LOUIS FARRAKAN: "I heard from a very reliable source that under that levee, there was a 25-foot hole, which suggested that it may have been blown up, so that the water would destroy the black part of town, and where the whites were, it would be dry. I am sure that some good is being done, but not nearly enough to answer the cry." Now, I'd like to know the same thing Rush Limbaugh asked: just how the hell the water would know which neighborhoods to destroy and which to leave dry. Is wate...
A Gospel of John Passage Is Proven True It turns out that a specific passage from the Gospel of John wasn't a religious conceit, that is a kind of poetic license John took to prove a point. It's true. Now there is proof. When the sewer line in the Old City of Jerusalem needed repairs in the fall of 2004, the workmen made a historic discovery: the biblical Pool of Siloam. The Gospel of John cites this as the place where Jesus cured the blind man. Theologians have long thought the setting of th...
Get off 22 at the Downtown Weirton (Main St.) exit, come up about, oh, maybe a quarter mile or so. Across from the Exxon station is a fixture of the downtown area. Mario's Restaurant, as I understand it, has been around for almost 50 years, and is the home of one of the Upper Ohio Valley's most famous contributions to culinary excess, DiCarlo's Famous Pizza. I gorged myself on it as a high schooler, and still do when the yen strikes me. It was there, in Weirton in 1960, that the Mario Dic...
Forgiveness is not easy. It’s sometimes very hard to forgive those who’ve wronged or hurt you in some way. My particular battle with the subject comes from the loss of two jobs over the years to what amounted to simple disagreements and self-serving pettiness on the part of those who wronged me. Three years ago, I had been working for five years in Housekeeping at a local hospital. I was a "Floor Tech", and my job consisted of cleaning and buffing floors, and carpet maintenance and cle...
I’ve been working on this for a couple of days, now, having written and re-written it a few times. Since I seem unable, for some odd and unknowable reason, to post on Tex’s threads, I guess I’ll have to put it out there myself. Which is probably better, anyway; after all, if you’re going to prostrate yourself in apology, what better way than publicly, right? And now, down to business: Tex; you and I disagree on many things; not a soul-searing revelation, obviously, but a true statement n...
I just read what you wrote over on Tex's thread. I haven't "locked you out". I never blacklist. Feel free to post anything you like. Sorry, but if there's a problem with you posting oin my threads, it's not coming from me.
The other day, when I went to pick up my wife at work, she got into the car when I happened to be listening to Sean Hannity. Now, my wife is not very politically-oriented; her ideas come from snatches of information she gets from wherever they happen to fall into her ears, and from her friend "Becky". Becky hates GWB with a passion, and everything she tells my wife is skewed from that angle. As a result, my wife hates him, too, and never has anything good to say about him. I have had to cont...
According to a news item I heard this morning (and I wish I had a link to support this, but I don't---if anyone can locate one, please post it), the Red Cross reports that workers were ready and in position to deliver water, food, supplies and other amenities to the Superdome, but were disallowed and turned away by representatives of the Louisiana Dept. of Homeland Security (in other words, the LA branch of FEMA), who feared that bringing more supplies might draw more people to the "shelter", ...
Yes, tomorrow I face the big 3-8 ....actually at about 2-something AM EST, but who wants to quibble? The wife bought me a DVD Saturday evening, "The Godfather", but gave me strict orders at the time that I'm not able to watch it until after tomorrow. Nothing going on, really....I'm out of work at the moment, so there's no money for a night on the town. Sunday, we might get some friends together and go to "Crickster's", a local 50s-retro diner done up in Elvis and Rock-n-Roll stuff, that s...
This has been said before, but I’ll say it again: Too many people here use the blacklist option simply to silence the opposition. It’s just that simple, and it’s just that sad. It seems that, if they meet up with someone they don’t like or who slams them particularly hard on some point or points or other, they will just slap a gag across that person’s mouth, silencing them by keeping them from posting on their articles. I’ve noticed a strange thing, though; most of the blacklisters, or...
I keep seeing images of devastation and desperation in New Orleans, and keep wondering to myself where the help is. Why do we keep seeing images of dead and dying residents holed up in shelters and on the streets, with no water, food, or rescuers in sight? What's wrong? I watch the news, but I just don't get it; am I missing something? Why, if help is not forthcoming, do they sit in the same places day after day, waiting for buses and relief that never comes? After all, if buses can trucks ...
In the time that I was offline, I was saddened by the news of the passing of James Doohan, "Scotty" of "Star Trek" fame. He was 85, and is the second of the "Original Series" crew to pass away. The first was DeForest Kelley, Dr. Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy, in 1999. Scotty was always my favorite Trek character, for many reasons, but mainly because he always seemed so "real" to me. Unlike the more noble and perhaps more sophisticated "big three" characters of Kirk, Spock and McCoy, Scotty was ...
I recently found a really great buy; in the bargain DVD bin at Wal-mart, there, amid the detritis of B-movies and such, I found one of my favorite films from the 80s: "Johnny Dangerously". For $5.50! I loved this movie from the first time I saw it. For those of you who've never seen it, if you don't like movies that are "supposed" to be silly and stupid (al la "Airplane I and II", "Naked Gun", "Hot Shots", etc.), you won't like this one. My wife hated it. The movie stars Michael Keaton as...
"Okay Sparky….sit! Good dog…now….roll over! Good dog! Shake….good dog! Now….don’t be gay, Sparky; don’t be gay! Damn it! Take off that pink bandana….where do you keep getting that?"----Stan Marsh, "South Park" Going on three years ago, we adopted a cute little puppy that was supposed to have been a pure breed Yorkshire Terrier…. Not a dog I would normally choose, but they were going to take him to the pound, and rather than subject the cute little guy to the whims of fate, we took him in ...
I have no problem with people smoking pot for medicinal reasons, or even to add a little fun to a party or get-together (though the thought of taking a drag after several someones else have had their lips on the thing is really gross, to me). Pot is the least of the drugs, and wasn't even really illegal here in America until, what, 1970? It's the losers who sit, stupified on the couch covered in orange Cheetos dust and watching TV all day that bug me. I know a few of them, so don't call that...