we were English????? I am confused but here is a travel blog about Ireland. Pretty Country.

I want

2006-01-09T18:35:00.000-05:00

Today I was at a customers house and while I was working he was telling me about building a new house and how he wanted a little closet with a urinal in it only so he could cure some of the complaints his wife made. You know the ol' toilet seat up one. So as we were joking around about this together we came up with; why not just make a man's shower with a urinal in it because.....what man gets out of the shower to take a leak anyway?

I am a worm-a-phobe

2006-01-08T17:28:00.000-05:00

The worm

2006-01-08T17:11:00.000-05:00

Is the devil a snake or a worm?

Gen 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

What crawls on it's belly and eats dirt all the days of it's life? You idiot deceived preachers-it is a worm. As for the MOB they are worshiping a worm. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Considered by most to be symbolic as the lowest form of life on Earth. I guess that makes all of them dirt eaters and lowlifes.

Brain slump

2006-01-08T13:34:00.000-05:00

10 years ago American Engineers and Companies were granted 10,000 more patents than foreign companies. Now that is down to 4000.

A 2003 survey of math and science literacy compared 15 year old U.S. kids against young-uns from other industrialized nations and in math ours came in 24th tied with Latvia out of 28. In science 24th out of 40.

We spend 440 billion a year on school 2nd in the world per capita to Switzerland.

A national survey revealed that 38% of math teachers and 28% of science teachers in grades 7-12 lacked a college major or minor in either subject.

No Jesus no brains.

Dear Mob

2006-01-07T09:55:00.000-05:00

This is the beast we fight today

Dan 7:6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings1611 of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

And this is the third Beasts destiny. Note that it says had it's life prolonged for a season, and then ends on a percieved question. Will you of the third beast be saved or will you be killed along with the fourth and upcoming beast? Not retorical 'Eh?' mob.

Dan 7:12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.

What is a cops most common and biggest mistake?

2006-01-06T21:52:00.000-05:00

Making an early ass-u-mption and sticking with it.

What is their second mistake?

Believing the early ass-u-mptions of other cops.

What is their third biggest mistake?

Making revenge their motive for doing their job.

Their fourth mistake:

Never owning up to their mistakes.(lieing)

Fire

2006-01-06T21:10:00.000-05:00

I don't fight fire with fire: I fight forest fires with fire otherwise I fight fire with water. Anthing else is an oxymoron. Police can never lie. read the next article.

Property Rights

2006-01-06T19:00:00.000-05:00

Here in the State of Georgia they are pretty good about protecting property rights and have recently enacted a law similar to Colorado and Oklahoma in which if your are threatened on your property you may use deadly force to protect yourself.

However I have just this evening had a rather passive occurrence in the local Walmart parking lot in which as I was pulling out I had yet to turn on my head lights. A Warner Robins police officer pulled up and stopped in front of me and motioned of course I turned on my lights he nodded and went on.

I thought about it for a minute and realized that under no circumstance could he have done anything to me on account of in Georgia on any private property there is no such thing as a moving violation. But if Walmart had contracted with local law enforcement they could still do nothing. Even if Walmart insisted. And if it was allowed what the corporations and private property owners would be doing is giving up some of their rights. Which at this stage of the game would be tantamount to some of their power. Capitulating, which from history we know has never led to economic success. The exact opposite of why Walmart exists.

OK now lets look at this other senario. Unless I was driving wrecklessly and endangering otherpeoples lives(which since I had not even left the parking space I was not)of course the officer would only have to lie about it which in this day and age they do so pathologically and lately damn near every time I hear about another citizens interaction with law enforcement. LIEING IS OF THE DEVIL! That makes you who are supposed to represent all that is good and upright participators with all that is wicked, demonic, and evil. You can't even tell little white lies ever. And by the way the old eye for an eye AKA what comes around goes around. If you lie all the time then you will be lied to all the time or worse no-one will want anything to do with you and all the cries for public support will fall on deaf ears. That means why should you get a raise when you are participating with the worst of humanity. Terrorizing people will not get it for you either.

Let's take a recent interview I just had with an individual living and working in St Louis one day. This particular individual who has fallen victim to our child support system which has uneplicably decided to revoke the drivers license of individuals who fall behind in child support further hindering their ability to earn an income with which to pay with, this man was further hampered due to disability was riding as a passenger, a black woman an employee of his was driving (the man being white) when they were pulled over for a muffler which was not dragging but hanging low. No biggy except that it turns out that the woman also did not have a valid license. Now of course the man a passenger realizing that they were about to be walking began to call a friend for a ride. Another dubious mistake because he did not; naively so, realize that under the current circumstance he should have kept the probably trigger happy East St. Louis Cops informed by asking if it would be alright to call for a ride. Still no real biggy you would think. The black law man went ballistic with assumptions and then arrested and booked the poor guy charging him with obstruction of justice (a lie). I guess he thought the dude was a pimp or something after all what was this white guy doing with a black girl. Not only showing gross incompetence in interrogation a investigation and also lieing. This cop probably has been party to hundreds of false charges being brought against innocent people which pumps up his arrest and conviction record at the expense of common sense and what he really should have been about, protectiong the constitution by protecting peoples rights. He also doesn't seem to get the idea that he is the servant of the man he just freaked on. Yeah thats right the people that they enforce the law on are actually the masters of law enforcement personel. No not the mayor not the judges but the people whom the constitution was written to protect. Yes, Us the people of this here United States.

In short that guy is the thug he thinks he is facing only worse he has official arrest authority. Making him a bully which I totally detest and since he was lieing must be with the Devil.

Hell is not going to come down upon them, something far worse(to a demon) heaven is . Trust me in this, God will not spare anyone. Don't believe me, just read the Old Testament. God had the tendency to wipe out whole peoples. Whole states and whole countries. Men woman and children. In come cases even the animals. And you can believe me when I say, God is so much more thorough than men or even that damn worm Satin is. Just ask him.

Call this crazy or call this prophetic. St Louis you have 6 months to clean up your act starting with law enforcement. And I mean spotless squeaky clean and you have to keep it that a way until the meteor drops........

Don't believe everything your heart tells you.

2006-01-01T19:51:00.000-05:00

Eze 13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
Eze 13:3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Your heart is very important as well as your feelings but they are not the be all end all of knowing what to do or the future. Mankind must also count.

Naughty or nice

2005-12-24T23:25:00.000-05:00

Being good never gets a person to heaven. Being nice is a gift from God but I have not read nor heard a sermon that says this gift is enough.

It takes the grace of God to forgive us for not being perfect. That Present was delivered to us on the day Emanuel was born. Though we are not sure of the exact date we celebrate it every December 25th.

The birth of our salvation from our inability to be good enough.

33 years after his birth he sacrificed himself as the final passover lamb not just for the Isrealites but for all of mankind and with these simple words"Father forgive them for they know not what they do", granted any who would by the simple realization that Jesus is God and that with a simple admitance that they sinned(missed the mark). Except that God plainly forgive us of our debt unto him no one could ever have eternal life.

One simple sentance saves you forever. It is-Jesus save me, forgive me of my sins.

Merry Christmas.

A teaser for AFR(link on side bar)

2005-12-24T11:29:00.000-05:00

CWA Updates Naughty and Nice List 12/14/2005
Washington, D.C.—Concerned Women for America (CWA) has updated its Christmas list showing which businesses are embracing the true meaning of Christmas, which are not, and which are middle-of-the-road.
“We are encouraged that some stores are finally getting the message that they need to once again embrace Christmas,” said Robert Knight, Director of CWA’s Culture & Family Institute. “It seems that people understand the importance more and more as Christmas Day grows closer. ‘Happy Holidays’ and ‘holiday tree’ just don’t cut it anymore.
“We are very encouraged by the reaction of retailers across the country. Christian consumers have expressed their desire for merchants to recognize the reason their stores are full of business at this time of year. As such, we’re adjusting our list to reflect the positive moves by some retailers. Those moving up are in bold type. We will continue to monitor and update as needed. Merry Christmas!”
NICE
Macy's
Chick-fil-A
Kroger
IHOP
Saks Off Fifth Avenue
Kay Jewelers
Capital One
Hobby Lobby
In-N-Out Burger
Sears
Dillard's
Radio Shack
Bath & Body Works
Hallmark
Lord & Taylor
Overstock.com
SOMEWHAT NICE SOMEWHAT NAUGHTY
Walgreens
Wal-Mart
L.L. Bean
Lowe's
Target
SCROOGES
Office Max
Kmart
Staples
Home Depot
Best Buy
Kohl's
BJ's
SC Johnson
Verizon
Zales
Outback
Lexus
Old Navy
Cingular
Reckitt Benckiser
Pier 1
Red Lobster
Office Depot
Gillette
Applebee's
Burlington Coat
Dell
Milton-Bradley
U.S. Postal Service
Costco
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J-Lo

2005-12-21T22:50:00.000-05:00

Did you know that J-Lo's butt was insured for 1 billion dollars? Thats 500 million a cheek. Trademark stuff.

Terroristic Threats

2005-12-20T21:40:00.000-05:00

I was down at one of my parts houses talking to the warehouseman about how I deal with anger. For a little explanation in how I handle my anger most of the time is I see in my hands two swords and I kill whatever I feel in me that I am mad at until the anger goes away. The ignorant dude tells me as long as it doesn't come out of my mouth or then it is considered a terroristic threat. B---sh--. I can kill anything within my self that I so desire. It's not like I am going around in public and brandishing a freaking sword screaming like a fruit and nut case or like the dude they just shot down in a local cemetery who was pointing his finger at the law enforcement apparently pretending to shoot at the cops(which by the way I would have shot the dude also) Though I have to say that at the range the police were they could probably see that he did not have a fire-arm(no pun intended).

Never the less the only thing that anyone could tell me to do is try to force me to get sick-o-therapy which they would have to drag me to in chains. Either way what I do in my own self is still not a terroristic threat. There do however seem to be some fruit and nut-cases out there that apparently think that doing those things is actually some kind of threat like it would really happen or that stuff really happens to people when I do that. Screaming Rofl. Now who needs the psycho-therapist.
Whether I could do so and harm people with my mind or not how could any give witness against it for who could give scientific proof. None could.

Now I understand that the prophets of old had a sword but was it real or was it in the spirit with the power to kill a living breathing human being. After all the man and wife died at Peters feet when they withheld and Peter called them out before God in the matter. And if you did not believe in Jesus nor the bible nor God nor that a man could wield such a power but you became afraid of me when I tell you that I will put this spiritual sword to you then who needs the freaking therapy.

If these things are so and you have noticed that people whom offend me are suddenly turning up ill and are dying from diverse sorts of disease I would sure like you to prove this to me then I would know that I was indeed one of the most powerful men on earth. After all by your proofs I would have within me the power over life and death.

See where these nuts have to go with this.
Unfortunately there are some in law enforcement who think that what a person thinks constitutes terroristic threats and
unfortunately I think we have hired way to many nuts into law enforcement. You know the kind I mean. The ones that swear that they hear the voice of God in their heads. Or how about the ones who think they know what other people are thinking. Nuts everyone of them. In fact I think I got a ticket from one of them the other day. The reason I think that is as he was walking back to his squad car I just happened to glance in my side view mirrow after him. As he got to the back bumper of the vehicle I was in he suddenly turned around in a-draw sucker stance. I am thinking what the f--k is he doing? Nuts, he's nuts, they hired a nut.

What matters in this country by our constitution is what a man does, not what he says(or thinks). By the way that is called freedom of speach. Oh yeah that's right we don't follow the constitution any more We just give it lipservice.

Thinking that you can hear what other people think is where that which is most evil exists and I guarantee you that no man outside of God can discern when he might be deceived into thinking that he heard someone say something that they have absolutely not thought. That being so the accuracy of what they think they hear is going to be low especially if he can get his people to do something to some-one he hates like Christians.

By the way these people are called Men of the Beast or MOB for short. Yeah that's right, I said MOB. Now you know when the idiots in the news media are referring to Organized Crime as Mob activity they are probably not correct. Though the MOB may be into organized crime it is usually more directed at a goal other than money. That being World domination. Now you also know that all these stupid things that go on in the effort to bring about a one world Government actually have a directing agent. Satan.( Not to be confused with Mafia. Though some of these demonic men are or were apart of the Mafia, the Mafia is in essence a different group of people.) Most Mobsters that I have met (Yes I have met a few) Fact is I have come to recognize them (the old "I see you for who you are" thing)are vocally quiet and though they appear to be nice if you pick at them a little a beast will jump right out at you. A little thin skinned they are. Still they apparently communicate at a different level And everything is memorized, there would be no written record of what they were doing and if so it would be very hard to determine what except for a ragged general direction mainly an effort at trying to get rid of everything concerning Jesus.
That being said Jesus says resist the Devil and he shall flee comes into play. In other words it is very important for Christians of all ilks not to be drawn into anything such as rumormongering and ostracizing any one unless there is incontrovertible evidence. Even then it is a Christians job to ignore rumors and treat all people with the utmost love and respect......

Funny how I meander here. Back to the main course.

Frankly All souls belong to God and no one dies before their time but if someone you know whom offended me suddenly up and died maybe you should ask me if I put the sword to them. I won't lie I would simply tell you. But I guarantee you I will gleefully make fools of you if you try and blame me for their death. That would be something akin to blaming me for hurricane Katrina (bait), Or the Tsunami in Indonesia (nibble).

I suppose that about sums it all up. This is a challenge you know. No lieing allowed. God is watching and sees everything.

By the Way there will be no more MOB forever by the year 2070.

Eze 13:19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

Best Canadian Blog of the year

2005-12-18T22:24:00.000-05:00

That's right folks and Samantha Burns links to my site and By the Grace of God has seen fit to visit my place regularly. Wow. the Best in the nation. Congrats!

I suppose I could go on and say NYA to the dudes at TTLB but that just might be too crass.

And for some more bragging here are the rest of those who link here. God Bless.

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Eastern Religion this is not

2005-12-18T12:02:00.000-05:00

This is a fact.

If mankind is eternal or our spirit and soul is eternal then a part of us exists on a plain already that by mathematical description is infinite and therefore a part of what men are is infinite in structure. Therefore we can live infinitely or die infinitely.

Which will you chose? Infinite life or infinite death?

I don't care what other men may say, I know of only one door into infinite life. Jesus the Christ.

Holocaust

2005-12-13T22:54:00.000-05:00

Omni has a post about the Holocaust.

When I was 26 years old and a Air Force Reservist we were as a Unit required to tour over seas once every 4 years. It was my first year in and my first Annual tour in the spring of 1985 we went to Germany.

In the middle weekend some of our people had arranged a tour to Munich which we did some touristy stuff like visited Oberamagau, The Deutch museum, Neushwanstein and others. Also we went to the Concentration camp memorial at Auschwitz. Not much is left there but a couple of what looked like 150 ft long barracks they housed the detainees in. My memories of the place are sketchy after 20 years but I still have one that brings back the same feeling I had that day.
In one of the few remaining barracks they had posted a history and thousands upon thousands of pictures of when it was an operating concentration camp. I can not describe how horrifying this was. I made it 2/3 of the way through before I could take it no more and had to leave the building. I still get light headed and queasy and my mind fights not to remember any of those pictures. I vaguely recall one series about a gas chamber disguised as a shower before: showing the old Duisenberg auto being hooked up; during the loading up with people, and after all those people who were alive now heaped upon the floor. I think this is the one that made me sick not to mention all of the incredibly emaciated bodies. They had statistics on everything with pictures of piles of false teeth and skulls and.........God I can't think of this much longer.
To have run away from this place was unthinkable though some part of me tried. Somehow I knew I needed to stay a little longer if for no other reason than to somehow be there for the people who suffered . I remember looking out across the compound in shock. I remember the stillness. Not an easy peaceful quiet but something hard as if God had turned his back on this place.

About 40 of us went on this tour and everyone I looked at was white as a ghost.

I have been around this world and have seen and talked with many many people from just about every nation, creed or religion. I have seen and done just about anything a man could desire. I have been apart of prepping for war which included the mental aspect of knock down dragout battles with utter confusion and the loss of friends in the fight. I worked in a nursing home at that time and saw the end of peoples lives as they wasted away languishing alone with no family, I have had to stand bedside watch as some took their very last breath. I remember waiting for their chest to rise but it didn't. I have seen some horribly disfiguring wounds and cancers eating away at human bodies, but nothing could have prepared me for the experience I had that day.

I hope and pray this world never sees another event like this. If it does then mankind truly is lost to not have learned anything from and would truly be deserving of destruction.

Heat Pumps

2005-12-08T13:24:00.000-05:00

In my career field here in Middle Georgia we use heating systems called Heat pumps which for the uninitiated is using a central air unit to also be the source of heat..........got a call gotta go take care of it first. be home this evening to finish this.

Well it's been two days and I forgot what I was going to tell you. Oh yeah.

The way that it's done is the refrigerant temperature is made lower than the surrounding air allowing it to be heated up and the heat transported into your house or business.

One of the issues that had to be dealt with was that frost will build up on the condensor coil outside. To combat this a defrost system was added to periodically eliminate the frost. How most of them operate is every thirty to ninety minutes a logic circuit will test for temperature and when it senses 18 to 26 degrees on the coil it will engage the defrost cycle. Turning off the condensor fan changing the reversing valve to cool and turning on the auxiliary heating elements in the air handler(inside the house). This makes a great whooshing sound much like an old time steam freight train starting up. The compressor now no longer masked by the sound of the fan will grow louder as it heats up the coil until the defrost control times out or the sensor indicates that the coil is warm enough at which time the control board will send the unit back into normal operation attended of course by the loud whoosh but now; if there was a bit of frost built up, by a large ejection of steam and vapor out of the top of the outdoor unit. Which brings us to the crux of this article.

Every year we receive a number of panic calls from people who have never seen a heat pump go in or come out of defrost who are convinced that there unit just BLEW UP!

Mirth is my life.

Jocky Street

2005-12-07T22:58:00.000-05:00

Has linked me up and I have just visited his site. I find something somewhat calm in this one check it out and see if you don't agree.

Freedom for a gentile-

2005-12-07T22:48:00.000-05:00

-Non beleiver is just like this. In fact non-believers if they take this path will find themselves free from the slavery of hate and the overwhelmingly self destructive need for revenge.

Live like this guy Jason Coleman and you-all might just live longer.

From the eclectic Samantha Burns.

Sorry folks

2005-12-05T19:15:00.000-05:00

My web site is not responding today

Sam Alito

2005-11-30T03:17:00.000-05:00

Samualito

Oh look what a recent search found

2005-11-29T22:44:00.000-05:00

MWHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA.

Looks like I got a little attention with this little article. What say you bug boys at the top. While you people are busy trying to be "nice" I get the results MWHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA.

Sperimentin

2005-11-29T21:43:00.000-05:00

Instapundit

Michelle Malkin

Boing Boing

WIZBANG

I have descided that TTLB is a subjective rater and his intent is to list the blogs that he mainly likes. OK ,but that is for him and not for the rest of us. I told you that I would find another way (and I have) not subject to his algorithms. Besides I just checked out the technorati top 100 and found out that the rankings appear to be scewered around a bit because Boing Boing is is is da ta da number one.

I suppose that I could go finish up my programming degree and figure out how to build a rater system along my lines of thinking too.
If I were rating blogs I would have to say that traffic and links would have to count, even link slutters. Why? Because it is about getting some people to your site so you can make a buck. Of course I don't have that problem because I ain't got no advertising. Maybe in the future but I figure that if I can't pay one hundred percent to my site why mess around with that.

Paranoia

2005-11-27T12:39:00.000-05:00

Some ole and nameless dude said to me at a convenience station as we were joking around in passing,"just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean their not out to get ya".

He is right. who cares if someone is out to get ya. "That's their problem". why worry, they have to do all the work and it is a lot more stressful on them than they will admit. All you have to worry about is not being gettable. If you worry about being gotten too then you are letting them win at least half of the battle so cut your worries in half. Being shweetie baby and lambsie poo is all you have to do. Do that with the truth and you will be able to hold your head up while someone else is trying to 'make you look bad' but the real truth is 'they are bad'.

Remember that being a decent human being will never include rumor mongers.

Whales

2005-11-26T20:56:00.000-05:00

Are you in for a facinating swashbuckler? If so check out Gus Openshaw's whale killing Journal. It has to be a story.......or is it?

I got this off of TFsterns site(link on side bar)

2005-11-25T20:16:00.000-05:00

“Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor -- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed byacknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."

George Washington

I told my wife and we both got a laugh out of this one

2005-11-25T19:44:00.000-05:00

I was going through my visitor links and I ran across this little search which lead to a link in my archives about the human condition.

I am pretty sure that that wasn't what they were looking for.

Life is just a Demolition Derby

2005-11-25T19:23:00.000-05:00

Something that rings in my ears. My sister sent me an e-mail with this little ditty.

Oh the pranks

2005-11-25T00:32:00.000-05:00

I am trying to imagine a guy sitting down on a toilet seat that had something wet on it and staying there long enough to have this happen.

from the Jamaica Gleaner

"There was such a case outside of college. In fact, it supposedly happened in Home Depot, the handyman's (or woman's) store. Bob Dougherty sued Home Depot last month claiming a prank left him glued to a toilet seat. He alleges that paramedics unbolted the toilet seat, which separated from his skin, leaving abrasions. Dougherty buttressed his case by claiming he suffered pain, humiliation and financial loss. He wants US$3 million from Home Depot. However, a witness has come forward to say that Dougherty had made a similar claim more than a year ago in the town where they both live. Dougherty's lawyer has rebutted the accusation."

Open trackbacks

2005-11-23T15:21:00.000-05:00

NZ Bear is toying with his system of ratings and has discovered opposition in the blogosphere. I wonder why? I am currently trying to get my open trackback stuff up and running but I must profess a lack of understanding which is definately slowing me down but I know that with perseverance I shall have it.

I left a comment at Stop the ACLU that I am proud of(I hate the word proud) but you should read the rest, also Samantha Burns who has her OTB working and a nice article on the issue as well.

Comment by ron on November 23rd, 2005 @ 3:18 pm

The problem with not counting trackbacks is also that TTLB will not know if any other bloggers are up and coming and it does open a door for a competing blog rating system. There have always been people who figure out how to cheat systems. And no matter what TTLB does people will figure out ways around those efforts . If NZ works too hard at being fair he will end up just making arbitrary decisions on who he likes and doesn't like or at least be giving the appearancee of judging and the blogosphere is not going to like that and vote with their electronic feet and go elsewhere.
One of the ways that I acquired some attention was to go to a lot of sites and make comments. That is how I got my highest rating of adorable rodent(correction Marauding Marsupial) somewhere in the 4000 to 4500 range. Which I have to profess surprise and almost a total lack of understanding at how this stuff really works, but never the less.

I have also noticed that TTLB has some problem with their system because I have 8 or nine links with people who are definitelyly respectable and quite high in their rankings but they are not listed which is giving me a snot rating of blah blah. I was excited and looking forward to the challenge of figuring out ways to get to the next level when this crap started(waaaaaa).

Even so I think it is time for other raters to compete.

The Human Condition

2005-11-21T11:13:00.000-05:00

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Is often determined by circumstances or chance or God if you preferr (which is what I say), which I shall label as human circumstance.

I shall describe these events with an event which took place in my life and a moral attached.

When I was in my twenties I had an enormous colon (still have) and consequently left enormous piles, if you know what I mean. Well on one particular day I descided to flush before I was finished. A few seconds later I felt something very cold and wet on my bottom that for a second of hesitation and then from suprised realization I lept from the commode. Egads crap water has touched my butt. IT's the BLOB ahhhhhh! Now it's running out of the pot and coming after me ieeeeee!
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The moral of the story: Wait until your done to flush.

Updated

2005-11-20T13:51:00.000-05:00

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I have updated this article concerning the book of Daniel. from a recent article titled TFSterns.

Prevention

2005-11-19T11:09:00.000-05:00

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Is not in the 'threat of' it is in the "Concience of".

People who think that is by threats (that is the use of fear) that people are subservient are destined for destruction. It is in the conscience of individuals that subservience is born. The realization that a thing is right to do.

2005-11-18T21:43:00.000-05:00

TOP 25 THINGS YOU'LL NEVER HEAR A SOUTHERNER SAY

25. "I'll take Shakespeare for 1000, Alex."
24. "Duct tape won't fix that."
23. "Come to think of it, I'll have a Heineken."
22. "We don't keep firearms in this house."
21. "You can't feed that to the dog."
20. "No kids in the back of the pickup, it's not safe."

19. "Wrasslin's fake."
18. "I'll have grapefruit today instead of that biscuits and gravy."
17. "Who's Richard Petty?"
16. "Oh, give me the small bag of pork rinds."
15. "Deer heads detract from the decor."

14. "Spitting is such a nasty habit."
13. "Trim the fat off that steak!"
12. "The tires on that truck are too darn big."
11. "I'll have the arugula and radicchio salad."
10. "I've got it all on floppy disk."

9. "Would you like your fish poached or broiled?"
8. "My fiancé is registered at Tiffany's."
7. "Checkmate."
6. "She's too old to be wearing that bikini."
5. "Does the salad bar have bean sprouts?"

4. "I don't have a favorite college team."
3. "Those shorts ought to be a little longer, Darlin'."
2. "Elvis who?" And the number one thing you will NEVER hear a Southerner say:
1. "I couldn't find a thing at Wal-Mart today!"

This guy isn't saying much that I hadn't already suspected

2005-11-17T23:21:00.000-05:00

But Bill Tierny makes a very good point about this absurd idea that mankind is good. This is only a quote from an article here you should read concerning perceptions in the world opinion 'market'.

"Gun control and Arms control both arise from the “mankind is good” worldview.
If you control the environment, i.e. get rid of the guns, then man’s natural goodness will rise to the surface. I hope it is evidence after more than a decade of Iraqi intransigence how foolish this position is."

I have a question?

2005-11-17T20:57:00.000-05:00

We have learned to slow down a photon but have we learned to speed it up yet?

Oh Crap! I didn't know this one.

2005-11-09T19:24:00.000-05:00

I was always secure in this one thing. That doctors were always smarter than me. But to my severe dread they on average are not. (Did you know the average IQ of a doctor is 116?)You see I have had two minor strokes. One when I was 17 during a football game in which I was given the co-honor of defensive player of the game for.....that's another story; and another one when I was 34. And I still score 133.

The sad thing is that now that I know this I am curious as to what it was when I was younger. And WF could I have been. F--k all you people who called me dumb and had me believin it. No I take that back. I will not
F--k you people-that might give you pleasure. Crap! That is another story too.

Back to the story. Crap.

Another note to customers in the heating and air business.

2005-11-07T16:28:00.001-05:00

We who are in this busy-ness are not reimbursed by the manufactures for labor when we do warranty work. Therefore since we did not get into the busy-ness to go broke we can not provide the labor for warranty repair for free. Any labor warranty that my employer gives is out of the goodness of his heart and believe me he has a blessed heart and only wants to give as much as he can afford (one year).

Any problems with that I suppose I could call the waaaaambulance. MWHA!

Oh lookee here

2005-11-07T16:24:00.000-05:00

Way to go OMNI for this.

"To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled."He also paraphrased it as, "We don't see others as they are, but as WE are"... and it's a wonderful example of how there are some piercing insights in the Bible whether you believe in God or not, which makes it well worth a little study.

I want to add that 'I figure that in the, 'do unto others vernacular', that people do what they want other people to do to them. So when they lie cheat and steal that is what they want people to do to them. So what are they getting all bent out of shape for when people lie cheat and steal from them. I mean what did they expect.

Pro - Life

2005-11-07T15:55:00.000-05:00

I have run into a little slow down in my blogging drive, maybe it is because I haven't found to much to screamin eagle on so I have been holic-ing on a couple of PC games here lately.

I was going to do an article defending the Presidents policy of not asking Scotus nominees their stance on such devisive subjects as 'abortion' and the 'marriage is between a man and a woman only' stuff but I found this item for anti abortion people that many may not know about.

As for the reason the President is not asking. There are probably two main purposes. One of which is a tactic to blunt the Dummo-crats anti-Christian agenda, and the lessor is to remain objective in his choice. He get's to say in public "I don't know". to which the media can only say "he doesn't know". Which get's a whispering quiet belly waving chuckle from me. So the ultra right wing( you know the ones who are treading on the edge of the road about to stumble into the ditch)needs to KNOCK IT OFF!

But. Instead I will post this small blurb and comment.

From American Family Radio(link on side bar),this teen was given the go ahead to wear his pro-Life tee shirts.

(AgapePress) - A Georgia high school has decided against censoring a student's pro-life expression on his clothing.
Senior Brian Ramirez was recently forced to serve an in-school suspension for wearing sweatshirts with messages such as "Abortion is homicide" and "She is a child, not a choice." The student also was penalized with a zero grade for each day's lab missed while in suspension, and informed that for each day he continued to wear clothing bearing a pro-life message he would remain on suspension.

Muslim connections Blind coorporations and more

2005-11-06T02:46:00.000-05:00

And how come the Press isn't asking. Hm. Maybe because the press is connected with this too. How's that for paranoid conspiracy.

Check this out. Linked via Confederate Yankee.

Alamoudi you might remember is the dirt bag who banks “with Al Qeada”. Interestingly enough Alamoudi is also linked with Al Gore’s ‘96 campaigns, and his company Occidental Petroleum, and as I’ve said Gore and Wilson go back a ways and through similiar venues.

Paris

2005-11-06T02:35:00.000-05:00

City of Peace.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HA!

TFsterns

2005-11-02T22:07:00.000-05:00

Has three articles that indict the Democrats and their policies for what they really are. Anti-American. The Democrats have to go.

Article 1:

Did you mean that if Samuel Alito were to be confirmed and take a position on the Supreme Court that his quiet and thoughtful approach, his careful and methodical process of weighing points of law and how each case is compared to the rule of law as outlined in the Constitution, that his track record of being fair minded would "create a lot of problems"; is that what you meant? Or did I hear incorrectly?

TF has a very clear view in this, and it is many of these same thoughts that have been visiting my mind over the last couple of years. That the Democrats have an agenda which is outside their means to acquire but never the less dangerous and treasonous to People and the nation of the United States of America.

Again I reiterate:

Dan 11:27 And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.

I would say that the Democrats definitely qualify as a part of this verse whereby the effort is being made to unify this world under one government. Trying to; "boil the frog by turning up the heat slow",(Rev. Keller). The Democrats are a good example of the danger of turning away from God. Instead of working for good and God they are working at odds against him using known evil methods. That being so, their plans are for naught because of this: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
But one of these two gets a serious case of pride and does this: Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land.
This is somthing you can feel: that is something out there which is against the promises that God has made to men concerning citizenship in his house, so to speak.

Although the Democrats right now are acting out more and more the indignation part here(next couple of verses (I have to seriously edit the strongs mumbers out of the text or my brother complains about it being to busy which he is right,that being the case and time for me to work on this is short:::::)).
Dan 11:29 At the time appointed4150 he shall return,7725 and come935 toward the south;5045 but it shall not3808 be1961 as the former,7223 or as the latter.314
Dan 11:30 For the ships6716 of Chittim3794 shall come935 against him: therefore he shall be grieved,3512 and return,7725 and have indignation2194 against5921 the holy6944 covenant:1285 so shall he do;6213 he shall even return,7725 and have intelligence995 with5921 them that forsake5800 the holy6944 covenant.1285

The ships of chitum by the way meaning Greeks which today would be metaphorically or spiritually speaking and found in the hearts of men per say in the democratic forms of government.

I suppose that I could try to name the kingdom (northern)out of which this particular king (probably metaphorically speaking)originates from nevertheless this would be a person of great influence respect intellect wisdom and knowledge or it would be spiritual in nature ie. one of the 'princes of the husbandry' comes from, but it would be fleeting at best. You all could get a feel for this yourself by the changes in your own feelings so to speak. Trying to exactly identify the motions in the spirit by one entity or the other is ......difficult. Watching peoples behavior is easier but you have to take a macro look at it and you will have to be always in interview mode assessing short, medium and long range states of mind and hearts. Also this is a hindsight view point so it would be only chronicalling rather than a looking up the road effort. I have thought of many more details but....... We have this battle to look forward too.

Dan 11:31 And arms2220 shall stand5975 on his part,4480 and they shall pollute2490 the sanctuary4720 of strength,4581 and shall take away5493 the daily8548 sacrifice, and they shall place5414 the abomination8251 that maketh desolate.8074
Dan 11:32 And such as do wickedly against7561 the covenant1285 shall he corrupt2610 by flatteries:2514 but the people5971 that do know3045 their God430 shall be strong,2388 and do6213 exploits.
Dan 11:33 And they that understand7919 among the people5971 shall instruct995 many:7227 yet they shall fall3782 by the sword,2719 and by flame,3852 by captivity,7628 and by spoil,961 many days.3117

But never fear, and in all likely hood in response to prayers:

Dan 11:34 Now when they shall fall,3782 they shall be helped5826 with a little4592 help:5828 but many7227 shall cleave3867 to5921 them with flatteries.2519

Strange though the mention of flatteries in this verse lends me to wonder if the troubles mentioned previously in verse 32 and 33. At least here in the U.S. it appears that sequestering and isolation techniques are being employed. It is also possible that these are just preliminary in nature. but the mention of flatteries hints that the methods are not necessarily overt.

And so it is-another entry concerning what my blog is really about. Prophecy.

We have two cats but THIS is funny

2005-11-02T19:04:00.000-05:00

Dear Samantha you just may want to look at this little goody

"I saw the look on Senator Frist’s face, almost the same look was on the dear lady from church as she was overpowered by the odor of cat urine when it slapped her olfactory senses. The difference was in how she handled the situation; ignoring the obvious assault and holding her composure until she could move on to clearer air where she graciously ignored what had transpired only moments before."

I havent a thing to say today

2005-11-01T22:18:00.000-05:00

So the word came unto me to go to the Bible and post something from there. And I said unto my Father 'you pick'.

I closed my eyes and the mouse moves close to Phillipians.

And my eyes first fell on this.

Phi 1:2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

e-sword a truly free e-bible.

I am a self centered B-----d

2005-10-31T20:55:00.000-05:00

I have found myself unexplainedly explaining myself which leads me to question my voracity lately.
Being on one of those Zen style self examining trips I have discovered somethings about myself which I can summ up as: A straight forward totalitarian Buddhist. A realist who will become a nudist and live in a nudist colony(God help the other nudists), because my life most Resembles One Life to Live and in a final desperate bid for respectability I shall commit a heinous act of counterfeit , but never fear, I rise above it all and become a millionaire dying in my prime with only this final say.

Mwahahahahahahahaha.

Seriously; I end up with a; sumpin out of a 100%, normal score on this one and a note to find the somebody worse than me in my group to give the test to. Uh???? What group? Here is the rest of this last test e-mailed to me.

Who in your group of friends is the least normal of the bunch? Forward them this email with a link to our quiz and confirm your suspicions.Your friends want to know - Are You Normal? Take our quiz to find out: http://www.chatterbean.com/runormal/?

As for you: Your Normalcy Quotient is:' ? 'out of 100.What really counts is how your score compares to those of your normal or not so normal group of friends. Don't forget to forward them this email so you can compare results.

You are a Marvelous MaverickGiddy-up partner. You're a maverick and don't know what the definition of normal is. That's a-okay because you're now part of a fascinating group of desperadoes. Theodore Roosevelt earned a great deal of notoriety for his forceful personality and his resignation of office as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to join the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry regiment, also known as the Rough Riders, to fight in the Spanish American War. This maverick went on to be the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth President of the U.S., took on yellow journalism, and was a noted trust-buster.

Who doesn't remember the lovable Tom Cruise portraying Maverick in the movie Top Gun? He had a heck of a head of hair, but poor Mav can't compare to Hoo Sateow, who owns the record for the longest hair. A native of Chang Mai, Thailand, Hoo's hair measured in at sixteen feet and eleven inches, which only beat out his younger brother Yee by eleven inches. Would it surprise you to know that having a bachelor's degree would make someone a maverick? Only twenty-four percent of people have a bachelor's degree.

And speaking of a maverick in education, Balamurali Ambati is the youngest person to earn a degree to be a physician. Born on July 29, 1977, Ambati graduated the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City on May 19, 1995 at the tender age of 17.

Wherever you ride, it's sure to be off the beaten path because it's way more fun to find the path least traveled.

They glamourize the path finder but what they don't know is that the clique wouldn't let me walk the beaten path and the antics I pulled off they thought were humorous were just the freakin pickers in the briars.

I am going to keep this comment

2005-10-31T18:11:00.000-05:00

I think it is great that someone such as this would bother to make a comment like this in a little guy's web sitel, mine that is.

Or as Shakespeare wrote:"It is the fool who thinks himself wise, while the wise man knows himself to be a fool."That Shakespeare. He was a smart one.Samuel Alito Homepage 10.30.05 - 9:40 pm #

Creation letter 5

2005-10-30T23:37:00.000-05:00

Where Did the Universe Come From?

Part 5

Ron,

Today I introduce to you one of the most powerful science presentations I have ever heard. I listened to Hugh Ross give this presentation on atape while I was driving down Interstate 88 in Chicagoone night. As I listened, light bulbs were firing off in my head all over the place. So what's the big deal about this? Here's what you'll discover as you listen:-The delicate balance of vast forces in the universe,necessary for life to exist-Why planet earth is so extremely special in its ability to support life-The very measurement of the entire universe in all its magnificence, made possible only within the last 15 years-A fascinating place where science and theology come together in perfect agreement Now there's one more thing I want to tell you about this talk: It was recorded in 1994. Now why would I give you something called "New ScientificEvidence" if it's 11 years old? Here's why: Because unlike most things 11 years old--with only a couple of exceptions, the information Hugh Ross shares here has been shown to be even *more* accurate today than it was back then. One of the hallmarks of a successful scientific model is that it holds up for years and even decades, even while scholars debate it. I've been following Dr. Ross and his work, and virtually every fact he discusses here has been further strengthened and validated by all the physics and astronomy discoveries in the years since. On this link you'll find both the audio recording and the printed transcript. You can read it online, print it out, listen on your computer, burn it to a CD, or download this to your MP3 player. Go here now:http://www.cosmicfingerprints.com/audio/newevidence.htmEnjoy.

Perry MarshallCosmic Fingerprints, 67 East Algonquin Road, S. Barrington IL 60010

Creation Letter 3

2005-10-30T23:30:00.000-05:00

Where did the Universe come from?
Part 3:

Why the Big Bang was the most precisely planned event in all of history

Ron,

In your kitchen cabinet, you've probably got a spraybottle with an adjustable nozzle. If you twist the nozzle one way, it sprays a fine mist into the air. You twist the nozzle the other way, it squirts a jet of water in a straight line. You turn that nozzle to the exact position you want so you can wash a mirror, clean up a spill, or whatever. If the universe had expanded a little faster, the matter would have sprayed out into space like fine mist from a water bottle - so fast that a gazillion particles of dust would speed into infinity and never even form a single star. If the universe had expanded just a little slower, the material would have dribbled out like big drops of water,then collapsed back where it came from by the force of gravity. A little too fast, and you get a meaningless spray of fine dust. A little too slow, and the whole universe collapses back into one big black hole. The surprising thing is just how narrow the difference is. To strike the perfect balance between too fast and too slow, the force, something that physicists call "the Dark Energy Term" had to be accurate to one part in ten with 120 zeros. If you wrote this as a decimal, the number would look like this: 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000001

In their paper "Disturbing Implications ofa Cosmological Constant" two atheist scientists from Stanford University stated that the existence of this dark energy term "Would have required a miracle... An external agent, external to space and time, intervened in cosmic history for reasons of its own." Just for comparison, the best human engineering example is the Gravity Wave Telescope, which was built with a precision of 23 zeros. The Designer, the 'externalagent' that caused our universe must possess an intellect,knowledge, creativity and power trillions and trillions of times greater than we humans have. Absolutely amazing. Now a person who doesn't believe in God has to find some way to explain this. One of the more common explanations seems to be "There was an infinite number of universes, so it was inevitable that things would have turned out right in at least one of them." The "infinite universes" theory is truly an amazing theory. Just think about it, if there is an infinite number of universes, then absolutely everything is not only possible...It's actually happened! It means that somewhere, in some dimension, there is a universe where the Chicago Cubs won the World Series last year. There's a universe where Jimmy Hoffa doesn't get cement shoes; instead he marries Joan Rivers and becomes President of the United States. There's even a universe where Elvis kicks his drug habit and still resides at Graceland and sings at concerts. Imagine the possiblities! I might sound like I'm joking, but actually I'm dead serious. To believe an infinite number of universes made life possible by random chance is to believe everything else I just said, too. Some people believe in God with a capital G. And some folks believe in Chance with a Capital C. Tomorrow's installment: "If you can read this email,I can prove to you that God exists." Sound a little bold? Tune in tomorrow - same time, same station.

Respectfully Submitted,
Perry Marshall Cosmic Fingerprints, 67 East Algonquin Road, S. Barrington IL 60010

Some Critic

2005-10-30T21:15:00.000-05:00

About a year ago made the comment that I do not support my thoughts.

Tough. I am not trying to be a journalist. I am not trying to chronicle anything except the times we are living in according to the Bible. And I don't care what you d-----ts think. Never have-never will. I don't remember requiring you to believe what I say in fact for the ditchwalkers of life I hope you don't. That way you can stumble right into the tribulation totally dumbfounded.

A point of wisdom:

There is a left ditch and a right ditch. Both ditches are full of blind idiots. Too afraid to fight the resistance of climbing out of their rut's and getting on the smooth and easy path.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Presidential Aproval Ratings

2005-10-30T21:04:00.000-05:00

This last election I made a comment that the polls are off. I just didn't know by how much. They turned out to be 10 to 15% low. The Pres. won convincingly so much so that there was no contest.

I just saw apoll on one of the medium 3 news networks that show him down to 40 % approval rating. Bull.

I said I would support him no matter what. I want you to know that their is no way that any man would ever do what I think is a perfect job.

Even ol Ronald Reagan; the most perfect President we have had in the last century, did 100% of what I thought he should but you know what I am not even sure that if I was Pres. I would satisfy my self. Inspite of some mistakes I would still give this POTUS an A. The A+ is reserved for the legend himself, Ronald Reagan.

So to the left nut media you can trample the truth all you want it still wins out.

I See Da Light

2005-10-30T20:37:00.000-05:00

Yes I can see whether they glow or not aaaaand guess which group glows the most. Any Body who at any time in their life believed on Jesus Christ. The closer and more in love they are with Jesus the more they glow. The rest just kind tail of with drug addicts and liars having the darkest souls. That is why I can tell if your a pathological liar or not.

Anywho this comes to us compliments of Omni, Thankyou. Now I can tell people I see the good that they are.

In the November 2005 issue of Discover, I found this little blurb: "A Japanese scientist finds that human hands, foreheads, and the soles of the feet emit detectable light." Are you as stunned as I was? As always, I was very excited to learn something totally new, doubly so in this case because the folks who confidently proclaim that things like psychic phenomena can't possibly exist because science hasn't seen any evidence of them are going to have to accept that if they just now realized that light, which is hardly a new thing in the world of science, comes out of human skin, isn't it reasonable to think that there MIGHT be some energies that they DON'T know about going out of and/or into us that they haven't detected yet?

I

Oi-vey

2005-10-30T20:29:00.000-05:00

You fit in with:
Buddhism

Your ideals mostly resemble those of the Buddhist faith. Spirituality is the most important thing in your life. You strive to live by all of your ideals, and live a very intellectually focused life.

0% scientific.
20% faith-oriented.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

I have found none of these links wanting.

2005-10-29T17:08:00.000-04:00

Which says a lot for the intelligence of Ayn Clouter (the idea to do this came from PSTOD)

A-Changin' Times AirBeagle All Facts and Opinions alone The American Street A Mockingbird's Medley An old soul...anonyMoses Bark Bark Woof Woof blacksundae Blogadactyl blogAmy Body and Soul brownbeagle The Cassandra Page Chapomatic Commoner Sense correntewire Cup O' Joe Cut to the Chase Dark Bilious Vapors Dean's World DeanLand Dohiyi Mir Douglas McDaniel Dubya's Dayly Diary Egeon elementropy Estimated Prophet Ether Mind Everything Is Ruined eye of the storm Fact-esque The Felonious Elephant feministe The Forbidden Notes of the Boîte Diabolique The Fulcrum Futurballa Geertzian Graham_72 green monkey online The Heretik The Huck Upchuck Hugo Zoom iddybud The Invisible Library Jenn Arbuste Jesus' General jockeystreet killer empathy Last Left Turn Before Hooterville The League Of Liberals Learned Limb LGF Watch Liberal Oasis Life or Something Like It Lifting The Fog Listening to Clifford Geertz Lucifer's Condiments Mad Kane Michael Bérubé Michelle Maklin Middle Earth Journal The Moderate Voice New American Revolutionist Nude Chaos Old Whig's Brain Dump The Owner's Manual The People's Republic of Seabrook Pharyngula Phersu Pigeon-liver'd Point Five The Poison Kitchen Plum Crazy President Boxer Professor Kim's News Notes PSoTD The Punning Pundit Random Thoughts Rhymes With Right Rook's Rant Rox Populi scratchings skippy the bush kangaroo squareOne explorations strios StoutDemBlog Sweet Spirits of Ammonia The Talking Dog That Colored Fella T. Rex's Guide to Life The Truffle tsuredzuregusa Ugly Naked Guy Uncommon Sense The Un-Common Tater Urthshu washingtonrox What She Said!Women's Autonomy WTF Is It Now?The Yellow Doggerel Democrat ZenYenta

Graft in the medical /insurance industry is in serious need of investigation.

2005-10-29T14:44:00.000-04:00

One of the primary reasons for high medical costs is all the corruption in the medical industry.

When you go to a medical facility and you are asked to pay upfront, be cautious. It is better to sign a finacial agreement that you will pay x amount of dollars except for copays.

I have recently interviewed an individual who works for MRI Management LLC, a billing office for Open MRI's (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) in Georgia, Florida' and Arkansas who are ripping insurance companies and patients off.

They will take an upfront payment and when the insurance pays, if there is an overpayment between the two and there is a credit balance owed they are not calling to tell nor allowing staff to notify the patient or insurance company of a refund.

Also, if an insurance company overpays they do not automatically refund the insurance company per the "Dr./ owner" who will not authorize it. My confident quotes management, "Do not process any refunds unless requested by the patient". Hmmmm, I wonder....sounds like the "Dr" is definitely not following the law . Insurance laws state that "if a patient or insurance company is due a refund" then these accounts should be worked and any monies found overpaid refunded. According to my snitch the MRI's Management LLC will keep the patient's and the insurance companies overpayment.

In just the small center my informant works, there has so far been an average of $1700.00 a week in credits owed. This would add up to $88,400.00 a year. For the three larger centers in Macon, Ga, Suncoast and Tallahassee,FL that would be a credit balance of $2500.00 a week with a yearly toal of $130,000.00 for each center. So, for the small centers that would be a yearly total of refunds illegally kept in the amount of $530,000.00 and for the larger centers $390,000.00. The total for all centers is $920,000.00. A tidy little sum I say. These discoveries were made in the 3 months that the individual has worked for this corp. and If this policy has been ongoing for the 5 years I hear this place has been open that would make an estimated 3.5 to 4.5 million in monies illegally pocketed.

Again my suggestion for patients is not to pay anything up front, make them tell you how much you will owe and sign a financial agreement so they can only charge the amount owed after insurance pays. It has always been a standard with me that when I go for any type of radiology I never pay anything up front, or for that matter any medical services.

Tell them to bill you.

As for this particular business. Their day will come.

Nuff said

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Libby

2005-10-29T14:10:00.000-04:00

Another guy getting rammed in places he doesn't want it because he screwed up his notes he made after the questioning and then turned them over to investigators investigating another non-crime. I am sticking to, zero times anything else still equals zero. No crime commited times a crime committed equals no crime committed.

However Wizbang offers a more succinct word picture.

Target still trying to get at the largest economic group in America

2005-10-29T01:25:00.000-04:00

Thas right ol target is telling the 158 or so million Christians that they don't want us. So we won't go there. Nya on dummocrat Mark Dayton who owns Target.

I was just perusing my tracker files

2005-10-28T23:30:00.000-04:00

And what do you know. Someone visited my site right out of Harley Davidson. Figured I would give them a hey. ItsOK. I wouldn't ride a Harley but not because I don't like them or something but because I would probably kill myself if I tried at this time in my life. But this is America and I wouldn't deny anyone else there ride either.

Ok I need to amend my take on prophecy

2005-10-28T18:26:00.000-04:00

.
This happens first:

Rev 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth1 seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Rev 6:13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Rev 6:14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Rev 6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
Rev 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Rev 6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

This event I suppose is right around the corner. Like as in very close. Close enough for the hairs on the back of my neck to stand up.

Another funny

2005-10-27T22:06:00.000-04:00

Dummocrats

Especially since about a year ago I was tired of the liberal flemocrat adds popping up in my add bar at the top of the page(just cause I got a case of good spelling accidentally). I started misspelling and small casing the word scumocrats so that I would quit getting their adds.

And a hardy Sam MwaHaHaHaHaHa.

Ok my thoughts on Plame

2005-10-27T19:47:00.000-04:00

I have jsut run across an article written by a Zacklyright that highlights the depravity in the Plame CIA investigation.

"In order for a crime to have been committed per the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (the Act) of 1982, Valerie Plame would have had to have been stationed overseas and operating undercover. Ms. Plame has not been stationed overseas since 1997. There are other requirements necessary to violate the Act but I don't think it's necessary to list those that have also not been violated when the foremost aspect of the Act was not violated."

Natural Gas Reserves

2005-10-27T18:49:00.000-04:00

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Natural Gas Technically Recoverable Resources

Natural Gas Resource Category(Trillion Cubic Feet)As of January 1, 2000Nonassociated
GasUndiscovered247.71
Onshore121.61
Offshore126.1
Deep81.56
Shallow44.52
Inferred Reserves232.7
Onshore183.03
Offshore47.68
Deep7.72
Shallow39.96
Unconventional Gas Recovery369.59
Tight Gas253.83
Shale Gas55.42
Coalbed Methane60.35
Associated-Dissolved Gas140.89
Total Lower 48
Unproved990.89
Alaska32.32
Total U.S. Unproved1023.21
Proved Reserves167.41
Total Natural Gas
1190.62Source:

Energy Information Administration - Annual Energy Outlook 2002

> > > Supply OutlookNatural Gas Supply Outlook

Ample supplies of natural gas are available at competitive prices to help meet the nation's growing energy needs. Because natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel, it is playing an increasing role in helping to attain national goals of a cleaner environment, energy security and a more competitive economy.The natural gas industry currently provides about 25 percent of the energy consumed in the United States, and accounts for 31 percent of the nation's energy production. It supplies more than one-half of the energy consumed by residential and commercial customers, and about 41 percent of the energy used by U.S. industry.One of the most frequently referenced estimates of conventionally recoverable U.S. natural gas resources is that of the Potential Gas Committee (PGC) of the Colorado School of Mines. Based on its 1997 report, total U.S. recoverable natural gas resources are 1,234 trillion cubic feet (Tcf), including the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) estimate of 166 Tcf of proved reserves. This translates into a 65-year supply at current production levels. Many energy experts believe that the United States has several hundred years of natural gas supplies.After a decade of weak demand, beginning in the mid-70s, which was characterized by falling prices and a supply surplus, natural gas demand in the United States has increased about 35 percent since 1986. The American Gas Association projects that natural gas demand will continue to grow well into the next century, and that there will be growing supplies to meet new demand at competitive prices.The supply surplus in the 1980s discouraged drilling activity. Despite the lower drilling levels, large amounts of new natural gas reserves have been found, primarily because of new exploration and drilling technologies. For the past decade, additions to proved reserves annually have averaged more than 90 percent of gas production. As natural gas demand increases and technology continues to improve recovery rates, it is expected that there will continue to be a high level of reserves replacement.The natural gas industry can respond quickly to demand increases by using both lower-48 state sources and by developing near-term supplemental sources. This short-term capability is found in four supply categories. They are:Uncommitted Nonproducing Reserves. There are significant gas reserves now available in the lower-48 states that are not being produced. DOE's Energy Information Administration estimates this nonproducing gas at 33 Tcf. Much of this gas could be brought to the market quickly (in less than a year), with an annual deliverability of about 0.75 Tcf.Canadian Gas. U.S. companies currently have contracts with Canadian producers and marketers to import significant volumes of Canadian gas. In 1996, about 2.9 Tcf was imported.Accelerated Infill Drilling. In the early 1980s, gas deliverability increased as a result of extensive infill drilling in known gas fields (adding new wells to existing fields to enhance extraction of gas). Many U.S. natural gas fields are excellent areas in which accelerated infill drilling would further increase production capability.Liquefied Natural Gas. There are four liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the United States that were operational in the early 1980s. Two are operating today -- and all of them could become operational again, if demand warranted. Collectively, these terminals have the capacity to handle up to 850 billion cubic feet (Bcf) per year. In the event that additional gas supplies were needed in the United States, 200 Bcf could be realized from LNG within 12 months from the two terminals currently operational, and up to 500 Bcf/year with longer lead times.Overall, a short-term gas supply response potential of over 1.2 Tcf/year exists, most of which could be available in about a year. These additional sources should ensure that natural gas supplies will grow in response to rising demand.. Coalbed methane has become a significant supply source. It is currently estimated that more than 146 Tcf of methane can be recovered. Department of Energy statistics indicate that 1.0 Tcf of coalbed methane was produced in the United States in 1996.Two other sources of gas energy that hold potential for the future are biomass and urban landfills. Although these sources are renewable, market demand and the economics of production have limited their development. Biomass, which refers primarily to either land or aquatic plant material, can be processed to produce gas energy. However, further research in harvesting and conversion techniques are needed. Urban landfills currently produce about 4 Bcf of high-Btu gas a year.Large deposits of natural gas await discovery in the outer continental shelf (OCS) along the U.S. coastline. Currently, offshore areas provide about 28 percent of the total natural gas produced in the United States. Most of this gas comes from the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to proved reserves of over 30 Tcf, it is estimated that total OCS gas resources, including Alaska, amount to about 272 Tcf.. Future natural gas supply depends in large part on new technologies and on the economics of production. However, given the magnitude of the resource base from which future supplies will be drawn and the diversity of supply sources, there is no doubt that adequate natural gas supplies can be available far into the next century.

1. What Is Natural Gas and History of Use

Natural gas is generally considered a nonrenewable fossil fuel. (There are some renewable sources of natural gas; we'll discuss these later.) Natural gas is called a fossil fuel because most scientists believe that natural gas was formed from the remains of tiny sea animals and plants that died 200-400 million years ago.When these tiny sea animals and plants died, they sank to the bottom of the oceans where they were buried by layers of sand and silt. Over the years, the layers of sand and silt became thousands of feet thick, subjecting the energy-rich plant and animal remains to enormous pressure. Most scientists believe that the pressure, combined with the heat of the earth, changed this organic mixture into petroleum and natural gas. Eventually, concentrations of natural gas became trapped in the rock layers much like a wet household sponge traps water.Raw natural gas is a mixture of different gases. Its main ingredient is methane, a natural compound that is formed whenever plant and animal matter decays. By itself, methane is odorless, colorless, and tasteless. As a safety measure, natural gas companies add a chemical odorant (it smells like rotten eggs) so escaping gas can be detected. Natural gas should not be confused with gasoline, which is made from petroleum.History of Natural GasThe ancient peoples of Greece, Persia, and India discovered natural gas many centuries ago. The people were mystified by the burning springs created when natural gas seeping from cracks in the ground was ignited by lightning. They sometimes built temples around these eternal flames so they could worship the fire.About 2,500 years ago, the Chinese recognized that natural gas could be put to work. The Chinese piped the gas from shallow wells and burned it under large pans to evaporate sea water for salt.Natural gas was first used in America to illuminate the streets of Baltimore in 1816. Soon after, in 1821, William Hart dug the first successful American natural gas well in Fredonia, New York. His well was 27 feet deep, quite shallow compared to today's wells. The Fredonia Gas Light Company opened its doors in 1858 as the nation's first natural gas company. By 1900, natural gas had been discovered in 17 states. In the past 40 years, the use of natural gas has grown dramatically. Today, natural gas accounts for about a quarter of the energy we use.2. Producing Natural GasNatural gas can be hard to find since it can be trapped in porous rocks deep underground. Scientists use many methods to find natural gas deposits. They may look at surface rocks to find clues about underground formations. They may set off small explosions or drop heavy weights on the surface and record the sound waves as they bounce back from the rock layers underground. They also may measure the gravitational pull of rock masses deep within the earth.If test results are promising, the scientists may recommend drilling to find the natural gas deposits. Natural gas wells average 6,000 feet deep and can cost more than $75 per foot to drill, so it's important to choose sites carefully. On average, 27 out of every 100 exploratory wells produce gas. The others come up "dry." (The odds are better f or developmental wells-wells drilled on known gas fields. On average, 80 out of every 100 developmental wells yield gas.) Natural gas can be found in pockets by itself or in petroleum deposits.After natural gas comes out of the ground, it goes to a processing plant where it is cleaned of impurities and separated into its various components. Approximately 90 percent of natural gas is composed of methane, but it also contains small amounts of other gases such as propane and butane.Natural gas may also come from several other sources. One source is the gas found in coalbeds. Until recently, coalbed gas was just, considered a safety hazard to miners, but now it is a valuable source of natural gas.Another source of natural gas is the gas produced in landfills. Landfill gas is considered a renewable source of natural gas since it comes from decaying garbage. The gas from coalbeds and landfills accounts for three percent of the total gas supply today, yet their contribution could double by the year 2010.Today natural gas is produced in 32 states, though just three states--Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma-produce 61 percent of the country's natural gas. Altogether, the United States produces nearly 22 percent of the world's natural gas each year. In 1994 the United States imported 12 percent of its natural gas from other countries-mostly from Mexico and Canada.Transporting and Storing Natural GasHow does natural gas get to you, the consumer? Usually by pipeline. More than one million miles of underground pipelines link natural gas fields to major cities across the United States. Natural gas is sometimes transported thousands of miles by pipeline to its final destination. A machine called a compressor increases the pressure of the gas, forcing the gas to move along the pipelines. Compressor stations, which are spaced about 50 to 100 miles apart, move the gas along the pipelines at about 15 miles per hour.Some gas moved along this subterranean highway is temporarily stored in huge underground reservoirs. The underground reservoirs are typically filled in the summer so there will be enough natural gas during the winter heating season.Eventually, the gas reaches the "city gate" of a local gas utility. Here, the pressure is reduced and an odorant is added so leaking gas can be detected. Local gas companies use smaller pipes to carry gas the last few miles to homes and businesses. A gas meter measures the volume of gas a consumer uses.3. Who Uses Natural Gas and How Much?Just about everyone in the United States uses natural gas. Natural gas ranks number three in energy use, right after petroleum and coal. Twenty-three percent of the energy we use in the United States comes from natural gas.Industry is the biggest consumer of natural gas, using it mainly to manufacture goods. Industry also uses natural gas as an ingredient in fertilizer, photographic film, ink, glue, paint, plastics, laundry detergent, and insect repellents. Synthetic rubber and man-made fibers like nylon also could not be made without the chemicals derived from natural gas.Residences are people's homes. Residences are the second biggest users of natural gas. Six in ten homes use natural gas for heating. Many homes also use gas water heaters, stoves, and clothes dryers.Like residences, commercial use of natural gas is mostly for heating. Commercial use includes stores, offices, schools, churches, and hospitals.Natural gas is also used to make electricity. Just as the heat energy in coal is used to make electricity, so can the heat energy in natural gas. Many people in the energy industry believe natural gas will play a bigger role in electricity production as the demand for electricity increases in the future. Why? Because natural gas power plants are cheaper and cleaner than coal plants. Natural gas plants produce electricity about 20 percent more efficiently than new coal plants, and they produce it with far fewer air-polluting emissions.To a lesser degree, natural gas is making inroads as a transportation fuel. Natural gas can be used in any vehicle with a regular internal combustion engine, although the vehicle must be outfitted with a special carburetor and fuel tank. Natural gas is cleaner burning than gasoline, costs less, and has a, higher octane (power boosting) rating. Today more than 30,000 cars, trucks, and buses run on natural gas in the United States.Natural Gas ReservesPeople in the energy industry use two special terms when they talk about how much natural gas there is- resources and reserves. Natural gas resources include all the deposits of gas that are still in the ground waiting to be tapped.Natural gas reserves are only those gas deposits that scientists know, or strongly believe, can be recovered given today's prices and drilling technology. In other words, when scientists estimate the amount of known gas reserves, they do not include gas deposits that may be discovered in the future or gas deposits that are not economical to produce given today's prices. (You can think of reserves this way. if it cost you $10 to manufacture a box of yoyos that you could sell for $8, would you make the yoyos? Of course not! You would lose $2 on every box.)The United States has large reserves of natural gas. Most reserves are in the Gulf of Mexico and in the following states: Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Kansas, and Alaska. If we continue to use natural gas at the same rate as we use it today, the United States has about a 50-year supply of natural gas, though another 200 years of additional gas supplies could be produced if people are willing to pay more for the gas they use.New Ways to Use and Produce Natural GasBecause natural gas is cleaner than coal or petroleum, scientists are researching new ways to use and produce it.Fuel CellsMany scientists are interested in using natural gas to generate electricity. Engineers have already developed ways to use coal/petroleum and natural gas together to generate electricity, but a device called a fuel cell can use natural gas alone. A fuel cell is similar to a battery. It uses a chemical process rather than combustion (burning) to convert the energy of a fuel into electricity. The chemical process is much more energy-efficient than combustion and it emits no air pollutants. Unfortunately, the technology to generate electricity from fuel cells must be improved if it is to be commercially successful.BiomassScientists are also researching new ways to obtain natural (methane) gas from biomass--a fuel source derived from plant and animal wastes. Methane gas is naturally produced whenever organic matter decays. Today we can drill shallow wells into landfills to recover the methane gas. Landfills are already required to collect methane gas as a safety measure. Typically, landfills collect the gas and bum it to get rid of it. But the gas can be put to work. Last year over four billion cubic feet of landfill methane gas was used for heating and electricity production.There are other ways to convert biomass into natural gas. One method converts aquatic plants, such as sea kelp, into methane gas. In the future, huge kelp farms could also produce renewable gas energy.Liquid Natural GasAnother successful development has been the conversion of natural gas into a liquid state. In its liquid state, natural gas is called LNG, or liquid natural gas.LNG is made by cooling natural gas to a temperature of minus 260 degrees F. At that temperature, natural gas becomes a liquid and its volume is reduced 615 times. (A car reduced 615 times would fit on your thumbnail.) Liquid natural gas is easier to store than the gaseous form since it takes up much less space. LNG is also easier to transport. People can put LNG in special tanks and transport it on trucks or ships. Today more than 100 LNG storage facilities are operating in the United States.4. Natural Gas Prices and the EnvironmentSince 1985, natural gas prices have been set by the market. The federal government sets the price of transportation for natural gas that crosses state lines. State public utility commissions will continue to regulate natural gas utility companies-just as they regulate electric utilities.These commissions regulate how much utilities may charge their customers, and they monitor the utilities' policies.So how much does it costs to heat your home with natural gas? Compared to other energy sources, natural gas is a good buy. Heating your home with natural gas is cheaper than any other major heating source. It is more than four times less expensive than electricity when you use resistance heat. It is 25 percent less expensive than electricity when you use a heat pump.Natural Gas and the EnvironmentAll the fossil fuels coal, petroleum, and natural gas-release pollutants into the atmosphere when burned to provide the energy we need. The list of pollutants they release reads like a chemical cornucopia-carbon monoxides, reactive hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, and solid particulates (ash or soot).The good news is that natural gas is the most environmentally friendly fossil fuel. It is cleaner burning than coal or petroleum because it contains less carbon than its fossil fuel cousins. Natural gas also has less sulfur and nitrogen compounds, and it emits less ash particulates into the air when it is burned than coal or petroleum fuels.

One final statement from me.

I read a national Geographic in 1997 that showed at current usage rates we had an estimated 1000 year supply of natural gas and a 1000 year supply of Coal. I haven't done a big ol' search through their archives (lazy I guess) I should have just stole the mag from the Doc's office, but I didn't-whoopy and who cares, but it is there buried in their archives.And finally these two articles were not written by me but they are free to the public links provided.

Our current annual consumption
Natural Gas
21.84
23.2 %
21.34 tcf/year

1190 divided by 21 roughly equals only 60 years worth.

WTF are we doing going to other countries for our energy supplies?!

Nuff said..

AAAAnd Here's Jesse

2005-10-25T21:41:00.000-04:00

Jackson that is.

Evolution

2005-10-25T21:25:00.000-04:00

I don't believe it.

Want to know which direction God's face is? Big clue.

Rev 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

Which way is the universe going? Look back that away you should find God's face.

Rosa Parks

2005-10-25T20:22:00.000-04:00

One day I got a call for air conditioning to a Parks house. Yup you guessed it. No nononono-She was a cousin of Rosa Parks.

What a blessed lady she was you could see the glow of the Holy Spirit, well I could anyhow.

Never the less after I finished repairing her A\C and was kneeling next to her writing up her bill she told me that she was related. I listened (as she told me a story or two about her and Rosa's life. The story of her sitting on the bus and all. I asked because I really didn't know all that much about it. I know one thing, this white boy is glad Mrs. Parks did that. She not only helped her race she helped all of us live for a little while longer under a more free nation.

She is a shining example and reminder to us all that freedom isn't free but the rewards are worth the sacrifice and effort.

You are internal-Realist-Powerful

2005-10-24T19:17:00.000-04:00

You feel your life is controlled internally.

If you want something, you make it happen.

You don't wait around for things to go your way.

You value your independence and don't like others to have control.

You are a realist when it comes to luck.You don't attribute everything to luck, but you do know some things are random.You don't beat yourself up when bad things happen to you...But you do your best to try to make your own luck.
When it comes to who's in charge, it's you.Life is a kingdom, and you're the grand ruler.You don't care much about what others think.But they better care what you think!

The Three Dimension Luck and Power Test

From Sam

because I follow everything Sam does.

Groupy like.

And Jeb Bush

2005-10-23T20:46:00.000-04:00

Son of a gun

Are these sites really real

2005-10-23T20:26:00.000-04:00

Donald Rumsfeld