tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63067248633391356432024-03-21T23:25:38.215-07:00good, bad & uglyPE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.comBlogger782125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-67577685536655877452024-03-21T23:20:00.000-07:002024-03-21T23:20:36.686-07:00What the Bible Says About Sin<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-sin-700703"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-sin-700703</span></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/5077/5811115037_d41365b3c0_z.jpg%5B/img%5D%5B/url%5D%5Burl=https://flic.kr/p/9Rvu3z%5DOpen%20Bible%5B/url%5D%20by%20%5Burl=https://www.flickr.com/photos/rykneethling/%5DRyk%20Neethling%5B/url%5D,%20on%20Flickr" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="267" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/5077/5811115037_d41365b3c0_z.jpg%5B/img%5D%5B/url%5D%5Burl=https://flic.kr/p/9Rvu3z%5DOpen%20Bible%5B/url%5D%20by%20%5Burl=https://www.flickr.com/photos/rykneethling/%5DRyk%20Neethling%5B/url%5D,%20on%20Flickr" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/rykneethling/5811115037"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://www.flickr.com/photos/rykneethling/5811115037</span></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">attribution: Ryk Neethling and flickr</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</a><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-61499939987025196762024-01-19T15:12:00.000-08:002024-01-19T15:12:52.595-08:00trump is a lying racist<p> </p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-nikki-haley-58b7ffa7e49f626bae481060cf9975d2?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://apnews.com/article/trump-nikki-haley-58b7ffa7e49f626bae481060cf9975d2?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share</span></a> <br /></p><p><br /></p>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-56023160303698433652023-11-09T20:58:00.007-08:002023-11-10T10:46:09.765-08:00unconditional surrender<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://fdr.blogs.archives.gov/2017/01/10/the-casablanca-conference-unconditional-surrender/"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://fdr.blogs.archives.gov/2017/01/10/the-casablanca-conference-unconditional-surrender/</span></a> <br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />Can you imagine during WWII, when tide for Germany and Japan began to change, for the US and its allies to agree to a cease fire--after hard fought and bloody battles in Europe and the Pacific? I can't. The allies demanded "unconditional surrender"--and that's exactly what they got.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Casablanca-Conference.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="640" height="361" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Casablanca-Conference.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casablanca-Conference.jpg"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casablanca-Conference.jpg</span></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">attribution: Post-Work: W.Wolny, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Public_domain">https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Public_domain</a><br /></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">President Biden, you lied to the us--just like your predecessor. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">On October 7, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would respond to the savage Hamas attacks. He asked Israel's allies for moral support. He didn't ask for advice, money, troops, or anything other than moral support. In essence, he was implying "Israel's got this". </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">You, President Biden, pledged to Israel that it has the USA's moral support. You assured us that the USA would not be furnishing "boots on the ground" to Israel. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Within days, you broke your promise. You, your Secretary of State, and others in your administration are advising Israel to cease fire. You've asked Congress to send billions of dollars to Israel. You sent two aircraft carrier battle groups to the Middle East.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mr. President, when Prime Minister Netanyahu implied "Israel's got this", instead of meddling, you should have stuck with your pledge of moral support <u>only</u>--and backed off. There are some times that demand action and there are other times to leave well enough alone. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Worse yet, Mr. President, is the fact that you lied to us. That makes you no better than your predecessor.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-62703011763561703572023-09-20T21:46:00.001-07:002023-09-20T22:42:28.582-07:00It's about time: As Partisan Hostility Grows, Signs of Frustration With the Two-Party System<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/08/09/as-partisan-hostility-grows-signs-of-frustration-with-the-two-party-system/"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/08/09/as-partisan-hostility-grows-signs-of-frustration-with-the-two-party-system/</span></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">it's past time to dump the two party system of government. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">how?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">answer: stop supporting democrats and republicans.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihPKTrgCZ9AkcDNbULIQsNKGyW0JiRpycrGu-e1EN3tRKZkunP7iivEdx_SQ_5-exT_68MFyO4JYE9kjPbpLaIbpV2mjDVjzafVhFFeak2BQWypN0QbtSwrUxpgnrZQZiRIRyH-IZO57qrPrRsyLcPBDTfqX3wDgiutsXnPsiTqrw1MLyS3UPAaABUQ1KN/s1223/path.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1223" data-original-width="1173" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihPKTrgCZ9AkcDNbULIQsNKGyW0JiRpycrGu-e1EN3tRKZkunP7iivEdx_SQ_5-exT_68MFyO4JYE9kjPbpLaIbpV2mjDVjzafVhFFeak2BQWypN0QbtSwrUxpgnrZQZiRIRyH-IZO57qrPrRsyLcPBDTfqX3wDgiutsXnPsiTqrw1MLyS3UPAaABUQ1KN/w384-h400/path.png" width="384" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-74397383419197405052023-08-07T05:33:00.001-07:002023-08-07T05:33:22.278-07:00Trump's Military Cowardice Goes Beyond His 5 Draft Deferrals<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/donald-trump-dodged-the-draft-5-times"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://www.teenvogue.com/story/donald-trump-dodged-the-draft-5-time</span></a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-59613245336859740502023-06-19T02:46:00.014-07:002023-06-19T03:15:34.139-07:00what if the founding fathers could have looked into the future?<span style="font-family: verdana;">needless to say, the founding fathers didn't have a crystal ball. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">polls weren't in existence when the founding fathers established government for the United States. there wasn't even a United States. just 13 loosely-knit "states", some of whose residents wanted to maintain their "state's" (former colony's) autonomy. </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">what if they had had a crystal ball? what if they could have seen what became of their "united states"? 50 states? 335 million people? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">what if they could have seen illegal immigration? thousands of illegal immigrants crossing the borders every day? what if they could have seen the crime, corruption, gun violence, drugs, racism, bigotry, hatred, etc.? </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">what if they could have seen government in action? or inaction, as the case may be?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">what if they could have seen how scientific polls can determine the will of the majority with remarkable speed and accuracy? how technology has advanced to the point where citizens could vote securely from home (or a public library) and the results could be known in a matter of hours?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">certainly if the founding fathers had had a crystal ball and polls, then the constitution that they would have enacted would be much different than the constitution that they did </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">enact in 1789.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Quartz_crystal.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="797" height="400" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Quartz_crystal.jpg" width="399" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quartz_crystal.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quartz_crystal.jpg</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">attribution: <a href="Sanjay Acharya, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons">Sanjay Acharya, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons</a></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-36244097417512730182023-05-21T03:04:00.012-07:002023-05-22T02:10:16.389-07:00fatima apparitions and russia<div><span style="font-family: verdana;">In 1917 Mary, mother of Jesus, appeared to three children at Fatima, Portugal (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1tima#History"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Our Lady of Fátima - Wikipedia</span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">)</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">. War (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I"><span style="font-family: verdana;">World War I - Wikipedia</span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">) was raging in Europe. During WWI socialists in russia overthrew the government (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Russian Revolution - Wikipedia</span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">). Mary warned the world of the evils of socialism/communism (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1tima#Political_aspects"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Our Lady of Fátima - Wikipedia</span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Those evils persist today. russia, aka putin, invades ukraine. The evils of communism have spread all over the world--china, north korea, vietnam, iran, etc. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">dictators who want to rule the world, e.g. putin, xi jinping, kim jung un, ali khamenei, etc., should take a look at hitler's germany and mussolini's italy to see what happens to dictators (and their countries) who want to rule the world. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">dictators start wars. coalitions of tyrant-free nations will continue to end wars--and the dictators who start them. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Newspaper_fatima_353.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1535" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Newspaper_fatima_353.jpg" width="418" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newspaper_fatima_353.jpg"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newspaper_fatima_353.jpg</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">attribution: </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Avelino de Almeia, journalist at the O Seculo dialy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags/Country-specific_tags#United_States_of_America">Commons:Copyright tags/Country-specific tags - Wikimedia Commons</a></span></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-88802888262558870452023-03-19T02:37:00.001-07:002023-03-19T02:37:14.543-07:00path to destruction<div><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/10/politics/trump-manhattan-district-attorney-charges-explainer/index.html"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Stormy Daniels hush money: What to know about NY prosecutors' probe into Trump's role in scheme | CNN Politics</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-denies-1m-in-payments-to-family-from-hunter-associate-despite-bank-records-not-true/ar-AA18MVOW"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Biden denies $1M in payments to family from Hunter associate, despite bank records: 'Not true'</span></a> <span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Throughout his political life, and until his death in 1799, George Washington was confident that the country could and should function without the existence of political parties."</span><div><a href="https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-first-president/political-parties/"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Political Parties · George Washington's Mount Vernon</span></a><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7vxIpjG-LK7hvbX-NwBTNrdJVAYK8Uh-H32SF0Fbm3WU5SyPxDUeLwtmW36am_BnCvGbc2AF7_e3P3z6iHzAXXN2jsHb7gEcXHpZ2aKPWpilRuZing3u7x4GDR0zcBqRZ2QmaPSE0DZ4yA-86C3aARy9DbIP3TXKvPP4tEbd2ySHyeSGW4BiEjrhPBA/s1223/path.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1223" data-original-width="1173" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7vxIpjG-LK7hvbX-NwBTNrdJVAYK8Uh-H32SF0Fbm3WU5SyPxDUeLwtmW36am_BnCvGbc2AF7_e3P3z6iHzAXXN2jsHb7gEcXHpZ2aKPWpilRuZing3u7x4GDR0zcBqRZ2QmaPSE0DZ4yA-86C3aARy9DbIP3TXKvPP4tEbd2ySHyeSGW4BiEjrhPBA/s320/path.png" width="307" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-68551673674231142582023-03-18T02:12:00.003-07:002023-03-18T02:12:21.505-07:00Ukraine <div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/icc-issues-arrest-warrant-for-putin-over-ukraine-war-crimes/ar-AA18KXuj"><span style="font-family: verdana;">International court issues war crimes warrant for Putin</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">for more than a year the world has witnessed that "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" are God-given, inalienable rights. Ukrainians have suffered unspeakable atrocities at the bloody hands of vladimir putin. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">nowhere has the spirit of patrick henry who said "Give me liberty or give me death" been demonstrated more clearly than by the unwavering commitment to freedom by the Ukrainian people. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">God bless the people of Ukraine.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/6080/6156677907_0a9d5e8e99_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="800" height="268" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/6080/6156677907_0a9d5e8e99_b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shesonherway/6156677907"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Liberty | Give me liberty or give me death. I will never for… | Flickr</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic — CC BY-NC-SA 2.0</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">attribution: Sarah Shelmidine</span></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-10323763544761701292023-03-01T03:02:00.001-08:002023-03-01T03:22:00.708-08:00hunger: the cry of the poor<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://youtu.be/w_Q0FjuAUZY">https://youtu.be/w_Q0FjuAUZY</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hunger is everywhere in the world. Please consider a donation to World Central Kitchen (</span><a href="https://wck.org/"><span style="font-family: verdana;">World Central Kitchen</span></a> ) <span style="font-family: verdana;">a 4-star charity with a 100% rating according to Charity Navigator (</span><a href="https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/273521132"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Charity Navigator - Rating for World Central Kitchen Incorporated</span></a> <span style="font-family: verdana;">)</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">God bless you.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/822/41461292852_076fbd6fdf_5k.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="267" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/822/41461292852_076fbd6fdf_5k.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chef Jose Andres began WCK as DC Central Kitchen in 2018</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dccentralkitchen/41461292852"><span style="font-family: verdana;">IMG_9531 | DC Central Kitchen | Flickr</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Creative Commons — Attribution 2.0 Generic — CC BY 2.0</span></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-66328899002956953392023-02-07T00:56:00.006-08:002023-02-07T01:01:54.038-08:00Deuteronomy 5:20<span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/deuteronomy/5#05005020-m">m</a> You shall not bear dishonest witness against your neighbor. </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">m. [<a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/dt/5?20#05005020">5:20</a>] <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/dt/19?15#05019015">Dt 19:15</a>–<a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/dt/19?19#05019019">19</a>; <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/ex/20?16#02020016">Ex 20:16</a>; <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/ex/23?1#02023001">23:1</a>–<a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/ex/23?3#02023003">3</a>; <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/lv/19?11#03019011">Lv 19:11</a>, <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/lv/19?15#03019015">15</a>–<a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/lv/19?16#03019016">16</a>; <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1kgs/21?1#11021001">1 Kgs 21:1</a>–<a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1kgs/21?19#11021019">19</a>; <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/ps/5?6#23005006">Ps 5:6</a>–<a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/ps/5?10#23005010">10</a>; <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/ps/10?7#23010007">10:7</a>–<a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/ps/10?9#23010009">9</a>; <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/ps/27?12#23027012">27:12</a>; <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/prv/25?18#24025018">Prv 25:18</a>; <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/prv/30?8#24030008">30:8</a>–<a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/prv/30?10#24030010">10</a>; <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/jer/7?9#30007009">Jer 7:9</a>; <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/hos/4?2#36004002">Hos 4:2</a>; <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mt/19?18#48019018">Mt 19:18</a>; <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mt/26?59#48026059">26:59</a>–<a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mt/26?60#48026060">60</a>; <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mk/10?19#49010019">Mk 10:19</a>; <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/lk/18?20#50018020">Lk 18:20</a>. </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">people who don't tell the truth can create all kinds of trouble. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://elimufeynman.s3.amazonaws.com/media/resources/proverb_7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="736" height="374" src="http://elimufeynman.s3.amazonaws.com/media/resources/proverb_7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">attribution: BLINDFOLD</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-71544277342911501242023-01-26T23:31:00.002-08:002023-01-26T23:34:07.631-08:00what do you do with a 6 year old who deliberately shot his teacher with his mother's gun? what do you do with his mother?<div><br /></div><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/01/6-year-old-shooting-elementary-school-virginia-legal-gun-mom/"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A 6-Year-Old Shot His Teacher With a Gun Purchased by His Mom – Mother Jones</span></a> <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Inverted_question_mark_alternate.svg/595px-Inverted_question_mark_alternate.svg.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="595" height="400" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Inverted_question_mark_alternate.svg/595px-Inverted_question_mark_alternate.svg.png" width="310" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Inverted_question_mark_alternate.svg/595px-Inverted_question_mark_alternate.svg.png"><span style="font-family: verdana;">595px-Inverted_question_mark_alternate.svg.png (595×768)</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="user:Stannered, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons"><span style="font-family: verdana;">User:Stannered, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-40259852135285431002023-01-08T23:20:00.001-08:002023-01-08T23:20:09.529-08:00how safe is strasburg's (VA) drinking water?<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">it's a well known fact that one of the signs of contaminated drinking water is intestinal disorders.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Drinking Water Quality<br /><br />Surface waters and aquifers can be contaminated by various chemicals, microbes, and radionuclides. Disinfection of drinking water has dramatically reduced the prevalence of waterborne diseases (such as typhoid, cholera, and hepatitis) in the United States. Other processes may also be used to treat drinking water depending on the characteristics of and contaminants in the source water.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Common sources of drinking water contaminants include: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Industry and agriculture. Organic solvents, petroleum products, and heavy metals from disposal sites or storage facilities can migrate into aquifers. Pesticides and fertilizers can be carried into lakes and streams by rainfall runoff or snowmelt, or can percolate into aquifers.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Human and animal waste. Human wastes from sewage and septic systems can carry harmful microbes into drinking water sources, as can wastes from animal feedlots and wildlife. Major contaminants include Giardia, Cryptosporidium, and E. coli.</span></li><li>Treatment and distribution. While treatment can remove many contaminants, it can also leave behind byproducts (such as trihalomethanes) that may themselves be harmful. Water can also become contaminated after it enters the distribution system, from a breach in the piping system or from corrosion of plumbing materials made from lead or copper.</li><li>Natural sources. Some ground water is unsuitable for drinking because the local underground conditions include high levels of certain contaminants. For example, as ground water travels through rock and soil, it can pick up naturally occurring arsenic, other heavy metals, or radionuclides.</li></ul></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Effects on Human Health<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">If drinking water contains unsafe levels of contaminants, it can cause health effects, such as gastrointestinal illnesses, nervous system or reproductive effects, and chronic diseases such as cancer. Factors that can influence whether a contaminant will lead to health effects include the type of contaminant, its concentration in the water, individual susceptibility, the amount of water consumed, and the duration of exposure.</span></div><div><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Health effects of chemical exposure. Chemical exposure through drinking water can lead to a variety of short- and long-term health effects. Exposure to high doses of chemicals can lead to skin discoloration or more severe problems such as nervous system or organ damage and developmental or reproductive effects. Exposure to lower doses over long periods of time can lead to chronic, longer-term conditions such as cancer. The effects of some drinking water contaminants are not yet well understood.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">Health effects of consuming water with disease-causing microbes. Most life-threatening waterborne diseases caused by microbes (such as typhoid fever or cholera) are rare in the United States today. The more common illnesses caused by viruses, bacteria, and parasites can result in stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, fever, and kidney failure. Infectious diseases such as hepatitis can also occur. Hepatitis may be severe in people with weakened immune systems (e.g., infants and the elderly) and sometimes fatal in people with severely compromised immune systems (e.g., cancer and AIDS patients).</span>"<span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></li></ul><span style="font-family: verdana;">source: </span><a href="https://www.epa.gov/report-environment/drinking-water"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Drinking Water | US EPA</span></a></div><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">it's a well known fact that the Virginia Department of Health has alerted the public multiple times over the past several years for harmful algae blooms in strasburg. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">source: </span><a href="https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/blog/2021/07/23/harmful-algae-bloom-advisory-issued-for-north-fork-of-the-shenandoah-river-in-shenandoah-county-public-advised-to-avoid-water-contact-within-locations-of-the-river/"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Harmful Algae Bloom Advisory Issued for North Fork of the Shenandoah River – in Shenandoah County - Public Advised to Avoid Water Contact within Locations of the River - Virginia Department of Health</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://fosr.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/3960B275-6CA9-4D2C-A602-A042CFEACA56.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="800" height="384" src="https://fosr.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/3960B275-6CA9-4D2C-A602-A042CFEACA56.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">North Fork Shenandoah River at Strasburg Park public boat landing in Shenandoah County VA. E. coli levels on Wednesday June 22 versus Thursday June 23, 2022.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">source: </span><a href="https://fosr.org/fssp-nf-shenandoah-river-e-coli-levels-on-wednesday-june-22-versus-thursday-jun-23/"><span style="font-family: verdana;">FSSP NF Shenandoah River E. coli levels on Wednesday June 22 versus Thursday Jun 23 - FOSR - FOSR</span></a> <u style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">816.4 CFUs per 100 ml !!!</u><span style="font-family: verdana;">--one would expect E. coli levels like this in an open sewer!!!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">how safe is our drinking water? It's also a well known fact that the town of strasburg has been searching for water treatment plant operators for a year or more. </span></div></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">If strasburg residents were experiencing widespread intestinal disorders recently (we have) then how would you know? It's a well known fact that the town of strasburg's communication with its citizens is poor. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">perhaps the newly elected members of the town council can look into this as part of their obligation to look out for the health, safety and welfare of strasburg's citizens--<u>including communicating their findings to strasburg's citizens</u>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-31271976369439801322022-12-22T07:44:00.005-08:002022-12-23T01:47:20.113-08:00Carrie Marie Johnston<span style="font-family: verdana;">Each Christmas we remember Jenny's paternal grandmother, Carrie Marie. We remember her as loving wife, mother and grandmother. Jenny tells the stories again--about Carrie Marie's and Paul's house on N. Randolph St. in Arlington VA where they raised their seven children. Each year Jenny recalls the details of that house--living room, dining room, kitchen, stairs to the second floor, bedrooms, bathroom (one for nine people), wraparound porch, coal cellar, etc. Pap-Pap would chase Jenny and her cousin around the dining room table, bedroom slipper in his hand, while the children screamed, and Carrie Marie stood by quietly smiling. </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Paul and Carrie Marie took in Jenny's mom and brother while Jenny's father served on a LST during WWII (Jenny wasn't born yet). Jenny tells how when she was little that she used to "run away" to Carrie Marie's and Pap-Pap's house. She'd pack up her little suitcase and her father would gladly drive her to Grandma and Pap-Pap's house ten minutes away. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jenny tells how Carrie Marie would tuck her in at night and then kneel by the bed to say her prayers. Jenny says that of the many, many times that Carrie Marie repeated this routine over the years that she never once saw Carrie Marie get up from her prayers. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">There are many other wonderful memories, including how Carrie Marie would get all dressed up in her Sunday best, white gloves included, to go grocery shopping. But, the best story of all is how Carrie Marie made her signature cocoa spice cake and cookies (peanut butter and chocolate pinwheels and whiskey cookies) every year for each of her seven children's families at Christmas. She would make them all in her kitchen and fill her pantry with cakes and pillowcases full of cookies. To this day we continue to be amazed how she could accomplish all of this work before Christmas each and every year. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The tradition has carried on to our family too. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thank you, Carrie Marie.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKqcqWGJ1oXo9ryGCf2tmjVoP1H9jHOiimeRsuedIlLpiJUzy82fNA06yz4SPUTkxOdv_FkNPLPNMlmg4TSHUShW9MbXr8BOVbQxeisrOsL12sg3IH_Ratg0anX0QjfZli2LEmUSbcK9c3Rja8eit0EkALlbZ5NSAl2b_FMzkfTFTnw1nTk0Zvmbos8Q/s1168/2022-12-22_092845.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1168" data-original-width="704" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKqcqWGJ1oXo9ryGCf2tmjVoP1H9jHOiimeRsuedIlLpiJUzy82fNA06yz4SPUTkxOdv_FkNPLPNMlmg4TSHUShW9MbXr8BOVbQxeisrOsL12sg3IH_Ratg0anX0QjfZli2LEmUSbcK9c3Rja8eit0EkALlbZ5NSAl2b_FMzkfTFTnw1nTk0Zvmbos8Q/w241-h400/2022-12-22_092845.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Paul, Carrie Marie and Jenny Marie</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS4NNzbAzFr6J_0neZ3KkV9Ge9vsqUaGXBZ7110CbhM-WB0DxKTyuTvjFpEv8KpAWYAGuNdk9-JWh_qSrDW2tRsJCvHnADj9cMkf2PuHnmW23FTTazKmjy7hhDtyASWw4vlT5a1noOLvsnn0bFMPYZEbKK6rJN-ig8cYOWvHakoEj6q7Mqtaw3uPgOBg/s4080/20221210_155402.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1836" data-original-width="4080" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS4NNzbAzFr6J_0neZ3KkV9Ge9vsqUaGXBZ7110CbhM-WB0DxKTyuTvjFpEv8KpAWYAGuNdk9-JWh_qSrDW2tRsJCvHnADj9cMkf2PuHnmW23FTTazKmjy7hhDtyASWw4vlT5a1noOLvsnn0bFMPYZEbKK6rJN-ig8cYOWvHakoEj6q7Mqtaw3uPgOBg/s320/20221210_155402.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">cocoa spice cake</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3kJT_EnENkk-LXHijcKOR84rWFRBfQpfRmuJlHW37fwwTOZ_b839lFUNgmdcEBM9fS_GNjvpsjhGPelv4uc-9WrhIbMAQiFFDlWFc-o1WpIkXFY58UAE0116-3sLVdla_KYz77IQc-Zg3UW9yHWsCEkw6H8TKo-Gbq2DC5NXgrQh_al7d9M8EagTRCA/s2048/20221222_093745-3-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="922" data-original-width="2048" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3kJT_EnENkk-LXHijcKOR84rWFRBfQpfRmuJlHW37fwwTOZ_b839lFUNgmdcEBM9fS_GNjvpsjhGPelv4uc-9WrhIbMAQiFFDlWFc-o1WpIkXFY58UAE0116-3sLVdla_KYz77IQc-Zg3UW9yHWsCEkw6H8TKo-Gbq2DC5NXgrQh_al7d9M8EagTRCA/s320/20221222_093745-3-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">peanut butter and chocolate pinwheel cookies</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div></div></div></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-65673735679494279832022-09-21T22:40:00.005-07:002022-09-21T22:47:12.102-07:00fake news<a href="https://bgr.com/science/scientists-create-matter-from-nothing-in-groundbreaking-experiment/"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://bgr.com/science/scientists-create-matter-from-nothing-in-groundbreaking-experiment/</span></a> <div><br /></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence&fbclid=IwAR3YShB-QLNCPVU7cZWAvLLKu0rAnVswHXT0mQ_VlwS-dkNuSpDR-E5oSAY"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mass–energy equivalence - Wikipedia</span></a> </div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">E=m*c*c. Albert Einstein. 1905.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/M87_jet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="766" height="400" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/M87_jet.jpg" width="383" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons</span></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-46333074279506017582022-09-10T00:09:00.002-07:002022-09-10T00:10:47.126-07:00quotes<span style="font-family: verdana;">"If at first you don't succeed, then try, try again."</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thomas H. Palmer (1782-1861) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Albert Einstein (1875-1955)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">revised quote: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">"if at first you don't succeed, then try, try again. BUT, try something different." </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://picpedia.org/highway-signs/images/change.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="267" src="https://picpedia.org/highway-signs/images/change.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-73867872674101832802022-09-06T01:09:00.020-07:002022-09-07T02:14:12.122-07:00an election ode<span style="font-family: verdana;">trump and biden--</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">where do they find 'em?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">liberal democrats and republican magas--</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">leave the rest of the country with a case of the gagas.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTUVMYHYFEAjbZ-yjCy7cxpRU8W7oabU1kGjzNBm14EhkD5EZ1qigjvtp8Rp68gI6XIzt55J-Qe229mHcyFrtKrbLj87sZ5-HBXwrKMOJvtful8O4XYfMRTgl7zYhUOUFnwQ91LRN4P-JkuwWJs04buk7wmeA95ZGc6pl22djNOfkBF0rsg6-PGAiGzQ/s1024/stench%20of%20dirty%20politics.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTUVMYHYFEAjbZ-yjCy7cxpRU8W7oabU1kGjzNBm14EhkD5EZ1qigjvtp8Rp68gI6XIzt55J-Qe229mHcyFrtKrbLj87sZ5-HBXwrKMOJvtful8O4XYfMRTgl7zYhUOUFnwQ91LRN4P-JkuwWJs04buk7wmeA95ZGc6pl22djNOfkBF0rsg6-PGAiGzQ/s320/stench%20of%20dirty%20politics.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I approve this message. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">I don't approve two party government and the media.</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-53748931761934670092022-08-09T03:28:00.009-07:002022-08-09T08:33:25.801-07:00government impotence <span style="font-family: verdana;">where do I begin? There are so many examples of government impotence that I hardly know where to start. </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><u>Spam, hackers, etc.</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">a few days ago I received a email from my sister. it looked suspicious. I hovered over the sender and saw "ghazali.upha13@student.usm.my". impotent government can't track this down? why not.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">a month or so ago I got an email that I reported to the Shenandoah County Department of Social Services. "</span></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">"I am reporting an email scam. my wife and I are in our 70s. We received an email that reads in part: "Your recent order with us has been confirmed and you have been charged $966.66 for 3 years. *This payment will be shown soon within 24 to 48 hours on your Account Statement as</span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://GEEK.NET&source=gmail&ust=1660124454433000&usg=AOvVaw2_REwQqOQw4025ZighOxW2" href="http://geek.net/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">GEEK.NET</a><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">*" </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-size: small;">From: <a href="mailto:quickbooks@notification.intuit.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">quickbooks@notification.<wbr></wbr>intuit.com</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-size: small;">To: <a href="mailto:jw849565@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">jw849565@gmail.com</a> (***this is <b><u>NOT</u></b> my email address***)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Subject: Payment Information (Order Number: XA25R4E5)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Date: Wed, June 29, 2022 11:40 am</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-size: small;">there is an attachment which we did not open. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-size: small;">signature:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Geek Solution</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-size: small;">CUSTOMER SUPPORT # +1 (814) 791-9320"</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small;">I was not the first: </span><a href="https://blogs.vcu.edu/phishing/2021/07/20/geek-squad-subscription-scam-7-20-2021/" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Geek Squad Subscription – SCAM – (7/20/2021) – Phishing Net</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-size: small;">after I submitted my report a message appeared that said "thank you for submitting your report. we will be getting back to you soon". that was over a month ago and I've not heard a peep from SCDSS. impotent government can't even do what they say that they're going to do.</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><u>Voting</u> </span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">so, like many of you, we routinely bank online, we routinely make purchases online, we have medical records online, we file our taxes online, etc. so why can't we vote online? answer: government impotence/incompetence.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I could go on and on, but what's the point? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-25720350202760287852022-08-07T01:18:00.006-07:002022-08-07T01:24:18.342-07:00path to destruction<div><span style="font-family: verdana;">when will citizens of our country realize that the democratic and republican parties have led the government of our country into impotency?</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwsUGdTwJIsT3Q6Hdd3wAMaEJ3c9DOT8x0ZUB9n7fkYkPWhTsnIxigld9UvN0Qr4-25O89srufAxbeQuOg3TiZzElz_nzmrY0ljU4_2lhIAQkMnOP17FpSSO7VSPoCmLNx9GBGgHFyoI0x8rLuRdIYAKu5pM7Ct-5nKiMzsdZ1Me40S8urLOi08-9oMQ/s960/blame%20game.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="960" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwsUGdTwJIsT3Q6Hdd3wAMaEJ3c9DOT8x0ZUB9n7fkYkPWhTsnIxigld9UvN0Qr4-25O89srufAxbeQuOg3TiZzElz_nzmrY0ljU4_2lhIAQkMnOP17FpSSO7VSPoCmLNx9GBGgHFyoI0x8rLuRdIYAKu5pM7Ct-5nKiMzsdZ1Me40S8urLOi08-9oMQ/s320/blame%20game.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">answer: probably not until it's too late. </span></div><div><a href="https://www.history.com/news/george-washington-farewell-address-warnings"><span style="font-family: verdana;">George Washington's Farewell Address Included Three Main Warnings - HISTORY</span></a> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1o-cSkCk2iBqZh9puYQzwSKtzVaHX1p9d2zWwpIEWPfeTiQf65bK6Avo1pYldV1gWoqzDSOrMv-tg1bzQa74RKmVd1x1gmIOCTtq9CgZ_JGabfZRXFgvR4rQIps8ZieNQvsbABMmhRtu2LU0kH6Y4F5_irU76fGWjiseTYm9zaaEjUWesplSq_gXKdw/s1223/path.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1223" data-original-width="1173" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1o-cSkCk2iBqZh9puYQzwSKtzVaHX1p9d2zWwpIEWPfeTiQf65bK6Avo1pYldV1gWoqzDSOrMv-tg1bzQa74RKmVd1x1gmIOCTtq9CgZ_JGabfZRXFgvR4rQIps8ZieNQvsbABMmhRtu2LU0kH6Y4F5_irU76fGWjiseTYm9zaaEjUWesplSq_gXKdw/s320/path.png" width="307" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-43902389722146253112022-07-05T02:37:00.004-07:002022-07-05T02:42:53.356-07:00promises, promises<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-reported-4th-july-parade-chicago-suburb-highland/story?id=86186529"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Highland Park mass shooting: 6 killed at 4th of July parade, person of interest apprehended - ABC News</span></a> <div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">where's common sense? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">when will something be <u><b>DONE</b></u> about weapons of mass destruction being possessed by criminals and the mentally deranged? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><u><b>LOTS</b></u> of talk, but no <u style="font-weight: bold;">ACTION</u>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">when will those who govern <b><u>DO</u></b> what so obviously needs to be done? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm not holding my breath. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-43232223873545243992022-06-25T01:44:00.026-07:002022-06-28T01:03:37.868-07:00déjà vu?<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">link: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln's_House_Divided_Speech">HOUSE DIVIDED</a></span></span> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>"A house divided against itself, cannot stand."</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Abraham Lincoln </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnfJmvqCaL9CFmkyMwWxUvNi52DnQuB_VVYpBmbKSKCdC7ESv-I5oRYmuaTP55Jv-ekiPQTjlEgW9bmcHaO1Eslj4kQdHh857iV2g0RuONKPAMf3wc9boPEg31z_l7D-mNr9MXtak60tVeYDOGHhH1IvhQxc5k7nWPoDZuP5j4teYXHdWDohL9zoYEKg/s4096/wordcloud.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnfJmvqCaL9CFmkyMwWxUvNi52DnQuB_VVYpBmbKSKCdC7ESv-I5oRYmuaTP55Jv-ekiPQTjlEgW9bmcHaO1Eslj4kQdHh857iV2g0RuONKPAMf3wc9boPEg31z_l7D-mNr9MXtak60tVeYDOGHhH1IvhQxc5k7nWPoDZuP5j4teYXHdWDohL9zoYEKg/w536-h402/wordcloud.jpg" width="536" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">what are the biggest threats to us and to our country?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">people who tell lies--government, politicians, political parties, media, rich people, criminals, etc.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">people who make bad choices</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.whsv.com/2022/06/21/voting-virginia-then-now/">Voting in Virginia: Then and now</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">wise up and rise up.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-63213272027344647832022-06-21T14:16:00.018-07:002022-06-22T05:43:38.432-07:00trump is a thug. if he isn't prosecuted for his crimes, then "trump is just like any other citizen" is a lie.<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jan-6-committee-details-how-donald-trump-pressured-gop-election-officials"><span style="font-family: verdana;">'Tragic Parody': Jan. 6 Committee Details How Donald Trump Ruined the Lives of Election Officials</span></a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">if the moral compass points in one direction (honesty, decency, fidelity, charity, respect, good, etc.) then trump goes in the opposite direction. his whole life. a criminal. totally corrupt. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>"I earned my spurs on the battlefield. Trump got his in a letter from a doctor."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">James Norman Mattis</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">United States Marine Corps, retired </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">former trump administration Secretary of Defense</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Gen_James_N._Mattis.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Gen_James_N._Mattis.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">United States Department of Defense, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-4671587787363101592022-05-31T00:52:00.008-07:002022-05-31T02:11:30.443-07:00bravery amid chaos <div><br /></div><a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/uvalde-shooting-off-duty-border-agent-responded-as-wife-texted.html"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Off duty border agent took action to help take out Uvalde shooter | U.S. News</span></a> <div><br /></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BORTAC"><span style="font-family: verdana;">BORTAC - Wikipedia</span></a> <span style="font-family: verdana;">click on reference #1 (.pdf document) for the BORTAC fact sheet.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-82571160179196590642022-05-14T01:28:00.008-07:002022-05-14T01:44:04.564-07:00to hell with the "black box" world of today!<p> <span face="Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #216fdb; font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Gladwire/posts/pfbid0fA65XMhi5EzeBAFN7TPBbiEvmCJkVCRPbVA6SY9VVkwq5cmgGnyjLRStN6kwSj32l">https://www.facebook.com/Gladwire/posts/pfbid0fA65XMhi5EzeBAFN7TPBbiEvmCJkVCRPbVA6SY9VVkwq5cmgGnyjLRStN6kwSj32l</a> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px;">I'm with this guy. pop-up ads, commercials, etc. I feel like my devices (my computer, my phone, my tv, my email, my mail, etc.) are being controlled by aliens--outsiders who violate my privacy without my permission. with unwanted ads/commercials for products/services that I don't need or want, with politics, with opinions from sources that I don't respect, with soft porn, etc. it just appears. I didn't request it. I don't want it. I can't get rid of it--from <u>MY</u> devices. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px;">I yearn for earlier times when I wasn't being controlled by a "black box" world. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px;">to hell with the "black box" world of today!</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></span></span></p>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306724863339135643.post-5807854154282289822022-05-12T23:02:00.007-07:002022-05-12T23:04:45.886-07:00UGLY<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-war-crimes-31b1d5a9464684c2cb8386c634d8c96c"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Russian soldier to go on trial in first war-crimes case | AP News</span></a> </div><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free." </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">— Theodore Roosevelt </span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://goodfreephotos.com/albums/ukraine/other-ukraine/flag-of-ukraine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="267" src="https://goodfreephotos.com/albums/ukraine/other-ukraine/flag-of-ukraine.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">public domain</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>PE retiredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14766924705045392225noreply@blogger.com0