SSSD files lawsuit injunction! Reminder of FCBD

G'day Everyone!

It's just after 9am this morning. Just got up and found my email box alerting me to what's going on with the SSSD (Scranton State School for the Deaf). At the moment, supporters and students for SSSD are presently at the Governor's Press Conference. It's going ok as I've heard.

However, nothing could ever complicate the timing of the press conference and the presence of the SSSD by the filing of the lawsuit injunction which prevents ANY decision being made about SSSD's future.
Link:http://www.timesleader.com/news/School_for_Deaf_files_injunction_04-28-2009.html

Presently, a decision was being considered to allow SSSD remain open as a day school under the administration of the Western PA School for the Deaf (WPSD).

Stay alert. More fall out of the SSSD could be coming down the road in the coming days.

Reminder: Saturday may be Cinco De Mayo, that is May 2, 2009. But it's also FREE COMIC BOOK DAY on that Saturday as well! Make your list of comics you need for your collection. Get the free comic books! If you need a store location go to: http://freecomicbookday.com/ to find out where the closest one is to you!

Semper FI!

Air Force One panics NYC / Specter's decision

G'day Everyone!

Remember 9/11/01? Remember the terror that hit our beloved New York City and the destroyed the World Trade Center (WTC)? Remember when all the enemies danced in the streets and celebrated along with the Talibans? Well, we had a reprise of that!

While WTC is gone and the enemies are not dancing now because they know the fear of being shot by someone out there, yesterday's fly over during a photo op of the Air Force One didn't go so well.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/28/low.flying.plane/index.html
When the CNN was reporting that morning, I was hearing the feeling of mass panic happening and that a "reprise" of 9/11 was happening. 4/27/09 will go down in history in one official stupid mistake that caused a mass panic of more than a million people in NYC. While the White House did apologize, it did not calm the feelings of many people.

My response is this: Those who planned this event for the photo ops ought to lose their jobs. They should have done a better public relations communication with the public rather than surprising many of the NYC people. In this, 9/11 shall not be forgotten.

In a shocking news development, Senator Arlen Specter of PA has decided to jump from the Republican party to (Micah Brown's gonna be happy now) the Democratic party! Link: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/28/specter.party.switch/index.html
How will this play out among the supporters of Specter? It could have a big impact in the upcoming voting season. Especially in 2010 when he's up for election. Don't be surprised if the Republican party decides to formally cast out Specter out of republican office before his formal party switch is completed.

Semper Fi.

The Swine Flu Outbreak / Nascar race crash / DPHH

G'day Everyone.

There is a lot of fear and concern that a bird-like flu has finally arrived in the USA. For as long as 8 years, the Bush administration was concerned that Avian flu would hit the USA during his term of being president. Unfortunately, Avian flu didn't hit.

But seriously and unfortunately, we were blinded by another type of flu that is now hitting across the nation. Mexico became the center of the world this month when Swine Flu became an outbreak that has spread around and beyond Mexico.
Link:http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/27/swine.flu/index.html

So what is swine flu? Here is the info from Webmed.com : http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20090421/swine-flu-faq
You may want to stay updated of what's going on via http://www.cnn.com/ for the latest info about the swine flu and why it's a national emergency. Get checked up with your doctor. While there's no cure for swine flu, it can be treated.

While swine flu is important, I was way disappointed in Nascar Races yesterday.

While I was watching the talladega race, it was a horrible horrible moment in the lives of nascar fans and drivers. Victory lane shouldn't have been celebrated at all! I condemn Brad Keselowski for what he did to Carl Edwards. He ought to be arrested and banned from NASCAR for reckless driving! In fact, I encourage all NASCAR FANS to call for it. See the crash vids at www.nascar.com/news . Expect to hear some lawyers coming around and suing Nascar and the drivers of this race. Costly changes will come indeed. It is a black eye day on Nascar. NASCAR should have stopped the events going on while it was an emergency among the fans in the stands. Especially after a major crash like that.

So, as the month of April is nearing the end and the first friday of the month May? If you are ready to party for Cino de Mayo, then check out the www.dphh.com for the nearest Deaf Professionals Happy Hour event in your city. I do believe that Gallaudet University students will pack the Washington, DC DPHH event as the final exams are just about to happen and the seniors of the Class 2009 will be in a good mood to party in a responsible way.

Till next post, enjoy the week! Semper FI!

Bea Arthur, SSSD back again.

G'day Everyone.

Sad news. Beatrice "Bea" Arthur has passed on from our lives. It was reported that she passed away last night. Link: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/25/bea.arthur.obit/index.html
She will be missed in our lives. Her career started when I saw her on the "All in the Family" show. When it came to "Maude" (I loved that sound track of the show), she was all bossy and sarcastic woman for what she wanted to be. When "Golden Girls" show came on the air, she was the sensitive yet caring woman that lived with her 3 roommates.
Life will not be the same, save for the reprises that happen on TVland and Hallmark channels.
Bea, thank you for your entertainment of us. Words can't describe it. May God grant you an eternity of rest and peace.

Meanwhile: There's news about the Scranton State School for the Deaf (SSSD). Yes, the issue is STILL alive. Here's what I've found out.
Link:http://www.sssdsos.org/index.htm You have to read through the site to see some of the issues going on.
One issue is very important. The parents of SSSD students have recently filed a LAWSUIT in hopes to stop the closure of SSSD: http://pahomepage.com/common/printerfriendly.php?cid=80451
On Wednesday, April 29th, 2009, there will be a major press conference happening at the capital rotunda at 8AM to 10AM. SSSD supporters should wear shirts and bring signs. SUPPORT SSSD! Tell our Governor of PA: ED RENDELL NOT TO CLOSE SSSD! The fight is still on!

As summer like weather is floating around in several states, so does severe weather as well. So pay attention out there and enjoy the weather. It's strange that it's early this year, but just be thankful for it.

Till laters, semper FI.

Suggestions of using emails!

G'day Everyone.

Here's some suggestions today about emails. It came in my email. It was worth to post it here.
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Subject: good info on emailing

This is worth knowing. Maybe you have someone on your email list, who does not know about this.

FORWARDING E-MAILS . . . .

Read right down to the last one, as it makes sense !

A friend of mine, who is a computer expert, received the following directly from a system administrator for a corporate system. It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails. Please read the short letter below, even if you're sure you already follow proper procedures

Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% DO NOT.

Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail?

Do you hate it?

Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses and names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to every E-mail address that has come across his computer.

Or: someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for each hit. That's right, all of that inconvenience over a nickle.

How do you stop it?

Well, there are several easy steps. Try the following if you haven't done it before:

(1) When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top). That's right, DELETE them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut them (*chop*), whatever it is you will know how to do. It only takes a second.
You MUST click the 'Forward' button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don't click on 'Forward' first, you won't be able to edit the message at all.

(2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use the To: or CC: fields for adding e-mail addresses. Always use the BCC:(blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way the people you send to will only see their own e-mail address. If you don't see your BCC option, click on where it says To: and your address list will appear; Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that's it, it's that easy. When you send to BCC: your message will automatically say 'Undisclosed Recipients in the 'TO:' field of the people who receive it. Privacy is important to some people. Respect others.

(3) Remove any 'FW :' in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling.

(4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are reading. Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on it? By Forwarding from the actual page you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to open many e-mails just to see what you sent.

(5) Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a position and asks you to add your name and address (email address) and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire address (email address) book. The email can be forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email addresses.
FACT: The completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addresses contained therein. DO NOT put your email address of any petition. If you want to support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a petition. (And don't believe the ones that say that the email is being traced, it just ain't so!)

Some of the other emails to delete and not forward are:

1. The one that says something like, 'Send this email to 10 people and you will see something great run across your screen.' Or sometimes they'll just tease you by saying 'something really cute will happen.' IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! (We are still seeing some of the same emails that we waited on 10 years ago! Just a bunch of lies to create problems for many people.)

2. Don't let the bad luck ones scare you either, delete them, they are trash. Bad luck by email never happens. Plus, send it right back at the original person who sent it. Tell them: "Thanks, but I'm holding on to God's blessings".

3. Before you forward an 'Amber Alert', or a 'Virus Alert', or some of the other emails floating around out there in the nowadays, check them out before you forward them. Most of them are junk mail that's been circling the 'net for YEARS! Just about everything you receive in an email that is in question can be checked out at Snopes.com. Just go to http://www.snopes.com/ . It's really easy to find out if it's real or not. If it's not, please don't pass it on. We don't need to be the one that creates "mass panic" among our friends who will later get angry with us.

4. Before sending the email, skip down to the bottom and remove ALL the build up of 'Virus Protection Messages' that get tacked on each time an email gets forwarded.

So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses from being passed on to others.

Pass on the message, but not the email address of others.
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So hope today's post be of a suggestion for you. Thanks Lisa!

Semper FI!

Personal Experiences, FCBD

G'day Everyone.

It's been a struggle for me lately. Being under the weather is one thing. But the consistent job searching and other matters have also been on my mind lately.

Often I've wondered what my life would be like to live back in the rat race world again on a daily basis. The challenges to stay well and healthy vs to being sick. That happens to all of us on a daily basis.

But what about for those who've been out of work, either recently or long term? Having little or no health insurance takes a big impact on our lives. Whatever it being going to the doctor, dentist, or pharmacy, it still costs money. Biggest impacts are charges by the doctor followed by the dentist. But some times, the pharmacy companies can out do both of them if you are given a drug made by a company who still controls it for BIG PROFITS. That's greed. In these economic times, companies that still hold control over a drug and preventing it from becoming a generic form amount to being a pirate that holds sick people at bay from getting well. Generic drugs not only save lives but are cheaper to live with as well. We still need affordable medicines out of these drug makers. Their bottom line should be "Healthy patients equal productive lives", not a "the longer the sick patient is.. the higher the profit". Moral stand point? yep.

Do you know what FCBD stands for? It's certainly NOT the identification of a church of a deaf ministry, sorry!! FCBD stands for FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! link: http://freecomicbookday.com/
This year, there's going to be lots of FREE comic books and each one has an interesting title. So, get ready for SATURDAY, MAY 2nd, 2009 for FREE COMIC BOOK DAY at your favorite comic book store. Yes, there's a comic book store locate program that will show where the local comic book dealers that will be giving away free comic books. Some places have special guest people who actually draw the comic books. Some places will have sales, raffles, and comic book drawings, and store specials. So mark your calender: SATURDAY, MAY 2nd, 2009 is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! GO FOR IT!

In the next few weeks, I will start up on my senioritis work that I was doing on. But for senior students in colleges and high schools, be careful on your prom/ celebration nights. It could be your LAST prom/ celebration you ever had in your life. So please enjoy your night in a responsible manner!

So enjoy the coming weekend. Gonna be warm. Wish it was beach time already (except those in Florida and Texas already have it).

Semper FI!

Don't Ever Talk to police.. EVER!

G'day Everyone.

Here's something that everyone ought to read very much.

http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/2009/03/a_detective_called_and_asked_m.html

Just in case you don't see that link, let me say a synopsis of it. If you get called up by the police department, especially a detective, on the pretense to come down to the station to "SOLVE TO A PROBLEM", don't do it!

If you are reading this and you got contacted by the police to go down for some reason, as Robert Guest said " STOP READING THIS AND FIND A CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER, NOW!".


As I said, read Robert Guest's blog for the full details.

I want to tell you something. If you find yourself hauled up by the cops for any reason (even if you are picked up from your house, yell at your roommate/family member to get a lawyer and get one now!), DO NOT acknowledge anything that the police put in front of you. Repeat the very sentences that they hate to hear:


" I WILL NOT TALK UNTIL A LAWYER IS PRESENT IN THE ROOM". By law, they can't talk to you the moment you say that. Keep repeating it till you get a lawyer. It is YOUR right. Do just that all night if they try to keep you detained. Say nothing till you got a lawyer right next to you. NO CONFESSIONS. NO yapping with the police till lawyer is there.

Do not sign anything until you have a lawyer present in the room. At all costs, say nothing. NOT until your lawyer is there. When your lawyer gets present, SHUT UP and LISTEN TO HIM. Let the lawyer take charge right after that and protect your legal rights.


Your lawyer MUST DEFEND you. As long as you say nothing to the police, it makes their case harder to prove. By refusing not to cooperate with them until a lawyer is present, you have a better chance of building a strong defense in your legal case.

Like in the past blogger of Ridor, some cops can be bad, but those that try to build cases against defendants with out lawyers are much worse.


Wish you luck.

Semper FI.

Sadness of the past weekend / the tax man cometh!

G'day Everyone.

Some weekends are meant to end happy. Some weekends are meant to be moody. My Easter weekend in DC ended on a somber note. When I heard about the crime that happened to a friend of mine this past Saturday night, which took place in the early hours of the HOLY Easter morning in downtown DC area. Some where, one criminal is walking around very smug that he's copped some fast cash. But know what? That poor fool of a criminal has no idea that he's already been marked for death by God. What type of a person would rob someone on Easter? Only a fool who thinks he can get away with it and thinks he's all right with God. But that poor SOB will find his soul going faster to hell where he can live in eternal death and seeing the replays of his crimes in his mind forever.

But for me, I looked at my very friend of mine. That once friendly boyish man I knew became a stranger in my eyes. As I took him to the airport, he pounded on my car's dashboard, screamed, and uttered a lot of choice words. The transformation of my friend into someone else will be something I remember for a long time. The transformation paused just long enough for us when we got to the airport and I got him through security and down to the gate where I was lucky to get him a gate pass that allowed him to pre-board early. We only had enough time to say good-bye and that was about it. As he started for the gate, he paused a bit, turned around and gave me that boyish-man smile I knew and loved. But then the stranger in his face appeared and grew sullen. He walked down that ramp to whatever he'd choose to become now.

As I climbed back into my car to start my trip home, I found a little dent in my dashboard. I ran my hand over it and said a prayer for my friend. It'll stay as a personal reminder for me.

I hope everyone else's Easter weekend was better and enjoyable. For when I got home, I found a candy bunny. I went a bit savage on it. Ripped off the ears, then the tail, the feet, and finally the rest. I was thinking I was eating a mini-candy doll of that criminal and that I would digest him to death. ahh, no such luck. But it was good candy though.

Today is the day before the tax man cometh again. Get your taxes done today. Pay "Uncle Sam". But when you do pay it, breath a little prayer for our nation because we are in such a budget disaster, we may never be able to have a fair budget in our government if we keep overspending things. Just as long as the damn political people in congress keep adding those pork barrels to the law bills out there.

So for now, a bit of a somber semper fi.
laters.

DC Madness Weekend.

G'day Everyone.

It's Holy Friday and some times I wish I was at a church for the high mass of the day. This is going to be the 2nd time in my life that I will miss this *important* day of the mass. But like millions of others who are working their butts off or doing something else that's important, I'm thinking God will understand. Unless I'm struck by a bolt out of the blue. (ducking under the desk for a moment).

I had a post in my mind that I wanted to illustrate about Good Friday. But, I've pretty much have forgotten about it already. Part of it is because I'm busy with friends around the GU campus. Another part of having an upsetting email last night in which a friend of mine had to pull me off the computer, drag me over to his hot tub in his back yard, rip my hearing aid off and literally dunk me! (thanks, Bruce. I needed that).

So, today I am back in the thick of the DC Madness Weekend on the campus of Gallaudet University and staying with a friend of mine. Sometimes, I wonder what I've deserved to have a trip back to this area? Guess, the one part of this place in my life is kind of home of the deaf culture place (NTID/RIT now takes a deep 2nd). When you know all of the friends and co-workers that still are here, it makes a bit of a paradise to enjoy of. From what I hear, many alumni and former students are coming back for a 2nd or 3rd degree. It depends on what they need to do.

As the Easter weekend begins. I hope many will take it as a day of rest, relax, and prayer. If you can't wait for Easter Sunday, forget the dinner. Life is short. Eat dessert first. But before you bite into that cholate bunny, make sure you go for the ears or tail. They're the best spots. :-)

Semper Easter FI!

Will cable companies meter the internet?

G'day Everyone!

Alert Alert. First hop and skip over to my fellow blogger, RSG007. He's got a major post going on. Then come back for my comments:

http://rsgeo007.blogspot.com/2009/04/will-metered-internet-hurt-deaf.html

If this type of stuff is true, then metering the Internet is like trying to apply invisible water to a pipe without not knowing if it's coming out or not. That would be like, by the time you see "invisible water damage", the damage is already done to you and the company makes a profit.

Would this be something like the postal service that wanted to ask every Internet provider to tack on a fee to every user that sent email to every other user? Yep, it is. We already pay a monthly rate to our cable companies for using the Internet every month. But if they want to make a HUGE profit and charge for every kilobyte rate per seconds, they'd suffer a massive outrage from customers. It's not only the deaf customers, but the hearing customers as well.

Let's hope that Time Warner Cable reconsiders their decision on pricing the deaf community.

Semper FI!

Giving money to your church? Think twice.

G'day Everyone.

Today's post is going to be controversial one. If you are not interested in a HOT post today, check back later for a NEW post.

When I grew up some time ago, I used to be catholic. I was always taught just to give $1 to $10 whenever I felt was best to do. I wasn't pressured to do it. That made me feel freedom in worshipping God in a honest way.

Then some time ago, I converted to being a baptist in a deaf ministry. Things really did not seem right in that deaf ministry. I remembered being pressured so much to *GIVE MONEY*, I can only remember how many times I gave out a 10% of my paycheck or monthly budget that almost strapped me often. (Rochester was economically bad then long ago. Even for a low paying job). Some how "the preaching and teaching" about tithing wasn't so peacefully settled in my heart. Some time ago, I even gave money to try to help save another baptist ministry from going under. It went under anyhow and wondered how God will help others with that money that's all gone some where else?

I gave up not only the baptist church but on tithing too. Then the subject came back in form of an e-mail from a friend of mine that came today. I'll show you the email, which will be censored a bit:

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-----Original Message-----
From: *PROTECTED*
To: WOPARSB@aol.com;
Sent: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 6:29 pm
Subject: TITHING

Hello,

Tithing? IT IS NOT REQUIRED. I read that from 1st century to 1800s the local NT (New Testament) churches basically do not support or require tithing. Apostle Paul said NOTHING about tithing in his 13 letters to the Body of Christ (Romans to Philemon). He talks about giving in 2 Corinthians 8-9, but nothing about tithing there. Tithing is a huge part of the Law of Moses under the Mosaic Covenant for the nation of Israel ONLY. If you read Leviticus, you will notice they give tithes of ANIMALS AND CROPS, not money. They are given to the priests of Aaron only. If Christians are forced to tithe by their pastors, they are PUT UNDER THE LAW again and required to obey it. That is pure GALVANISM: faith plus works. Just read the whole book of Galatians.

Do you know why the Baptist preachers FORCED tithing on their members starting in the 1900s? Because of IRS and taxes!!! The local churches (not just Baptist but other faiths as well) become "BUSINESSES" instead of congregations of believers gathered together to worship God and hear the word of God. They have budgets for everything (I know for I went to BUSINESS MEETINGS!!!) and they forced people to "tithe" to help pay for everything from salaries for pastors and employees to the utilities and property taxes!! THAT IS WRONG!!! These Baptist churches FORCED their members under the law again. STUPID! That's why I am NOT HAPPY with a lot of Baptist doctrines. Because they conflict with the Holy Bible, especially the WRITINGS OF APOSTLE PAUL.

That is one of the reasons why the independent Baptists and fundamentalist Christians goes into deep apostasy of the last days of 2 Thessalonians 2.

Your friend in Jesus,
*protected*
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You know, it makes me wonder WHY today's church ministry, in various faiths out there, to demand money from their congregation. Even when they make the "demand" to say ' God REQUIRES YOU to give to the church!', they say the church is required under the old testament laws, some even twist the new testament to suit their purposes as well.

One of the most widely used bible verses, that a church ministry use to support their 'tithing' case, is this:

" Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver" (2nd Corthians 9:7 King James Bible)

Which means, God wants man to give according to the Lord's will in his heart, NOT as a burden, nor as a *MUST BE REQUIRED TO DO*. If God puts peace in your heart to give, look to your finances first. Consider your budget. If you have enough to cover for a personal emergency later, give to God's ministry according to what you can afford, NOT what is demanded. Some times churches will twist that verse to support their "work for the Lord" to go their way and not God's way.

I remember a late pastor, not going to name his name or ministry because it would be a shame, put on a little stunt to try to raise money for his university / church. It went something like this: "Oh please, my people! Friends! Neighbors! SAVE me! God will openly kill me if I don't raise (then he says an approximate amount of money) by a (so and so day)".

Know what? He didn't raise the amount of money in a specific amount of time! God didn't take him home till years later. (wonder how he made out of his "stunt" with God).

When I travel out there and visit churches, even the baptist ones, I look at all the pretty pews, the walls, the altar, and various fancy stuff such as an elaborate sound system. It gets all lost on me when I want to hear the Word of God being preached. There are some true, simple, and GOD honoring churches out there in the world that preach right from the Bible. They don't put any Old Testament laws on their congregation, but encourage people to pray, trust, and have faith in God. They don't demand people to give money, but give what they can and when they can't, they can't.

In today's economic mess, the congregation is more worried about their job, retirement, health, and trying to keep their family together than giving financially to a church that grown to mega church size. Yet, pastors are trying to "plead" for help in paying the bills, support the missionaries they take on, and consider new building funds. But if pastors would stop and think for a moment, they ought to take a bit of time and walk with God more. They should go walking in a forest for a while and consider what God wants them to do.

Here is my favorite verse when I think about tithing (giving):
" Take heed that ye do not your alms (charity) before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Very I say unto you, They have their reward.
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly. (Matthew 6: 1-4 King James Version)."

In closing, of today's economic mess, here is my opinion of finances:
Seek to take care of your bills first. Pay of what you owe on your credit cards, insurances, and rent/mortgages. Take care of your health and see that food can be brought to take care of hunger. Above all, sock some of your money away for emergencies.
Lastly, when you wish to give money to church, consult God first. It is better to give a bit of non-perishable food for the pastor and his family than to give money.

In all of this, I hope you will economically do better. Churches will be churches. Some will fail and close, but the Word of God survives.

Semper FI!
P.S. One more quote from the Word of God: "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law." (Romans 13:8 King James Version)

Update: A friend of mine sent me a web page today that encourages GIVING (not tithing) to a church. Here it explains why:
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/sep2009/jovial93.htm

The World's New Threat: NK

G'day Everyone.

Happy Palm Sunday to my readers! As the start of the Holy Week of Easter 2009 begins and will end on Easter Sunday, I am sure many people are packing the pews and many people saying the prayers of faith for this sad and wild world. Be praying a bit harder for a while. WHY?

Well, if you were awake and being a night owl like me, you'd hear from your friends that one of them is actually watching the news and hearing the BREAKING NEWS that happened over night and then the news does a BLACKOUT and we don't hear anything until much later. That was a concerning moment in our nation's time. As many people on this side of the "pond" wake up to hear the news, you know people are going to be praying hard.

It makes one think of just how much closer we came to having every country to fire off their own rockets an attacking North Korea in response. North Korea wanted their war. USA and Japan didn't fire their rockets to destroy that missile. While the so called "satellite rocket" didn't reach space, the it fell in the ocean. Should the world be happy? No! Everyone is very angry now. How this will play out in the United Nations will not be easy.

So, for a moment in our lives, the world was on high alert for anything. But what North Korea has done has hurt the entire world with their actions. God help us in this time of Easter 2009.

I hope you will enjoy this Easter week. God bless to everyone.
Remember to pray for the nation and the world.

Semper FI

Pranking day/ virus warning/ NIT Finals.

G'day Everyone!

Well, it's April 1st, 2009. The infamous day you can prank on just about anyone out there. But some times, you have to be careful in what you are doing and be safe. By safe, I mean protect yourself from legal issues.

Make sure your day is full of enjoyment. Just remember, if you do prank in the office where you are at, just be careful.

At the same time, I do encourage you to run your anti-virus programs today in a very through way. Get your computer systems updated today. Don't open any strange emails. There's a very nasty computer virus out there. Wonder who sent that damn thing? Whoever did will get caught one day and face a list of long charges and life in prison!

If you were watching last night's NIT Basketball game instead of the NCAA's March Madness game, you missed a FANTASTIC NIGHT. My very friends had been cheering for Norte Dame that would be using their LUCK to blow away PSU. Well, the PSU team responded in NITTANY LION fashion and ROARED HARD! That blew the luck right off Norte Dame on the last night of March! WOW! WHAT A ROAR! WHAT A WIN! PSU faces Baylor University for the NIT Title! GO PSU GO!

Well, enjoy your day! SEMPER FI!