A friend sent the following to me and I thought it was very good. It really makes point that we should all pay attention to:
The Church Gossiper Mildred, the church gossip and self-appointed monitor of the church's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business.
Several members did not approve of her activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence. She made a mistake, however, when she accused George, a new church member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon. She emphatically told George (and several others) that everyone who saw it parked there would know exactly what he was doing.
George, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and then just turned and walked away. He didn't explain, defend, or deny... He said nothing. Later that evening, George quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred's house.... walked home.. And left it there all night.
Gotta love George...
Well, have a good Monday, more later...
Well, I have been rambling on about my beloved Cardinals as well as the Royals and Chiefs from time to time but now I want to state or overstate the obvious.
Since Nancy let congress out on one of their frequent vacations have you noticed how much gas prices have dropped? Democrats refused to work on an energy bill before wrapping things up for a vacation so it is clear they had nothing to do with the drop in prices. Kind of makes you wonder how effective or useful our congress really is!
Oh well, they will probably come back from vacation all wore out and vote themselves a raise just to get motivated into doing nothing for the next few months as well! Great job Nancy!
Yes, football is almost here! I am watching the KC Chiefs play the Arizona Cardinals in the second pre-season game of the season. I think the Chiefs have some good young talent but I have to admit...Larry Johnson is not one of them.
I think the Chiefs would have been so much better off trading him off and giving a couple of the young backs the duty. He does not impress me and never has.
What will the Chiefs do this year? Well almost everyone agrees that the thing they will do the most is lose...ad lose alot!
I don't know yet...more on this later.
Well, here we go! The Cards are 65-54 after beating the Cubs 12-3 yesterday. I was looking at the standings and trying to project a few things. The Cardinals have 43 games left in the season. In order for them to finish with 92 wins they will have to win 27 of their remaining 43 games. I think that is doable. Yet it won't win the division unless the Cubs go into a serious nosedive! That means the Wildcard.
As we approach the All-Star game and the mid-point of the season I thought we would look at how the year has progressed for the Cards & Royals.
Back in April I said that I thought both teams would be a surprise to many and that is just the way it is shaping up. The Cardinals are 52-42 just 4 1/2 games behind the Cubs. Although it looks like they are on track to go 92-70 as I said earlier that may not be enough to win the divisionas the Cubs and Brewers join the Cardinals with the 3 best records in the National League! It is shaping up to be a very tight and interesting race!
If the Cardinals offense would step up a notch while the pitching staff stays consistant they will be hard to beat down the stretch!
The Royals are staying tough although they have struggled at times. They are 42-52 and 12 games out but have shown signs of putting it all together. I still think they are going to finish somewhere around third in the American League Central. I think that will say a lot! I also believe that they can get hot and make it a race yet!
If they could play more games in the NL they could really rise in the standings!
I just had to share this with everyone!
ONE OF THE BEST POEMS IN THE WORLD
I was shocked, confused, bewildered,
As I entered Heaven's door.
Not by the beauty of it all,
Nor the lights or its decor.
But it was the folks in Heaven
Who made me sputter and gasp--
The thieves, the liars, the sinners,
The alcoholics and the trash.
There stood the kid from seventh grade
Who swiped my lunch money twice.
Next to him was my old neighbor
Who never said anything nice.
Herb, who I always thought
Was rotting away in hell,
Was sitting pretty on cloud nine,
Looking incredibly well.
I nudged Jesus, What's the deal?
I would love to hear Your take.
How'd all these sinners get up here?
God must've made a mistake.
And why's everyone so quiet,
So somber - give me a clue.
Hush, child, He said, they're all in shock.
No one thought they'd be seeing you..
JUDGE NOT.
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Remember...Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian no more than standing in your garage makes you a car
I hope that everyone will take at least a few minutes this weekend to remember those who gave their lives for this country. Try to get to a Memorial Day service in your area if you can. It's the least we can do.
They who gave their lives for us deserve to be remembered for their sacrifices!
“Heroism is latent in every human soul... however humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all self-denials; privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself. For some great good, dimly seen but dearly held”.
--Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain,
| This is pretty funny: For those of you who hunt deer, want to pat deer, or anything in between....this is too funny! Names have been removed to protect the stupid! This is an actual letter from someone who writes, and farms. : "I had the idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home. I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up -- 3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards it...it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope and then received an education. The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just stand there look at you funny while you rope it; they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope. That deer EXPLODED. The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer-- no chance. That thing ran, bucked, twisted, and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The third thing I learned, the only upside, is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals. A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head mostly blinded me. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope. I figured that if I just let it go with the rope hangin g around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between that deer and me. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual. Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in, so I didn't want the deer to have it suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get my rope back. The fourth thing I learned!!!! Did you know that deer bite? They do! I ne ver in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head --almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts. The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now) tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the bejesus out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. That was when I got my fifth lesson in deer behavior for the day. Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet, strike right about head, and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp. I learned a long time ago that, when an animal -- like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you cannot get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape. This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy. I scre amed like a woman and tried to turn and run. The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down. Lesson six... Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head. I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away. So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope so that they can be somewhat equal to the Prey. |
Finally!!! It's baseball season! Man the long cold winter is finally over and it's time to play ball! I am a lifelong Cardinal fan and after last year's disapointing season, I am ready to see them win again. I really think they are going to surprise a lot of folks this year. I was beginning to wonder about the pitching staff but who knows? I really think there will be some pleasant surprises there as well. Maybe I am just being a fan! We will know in a few months.
I also think the Royals will do pretty well this year as well. I think they have one of the best pitching staffs they have had in several years. They have a pretty good offense and again, I think they are going to catch some folks off guard.
My predictions are: STL 92-70 KC 86-76
It's been a few days since my last entry...time just got away from me. I have been trying to keep up with the primaries. I really get into the elections. It's great seeing more and more people get involved with the election process this year. The young people really seem to be getting into the spirit of it as well. I think it is very encouraging!
I just hope we can stay focused on the issues...and I need to make a point here. I think it was shameful the way the past two presidential elections were run. We were at war then as we are now. Yet instead of focusing our anger and our attention at the enemy we seem to go at each other with a very real hatred. A hatred for fellow Americans. It was though the two major parties were at war instead of the US vs the terrorists. And to me, that is what's scary.
I have to say that the enemy must just sit back and laugh when they see us fighting each other!
Anyway, that's what I think...
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