Saturday, December 16, 2006

Laughing at the Bible

How often when you see someone reading the Bible do you see them break out in laughter. I mean, the Bible isn't funny is it? Big serious book right?

Well, the other night my wife had her Bible in hand and was reading the following passage:


When John heard in prison what Christ was doing, he sent his disciples to ask him, "Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?"

Jesus replied, "Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. (Matt 11:2-5 NIV)



This little passage caused her to break out in a loud and long laughing spell. Not chuckling or tittering. The deep kind of laughter.

When she finally gained control I asked what was so funny so she read the passage to me and said how it reminded her of me. Then she starts laughing again.

HUH???

She said, "When I ask you a question you give me a long drawn out answer and all I want is a yes or a no. Jesus did the same thing you do and I could see John shaking his head and saying, "All I wanted was a yes or no answer"."
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It must be a guy thing. At least she compared me to Jesus. That's a good thing right?
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Friday, December 15, 2006

Being5 IS THE BEST CARTOON FOR YOUR WEBLOG VOTE!

This post is stickied to the top (until the voting is over). More recent posts can be found by scrolling down. That is, AFTER you vote for Georgie.


Real simple - Takes only a few seconds - a minute at the most. (Unless you get caught up looking at Georgie's past cartoons. You can save to favorites for that.)


Click on the cartoon below to see the best example of cartooning in the world. - Then click on this Weblog Awards link and vote for BEING5! - Some heavy competition. - Let's vote daily to put Good Clean Family and Kid Friendly Humor over the top.

(The link to vote is also available at Georgie's blogsite)



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Thursday, December 14, 2006

Is it Friday Yet?

Normally I post on this blog in the A.M. - The Feed Blitz Emailer I signed up for takes my stuff at midnight and sends it out at willy nilly times it seems. - I'm going to be switching up on that and looking for a better (free) notifier real soon. (My Christmas present to myself. - Suggestions welcome - -(8-P)~~~~)

Anyway - This morning - (14Dec06) I got caught up with some Blog Surfing through my Sitemeter.com hits.
- One came through Christian-bloggers.com of which I am a member. - I clicked to see what was up on their 'headlines' and saw a line that said, "I Love Ellen Degeneres: Part 2" and below that was "I Love Ellen Degeneres: Part 1" - I chose link number one because I love things to be done decently and in order. It's scriptural that way.

Well, to make a long story longer, I found myself in the midst of the normal daily Christian dilemma. Meeting 'Christians' that make statements like, "I hate Ellen Degeneres."

The Rev.J. Theodore Helms of Our Sovereign Joy dealt with the problem in three parts. - Each a long read in blogging standards but each well worth the time. Leave a comment with each one as I did and tell him where he is wrong. (HINT: He's not! But you might want to suggest to him that he link to the next one in his previous postings.)

i-love-ellen-degeneres-part-1"
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BUT WAIT!!! THERE'S MORE!

I then got to his Home Page and discover that on 13Dec06 Scott Welch posted on the Sovereign Joy blog with his posting about harboring hatred in ones heart. This made four posts and comments and then I had to get to work. No time to post this AM! Oh well. It was well worth the time.

So what happens when I get home tonight. I go to Sitemeter.com again and find I've got hits from My Weekly Thoughts who thought the Being Five link was worthy of a mention. Another half hour of my life gone but I must say, "It was not Wasted." - Both going into my blogroll soon. -

P.S. This posting was modified 'after' 9PM (12Pm Eastern) because I had to hit 'Publish' in time for the email notifier to send it out by Friday AM. HELP!!!

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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class
Travis L. Youngblood
Wednesday Hero - 13 Dec 06

Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Travis L. Youngblood
Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Travis L. Youngblood
26 years old from Surrency, Georgia
Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward)
July 21, 2005


Elmer "Mo" Youngblood wasn't sure why his sailor son wanted to leave relatively safe duty aboard a ship to be a combat medic in Iraq.

"For some reason or another, he wanted to be a corpsman," Youngblood said of his son, Petty Officer 3rd Class Travis Levy Youngblood.

He was a medic with a Marine unit in the Iraqi town of Hit when he was hit by an IED.

"I was tickled to death with him being in the Navy," Elmer Youngblood, a former Navy man, said from his home in Surrency, in southeast Georgia. "I wasn’t too happy when he basically volunteered to go over there, but it was his choice."

Travis Youngblood grew up mostly in Virginia. He attended Appling County High School after his father moved there in the 1990s. Surrency is listed as his hometown on his Navy enlistment papers and he and his father enjoyed fishing and hunting together there.

His wife, Laura, also served in the Navy. She left the service and lives in Long Beach, N.Y.

The couple has a four-year-old, now five, son, Hunter Youngblood, and Laura Youngblood was pregnant with the couple's second child at the time of his death.


These brave men and women have given their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams.
Those Who Say That We're In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don't Know Where To Look


This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. If you would like to participate in honoring the brave men and women who serve this great country, you can find out how by clicking here.

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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Will They Love Their Children Now?

It was a Jewish lady who, in 1957, said to the National Press Club in Washington D.C., "Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us."

This sentiment has been utilized and slightly changed in many ways through the years. 'Arabs' becomes 'Muslims' or 'Palestinians'' and the 'us' often becomes 'Jews'. One site I visited tonight while looking for the exact quote said the line was oversimplification. Is it oversimplification when considering the enormous problems in the Middle East?

If 'HOPE' is not thrown into the mix it very well could be.

Watching YouTube videos of Muslim mothers sending their children off to be suicide bombers or boasting about how many of their children strapped on bombs to murder innocent people Golda Meir's statement comes to my mind again and again.

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Two Palestinian political and religious factions, Hamas and Fatah, are once again at one another's throats.

- Quote - Hamas gunmen opened fire on a group of demonstrators who blamed the militant Islamic group for the slayings. The escalating violence dimmed hopes for a unity government and peace talks with Israel - raising the specter of civil war instead.
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At another protest in northern Gaza, Hamas gunmen fired in the air above hundreds of demonstrators, including children, at a Fatah rally. No one was hurt.

On Tuesday evening, hundreds of Fatah supporters fired in the air and marched through Gaza's main street, calling out the names of Fatah members who died in factional fighting. Then they closed off the street with burning tires.

About a dozen Fatah gunmen surrounded the car of Hamas parliamentarian Mohammed Shihab, he said, banging on his vehicle with their guns, hands and shoes. Shihab escaped unharmed, but said he feared for his life.

There were also demonstrations in West Bank cities, including Hebron, where about 1,000 people marched through the city, with gunmen firing in the air. Participants called for the resignation of the Hamas-led government.
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Monday three children were murdered on their way to school. Fatah devotees claim the shooters were of the Hamas faction...

Now mind you the car windows were darkened and the shooters could not see in it. They may have thought Baha Balousheh, the dead boys' father, an intelligence officer and Fatah loyalist, was in the car. The fact it was on a street lined with nine schools, should have given the murderers pause.

It didn't. - Four more people were wounded in the attack on Palestine Street, which is lined with nine schools. The attack sent children running for cover. Some dropped to the ground, others fled in panic.

Balousheh, who was not in the car had escaped two previous Hamas assassination attempts. His children were not so lucky.

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News on the street quite a few years back claimed a bunch of Irish mothers had said, "Enough!" and the violence stopped. Could Muslum mothers do the same in Gaza and perhaps in all the countries in the Middle East where violence is rampant? Only thing about that idea is that perhaps the Irish men loved their mothers more than they loved the violence. Is the same true in the Middle East? I hope so.
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Ynet news has the story - Religious leader in Gaza: Child killers must die -

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Will Dems Ever Lighten Up?

Went through The Conservative Voice this morn and noticed an article by John Lillpop


Terrorist Should Have Waited a Month

Derrick Shareef, a Muslim, has got to be one of the most unfortunate terrorists running around.

Twenty-two year old Shareef, from Rockford, IL, was taken into custody after a plot to blow up a Chicago shopping mall was thwarted by the FBI’s Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Force.
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Shareef appears to lack the high-technology sophistication and abundant funding that many Islamofascists are noted for. He also seems to lack room-temperature intelligence because he was arrested when he met with an undercover agent to trade a set of stereo speakers for four hand grenades and a handgun.

As if that is not bad enough, Shareef seems to have a lousy sense of timing to boot. Had he laid low until January, terrorist wimps like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid would be in charge, and Shareef would be a protected minority.



I found this article to be humorous. Reading the comments I saw that those on the Politically Correct side of the aisle did not find any humor in it. They were too busy railing against profiling and ranting about John Lillpop ranting.

Back to the question that is the heading of this post.

prying1 sez: "I doubt it."

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Monday, December 11, 2006

Snopes on ATM Theft.

Snopes.com has a sequence of photographs that show some bad guys scamming a good citizen out of his ATM card and his pin number. Then a sequence of photos that show how it was done. Check it out


One way to stay on top of scams and learn how the bad guys are evolving their methods is to frequently visit Ed Dickson's website. - Fraud, Phishing and Financial Misdeeds -

A must visit for those who like to keep their wallet intact.



It seems that the scams the crooks use are usually based on previous scams that worked. Most are not original. Learning about ways others have been taken by con men can set up an alarm in your mind that will hopefully go off before your money disappears. Stay aware.


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