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Jim Bedwell

Kurt,

Truly, do you ever regret never getting into drugs? I'm pretty hard-pressed to think of anybody who might think that, except for Mark Tuinei, and look where that got him! Actually I bet he had dabbled before in stuff.

I hadn't known you were really good/great at math back in the day, likely better than I, and that was my best subject! But I did love the history stuff.................otherwise I really did HATE school as much as probably a lot of people who did a lot more poorly than I did there.

Also for somebody who's supposed to be one of the smarter ones, really, I am AMAZED at the number and degree of the STUPID things I've said & done in my life. To say that would be what you would expect from somebody who was afflicted with the Down's syndrome, would be an insult to all of them, though less to other people of average native intelligence, but an insult nonetheless. Basically I've done more stupid things that just about anybody I know of! Really to my shame, and at the judgment seat you will be even more perplexed at what you hear about me. My skeleton closet is FAR LARGER than ANY closet found in a master bedroom of a newly built McMansion in my old 50's neighborhood near Dealey Elementary on Royal Lane!! Anyway, here's an important verse that this reminds me of.............well, here's a better one I was just reading, one of my very favorite, and unrelated to the verse I was looking for:

“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him." (1 Cor 2:9) - I don't know which version but here's the link:

https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/

I was LOVING the 1st chapter & then the 2nd - as you know, you can't really describe what it does to a born again person internally to read these AGAPE words. OH MY!!!!!! For those that don't know, the agape love is the divine unconditional love that is so much higher than our conditional human version. God loved Saddam up through the hanging!!! He wasn't pleased with his behavior obviously but He still loved him!!!! Too bad the English is not as rich as the Greek that the New Testament was written in - there are a few dffierent Greek words for love with different shades of meaning found therein, as we know, Kurt.

Have a TREMENDOUS remainder of your Father's Day in our Lord & Savior!!!

Chief Regenerated & Redeemed (due to You Know Who)

David Cordell

Kurt --

"Exegetical"?  

Wait! I think that was one of the vocabulary words I missed on the National Merit exam!

Steve Keene

Kurt,

I was as straight as an arrow in high school, too.  The only thing I did was paper houses and on Halloween throw a few eggs.  My only experience with drugs in high school came one time when Tommy Thomas and I decided to go to the Gemini Drive Inn on a Friday night to look for girls.  We talked some guy into buying a bottle of sloe gin that we drank with Dr. Pepper.  That put me off booze until I went to college at UT and discovered beer.

Sandra,

Thanks for the kudos for Makenzie.  In her first match, the girl caught her by surprise and pulled her down and got her leg over her and she was down 5 point to 0.  My son said, Dad maybe she is not going to do so well.  I looked in her eye and saw that look that she was pissed,  She has used that look on me a time or two and I know to back off.  I told my son that she had the other girl right where she wants her.  Next thing you know after five minutes it,is 15 to 5 in her favor.  I asked her about it and she said, I put my toe in her eye and then put all my weight on her face and choked her with my belt in a legal move.  She said you get most of your points with leg position advantage, but when somebody has all their weight on your face and your eyes pressured and  your air choked off, the last thing you think about is your legs. 

David,

I would have called you but I figured you were on a picnic blanket somewhere watching Shakespeare in the Park.

Hollis,

I love to eat at Cindys.  I take my girls there for breakfast all the time and then get some stuff from the bakery for later.  My new spot I like is Chelsea Corner.  They have the best upscale brunches in town,  other than St. Martins.

Sandra Spieker (Ringo)

Lowell,

A Judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought forth by employees of  Houston Hospital who were against a vaccine mandate.  They have until the 21st to get a vaccine or get fired.  I am with the Judge.  My brother in law has a compromised immune system due to a liver transplant.  He has recieved three doses of the vaccine and through a testing program with John's Hopkins to track his antibody response, he has learned he still has no antibodies against the virus.  If hopsitals don't require their employees to get vaccinated then this madness will continue.  How are vulnerable people expected to live?  Herd immunity.

Edited to add this:

When I went to Europe with my mother in my early teens vaccines were required to travel overseas.  Small pox, polio, and others.  We got the shots or did not get a visa.  This is vaccine mandate is not something new.  It worked then to prevent the spread of contagious diseases and it will work now. 

I hope your brother in laws medical expense get resolved without undue hardship.  Insurance companies rule.  Doctors advice, orders and prescriptions are often overrulled to the demands of insurance companies, at the expense of paitents lives and livelyhoods.  My heart goes out to you and him.

Bob Davidson

David -- the test I was really rattled on was the Bar Exam.  The first day is called Multistate -- it is a multiple choice test of general legal knowledge given in most states.  There are five possible answers and you have to pick the answer that is most right -- usually one is blatantly wrong and the rest partially right.  Basically, lawyers being assholes to aspiring lawyers.  It's four hours in the morning, an hour lunch break, then four more in the afternoon.  I totally blew my confidence after the morning -- when I walked out to eat lunch, I was behind a group that was talking about the answers to some of the questions, ones I'd had doubts about, and their consensus was that I was wrong on each one.  I spent lunch wondering if I should bother going back to be embarrassed even more.  Obviously, I did well enough to be allowed to practice law, but my confidence was totally zapped and I doubted myself on each answer.

We watched Doctor Zhivago this weekend.  I hadn't seen it since early high school and found it very enjoyable as a story and so, so sad.  The saddest part was seeing the vision of the leftists realized in Russia.  I remember the joke in the 90s -- communism is dead everywhere but North Korea and American college campuses.  Now you'd have to add our public schools, the mainstream media, woke corporations, the Silicon Valley lordlings, the billionaire class, the bureaucracy, and the Democrat Party.

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Fly your U.S. flags today with pride!

Happy Birthday Jerry May!  It's nice and sunny and warm(?) for you!

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Did you hear that Obama has admitted, inadvertently, in his intervue with Anderson Cooper, that he is a racist?  He guffawed at Republicans as he spoke to Cooper, saying it was a quite something that Republicans are offended at Critical Race Theory, a theory which was highlighted in the NYT a while back.

He asked Cooper, "Who knew that Republicans would have a problem with Critical Race Theory?" as he chuckled and grinned toward Cooper for agreement, knowing that Cooper is a CNN cooperative.

Critcal Race Theory is absolutely a racist theory that is based on fiction, and it tries to tell everyone that Caucasians are racist from the "git-go;" that America is founded on the premise of slavery being our utmost intent, as soon as we hit the American shores in 1619.  As Obama once stated, "Racism is in the DNA of America."

Obama agrees with the theory and can't understand why most of us, particularly Republicans, do not!

I remember Charles Krauthammer saying that he suspected Obama was a sly and calculating individual.

Krauthammer was correct 99.9% of the time.

David Cordell

Bob,

Doctor Zhivago was a great movie, but very depressing. Rod Steiger/Julie Christie rape scene bothered me, as did the confiscation of DZ's home, and lots more. Didn't like seeing him die in the end, either.  

There is an interesting juxtaposition of leadership styles in one brief segment of the movie. A uniformed sargeant (I suppose) stands atop a barrel and barks out orders in an exceedingly condescending manner. He gets shot by his own men. Then the next brief scene shows Tom Courney urging his charges on in a sort of "follow me, men" approach.

I think DZ lost to Sound of Music for best picture that year, which I disagreed with. That said, I have only watched DZ once in the past 50 years, but have watched S of M multiple times. When my son performed in S of M on Broadway with Richard Chamberlain, I learned that the stage version has two good songs that weren't in the movie. 

Sandra,I have been fully vaccinated, but I have friends who refuse to be vaccinated because the vaccines only have "emergency" approval. Should we be concerned about that? I remember, as a boy, reading about thalidomide babies.

David Cordell

Images of thalidomide babies.

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Sandra Spieker (Ringo)

David,

The Covid vaccines are RNA delivery based ways to fight viruus.  The technology is ground breaking and could result in the development of vaccines to combat HIV and cancer.  Here is a great article from MIT which explains how these vaccines work.  MIT Article

As for the emergency use designation, I figure that if (over today's count -173 million) have received at least one dose, and those people who have recieved the vaccine have only experienced a scant few severe reactions,  that is it safe and effective.  These vaccines have been in development for many years, not just less than a year.  There are more numerous drugs that are approved by the FDA that have more side affects, and long term issues than this vaccine.  Yet those drugs are used frequently, advertised on television and pushed for anything from arthritis, to crohns disease and we make no stink about it at all.  This vaccine might just save us from ourselves if we would just cooperate with one another. The latest alzhiemer drug has the unfortunate side affect of brain bleeds, but it was approved none the less.  Even some of the board members on the FDA resigned because of the approval.  The vaccine, not so much.  

Our current panic driven mindset of 30% of the population to discredit science and acedemia is more worrisome to me than the approval of this vaccine. 

Wayne Gary

David

The FDA normally waits until the large study is completed after 2-3 years.  I am in a study that will last 27 months. This will give information on how long the protecton lasts.  We could not wait 2-3 years for standard apporvial but after 6 months of the large scale trial there was enough data  to show it is safe and effective. They are now working on final approvial. With final approvial they will know if and how often a booster is required.

David Cordell

Sandra,

With all due respect, you don't have all the answers and you seem unwilling to accept that anyone could possibly think differently than you do. You imply that 30% of the population are morons and you refuse to accept that they may have logical reasons for their hesitance.

There is a normal process for approving medicines. It was bypassed because of the emergency nature of the pandemic. It is fortunate for all of us that President Trump had the guts to push the envelope. 

But what are the long-term effects of the vaccine? We don't know. There have been cases recently of boys who have had heart issues after taking the vaccine. Why? 

A broader issue --

The word "science" comes from the Latin root meaning "to know". When I hear "follow the science", I always wonder what they really "know" versus what they don't know, and the latter includes what they haven't even  anticipated. What we "know" changes, as the contradictory pronouncements from Dr. Fauci evidence. 

Much of what they "knew" about the virus one year ago was wrong, including where it originated. In other words, they don't really know what they know.

Knowledge is good, but as Pope noted, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. A little knowledge combined with hubris and arrogance makes for a poisonous mixture.

My wife and I took the vaccine we determined that the odds are in our favor. Is a healthy 25-year-old with O positive blood better off to take the vaccine than not to take it? I don't know.

David Cordell

Here's some fun for the ladies.

Jim Bedwell

David C,

Great post in response to Sandra. Reminds me of a GREAT Twain quote that is the best or most apt quote of his for our beloved ex Prez Barack Hussein Obama - I think there are other Twain quotes that are appropriate for that scoundrel, a proponent of CRT - duh, where did he go to "church" for 20+ years?

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."

Jim Bedwell

Somebody privately reminded me that yesterday was NOT Father's Day. No wonder I didn't get any phone calls!!!! But see that's happened before..............................oh well, this life's journey was never promised to be bump free as we know.

Jim Bedwell

Lady Lanajuju,

KRAUTHAMMER!!! LOVED that guy!!! Remember the old EF Hutton TV commercials where the crowded, noisy room went totally silent when some guy mentioned to another that his broker was with EF Hutton and he said that ........... that's the same thing that happened to me when I saw the late savant Charles on FNC and he was about to speak.

Plus what a GREAT name for a Jew, given the fact of the Holocaust. And like I am, an ex-left-winger was he. He's YET ANOTHER Jew that almost certainly had to have had a genius IQ - he stood out even among the other elites in school, even medical school, I understand. With his disability, I couldn't believe seeing his being able to drive around BY HIMSELF in his specially rigged SUV - apparently he drove fast - maybe he got some tickets? And he was a trained psychiatrist. Sometimes he'd be asked about the thinking of some Dem or Marxist, and he'd say, "What are you asking me for? Am I a psychiatrist?". Plus he had a classic quip about Algore, "If he witnessed Godzilla's ambling down the National Mall in D.C., he'd blame it on global warming".

Chief Jimi Bob Bedpost

Steve Keene

Chief Bedpost,

At the Jiu Jitsui match I asked my son where they were holding the Anti Semite Jitsui contests.

David,

Makenzie was in Plano today at the Courthouse.  She completely destroyed a young prosecutor and tore down the testimony of a Plano police officer in a DUI case.  In a meeting after her cross examination of the cop, her client hugged her and said that he had never felt so well represented.  The poor officer fell into every trap she laid for him, finally admitting that he did not go by the manual in the sobriety test and also did not correctly inform her client of his rights.  Before it was over he told the jury that 8 seconds for test one and 8 seconds for test two, which is the required time to perform the tests, could be performed in 10 seconds which is what his body cam showed.  The attorney who is her second, is cross examing the blood test expert tomorrow and then she gives the summation.  I will let you know how it turns out.  She has been first chair on cases in Ellis County at her previous firm, but this is her first trial at her new firm. I hear that Plano juries are tough on DUI's so you never know.

Jerry May

Thanks Janalu,

And to those who messaged me privately. It was a memorable one celebrated on Saturday evening at a 
at Tupinambas Mexican Restaurant ( known the owner; Eddie Dominguez for years) About 20 family and close friends attended. Though it wasn't a surprise birthday party, I received one big one Ellen had all set-up!

A "Marilyn" personality/impersonator showed up! She sang "Happy Birthday" in that sultry voice and did a good job! The only thing missing was the white dress, instead wearing all black. She sang a couple more and then interacted with me and members of the group. All in all, a memorable 70th experience!

Lowell Tuttle

i enjoy the Far Side facebook group and Sandra sharing her Farside cartoons by Gary Larson.   Sometimes they are perceived as being a little too sacreligious by facebookers and comments ring out initiating a bit of a social media circus on line.

That just occurred and it brought me to this question. 

Were there any jokes or funny stories in The Bible?    It seems to me they were absent in The Old Testament and that seems out of character.

Maybe it is because jokes are always making fun of someone.   Sort of humor is not politically correct, at least in a Biblical sense.

So, taking that further, perhaps the intent was for The Bible to be "woke?"  What da ya' think?

Wayne Gary

Lowell,

There are some funny things in the old testament.

Imagine sitting around the campfire and hearing the story of Adam and Eve. When you hear about them making clothes out of grape leaves which feel like rough sandpaper.  You would be laughing at how silly that would be and how long do you thing they wore the grape leaves. 

A lot of the stories do not seem funny to us because we do not live in that time and do not know the references.

Steve Keene

Happy belated birthday Jerry.

Lowell,

Don't you see any humor in Eve teaming up with the snake?  How about Ruben's daughter in law pretending to be a whore to preserve the tribe lineage of the Rubenites?  It was pretty funny that Samson kept trusting women to keep their mouth shut and they always turned on him.  Maybe you have not had the same experience with women doing that as I have.  I thought it was pretty funny that God visited every evil that Pharoah sought to do to the Isaelites out of his own mouth back on the Egyptian people.  If you cannot see the humor of Balaam's dumb ass telling him not to go the way to curse Israel, you are nuts.  Jonah taking solace in a plant that grew up and gave him a little shade, and God made that plant wither and die, too?  Maybe my sense of humor is a little macabre.  You did not think it was funny that Jonah got swallowed by a whale when he wasn't following God's instructions?  He changed his tune real fast.  I found humor in God's telling Amos the Prophet to marry a couble of whores, to illustrate to the Israelites how God perceived they had gotten off track.  Don't tell me that you did not think it was funny that God took a kid with a slingshot and struck down the mightest giant warrior of the enemy?

You are probably not going to think it is funny when God punishes the Woke generation and exalts those that believe His Word without question, either.

Kurt Fischer

Lowell:

I can think of two Old Testament stories that seem funny to me and perhaps show a sense of humor on God's part.

The first deals with Moses and his wife Zipporah.  Zipporah is described as a Cushite woman and many/most agree she came from Africa and had black skin.  The 12th chapter of Numbers describes what happens when Moses and Zipporah return to camp.  Moses' brother Aaron and his wife Miriam react to this by challenging whether God only speaks through Moses and insinuate that God could also be speaking through them. The actual language in Numbers 12:2 uses a feminine verb tense, so we get the feeling that Miriam is speaking about this.   Apparently Aaron and Miriam thought that Moses made a bad decision in marrying Zipporah and one gets the feeling it is because she is a Cushite and Black. 

God has a particularly interesting judgment here.  Moses is his prophet and He does not appreciate Aaron's and Miriam's telling Him what to do.  He strikes Miriam with leprosy and she turns all white.  It's like "So, you don't like Black?  How about if I turn you completely white?"  This is a temporary situation and after she stayed outside the camp for seven days, she returned to her normal skin color.

This seemed to me like a bit of humor.   Maybe just my interpretation....

The second deals with Balaam.  Balaam was a non-Israelite "prophet".  He was well known for being a form of a prophet, with events which he prophesized generally coming true.  When Israel began to move through Moab during the Exodus, the King of Moab decided to hire out Balaam to curse Israel.  (Numbers 22-24).  The King offered a large reward for Balaam to conduct the cursing.  On three separate occasions Balaam got ready to conduct the cursing, sacrificed animals,etc and each time the Lord "put a word in his mouth" and each time Balaam instead blessed Israel.  The King of Moab became more irritated and finally sent Balaam home.  

This also seemed like a bit of humor.  Balaam was ready to make some money, but each time God substituted words which blessed Israel and defeated the intent of the King of Moab.

Maybe these are not quite Punography grade humorous incidents, but they fit in my categorization of humor.

Bob Davidson

Lowell -- a God without humor?  No way.  Humor is one of the most wonderful divine gifts we were given and a way we connect with the devine.  I cannot imagine understanding God without humor.  (If you look, you will see that anti-Judeo-Christian political movements always hate humor -- communists, nazis, Jihadis, and our leftwing garbage elite all hate humor and try to destroy it and the people who propagate it.)

Jim -- I really admired Krauthammer.  Even when I disagreed with him, I always took his opinion seriously.  He was a man who made the most of a life marred by a terrible accident.

David -- Leftists seem to confuse science based opinions with science.  Science seems to me to be a process for understanding our world, always up for questioning -- scientific opinion is a statement of what someone thinks is an explanation.  Epistemology is a bit more complicated than dogmatists can imagine.  

Yesterday, I had "the Punography board" in my list of places where communism still exists but took it out because it seemed mean.  Now I'm sorry I did.

Lowell Tuttle

Those Bible jokes are funny, i guess, to a certain type of person.   I'll give you that.   Reminds me of this joke.

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Steve Keene

Lowell,

That plumber's joke made me bend over, crack up!