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"The Blue And The Grey" Honoring The Magnanimity & Courage of Southern Women Who decorated graves of Fallen Confederate & Union Soldiers Alike.

People these days , often complaint , that there's not much room left for honesty..

But folks .. I think that's really not the case at all ...

I mean , I agree that , there are too many dishonesty everywhere , but , if you look wisely and carefully with positivity , you will surely find Honesty Within Dishonesty everywhere as well !!!

For example ...

There is a contract killer who commit murder in exchange of money ...
Yes... I know , He is a murderer ..
But...
When he received the money and agreed to the agreement to kill someone , have FAITH , he will Definitely fulfill the agreement !!!

Isn't that HONESTY !!!

There are some kidnappers who have kidnapped your kid ...
And they threatened you that , if you inform the police , they will cut the fingers of your kid..
So next day when they get to know that you have contacted the police , they immediately sent you the amputated fingers of your kid !!! They kept their PROMISE !!!

Isn't that HONESTY !!!!!!

A corrupted officer , asked a huge off the record donation in order to complete a task..
Well.. You have to pay of course ..
But..
He will complete the task at least !!!
You can mark his words that , he is the MAN OF HIS WORDS !!!!

Isn't that HONESTY !!!!!!!

So what's there to be so sad about after all guys !?!?!
CHEERS !!!! Let's just celebrate soooooooo much of HONESTY !!!

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Important Note :

I was very confused about where to put this blog .. In Society or in Comedy section..

But then I thought , What's the difference at all !?
Our SOCIETY is NOTHING BUT A JOKE after all !!!



Enjoy your weekend fellas ...

What's the best method of treating convicted murderers? Should they be given life in prison, or sent away to a penal colony for hard labor, or maybe a life sentence in traditional prison. Maybe it depends on the particular case in question. If the circumstances were unclear as to the intention, but a life was taken and found guilty, perhaps prison only. Murder of a child, perhaps death penalty. Murder of anyone, which sentence and does it matter? Or maybe the death sentence should never be used as the taking of life as a punishment is behaving like the criminal.
Which punishment would make the best deterrent to crime?
What form of death should be used? Hanging, electrocution, drugs?
What about sending person to a penal colony away from normal civilisation?
Can you ever be sure of the guilty verdict?

Weekends, mean the guys meeting at the model aircraft flying field. The weather was windy and rain approaching, so we broke and went for lunch. While we were, there it poured down rain and an hour later the sun started coming out. Everyone went their way and I returned to the field. Not long after, one of the other guys shows back up... not to fly. He came looking for his wedding ring. He put it in his pocket when he flew as it clacks against the controller.
Now, it's gone. So we did a search of his path to and from his car, but no luck.
I was ready to suggest he check back at the restaurant. He calls and they have his missing ring at the front reception. Awesome!

He was worried should someone find it they would keep or put it online to sell...
My superstition is keeping a wedding ring (even if you found it) would bring bad luck.
Get it back to the original owner...

Sobhraj was represented by the infamous lawyer Jacques Vergès, nicknamed the “devil’s advocate” because his roster of clients included the Nazi Klaus Barbie, Slobodan Milosevic and the renowned international terrorist Carlos the Jackal. Sobhraj wanted payment for the interview but I refused and, to my surprise, he agreed to talk.

I had never been much interested in serial killers but I happened to read Richard Neville’s and Julie Clarke’s extraordinary account of the killings, The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj, just before Sobhraj’s release was announced. I couldn’t quite believe that someone who had confessed to a number of the murders to Neville, and against whom there was a wealth of compelling evidence, was free to walk the streets of a European capital.

The child of an affair between an Indian businessman-tailor and one of his Vietnamese shop assistants, Sobhraj (played in the BBC drama by French actor Tahar Rahim) had grown up in Saigon during the Vietnamese war of independence from France. His mother then married an occupying French soldier who, suffering from PTSD, returned to France with his young family. Sobhraj did not settle in his new home and twice stowed away on ships heading to Africa.

A bright but delinquent teenager, he was irresistibly drawn to crime – car theft, street muggings, and then holding up housewives with a gun. He spent most of his adolescence in Paris in and out of youth offender facilities and then their adult version. A well-

well-meaning prison visitor arranged work for him on the outside and also introduced him to a bourgeois young Parisian called Chantal Compagnon. They fell in love. He promised her that he was a reformed character and they got engaged, only for him to go back to prison for car theft.

But like so many women who were to follow, she had fallen under his spell. When he came out they embarked on a manic crime spree across Europe and Asia. It was 1970, the beginning of the so-called hippy trail, when hordes of young people would make long, low-budget trips through southern Europe, the Middle East, India and the far east. It was an era of porous borders and lax security, when the only contact with back home were poste restante letters that might take weeks to arrive. A generation was looking to find itself by getting lost or high somewhere off the beaten track. No one took much notice of who came and went.

It was in this transient milieu that Sobhraj stole from impressionable travellers. But first he was imprisoned in Greece – he escaped by swapping identities with his younger brother. Then he and Compagnon were imprisoned in Afghanistan. They had just had a daughter, who was sent back to live with Compagnon’s parents in France. Sobhraj managed to break out of prison by drugging a guard and then returned to France to kidnap his own daughter. When Compagnon finally got out, she was able to take the child and flee to America to escape Sobhraj’s destructive hold.

An embittered Sobhraj upped the crime stakes. He held a flamenco dancer hostage in a New Delhi hotel while he used her room to break into a gem store on the floor below. He became a famous outlaw in India. Like Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley, he assumed different identities, using stolen passports and creating a trail of havoc wherever he went. Ripley has been described as “suave, agreeable, and utterly immoral”, and those adjectives were not out of place for Sobhraj.

I live in a large condo community, probably a few hundred units with golf, tennis 3 pools and some restaurants. I live on the 2nd floor and considering to buy a bike for some exercise but there aren't any bike racks near me. My choice is the drag the bike up the stairs or use the elevator. The problem with the elevator are signs restricting people only (they complain if you are carrying luggage) and a weight restriction.
I called the president of the HOA and asked if there would be a chance to install one rack by the courtyard entrance. She said no. They decided that no one living there is young enough to ride a bicycle. I thought WTF... no one is young enough?
So I brought up the subject of permission to take the bike into the elevator. She didn't have an answer and asked the weight of the bike... Less than 50 pounds was my response and she said she would place a call to the elevator company.

I assured her the woman in the electric wheelchair at the end of the building wouldn't be restricted access to the elevator! That's one of the reasons they were installed.

She said she would get back to me on that.
It's been 4 days and I've heard nothing.

No one living there young enough to ride a bike??

I wish I had superpowers. Yes, not just one, but different ones.

Throughout the centuries, via comic books, tv shows and movies we’ve been exposed to witches & warlocks, superheroes & villains, all with special powers/talents that amazed us during the early stages of our life. We wanted to have such talents, and some of us even pretended to.
Besides wealth, ‘superpowers’ is probably something that everyone would wish that they had. I’m certain that I’m not the only person who imagined myself having such powers/talents as a child (and even as an adult) to ‘save’ myself (and or others) during the most frustrating or frightening times in my/their life.
With all the turmoil that good people are facing in the world today, think how useful that would be. It would really have been nice if some of us (i.e. superheroes, NOT villains) had superpowers.

What a difference that could make.