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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Something to think about

I received this from my uncle:
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ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ -- The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez, published in a Spanish newspaper on 5-22-07. It doesn't take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe -- and possibly to the rest of the world.
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REMEMBER AS YOU READ -- IT WAS IN A SPANISH PAPER Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 14:30:20 -0500

ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez(*)

I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz . We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destr oyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.

The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.

They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.

Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.

And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.

We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.

What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.?

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A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.

Absolutely No Profiling! Pause a moment, reflect back:

These events are actual events from history. They really happened! Do you remember?

1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a:????Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40.

2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:??? M uslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:???Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:???Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:???Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:???Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:???Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:???Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

9. In 1993 th e World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:???Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:???Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:???Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:???Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:???Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly f a nat ics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males between the ages of 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.
As the writer of the award winning story "Forrest Gump" so aptly put it, "Stupid is as stupid does."
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If there is a ring of teenage car thieves in a city and their M.O. is to case a neighborhood in a late model Toyota Camry, why should the police working the case have to randomly search vans driven by middle aged men? Doesn't make much sense does it?

My guess is that this does not make much sense to any of you either.

Lord save us from ourselves...

Prayers,

Pisio

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Time... Where Have You Gone???

I remember having a conversation with the son of a babysitter when I was in about 6th grade. He was much older than me, just about ready to graduate high school, and we started for some reason to talk about time. I was talking to him about how slow the year was going and how it was the same old thing everyday. It was summer. I would wake up, eat breakfast, and then it would be off for a day of riding my bike, swimming, watching movies and driving his mother absolutely nuts...

He said something that I could never quite believe then... He told me to enjoy it while it lasted because come high school I would be wondering where all the time went. He told me about all the good times he had in high school and how quickly that they flew by. It was almost like things were happening to him and then were done before he could ever fully grasp what was going on. It was like time sped up the older you got. He then proceeded to kiss the image of Cyndi Lauper on his television screen...

That conversation seems like an eternity ago, but I have never quite forgotten it. I never really have stopped to consider it, but every once and a while it just passes through my head. Why is it that time seems to speed up through the years when we need it most? Yesterday I was 18 and not dating, I woke up today and I am 31, married with a son. Those 13 years have just flown by. Seriously... Michael was just born, and I blinked and he is 18 months old...

Some days this seems like a cruel joke... I feel like I have missed out on so much, yet at the same time my life has been full and rewarding. I fon't remember the bad times, but have never really stopped to appreciate all the good times. When a friend calls or stops by, I seem to rush through the call or the time they are with me... I have forgotten about what matters most...

Man I miss being a kid. All that mattered was the person I was with and the adventure we were on that day. Do you remember making up games? We used to kicked out of the house on nice days. We were forced to go out side and play baseball or kick ball... something... when we had kicked all of our balls in to the county reservoir or let them get washed away in the monsoon rains, we had to make up our own games... like the hot lava monster who jumped out of our rock front yards. It was like tag, except in a really confined area...

I think the most profound thing is that I never was too busy to get to know someone. I used to know what my friends dreams were. I knew who wanted to be a doctor, a soldier or a fireman. I have the same amount of time now, but I do not know near as much about my friends as I used to. I am not sure why? As adults do we really not have the time to get to know someone well, or are we afraid that when we get to know someone and let them into our lives that we open ourselves up to being hurt?

HMMM... to be a kid again. To know my friends again... to know their fears, hopes and dreams. That would be awesome... Time, where have you gone, and how can we get you back?

Prayers...

Pisio

Monday, April 21, 2008

Link Referral

I have written about Entrecard.com in the past, but I have never much said anything about Link Referral. I really enjoy the time I spend browsing other blogs and reviewing them. In general I like to really think about most of the blogs I review, and try to give them honest feedback. I am sure that this does not always hold true, but for the most part I really do try.

I do not get near as much traffic from link referral as I get from entrecard, but I do get an extra 10 - 20 visits a day. This is more than the total number of visitors I would get in three days prior to joining though, so it is really nothing to thumb my nose at.

As a service goes, it is really easy to use, and I have finally figured out how to get my link referral reviews displayed on the blog. I guess that I could show all of them if I wanted, but for now I will just show a sampling about what people are saying about Random Musings of a Deranged Soul. You can read them all below in the sidebar if you want.

It is actually kinda funny. One of the comments was that my site was plastered with ads... So I removed two adboxes and some other advertisements. I had never thought that having them in a sidebar would be a distraction. Apparently I was wrong... I guess though that if I want to keep people coming, I must think of them first...

Maybe this will change someday for Random Musings, but until them I will continue to listen to my audience... I need to go join my wife now... She is not feeling well, so she went to bed early... I am going to follow her...

Prayers...

Pisio

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Settling In

I think that Jonah and I are finally getting there. Our couches and appliances are in, we have all our boxes unpacked, and today I programmed the sprinkler system... We have arrived. I guess it is about time. It has been a month since we moved into our new place. It is so nice to be able to sit on our own couch and watch movies on our own television.

Our next big project will be the back yard. We have to call and get a fence and gate installed, and then get any landscaping that we want to do approved by the HOA. This should be an adventure in and of itself. We have five months to get it done, but I would like to have it done sooner rather than later. We are really not sure what we are going to do yet. We tried to get some ideas today, but our little boy just wanted to go home. As much as I love him there are days when he really makes getting anything done a pain.

I know that we are going to try to take a swing set from my moms house. It is one of those big wooden things... 16ft x 17ft footprint. I think our little yard is something like 20ft x 20ft... Actually I am not really sure the size, but the swing set will be huge in the back yard. We will also need to build a retaining wall to flatten off the back slope a little. Like I said, this will be an adventure.

Today Jonah asked me if I had a green thumb. My guess is that she does not... we have never really had a yard to try and grow anything. Sure we had a small yard in Hawaii, but we did not have to landscape it, and everything there was fairly low maintenance. Here though it will be a lot harder, especially in the spring. It can be 90 degrees today and snowing tomorrow. We will have to tend to things a lot better than we did there. It will really be a lot of fun.

Tomorrow I get to call the fence guy. I am not really looking forward to the fence being put in. We are having a different company than the rest of the neighborhood had do theirs. They are a little more expensive, but they build fences to last in the strong winds we get out here. They have been in business a long time, and people I trust have recommended them. The problem is their standard installation has three support rails, while everyone else out here only does two. It will look a little weird when we tie into the neighbors.

I guess that is just part of being in community though. People have cut corners to save a few bucks here and there. I am tempted to, but I would rather pay upfront to have it done now than have to repair something that could not withstand the winds this summer. Hopefully all the surrounding fences will as well...

Hmm... If you have any recommendations for our back yard, please let me know. I would appreciate your insights...

Prayers,

Pisio