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Monday Hopeful Open Comments

I was reading my Bible and devotionals this morning, and there seems to be a confluence:

John 14:18 “I will not leave your orphans; I will come to you.”

Devotional: “During difficult times it is critical that we are walking in fellowship with other Christians. When a crisis hits, it is overwhelming to face it alone. But if we have cultivated supportive friendships, we will find strength in the comfort and encouragement of those who care about us. Interdependence is also a safeguard for us when we are lured by temptation…You must link your life with others who are seeking God’s will. Seek to be a person who willingly joins others in carrying out God’s assignments. Strive to be the source of support and encouragement that those around you need.”

Devotional: “If my mind is clouded by nameless dreads, I will track them down and expose their unreality. I will remind myself that God is in charge of me and mine and that I have only to accept His protection and guidance.”

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66 responses to “Monday Hopeful Open Comments”

  1. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Margaret Carlson: Maybe Terrorists Who Sneak Into US Won’t Attack Because of Our ‘Acceptance’

  2. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The Sicilian Mafia – doing the work Obama won’t do.

    The son of a New York mob boss has given Islamic State a stark warning, saying if they are planning any attacks in New York, they will have to contend with the Sicilian mafia. The notorious crime syndicate say they want to do their bit to protect locals.

    “The world is dangerous today, but people living in New York neighborhoods with Sicilian connections should feel safe,” he said. “We make sure our friends and families are protected from extremists and terrorists, especially the brutal, psychopathic organization that calls itself the Islamic State,”

    Gambino Jr, who was brought up in Torretta, a mountainous area overlooking Palermo, the capital of Sicily, says that Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL) fear the Sicilian mafia, and this has been one of the main reasons why they have not tried to set up any underground cells in Sicily.

  3. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Margaret Carlson: Maybe Terrorists Who Sneak Into US Won’t Attack Because of Our ‘Acceptance’

    I see your Margaret Carlson and raise you Joyce Carol Oates.

  4. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

  5. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Obama incompetent or treason?

    I say treason. There is nothing incompetent about his actions. I believe he came in with a check list and agenda.

  6. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #5 – AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaMEN

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    SNUCK !?

    Carlson is a veteran journalist, columnist and managing editor with a BA in English from Penn State and a law degree from George Washington in DC.

    …and she used the clumsy, inept past tense form of sneak five times in two paragraphs.

    It’s not that I am pedantic about the usage, especially in informal conversation, but if I were Carlson I would at least try to use the more formal and acceptable sneaked if I were on television in front of millions of people.

    When in doubt, it’s usually better to go with the older form—sneaked, in this case—but there’s nothing wrong with using snuck. Just watch out for English traditionalists with peeves.

    Of course, if Adee thinks I’m just being grouchy, I’ll defer to her.

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I say treason. There is nothing incompetent about his actions. I believe he came in with a check list and agenda.

    I think that he is succeeding beyond his wildest dreams. The “Race Card” has shielded him from lots of criticism.
    Oh and “Mornin’ Gang,….Again……

  9. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I do believe that in this case, the Southern “snaked into this country” is the best usage.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    9 Sarge

    Yes.

  11. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Besides.

    I thought snuck had something to do with snood procreation.

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Does anyone have any ideas why I keep losing the driver to my HP printer? I will randomly send something to print and the printer won’t be “found”. When I go to download the driver from HP, it makes me use this install framework which is supposed to automatically download the driver, but it fails.

    HP LaserJet Pro CM1415fnw color MFP
    Toshiba Satellite laptop with Windows 7 Professional, Service Pack 1

    This just started happening…since we made the printer visible on my home network, maybe?

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And the driver installation software fails more often than succeeds.

    Really puts a crimp in my plans to be productive.

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #11 Our Crazy Aunt is at it again.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    But this time, it looks like it…..just………….might………….work!

    /crossing fingers

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #14

    The one on the rooster looks like a muscle shirt!

    😉

  17. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Now she needs to make them some snoods

  18. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    TT
    I have similar experience with HP, though only once since I bought a new one. Similar experience with HP downloads too which are always full of extraneous crappola. I have had to dispense with using any kind of shortcuts for the printer/scanner and go the longer route through Programs sometimes, too.

  19. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Here’s hoping it wasn’t Carly Fiorina’s idea that I want to hear from HP on a weekly basis, or more often.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally figured it out – I didn’t need to download a new driver.

    I had to restart the print spooler. It took me a while to figure out where and when to go, and what to do when I got there. Thank goodness my internet search hadn’t been affected.

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Of course remove all old printers from the queue and make sure of your default printer setting.

  22. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Never heard of the spooler til now.
    Thanks!

  23. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I have similar experience with HP,

    Not me since I
    Got a Mac
    /Millions and millions of pages printed without a problem

  24. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I am in Austin now, last night I got my daughter, Heartcrusher married of to a great guy. Life is really good.

  25. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    27 years of wedded bliss, today.

  26. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bittersweet, ain’t it?

    Many prayers for many blessings upon them both.

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Shannon, congrats on the anniversary!

    Many prayers for many blessings for you, too!

  28. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #22

    Never heard of the spooler til now.
    Thanks!

    Given Tedtam’s background in computing, I’m sure she is familiar with the term. It’s an old 60’s software term for a type of buffer, mostly one that aligns things into a queue, or chute. It’s an IBM acronym and I think it had something to do with the old 9 track tape units.

  29. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Congratulations Shannon, I hope that you and your bride have many more.

  30. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    His mother, grandmother and the newly weds will be staying with us through Thanksgiving

  31. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Bonecrusher, Congratulations to daughter, husband and your family. It’ll only get better from here on out and she’ll always be your baby girl.

  32. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    For Sale: Hunting Dog.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    1988

    Mom: Shannon and Fay are going to get married on Sunday, the 27th.

    Me: The Sunday after Thanksgiving ?!!! Are you serious ? We’ll still be recovering from the meal.

    Mom: Yes.

    Me: What ? They can’t wait ? Why the hurry now ? Is this a shotgun wedding ? It’s not like they’re virgins or anything.

    Mom: Stop being so damned cranky. It’s what they want to do. Be nice.

  34. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #33 😀

  35. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #26: Nothing bitter about it at all, now I have 2 sons and before I only had one. I am truly a blessed man.

  36. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    ConGRATS on Yall’s 27th and many many MORE Brother!

  37. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #24 – BC conGRATS!!!!

  38. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #33 –

    Mom: Stop being so damned cranky. It’s what they want to do. Be nice.

    Well Brother She did KNOW You pretty well! 🙂

  39. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #32

    😀

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More ignorance on display.

    Hillary to repeal the Fourth.

  41. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    DoD to Intelligence analysts:

    “Enough with the negative waves, Moriarty”

  42. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good late afternoon Hamsters. We had a beautiful widespread frost and 31 this morning, all sparkles and diamonds at sunrise and afterward. Gossamer mists rose as the frost melted and floated upward on warming rays. Did a brisk walk bundled up on the way to feed the mares and out to fetch the Chron when there was only the promise of light in the east.

    Congratulations to Shannon and Fay on their 27th Anniversary. Many more to come.

    Congratulations to Bonecrusher on gaining a son. Best wishes to the newlyweds and may they have many years together.

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Me: The Sunday after Thanksgiving ?!!! Are you serious ? We’ll still be recovering from the meal.

    Oh. That’s why I heard snoring in the pews.

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Couldn’t keep him awake long enough to give me away.

  45. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Hannity is interviewing a Jewish US reporter who went to Turkey and joined a group of Syrian moslem refugees waiting to be transported by boat to Greece with the intent to go to Germany. The fiction that the majority of refugees are women and children is absolute garbage he says. More like 80% were men age 15-50 without families in tow, many coming for economic reasons or educational advantage. Assimilation into German society is not the object. And there are some with questionable motives, as in recruiting for ISIS.

    He did not make the trek from Greece to Germany but rather flew from Greece to Germany and met up with refugees there, though not necessarily the same group. While many were happy with the German welcome and welfare assistance, they were looking for employment and settling in, though not assimilation into German culture, more like coexistence. And they understood how easy it would be to establish moslem enclaves that could morph into no-go zones, but that didn’t especially bother them. And ISIS recruiters were already there.

    The reporter will be on Hannity’s Fox News Channel show tonight.

  46. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Seriously folks where is wagonburner?

  47. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Not being Catholic myself, I lack understanding of some of the finer points in this article. I do however, agree with the broader point being made. Curious to hear what some of your perspectives are from the practicing Catholic side of things.

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    After taking on (along with his sister) the loving but difficult task of final care for a few months, one of my dearest friends lost his mother to the loving arms of the Lord. Members of the greatest generation are leaving us ever more quickly. I was very fond of this lady. We had a special relationship. My friend’s wife didn’t seem to understand when I spoke of my love for Georgia’s sense of humor and flirtatiousness.

    On the ten mile trip home from the visitation this evening an old song (of course) wafted through my mind.

    Old Phil and old SQK probably remember it.
    Ecclesiastes, I believe…

    http://youtu.be/pKP4cfU28vM

  49. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Shannon

    Oh for sure. Sorry about your loss. I too have suffered the loss of special friends,

    Ecclesiastes 3
    A Time for Everything
    3 There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:
    2 a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,
    3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
    4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
    5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
    6 a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
    7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
    8 a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh, I forgot.
    Ancient, old Texpat might remember the old song, too.
    Someone wake him up and ask.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The only thing about winter is that the store bought fresh jalapeños get pretty bold.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Probably shipped in from southern Chile or something.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    #46 SQK

    Seriously folks where is wagon burner?

    Okay. The only thing left is the nucular option.

    Here goes…

    OU’s season is such an obvious fluke. Com’ on, the Sooners couldn’t even beat Texas.

  54. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    47 Dood

    Problem is, if you study them long enough you discover half the Catholics revere Aquinas, half don’t, and the other half never heard of him.

    signed,
    Yogi BerrA

  55. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #47
    Doooood

    I’m struggling with the Islamic Refugee situation, as a Christian and an American. Both tug at my insides to open our arms. Part of pulling back from the political camps is you gotta make your own decisions. The article brings in some good history and thought.

  56. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    My son is home on his days off from the oilfields. They called today asking if he could pick up some parts in Houston and deliver them out to the site south of San Antonio, they’d pay him four hundred bucks so he went for it. Mom decided she wanted to tag along. Well the oilfield goes as the oilfield goes, change of plans, change of plans, hurry up, hurry up, wait, wait – they didn’t get out of town good until 5:30, they’ll get home if they are lucky sometime during the middle of the night. Welcome to the oilfield Honey! 😀

  57. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    50 Shannon

    They wrote a lot of songs about women and places named Georgia.

    God bless and may her memory be a blessing.

  58. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    48 Shannon

    Members of the greatest generation are leaving us ever more quickly. I was very fond of this lady. We had a special relationship. My friend’s wife didn’t seem to understand when I spoke of my love for Georgia’s sense of humor and flirtatiousness.

    You are the only one I know who gets it about Georgia. She had a sly smile, a deep grin and that eternal stare that made you feel a little exposed as if she already knew what you had been up to…all your life.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    56 GJT
    Thats pretty cool.

  60. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    58 TP
    Insert winking emoji here.

  61. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Dooood says:
    NOVEMBER 23, 2015 AT 6:52 PM
    Not being Catholic myself, I lack understanding of some of the finer points in this article. I do however, agree with the broader point being made. Curious to hear what some of your perspectives are from the practicing Catholic side of things.

    When the Isrealites returned from exile, they rebuilt the walls of the city before rebuilding the Temple.

    I think there’s a lesson there.

  62. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I so want to play the angry oilfield spouse role, three AM in the morning sitting legs crossed, leg swinging …. but alas, my new occupation of the last 25 years, construction, has it’s own crises to deal with starting at seven so I must sleep.

  63. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I know.
    Wagon burger has been camping out for a Black Friday deal at the dollar store.

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I couldn’t even get a laugh out of you-know-who when I said I was going to jump on a Black Friday deal on a $58,700 half ton pickup. I guess I’ll pack up my tent and hammock and go on home.

  65. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #25
    Congratulations on your wedding anniversary, Shannon & Fay.

  66. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    64 Shannon

    I was so disgusted when I walked onto a Ford lot recently and saw a loaded 1/2 ton for $51,800 that I swore I would never buy another new pickup again.

    It’s obscene. These vehicles today are so ridiculously overpriced, like homes, that I’ve sworn off all of them. It wouldn’t matter how much money I have, I simply can’t abide getting screwed over like that.

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