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This happened to Madalena, a sweet friend of mine living in South Africa, just a few days ago…:-

Madalena: Im off to Northen Cape to visit X___[her son], he works there. Two Saturdays ago something terrible happened. Z____[a friend of ours] and her boyfriend A_____ pick me up from work every Saturday and we go to different Portuguese restaurants for lunch and then we usually go this port coffee shop for coffee then they take me home and most of the time come up for coffee & to talk to R___[her other son & his girlfriend]. When they left we let them out I ran up the stairs & closed the curtains. The next thing we hear gunshots and R___[her son] looked out side and then was in a panic to go out, I couldn’t understand why I thought it must be someone fighting in the street> I then heard my landlady ____ screaming:-
" Get me the damn gun, stop it I’m going to shoot you!!”
I started screaming " stop it we're going to shoot" then I heard a succession (forgive my spelling but I don’t have spell check here) of 5 shots. Then I saw Z___[our lady friend by the gate & then I realized it was to do with them! I grabbed the keys & R___[her son & I ran down as we opened the gate the robbers[black thugs] were driving off in our friend’s A____’s 4x4 & then I saw him[ our friend A____] lying in a crumpled heap on the grass. For a moment I hesitated too scared at what I might see…

Me: message stopped here:- A___ then i saw him lying in a crumpled heap on the grass for a moment i hesitated too scared at what i might see...
What next?
Madalena: He was groaning & we were around him, I asked where he was shot, I forgot that a person whose just been shot usually doesn’t know where they’ve been shot, and he said so, then R___, the Landlady asked where it hurts. There was a crowd around us by now, I asked some one to shine a cell-phone light so we could check, he said his leg was sore so I checked his inner thighs so that if he was shot there it was vital to stop the bleeding, it was clear there, R___, the Landlady saw the bullet hole in his chest and some one passed a towel & I put pressure but it wasn’t pumping out blood, & I thought:-
“Oh good its to the right, missed his heart, then I saw blood in the middle of his buttocks & my heart sank as I thought… his spine! Well the ambulance was taking too long[normal for South Africa, by the time police and ambulances get there, you’re looong dead…] so R___[her son fetched his car round the front and he and D---[his girlfriend]a took him to M____ hospital…
Me: and then?

I wish I could see one
A UFO
Talk to the aliens inside
Where did you come from?
Can you take me with you?
I'm tired of this blue mudball we call Earth
I have read some on UFOs
The largest one measured around 4,000 feet across
I made a UFO out of snow a few weeks ago
Now it is almost melted away
Did aliens crash in Roswell, New Mexico?
Do we owe our cell phones and computer technology to green men?
How many of them are out there?
How do you travel thousands of light years
And not have a mechanical problem along the way?
I've never seen an alien
But I've also never seen a baby pigeon
But I'll bet they exist

What is the worth of a single man?
Does he have a price in gold, or maybe it’s water in a can?
What is the cost of a peaceful life?
Free? Or must there first be strife?
What is the value of love?
Does it have a value? Or is it a gift from above?
The answers lie in truth, although,
The question must be asked; do you wish to know?
And what is the truth worth?
Pain and suffering, sorrow and hurt?
For, many times, this is the price paid your whole life through.
Now. What is the cost of truth for you?

I spend you on pop
I spend you on donuts and cheese curds
My favorite bill is the Andrew Jackson 20 dollar bill
Though he was a really bad man
I have a lot of Washington 1 dollar bills
A few Lincoln 5 dollar bills
An occasional Hamilton 10 dollar bill
For fun I get some Jefferson 2 dollar bills
I keep some quarters with National Parks on them
I keep some Canadian coins too
My favorite is the 2 dollar coin with the polar bear on it
It is silver and gold
I have a few Eisenhower dollar coins
I prefer to spend real money verses credit cards
Real money is easier to keep track of
And I never have to pay interest on it
Credit or cash?
Cash!

Like a pack of cards its folding
scenes like the last days in Vietnam
helicopters flying the staff out
while the Taliban
roll through the streets
US reinforcements will be too late
the games up, the day is done
Afghanistan will be back
in the dark ages
God help the women
the educated
the free thinkers
life now under a rabble
of backward clerics
and armed goat herders

Ah...television. As we are exposed to this endless tirade/parade of visual rubbish, rather than merely beating one's head against the wall in a too consistant repetitive fashion, I offer up some side views of distraction (yes, just like TV) geared to somewhat ease the constant headache that we find ourselves ordealing with when viewing television.
'It helps to be smashed out of your skull.'-me
'I find television to be very educational. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.'-Groucho Marx
'In general, my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced on television.'-Erma Bombeck
'If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.'-Lily Tomlin
'Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.'-Ann Landers
'Television is the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.'-Clive Barnes
'Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your house.'-David Frost
'All television is children's television.'-Richard P. Adler
'When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.'-Andy Warhol
'Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to hear the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.'-T.S. Eliot
'I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.'-Orson Welles
'TV is chewing gum for the eyes.'-Frank Lloyd Wright
'Television has brought back murder into the house, where it belongs.' 'Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.'-Alfred Hitchcock
'Radio is the theatre of the mind; television is the theatre of the mindless.'-Steve Allen
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.'-John Lennon
'Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.'-Joan Rivers
'The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.'-Sophia Loren
'Television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.'-Les Brown
'If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.'-Maynard James Keenan (paraphrased)
'Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born.'-Norman Mailer on newspapers, television, movies
Turn off the TV

What shall we do today
if tomorrow does not come
in it's usual way?
Now that the line is drawn
what shall our world be like
come the dawn?
The powers that be are toying with
the future of a terrible atrocity which is
about to unfold who knows what lies or truths
have been told?
Kind of wishing there was a better way
for our leaders who want to play.
Nobody can afford the cost to consider what may be lost.
Haven't we learned by now that nobody will win
for our wage of sin?
A once great Nation is rapidly losing it's station
It wanted change but I don't think it's so happy
with the results arranged.
The shepherd of their hope turned out to be a dope
Yet, when one has a different agenda perhaps we
are not seeing within the proper scope.
To consider what happened on that great and terrible day
12 years ago as we reflect upon those who were taken away
We usher in a new battle of the same war having to reopen
old sores potentially making new ones.
Overall the war was never over it just changed it's mask
now we wonder are we up to the task?
Oh they may love to justify themselves for their own reason
but I wonder is this the best season?
Yes it seems apparent a fool who was uniquely groomed for this occasion where nobody knows whose side he is on when it comes to this invasion. Yet we can pretty much see he seems to dance for his bothers in the hood I can only assume he wants to rule the world if he could but as long as we continue to give him the power he will
be laughing at the last hour. Hence, who is more foolish the fool or the fool who blindly follows him to the burning towers?
In the end nothing will matter as the speculators clatter among themselves wondering in years to come who will be to blame
as we all walk the hall of shame.

I believe its the

"Clock Timer"
Guy

Held in the highest Esteem of
The
"Time Changers"

He has many hands to his time
Throughout the worlds

He can bend time
Forward Backward

The High Priest of Time

Is already here
has been

You are All aware

A sleep of later
A wake of early
morning

My pretty flowers
amused at the dawning

Life is like a long trip on a short road
There are so many thing to behold
Many drive straight
Many drive reckless
Many drive drunk
Each of us is unique
Each drives a different car
Each looks at life differently
Some look too long at the road in front of them
And forget to look up ahead at the obstacles in their way
So live as you should drive
Look out from yourself and don't live too close to yourself
Try not to examine the mistakes
Don't dwell on the past
Be a nonconformist
If your true self does not accept the values of the majority
Better to live your life the way you would like it
Than live your life to please the values of others

I hate these kids
This pay I'm getting
What a joke!
There is no respect for teachers
None, zip, nada
How has it gone so bad so fast
It used to be good for teachers
A good pension after 30 years
You could retire in your mid 50's and have about 30 years of good retirement
Teach 30, retire 30, sounded great, right?
Now that has been stripped away to give it to fat cronies like Donald Trump
And don't get me started with these kids
Parents who want to be friends to their kids
Kids being raised by grandparents because their parents chose drugs instead
Kids who do things so disgusting and bullying that redefines cruelty
I should quit, but I have three things that keep me going to this tomb
June, July, and August!