AND EVEN MORE .. 'In the news'

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Jeffry Picower, a philanthropist accused of profiting more than $7 billion from the investment schemes of his longtime friend Bernard Madoff, was found at the bottom of the pool at his oceanside mansion and died Sunday, police said. He was 67.

Picower's wife discovered his body and pulled him from the water with help from a housekeeper, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at Good Samaritan Medical Center at about 1:30 p.m.

Palm Beach police are investigating the death as a drowning, but have not ruled out anything on the cause of death.

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Now this is just too much! Did someone once say that good things happen in 3's? I can't believe I can finally click on the news on the internet and be overwhelmed with such happiness. Could this be the start of the perfect Utopia we all long to live in? Is there really a God? Does justice really prevail? Ohhhhhhh ... one can only hope!

Mulitple Topics

Just some passing thoughts on a few different subjects today.



Is it just Me, or am I the only one who thinks Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who landed in the Hudson river isn't really a hero. I mean He was just saving His own life, that's a natural instinct!!! When humans are faced with death, we naturally try to survive! It's just a coincidence that 150 other people happened to be there at the same time.

Is it just Me, or is Barrack Obama just another President who seems as worthless as every President before Him. I mean, a few weeks ago, every black person in America was jumping in the streets, Oprah was screaming, and we were to believe that America was in for a drastic change!! Well I know it's early, but I'm not impressed. So far He's shown to be a typical Democrat, spend, spend, spend. And a hypocrite, telling the American people that we all have to help in the energy crunch and turn down the thermostats, then He goes into the Oval Office and has the heat set high enough to fry and egg. Yeah ...... all you blacks out there who FINALLY have one of yours in the office can really celebrate this 'huge' difference we're noticing. That is ..... "Same old, same old". Why did anyone think it would be any different?

Is it just Me, or does this octuplets mom in the news who claims to be suffering from apparent depression need Her tubes tied in a OCTUPLET KNOT!!!! I've said it before .... It's a damn shame that all people who are allowed to have kids, I can only wish that we could invent the 'smart uterus' or the 'smart semen' like we can the 'smart cards' that actually have the ability to tell if something is worthy or not!

And finally, is it just Me, or do you see this 'economic crisis' and soaring jobless rates, and possible depression as a good thing? I think the best thing that could happen is a total collapse of the global economy, leaving us to start over with the values and understandings that made us great to begin with. The rebirth of human civilization, for lack of a better term. Yeah ... I doubt anything shy of a total collapse would fix the problems that 'man' has created.

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With that I'll close, realizing that once in awhile I get caught up reading the news and paying attention to world events. I hate it when I do that! My life is much better when I don't have the slightest clue what's going on in the world, because it's all a bunch of crap anyway. So today I'll reset my brain, once again, and tell it that "What happens outside My life, stays outside My life", and that is how life is best lived anyway!

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Todays RBV: Leviticus 22:11 But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.


Now this is just DISGUSTING in so many different ways!!

Scare Tactics

Here's a useful tip you won't find on Heloise or Ann Landers. Quit watching the news!! Personally, I quit watching TV all together, which for almost everyone out there is next to impossible to do. But at least quit watching the news. It's all scare tactics, no matter if it's the war in Iraq, terrorism, some deadly new flu outbreak, hurricanes, fires, your work, or your bowl of Wheaties. It's all the same ... nothing but scare tactics. Keep you in fear as much as possible so you feel the need to have government take care of you, and personally, that's the last person I'd like watching my back.

Yes, I just quit watching TV all together, and listening to the news on the radio, and reading the paper. And you know what? Life continues on as always without me knowing a bunch of worthless crap. All I need to know is an occasional click on the internet to a news site to see if the end of the world is tomorrow so I can call in sick. Other than that, there really isn't much out there. I don't care to much about a bunch of strangers I don't know that died, or how many people are in court, or a picture of a guy raking his leaves to remind me that fall is coming. Most of the things the news tells me I figure out just fine on my own. And the neat thing is, if it's important enough, I find out, and I don't have the "spin" on it from reading or watching it over and over through various news outlets.

People make small talk with me all the time. Such as "Did you hear about that (whatever) at (wherever) yesterday?". To which I respond, "NOPE, didn't hear, don't care." I figure I have a wife and kids to care about, then my family and friends. Everyone else is kinda on their own. I don't have the compassion or the will to try and care about everyone out there. Just worry about yourself. I'm sorry that "so and so" died in a 4 wheeler accident at the lake last weekend but you know what, I never heard of him so he's one of probably 1000's of people that died in the world yesterday.

In my opinion, if the United States would just worry about themselves and stop needing to know everything, we wouldn't have half the world hating us because were building bases on every country known to man. I'd say half of them don't want us there, and the other half don't care. Stay or leave, it don't matter, there going to continue to kill each other over who's God is greater no matter what you do. They been doing it for thousands of years and will continue for thousands more. But the U.S. stationed all over the world is way to big of a subject for this blog and deserves a blog all to itself so I'll quit.


Just think about all that doom and gloom on the news today, and how it affects YOUR everyday life. Not the life of everyone, JUST YOU. Did it really matter? Did your life drastically change because there was an e'coli in a House of Pancakes in southern Florida? Did life stop because Iran is enriching more uranium? Tell you what, if that day comes when Iran reaches that goal, your skin will start glowing, THEN you can turn on the news and check the headlines. Chances are, 90% of the doom and gloom you here really has little affect on your daily life, and the other 10% you'll find out about on your own or won't care anyway.

So live your life how you will, but if your interested in trying something a bit different for a while I highly recommend not paying attention to the world for a week or two. It will still be there when you get back, and if your like me, you don't really want to go back, and hopefully I never will.


Todays RBV:

James 5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

This is EXACTLY why brainwashed people in critical condition refuse treatment and then die. In From interpreting verses like this. Oh well, more stupid people die. Where's the downside ?

Also, Me, along with at least 50 other people had "faith" in prayer to save the sick when my Father was in critical condition several years ago. Guess what? He died anyway .. way to go God, and you wonder why I'm a non-believer?