A man waiting in a dermatologists office with, apparently, a mascot painted on his face. A kid keeps looking at him.
Finally, the man explains, “I used the wrong paint.” The commercial goes on to explain it was a “rookie mistake.”
I suppose it could happen. I don’t know, maybe the commercial was prompted by something that actually happen. At any rate, I loved the little story and I do like Snickers too. The problem is they rarely last that long.
Many of us have small cars that can’t haul trailers. Now that I have my electric car, that’s even more so. I have been giving the subject much thought.
Then I figured why not power the trailer the same as the car. A sensor could be installed on the tongue to signal the trailer to apply more or less power to the trailer’s motor. This is sort of like electric brakes but in reverse. That would mean battery and motor on the trailer.
My original thought was only for electric cars. Then I had 2nd thoughts. Why not for small gas powered cars too.
I suspect safety would be a factor. Speeds should be limited and, should the trailer come loose, power should be removed from the trailer`s motor. Perhaps some braking should also be applied.
It would be for light and likely long loads. Some might like to buy one. Others might prefer to do their hauling on a rented one.
Mostly, 2x4s simply do not fit in most cars. I live just a short distance from places to buy stuff for my home but I will likely need to rent a vehicle to haul the stuff for my storage shed.
Doesn’t matter to me. If anyone does develop such a thing, it will likely be long after I’m gone.
Over the years, I have heard a number of things about winning. The football coach Vince Lombardi said, “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” It might not be the most frequently quoted quote, but I suspect it might be one of the top ten. In truth, we will never know how many times he was quoted unofficially, by both by coaches and who knows how many others. Just maybe it was quoted by a few marines.
Certainly, for the marine out there facing the enemy 3 or 4 hundred yards away, it is very real. For if the Marine doesn’t win, he will very likely die.
If I were to prepare a list of things a soldier needs to win, I would certainly include the will to win right up there at the top.
If the soldier has no will to win, the enemy just gained an edge that cannot be perceived. However, the will to win doesn’t start the day the soldier marches off to war. It begins long before. For sure, he must undertake a lot of training. He must whip himself into top condition. His ability to outrun, out-jump, out shoot and even out fight the enemy hand-to-hand are all oh so important.
However, it even begins before the training. The will to win starts in the hearts of those who will be sending the soldier off. How much time and money will be put in training him? How much money will be spent to arm him? Finally, and most important, how much will the win be impeded? That is to say, what kind of rules set which he must follow? Is he going to have to wait for the enemy to grab his weapon before he is able to use the rifle on him?
What limits will be put on our side, knowing there will be no limits put on their side? What limits will be put on the ability to gather intelligence? If all we can do is ask, we might as well give up before we start. If we have to make sure that we not killing a civilian before we shoot, the war is lost before it is begun.
The primary requirement to win at anything is the will to win. It is why the runner strides just a little harder as he approaches the finish line. However, when a man goes out to do battle with the enemy, finish lines just don’t seem to be all that important.
Frequently, the objective of the marine is to shoot the other guy before he shoots you. That is true weather in a fox-hole or in a jet fighter. It is true weather in a rowboat or cruiser.
And, believe me. Those that have the greater reason to win have a very big edge.
During WWII, we had the reason to win. It is why Truman ordered the dropping of the bombs on Japan. Incidentally, they had the will to win too. If they had the bomb, they most certainly would have used it on us.
In Luke 14:28, The Prince of Peace was heard to say, “Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider weather he is strong enough with 10,000 men to encounter the one who is coming against him with 20,000?”
The truth is, once the battle is enjoined, it is too late to consider such things. Once the first shot is fired, as Coach Lombardi said, “Wining is the only thing.”
Moreover, the quicker it is over, the fewer who will die or be wounded. It is the long lingering wars where there is no commitment where the casualties mount.
Then, quite frequently, at the end, those who are not completely committed are the ones who will lose. For those who are truly committed will not give up… not as long as they have the means to fight.
It is a crying shame, Since President Truman, all dems have been more committed to winning elections than winning wars. They fight for a while and say, well, guess we can’t win that one. We need to withdraw… immediately if not sooner. If we have to leave a few Americans behind, sorry about that.
In my mind, I changed the title of this post at least half a dozen times. I may yet change it another 6 or 7 times. In theory, the title should tell the reader something about the subject. Yet it should not drive away the readers, which puts me in something of a quandary. I guess, in a way I will have to resort to a little deceit, though I don’t really like doing that. However, I really do want it to get to as many as possible if it will have the very success of The Daily Prompt’s mission to succeed.
More than most times, I feel the encouragement by God to write this. However, don’t get me wrong. I still have no claim to being a prophet, if only I were. I would like to speak on this subject as if I had the authority of God. Yet it is all common sense, or at least the most of us who have a conscience.
A little less than a week ago, I turned the radio on and found out that Hamas has again attacked Israel. How terrible this is, I thought. More senseless killing. However, as time unfolded, I realized that things were worse, much worse. It seems they were killing babies. They were burning them, beheading them, right before their parents.
How horrible, I thought. How can a people do such things to another people? It did not gain them anything in their war effort. It was simply because, well, I won’t go there. As I said before. I don’t know how people can do such things, and yet, if the reports are true, then they are.
Throughout history, people have been killing other people in war. It is a horrible thing and, for sure, I would like to put a stop to it. However, recently things have gotten worse. A socialist, that is the communist bunch out of the Soviet Union and China have killed, seemingly just to kill. Even more, year by year, the Israelites have become more targeted, apparently just because they live. Certainly the Nazis were not the first nor were they the worst
If you want proof of the existence of God, here it is. Why else would the world try to do away with the one people who must remain in order for the prophecies of the final days to be fulfilled? I mean, does the Bible not speak of the Jews in the last book of the Bible. How can these prophecies come true unless there are Jews? So, in order to keep them from being fulfilled, Satan is putting every effort into killing Jews.
Some believe man actually thought of it. Nope. It was Satan. And those trying to kill Jews are doing the will of Satan.
Nonetheless, let me return to the atrocity spoken of recently on the news. You know, where the Hamas men were chopping off the heads of babies. It does sound bad to just almost everyone.
How-some-ever, let me remind one and all. We have people; highly respected people have done and will continue to do this in this very country. And guess what, they get paid for it. The dems call them doctor and have high regard for them and they are highly protected murderers.
They cut and chop babies into little pieces. Needles-to-say, I would like to put a stop to that. It is the one major thing I would like stop right now. I would really like to be assured of my success.
But, alas, I am doomed to failure. People listen not to my cry for the babies, nor to the speeches of others.
You see, it is about money; it is about convenience; it is about power for the dems. Never is it about the baby.
However, before we get so all high and mighty about what the Hamas do, let’s get a mirror and glance at ourselves for a while. They have killed their hundreds. Our so-called healers have killed their millions, and it continues, mostly to black babies.
I remember when they started coming out with minor emergency facilities. I cut my knee one time and went to one. Ten minutes after I arrived, the doctor was sewing up the cut. If I remember right, it took 8 stitches.
On the other hand, I could have gone to a regular ER and, by time someone got around to stitching it, it would have already healed over.
You might have guessed by now that I am one of those in favor of minor emergency facilities. However, those big hospitals threw a fit. And, by the way, those big hospitals have the power to really throw fits. In this particular case, the little emergency outfits were eating into the profits of the big emergency rooms and the big hospitals didn’t like it.
It seemed odd to me at the time. If I heard one ad, I heard a thousand. If all you have is a stuffy nose, don’t clog the emergency rooms with your problem. Just go to your GP. (Back then they called themselves general practitioners. Now, they are internists.) At any rate, sometimes, a stuffy nose can seem to us non physicians a real emergency. You know, we have all sort of gotten used to breathing.
At any rate, it seemed to me that the minor emergency clinics were serving a good function. They kept the crowding in the real ERs down and people could be seen by a doctor when they needed one, instead of having to wait for an appointment. Also, those who had real emergencies could be seen by doctors more quickly in the real ERs.
It might seem odd to some but most doctors can sew up a cut pretty well. It is kind of one of those things required in the start of medical school. Most doctors can tell when someone has tonsillitis, though I have seen a couple who couldn’t… in an ER. My son almost died as a result. He had a very difficult time breathing.
My best guess, the hospitals threw their fit because they were losing money, a lot of it. It was doing exactly what the hospitals were asking the patients to do, decrease the overcrowding of the ERs. It seems that was not actually what they wanted.
Now, after a few decades, the term minor emergency does not seem to be allowed. It seems we patients do not understand the difference between a minor emergency and a heart attack. Odd. Aren’t most heart patients taken into the ER by ambulances. To be sure, we are told, to call an ambulance when suffering chest pains.
At any rate, I got a first hand look at what the elimination of minor emergency rooms has done. When I took my wife into the local hospital, we had to wait 7 hours. I found out later, some waited almost 10.
Sort of looks to me that we could use a few minor emergency facilities again. It is quite apparent the hospitals can’t deal with all the major stuff and the minor stuff too.
What’s worse, I think if you ask how long it will be, they will put you at the end of line, or at least part way. They don’t have any answers to things like that and they get angry when you ask. My suggestion, don’t ask, no matter how tempting.
My brief aside, most hospitals would not be so crowded if we closed off the border, a long time ago.
I generally don’t set goals. It leads to too much disappointment.
When I do accomplish something, it makes me feel all the better.
I know this is contrary to the way we are supposed to do things but goals do get interrupted so easily, as by the weather or a delayed flight. I simply do what I can when I can as the Lord allows.
They are coming to America, as the song title says. However, the flag they wave is not the Stars and Stripes. Instead, they prefer the flag of the country from which they come.
Repeatedly, the dems point out that we are a nation of immigrants. True, but always before, the immigrants let go of their old flag, and country; and took up their new flag, and new country.
I don’t know when it changed, but there was a time when dual citizenship was not permitted. If anyone knows the benefits of split allegiance, please let me know.
As Jesus said, a man cannot serve two masters. I do believe that goes to nations as well. For when the time comes for decisions, do you decide for the Stars and Stipes or for your former colors. To be sure, the decisions just might confront you each time you enter a voting booth. Are you, for sure going to vote for the good of the US, or will you maintain your ties to your prior country? Just which country will benefit from your vote?
Which flag gets waved? Which flag gets saluted? In my book, a person ought not gain citizenship until they are ready and willing to put down their former colors.
This is greatly amplified in Congress. There is a Constitutional requirement for the president to be a native born American. It is a shame that there isn’t such a requirement for both houses of Congress. This very day we have people in our Congress who wave foreign flags and they are proud to do it.
There’s just some wrong about that. To whom do they owe their allegiance? For whom do they cast their votes?
Do you suppose they have a secret they are keeping to themselves?
That is what Thomas Kinkade got to be known as. If you are not familiar with his work, you might look him up. It’s not difficult. If you don’t remember his name, just enter “Painter of Light.” The reason he was given the title was because he generally painted landscapes with houses at dusk. The houses, the streetlights and even the moon seemed to give off a glow.
I have heard of people who had more copies of his paintings than they had room on the walls to hang them. It forced them to rotate them around from time to time.
He died a few years ago I am sad to say. I do believe he did bring a little light to us all who bought copies of his paintings, or just had the opportunity to see them.
Many did not like the way he did things. While all of his paintings were real, he had talented people make copies of his painting under strict supervision. As a result, there were many copies. Those in the world of established art believed in one copy of each painting and only by the artist, this despite that most of the Sistine Chapel was painted by assistants of De Vinci. The nice thing about the way Kinkade did it, he brought much more beautiful art to many more people. By the way, he also gave many aspiring artist a way to feed themselves while practicing.
I used to draw and paint when I was younger. I even considered painting the covers to my books, or at least a few of them. However, my painting is about like my books, not that good. Would anyone like to offer to do it for me?
Not all art is on canvas. Actors are considered artist too. I have many actors that I have liked over the years- Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Dorthy Kirsten, Gordon MacRae, Doris Day and a few others. However, Topol in “Fiddler on the Roof,” has to be my favorite. I have the DVD and have watched it many times. However, I also saw it on stage at the Orpheum in Memphis, with Topol. It was the last time he toured with the show and I just knew I had to see it.
I managed to get the night off of work. ( I had a very good boss, thankfully ) I went with my wife and we settled into our seats. The lights were lowered and a man stood on the stage. Topol had likely played the part thousands of times before. However, almost instantly, he was playing the part for the first time. Instantly, he was not Topol, but Tevye, a poor dairyman in early 1900s Russia. I wish I had some way of telling the man what a good and convincing performance he gave that night. I have tried.
However, he, his performance, the other actors, and the show brought to my mind something I just simply did not know before. There were tears in my eyes as I realized that as bad as the Russians were on the Jews, they chased the them into places such as east Europe, like Poland, Like Hungry, Austria , and of course, Germany. In truth, the mistreatment of the Israelites did not start in Germany and Poland. It was simply a stop along the way. It started in Ukraine. It went through Europe and it is going on this very day with help of our current occupier of the Oval Office.
And, by the way, did you know our very own Roosevelt (FDR) had a part in it. He refused to let them leave Germany and enter the US, even though they were well under Quota. That’s right, FDR was a viscous racist and he didn’t do much to hide it either.
I used to like to take pictures. I had about 160 slides of Vietnam. I used to look at them from time to time. An older woman I met took pictures too. She had been all over the world. Now SHE was an artist. I could have sat and looked at her slides for hours. It does make me wonder, where are those slides now. I certainly hope whoever inherited them knows what a treasure they have. More likely, no one has looked at them for years, if at all.
I don’t know the woman’s name. I wish I had thought to ask her for copies, but I wouldn’t be able to afford them anyway. It would be a tragedy if they have been lost. To me they would be worth more that anything that Leonardo de Vinci painted.
Sometimes, people underestimate the value of their art. I suspect all the artist I mentioned here didn’t really truly know what treasures they really brought into the world. I know Thomas Kinkade had an idea of it, but he couldn’t have really known. Topol has no idea what he brought into my life that night, and it wasn’t just the art. That woman with her slides. I know she wanted to bring something into everyone’s life. I just wished she had the vehicle for it. There is no doubt in my mind she had the talent and heart for it.
Here is your question of the day, one for you to contemplate. Do those who are good do evil? Do those who are evil do good?
To some degree, we all sin. To deny it is a lie. The best of us do things we shouldn’t. It is in our nature since the fall of Adam and we simply cannot avoid it. It is why Jesus came to be born and suffer his death on the cross. It is why we die. It is from the curse and it cannot be avoided. It is why the only way we can go to heaven is to accept that we are sinful and that being covered by the blood of Jesus is the only hope a man has.
However, there are men who have been or are particularly evil. Satan is evil and those that do the will of Satan do evil things. We all know people down through history that have done particularly evil things. Nero burned the city of Rome and blamed it on the Christians. Hitler blamed all the woes of Germany on the Jews, giving him the false reason to kill the Jews. Even to this day, there are tyrants who do evil things and, apparently have no conscience about it. They kill people by thousands, oddly, in some cases claiming that they are doing good.
To be sure, not all evil men are leaders of nations. Charles Manson and his crew was full of evil. Jim Jones orchestrated the deaths of more than 900 people. The man was evil and he did evil things long before he led all those people to their deaths. Indeed, he led them to their deaths because he realized he’d been found out of his evil ways.
Mostly, we can generalize, those who are evil do evil things. Those who are good do things that are good. However, we must remember that there are exceptions to the rule.
Today, we look over at the Middle East and what we see is just almost total evil. The Jews did nothing to deserve the attack by Hamas. However, with some encouragement from Iran and Satan, they decided they wanted to kill, take hostages, and rape. That is not the act of good men, but evil men. There is no other way to put it. Good men don’t do that sort of thing. Good leaders do not lead their people to do evil things. Because Hamas has continually done that which is evil, we must consider them to be evil. They are doing the work of Satan by trying to destroy God’s people. That, in itself is a subject that deserves an extensive explanation.
Death and destruction follow evil and evil follows Satan. The leaders of Hamas hate the Jews so much that they are willing to use their own women and children as shields to accomplish their evil.
When Old Joe and his cohorts turned 6 billion dollars over to Iran, they knowingly assisted in the evil. They aided and abetted evil intentionally. It is why I call him Old Joe. He is a murderer and the only title he deserves is murderer. His description is evil. He deserves not the title of president.
From the way he looks, he is likely not far away from meeting Jesus face to face. I mean I have a whole lot to explain when I meet Jesus. But Old Joe… He’s in worse shape than Jim Jones or Charles Manson. They only have a few deaths to their name. Old Joe is going to have to answer for thousands, perhaps millions. That just almost puts him in the same situation as Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler.
One more thing. If you help Old Joe, you are going to have some explaining to do, too. Indeed, if you helped him, then you helped the Iranians and you helped Hamas. You just might want to think about asking for forgiveness. You just might want to seek the salvation of the Lord. The way I see it, that is the only way to avoid your current destination. Do you really want to come face to face after rejecting Him and the salvation He gave died for. Somehow, I don’t think he will be impressed by what you did to stop climate change.
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