Don't know how to upload but maybe stringman will do it for me as in my thread about the discussion of the Woodhouse brothers on nuking the muslim country.
Then Crayons posted this on my other thread.
"From - Audacity of Hope: (taken directly from obama book)
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction"
think paid islamic mercenaries & cartels sitting a few miles south of el paso waiting for the countdown to GO TIME."
Your thoughts? Fellow US citizens?
I don't know about the other parts of the world but where I am?
It's paradise. Spring is here with flowers blooming and the birds singing.
Let's celebrate life, shall we?
It's short, much shorter than the trees..and, some other creatures. .
I won 50 bucks on the lottery.
Anything bothering you that you just want to share?
Imagine we're all friends. No offense, just plain
common sense.
While we're at it, where's butter? Has anyone seen her? And Jazzy? Do you miss anyone?
I came across this on Fox News.
Fox Guest: Rand Paul Must Prove He’d Nuke a Muslim Country if We Needed
by Andrew Kirell | 11:33 am, April 7th, 2015
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On Monday morning, Fox & Friends held a lively debate between Brad and Dallas Woodhouse, the modern (and very much bloodless) political equivalent of Civil War “brother against brother” battles.
Brad is a Democratic consultant and the head of American Bridge PAC; Dallas is a Republican strategist and founder of Carolina Rising. The siblings once reached minor fame when they were interrupted by a phone call from their mother during their dramatic C-SPAN battle.
For their joint Monday morning Fox appearance, the pair debated this very Fox & Friendsian question: “Which GOP contender has the Democrats most afraid?” And when the subject turned to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) — seen by GOP foreign policy hawks as too non-interventionist — here’s what Republican Woodhouse had to say:
sort of worldview may not be fitting the world as a lot of people see it right now. He’s got to prove — in my opinion, Rand Paul’s got to prove that he will nuke a Muslim country if we have to. I’m not saying we should. But I’m saying we will do that if it takes saving America and that there’s no doubt that he will do what it takes to protect America.
“Thank God you’re not running for president,” Democratic Woodhouse said in response.
The blog Crooks & Liars picked up on the clip and just when you’d expect the conservative Woodhouse to suggest the famously liberal website took him out of context, he followed up on Facebook with an affirmation of his views:
“Damn right I said it,” he declared. “I of course meant that Rand Paul has to win over the American (and republican primary) voters on national security. At its core the GOP is a National Security Party. Period. We are not the blame America first crowd. That is my brothers side, not mine.”
“We don’t like war, I don’t like war. We hate war,” he continued. “However we need a POTUS who will do WHATEVER it takes to protect America and her friends including Israel. I never want to see another Nuke used, but If We HAD to like in WW2 then so be it. I want a President willing to keep the option of Nuking the enemy on the table rather than letting THEM get the bomb to terrorize us and threaten and possibility destroy Israel as we know it.”
He concluded: “America First. Whatever it takes. No matter what.”
(Quick question from your humble writer: How does one *prove* you’d nuke a Muslim country? Just say it three times and it magically becomes so?)
Watch the original clip below, via Fox News:(don't know how to upload it or I would have, but you can go to Fox news and get it.)
This is not my choice, nor would I wish it to be, but given the fact that it is being talked about perhaps we should be aware? Now tell me, must we? Or must we not?
How difficult is it to change?
I mean from a point of view of bettering our life?
Not only to us and our immediate family, friends, it for the whole world?
Can we at least try?
Thanks all for your opinions and participation.
My middle daughter got married last summer after 7 years and two kids together and I want to share my elation on the progress of their beautiful union.
I dedicated this letter for them and my daughter read it with tears in her eyes after they were well settled. Although they lived very happily after deciding to fulfill one of the sacrament, I just want to share this piece of my mind for whatever it's worth..
Marriage is the uniting force between two souls, heart, body and mind to be one. It solidifies togetherness. A complete union and synchronicity of love for two persons who has become one. It is the culmination of a very long thought and perceived responsibility to conduct everything in life for the benefit and glory of two people. A seal that promotes sacred respect, love and happiness for both. While it is not going to guarantee any non commission of wrongs on either side, it does foster a deeper way to understand situation that might be so challenging and difficult. It breeds so much strength for the protection of the union that just by wearing the symbol of itself which is the ring, it creates a formidable impression about the sacredness of the unity in itself.
Anyone who witnesses the worn seal and symbol would otherwise position themselves to not encroach and therefore respect that unity by not undermining in anyway shape and form of that marriage.
Marriage, like any relationship requires a great deal of labor specially for its protection on all harmful forces around. Whether we like it or not, there will always be dark storms that will be weathered. There is always going to be dark forces that will undermine it. There will always be negative froces that will surround it. Specially jealousy and ego. My daughter Karen, in her speech, during the wedding touched my heart so deeply. and said: "Don't invite ego into the marriage ." What a profound advise. What a very strong and deep meaning it creates. More often than not, it is indeed, this calculating feeling of being so egotistic that ruins everything. Be on guard always, that all you do for the both of you and for your happiness is to stay humble and be respectful. Learning always also make it easier to position yourselves on things that you both will love. Be always a student in life. Be always considerate to the both of you and most of all, don't cease being a student of life. It will sustain you on knowing what is best and it will guide you to create a better union and better everyday performance of your relationship to one another. This is a song and dance you will do to each other. Make it sweet and joyful. Most of all be humble. There is nothing better than to recognize all our flaws and imperfections and be thankful that you have the ability to learn.
Marriage is a light that guides to achieve a very loving and very peaceful togetherness. A shield of great possession of being one. Always, you are now one. One body, one heart, one beat, one being and most of all, one soul. n the alert to learn and to understand so that the longer you are together, the easier it will be for anything that you will do.
A vessel of exuberance. Of gratification and pleasure. Of permanence. Of a very long if not forever unity. It is an act of goodness, to make this world a better p[lace. While each and everyone of us can do it, even in the absence of marriage, yet its force and effect is far greater by two people doing it together in a very structured and determined ways.
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Thanks all for your reads and contributions.
This blog is a little deviation from my usual one and it is very personal. It is about salvaging the memories by keeping photos of my past. My life as documented on those lovely pictures which were secured until three months ago.
Today, I just found out what happened to them and it led to my most unbelievable never before happened anger. I have become so vile, so violent (with no one but myself alone in my room) so hateful, so mad and so unreal. I never thought I can capably be this person, and for a moment, it led me to thinking that we, humans, are indeed so flawed and so destructive when we lost control. When we are triggered with the most unusual emotions brought about by some kind of betrayal and deceit.
This is the point of my blog. The friendship that I thought was built upon trust and love and respect..The friendship that started 40 years ago from College.
I don't have so many close friends. In fact I only have about three that I consider truly as my friends whom I maintain communication, being a confidant and truly there when you need them.. What a mistake. What a very widely misconceived perception. What a revelation.
Having been raised as a very respectful and humble person from a very poor but loving family, I do know that I possess civility, politeness and professionalism as required by the code of conduct as a College professor for a very long time. Trained to be always slow to anger, be diplomatic and be always objective at whatever challenges and or issues pertaining to any misunderstanding and or differences with others. In short, I would much rather avoid aggressive persons than engage and or face them head on. That is why I so believe in the Golden Rule and the provisions of DESIDERATA. But today, it all flew out the window. All those years of training. All the efforts of calculated discipline. All the merits of good conduct and behavior all went KAPUT. SIPPO, NADA.
Today I became the most hateful, cynical, irrational. and animal so out of control with no trace of kindness, humility and understanding as I have always been throughout my life. Today I was totally consumed by anger that eventually turned to sorrow and pain. The betrayal I felt was so deep and so beyond healing.
So I used to live in a very big house, which the last one, lost in the economic meltdown (2008), as most of our asset and investment that could have made me retire in 2010 and donate my time to the UN's program of Humanitarian services relative to poverty and hunger. Well I changed so much from that awful loss and experience and eventually triggered my divorce after being happily married for 25 years. I never knew what happiness truly was, until that divorce. Not that I wasn't happy then, it's just that being institutionalized in the supposedly blessings and holy sacrament of marriage, I found out, what a beautiful world there is after so long. Being alone and free. Being able to do things without any obligation towards anyone as to how you spend your time. Anyways, don't get me wrong, I would be married again, if so needed but for right now, I truly am happy. Being single and alone, free.
Anyways, where was this going to? Here you go. So I got rid of everything. So much, even the most expensive furniture ordered from Italy, that covered three living rooms, 4 bedrooms and three bath rooms, poof went to the goodwill all those that were not sold in the moving sale. Except for my own bedroom set which I still have and my suits and shoes..and dining table. .Bottom line, from that to a little room I now have, living with my middle daughter, who wanted me to live with her so I can help in my grand son and some expenses in the rent.
Continues on the comment. Thanks..
Perhaps there are some of us that truly feel life finally is happening. ..
This blog is all about when you think your life has been turned around as you wanted it????
Or not. ..
Mind if you share? Anything really. .
Sometimes we ask silly questions like, what if it's the end of the world? ???
Just saying. ...
Hello everyone.
And. ...
This blog allows everything. ...bickering, venting, praising, glorifying. ..etc..
Have A GOOD Day To all..
Life is never easy. If anything, it is a journey of so much twist and turns and at the end of the day we are wrung like a fabric, all too worn and dry. Then our mistakes, oh...don't we have them? With all the test and struggles that we go through, these shortcomings are but part of our imperfect life. The question is? When we do make them, do we have the guts to accept and own our responsibility? Or does pride gets into us and refuse to acknowledge them?
I do make a lot of them, but I do know that I don't hesitate to ask for forgiveness as soon as I realize what I have done.
I also know that the road to a healthy relationship sometimes depends on our willingness to accept our faults and work towards establishing an effort to correct our mistakes.
How long would it take, after a misunderstanding has occurred, for you to acknowledge such an effort? How critical is it if any, is the implication on the timing?
Are there moments, when afterwards, realize our errors, have made us say: "Why did I do that?" then what would you do to fix it?
Or do we let it fly in time and forget it happened?
Thanks for all your contributions and participation.
For those beautiful pictures and quotes he post everyday.
And where's the beautiful Umka?
Anybody seen her?
ANGER AND HOW IT AFFECTS OUR LIVES
With all the dark and negative emotions, again, gifted to us, this sentiment of being angry, is one that most experienced not only once in while but even perhaps how many times in a day when it comes to us.
After reading and or familiarizing myself with this emotion, I am rather convinced that this is in fact a very good feeling, as long as it is not left to an outrageous level.causing us more damage than when and how it started in the first place.
In short don't make it out of control But here is the question, when does our emotions go out of control? How do we monitor and keep it within the accepted level of being positive? While I believe, it is triggered by someone and or something that has done us wrong, how do we address it to become a tool in understanding and or finding a solution to a problem?
I would love to leave so many variables as I am interested in sharing the inherent characteristics of this emotion on our individual experiences.
So do we know when anger is out of hand? What do we normally do to avoid confronting it so it wouldn't escalate to a more serious problem? Lastly when do you consider this emotion to be really positive if at all?
Thank you all for your continued participation on my blogs and I am grateful.
NOTE: In my country, we do have some social interventions for some cases as domestic violence, work harassment and any kind of anger dissertation that can lead to a more serious commitment of major crimes related to this emotion.
Your country may have some programs that is similar and or even better, would you would like to share them?
Thank you so much.
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