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Small Town Soap Box 02/02/09 I, an old Mud Marine, being of sound mind, do hereby create this Marine Codicil to my Last Will and Testament, through which I Bequeathed all my worldly goods and possessions to those beloved of me in Life. This Marine Codicil is to pass on the intangible gifts I received as a Marine, which were beyond the price men put upon worldly possessions.
"One Good Man"
One Flaw In Women By the time the Lord made woman,
"HOW TRUE IT IS"
Another year has passed And we're all a little older. Last summer felt hotter And winter seems much colder. I rack my brain for happy thoughts, To put down on my pad, But lots of things, That come to mind Just make me kind of sad. There was a time not long ago When life was quite a blast. Now I fully understand About 'Living in the Past'. We used to go to friends homes, Baseball games and lunches. Now we go to therapy, to hospitals, And after-funeral brunches. We used to have hangovers, From parties that were gay. Now we suffer body aches And sleep the night away. We used to go out dining, And couldn't get our fill. Now we ask for doggie bags, Come home and take a pill. We used to travel often To places near and far. Now we get backaches From riding in the car. We used to go out shopping For new clothing at the Mall But, now we never bother... All the sizes are too small. That, my friend is how life is, And now my tale is told. So, enjoy each day and live it up... Before you're too damn old!! Small Town Soapbox, Monday 12/15/2008 "The Joy Of Having Girls"
Small Town Soapbox, Monday 12/08/2008 Always remember this whenever you get advice from a government official! It was already late fall and the Indians on a remote reservation in South Dakota asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was a chief in a modern society he had never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect firewood to be prepared. But being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea. He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, 'Is the coming winter going to be cold?' 'It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold,' the meteorologist at the weather service responded. So the chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared. A week later he called the National Weather Service again. 'Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?' 'Yes,' the man at National Weather Service again replied, 'it's going to be a very cold winter.' The chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find. Two weeks later the chief called the National Weather Service again. 'Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?' 'Absolutely,' the man replied. 'It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters we've ever seen.' 'How can you be so sure?' the chief asked. The weatherman replied, 'The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy.' Small Town Soapbox, Monday 11/24/2008 One day a while back, a man, his heart heavy with grief, was walking in the woods. As he thought about his life this day, he knew many things were not right. He thought about those who had lied about him back when he had a job. His thoughts turned to those who had stolen his things and cheated him. He remembered family that had passed on. His mind turned to the illness he had, that no one could cure. His very soul was filled with anger, resentment, and frustration. Standing there this day, searching for answers he could not find, knowing all else had failed him, he knelt at the base of an old oak tree to seek the one he knew would always be there. And with tears in his eyes, he prayed: 'Lord- You have done wonderful things for me in this life. You have told me to do many things for you, and I happily obeyed. Today, you have told me to forgive. I am sad, Lord, because I cannot, I don't know how. It is not fair Lord, I didn't deserve these wrongs that were done against me and I shouldn't have to forgive. As perfect as your way is Lord, this one thing I cannot do, for I don't know how to forgive. My anger is so deep Lord, I fear I may not hear you, but I pray you teach me to do the one thing I cannot do: Teach me to forgive.' As he knelt there in the quiet shade of that old oak tree, he felt something fall onto his shoulder. He opened his eyes. Out of the corner of one eye, he saw something red on his shirt. He could not turn to see what it was because where the oak tree had been was a large square piece of wood in the ground. He raised his head and saw two feet held to the wood with a large spike through them. He raised his head more, and tears came to his eyes as he saw Jesus hanging on a cross. He saw spikes in His hands, a gash in His side, a torn and battered body, deep thorns sunk into His head. Finally he saw the suffering and pain on His precious face. As their eyes met, the man's tears turned to sobbing, and Jesus began to speak. 'Have you ever told a lie?' He asked? The man answered - 'Yes, Lord.' 'Have you ever been given too much change and kept it?' The man answered - 'Yes Lord.' And the man sobbed more and more. 'Have you ever taken something from work that wasn't yours?' Jesus asked? And the man answered, 'Yes, Lord.' 'Have you ever sworn, using my Father's name in vain?' The man, crying now, answered - 'Yes, Lord.' As Jesus asked many more times, 'Have you ever?' the man's crying became uncontrollable, for he could only answer - 'Yes, Lord'. Then Jesus turned His head from one side to the other, and the man felt something fall on his other shoulder. He looked and saw that it was the blood of Jesus. When he looked back up, his eyes met those of Jesus, and there was a look of love the man had never seen or known before. Jesus said, 'I didn't deserve this either, but I forgive you.' It may be hard to see how you're going to get through something, but when you look back in life, you realize how true this statement is. Read the following first line slowly and let it sink in. If God brings you to it - He will bring you through it. When Jesus died on the cross, he was thinking of you! If you are one of the 8% who will stand up for Him, forward this with the Title 8%. Ashley Stanfield submitted: TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT. DURING SOME POINT OF THE JOURNEY, THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT; AND ONE FRIEND SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE IN THE FACE. THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING, WROTE IN THE SAND: ?TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.? THEY KEPT ON WALKING, UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS, WHERE THEY DECIDED TO TAKE A BATH THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN SLAPPED GOT STUCK IN THE MIRE, AND STARTED DROWNING, BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM. AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM THE NEAR DROWNING, HE WROTE ON A STONE: ?TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE?. HIS FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED AND THEN SAVED HIS BEST FRIEND ASKED HIM, 'AFTER I HURT YOU, YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW, YOU WRITE ON A STONE, WHY?' THE FRIEND REPLIED 'WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN IN SAND, WHERE WINDS OF FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY. BUT, WHEN SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING GOOD FOR US, WE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE WHERE NO WIND CAN EVER ERASE IT.' LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS AND BLESSINGS IN STONE. THEY SAY IT TAKES A MINUTE TO FIND A SPECIAL PERSON, AN HOUR TO APPRECIATE THEM, A DAY TO LOVE THEM, BUT THEN AN ENTIRE LIFE TO FORGET THEM. TAKE THE TIME TO LIVE! DO NOT VALUE THE THINGS YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE, BUT VALUE WHO YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE !
Small Town Soapbox, Monday 11/3/2008 Jack Wheeler is a brilliant man who was the author of Reagan's strategy to break the back of the Soviet Union with the star wars race and expose their inner weakness. For years he wrote a weekly intelligence update that was extremely interesting and well structured and informative. He consults(ed) with several mega corporations on global trends and the future, etc. He is in semi-retirement now. He is a true patriot with a no-nonsense approach to everything. The O-man, Barack Hussein Obama, is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No resume, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the world works, nothing but abstract, empty rhetoric devoid of real substance. Small Town Soapbox, Monday 10/27/2008 Bill Brown, is a highly respected retired member of the Billy Graham team so, I take his assessment of Obama very seriously. Small Town Soapbox, Monday 10/20/2008 Democrat Dear Moby:--I have listened to your show since you have started at this station, and No, Mark, Really, I'm not partial to either party, as hard as that might be for you to believe. I believe in conservative values though. You seem to feel that as well. I believe Obama will be the ruination of all we hold sacred. I truly believe the free enterprise system will crumble if we're blind enough to elect I believe that we have totally lost sight of what I consider the three fundamental elements of our society: Fear of God, Love of Country, & Respect for Authority. Show me a Democrat that you feel holds those same values as sacred & key for our survival, and I'll back that candidate. I agree with you, buddy. I believe we might be friends. but I bet we wouldn't agree on a whole bunch of things. That would make evenings at deer camp around a big old fire interesting wouldn't it? Thank you for listening, and if you want to write a Soap Box, I'd probably read it. Heck this exchange just might be one. Yeah baby, MOBY Heroes: An Old Man's Ramblings Moby, I am more than likely going to stand the hair on the back of peoples neck with this e-mail but please indulge me. As a old man I have a difficult time understanding this hero stuff. You see when I was a young man a hero was someone that had put themselves in harms way to save another's life which was reserved for soldiers. Now I feel the word hero has lost it's meaning because it is attached to ball players of every sport, policemen, firemen, ETM''s, doctors, nurses, and a hoard of others. The term hero is used so often it has lost it's meaning. Don't misunderstand I appreciate the job the police , firefighters, Doctors and others do but theirs is a career choice. After days work they go home to their family's, sit at a table, have dinner and enjoy each others company. then sit in front of a television with their family. At bed time they kiss their children good night, tuck them safely in bed and return to their mate to finish watching TV then to bed where they kiss their mate good night and snuggle up till morning. A fireman, policeman, doctor, etc. have a choice to go to work the next day or even change jobs overnight. Heck a ball player can even choose which team will pay him millions of dollars just to play a game On the other hand, a soldier lays down at night not knowing if he will be alive in the morning. He spends months away from his family and some times doesn't get to talk to them for weeks or even months. He has children born that he may never see and if he does his child is several months old when he gets home. Don't forget our women in the military they go through the same thing when they have children at home. The soldier eats when he can, and what he eats comes from a package not off the menu at a restaurant. He/she sleeps in the sand, dirt, mud, snow,and heat and all for a fraction of the pay of the others while his/her family back home struggles to make ends meet I could go on and on but I think you get what I am saying. Please protect the word hero, let's not cheapen it by throwing it at someone every chance we get. There are heroes other than soldiers but just going to work doesn't make a hero. Thanks, just the ramblings of a old man?.. Brother, If our military wasn't entirely an all volunteer force, I'd be more prone to totally agree with you, but it is all volunteer. To me, anyone that daily puts their self into a potentially life-threatening situation is a test book definition of hero. I assume you served my country in the uniform of the But don't assume for a minute that the military has any sort of corner on the word hero. I'll never be anyone's hero, but Larry, the path is well-worn of the heroes that have come before us, and those that will follow in the footsteps other heroes have left behind. This is hte opinion of an old DJ trying to get into heaven. God bless & Yeah baby, MOBY
The Economy is You Rick McCorkle If, while at cruising altitude, the pilot decided to cut off the engines to save fuel, he would be called a fool for making an otherwise prudent decision at the wrong time. The economy is like a plane in flight. It is kept in the air by all of us buying both what we want and need when we need it or want it. If we all suddenly stop what we're doing, the plane will go down. How's the economy? The question should really be "How are you?" Do you still have faith in the free market, or do you secretly long for the kind of government control of the economy that caused the collapse of the We all depend on each other to keep the faith. A lack of faith is deciding not to buy something that you were planning to buy and can afford. You might think that this is a prudent decision. Now, if everyone else makes the same "prudent" decision, then the feared economic downturn will happen as sure as the plane will go down when the pilot cuts off the engines. When it happens, those who cut off the engines will say to themselves, "Wasn't I smart? See, it happened just like I thought." Political candidates always tell you that the economy is in terrible shape because whoever they want to replace in office has messed it up terribly, and you must vote for them to rescue it from total collapse. News organizations do the same thing for different reasons. They're in the advertising business. They get more people to pay attention to them and sell more advertising if they say the sky is falling, but it's a dangerous game they're playing. If their news is always negative, then the sky will fall on them, too, and there won't be any businesses left to advertise. The fundamentals of the economy are strong. The fundamentals are the people of this country waking up and going to work to produce the best goods and services they can in hopes that their fellow country men and women will buy them. The fundamentals are also these same people buying the goods and services that their fellow country men and women are producing. Don't go out and spend foolishly, but keep living your life and keep your hopes and dreams alive. What will happen to the economy depends on what you do, because the economy is you. Small Town Soapbox, Monday 9/29/2008
A Short Story with Moby in Mind. Betty Wagner in Effective Communication..!! A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: "I am blind, please help." There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words. Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?" The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way." Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing? Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective? Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively. Live life with no excuse and love with no regrets. When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear. Great men say, "Life has to be an incessant process of repair and reconstruction, of discarding evil and developing goodness. In the journey of life, if you want to travel without fear, you must have the ticket of a good conscience." The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling!! ....Yeah Baby.... Small Town Soapbox, Monday 9/22/2008 Christine's Cancer Today?s Soap Box will be repeated in early October because October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But you?re hearing it this morning because something happened over the weekend I wanted to tell you about. My wife attended her HS class reunion, and saw many faces she?d not seen in years. One of those people was named Christine. Christine used to be Mary Beth?s sister-in-law. Christine?s brother was Mary Beth?s first husband over 20 years ago. Mary Beth has fond memories of her 1st husband?s family. She loved her mother-in-law, and she loved Christine. For whatever reason, Christine has never married. Christine hasn?t got some of the things many people have in her life. And now, in the latter part of her mid-40s, she?s been diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer. In Stage 4, it means it now involves other organs. There?s not a cure, but remission is possible. This news has hit Mary Beth very hard. I hope and pray there is someone to offer strength she can rely on, and a soft and sympathetic shoulder Christine can cry on. Mary Beth will do everything she can to help provide both. If there is good to come from this, it?s the fact that this morning my wife will schedule a long overdue breast exam. If there is GOOD to come from this battle Christine has to wage against this demon cancer, it might be that someone listening right now will make that same commitment to have that life-saving exam. Maybe a husband will insist his wife go. Maybe a wife will finally realize how selfish it is of her not to make that appointment. Maybe one female will hear my voice before her shower this morning, and conduct a self-exam before work today. Maybe one of those self-exams will make a startled woman ask, ?What?s that I feel?? Maybe, Christine?s illness, and this Soap Box will save the life of someone very dear to you. It might even BE you. Ladies, you owe it to yourself, your spouse, your children, & all those that love you to take every precaution. The tragedy of what Christine is battling right now might be a victory for so many others. Christine, you?ll remain in everyone?s prayers. My prayer is the battle you?re waging will become a glowing light for other women and save their lives. God bless you, Christine, never give up. Small Town Soapbox, Monday 9/15/2008 ENLIGHTENED PERSPECTIVE The subjects covered affect us all I've learned.... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world. I've learned.... That money doesn't buy class. I've learned.... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
GED?s Moby, I wanted to share with you that Monday, September 8th is International Literacy Day. As an adult education instructor, this day is of particular importance to me. Our adult learners have various reasons for not accomplishing a high school diploma. They range from the death of a parent, the need to help support the family, not enough credits to graduate, a pregnancy, a fight on the bus, and so on. For whatever the reason, they should not be considered failures. Three or four weeks ago, you used the example of a twenty dollar bill in one of your soap boxes. It reminded me of my students. Everyone wants a brand new, shiny $20.00 bill. If you crumple it up and throw it on the floor, not as many want it although its value is the same. If you step on the $20 bill and grind it into the floor, although the value is still the same it will not be as willing accepted by everyone. It has often been quoted that a mind is a terrible thing to waste. With this said, a recent ABC News program cited that over 7 million Americans are illiterate, 27 million are unable to read well enough to complete a job application, and 30 million cannot read a simple sentence. My students range in age from 16 to 65. I am so proud of the decision they made to change their lives by returning to get their GED. One person said it quite eloquently. ?Just because I am getting older doesn?t mean I am ready to be thrown away.? Age is not a barrier to education. It gives me great joy to watch my students be awarded their GED at our graduation ceremony. A part of me walks with them. Many of these individuals go on to enter college or technical college and achieve rewarding careers in the medical field, computers, and even education. I have one former student that will graduate in May with a bachelors degree in education and plans to become a teacher. She may be undertaking this twenty years later than her counterparts, but like the $20 bill, she too has value. Americans need to know that free programs are available. Free adult education classes are offered in almost all of the areas. If a person truly wants to improve his or her self esteem and self worth, help is as close as your local technical college. Thanks Moby for supporting this great county of ours and those that sacrifice their lives for us. I too, have a son in the military that is currently stationed in Sincerely, Carol Tucker Adult Education Instructor Small Town Soapbox, Monday 8/25/2008
Letter from Danny Dunbar We all have heard so many times that someone is upset over the Ten Commandments being displayed in a court house or a prayer being said before a meeting of a city counsel or some other government agency. The separation of church and state they say? People, our founding Fathers put that clause in the Constitution to keep the church from taking over the government as it did in Now we have a minute group of people who are trying to change history by using the ACLU as their pawns. To interpret a law, you have to look at the people that created the law and the time that it was written. Let?s put some common sense back into Our men and women are in other countries fighting to protect our life style and the freedoms we enjoy, while at the same time, others are using their interuptation of our laws to destroy the ideals that this country was founded on. ?In God We Trust? and ?God Bless In Should a Muslim be made to pray in a Christian way? absolutely not. But it must be understood that if you come into our house, or our country, you need to respect our customs. Atheist are free to believe that God does not exist, but don?t try to take Him away from the rest of us. If you don?t want your children to pray in our schools, fine, they can wait silently while our children do. If I went to live in If the Ten Commandments offend you? I am sorry, don?t read them. If laying your hand on the Bible in court and swearing to tell the truth offends you? don?t get in a situation to be taken to court. Of course, if you had read the Ten Commandments and lived by them, you wouldn?t be in court in the first place. The only thing a true American wants is to be given the freedom to chose. It is exactly the same thing that we want for the people of the world. Let the masses vote and let the majority rule. If there is a Hitler, or any ruler who tries to dominate the masses, we will pay you a visit. We aren?t trying to convert Iraqis into Americans, we just want to give the majority the freedom to govern themselves, the freedom to chose. We want them to be safe from the cowards that call themselves terrorist, and from the monsters that dominated their country. If you don?t agree with Americans in Written By Danny Dunbar Small Town Soapbox, Monday 8/18/2008 From My Sister Barbara Dear Moby, It was good to open my mail this morning and find a message from you. It really doesn't matter that it is short. I understand hectic. I have been working in the classroom for two weeks now. Kids will be coming tomorrow so things will get even more hectic. It was really cute to reflect with you on how you felt about Grace's first day of school. It is always harder on parents than the kids. I'll bet that she loved it and will be thrilled to share with you all the exciting things she is doing and learning. Always set aside "Grace time" no matter how busy you get. You will never regret those precious moments. It doesn't matter that Mary Beth spends hours with her. It is those moments with her dad that will mean a great deal in her out look on life and how she view's herself. I have been so fascinated with the Olympics that I have been up late every night for a week. I think that I am going to catch a nap today that is after I write up a report on a student that came in early so that I could do some diagnostic testing on her. Poor girl is 12 years old and over six feet tall. She is in the foster care system and has such a sad story. She is half black (I know that is not politically correct) and was born to a white mother of "Red Neck" ancestry. The mother disappeared and the grand parents and aunts raise her. You can't really say that they raised her. They were embarrassed by her and kept her hid. She spent much of her life in a closet. about 2 years ago, someone broke into that house, and killed the grandma. I have heard that they were into the manufacturing of drugs. The police found the girl locked in a closed when they came to investigate what had happened. She started school with us last year. We could not qualify her for special education classes because of some of the stupid laws that state has. Anyway, I have done enough research that I think I know how to qualify her, it will just take a careful report. The school that I work at is in one of the more "economically depressed" regions of Enough of my soap box. I love you and love hearing from you. Love Ya, Barbara Afternoon Sis, What a beautiful story about the 12 year old. My sister, the guardian angel! of the defenseless. ! I love the sound of that. Don't try to deny it, Barb. The story you've shared & what you've done, 10 years from now try to tell that 12 year old that Mrs. Johnston wasn't an angel in her life, sent directly from heaven just for her. I'll write more later. It just isn't in me to let stories like this go unresponded to. Love (and respect) you!!
Small Town Soapbox, Monday 8/11/2008
Irena Sendler On May 12th, 2008 at 8AM ( This morning, we acknowledge her love, dedication, & saintly spirit as today?s Small Town Soap Box. Small Town Soapbox, Monday 8/4/2008 A Speech for an American Candidate America is a place where common people can do uncommon things. It has always been this way because its government was designed not to stand in the way of individuals being free to pursue their own dreams. The hope of Americans has never been in their government, but in their ability to realize their dreams by their own efforts with God?s blessing. When misguided people want government itself to be a source of hope, they?re really asking that those who produce be forced to give to those who don?t in accordance with the tyrannical principle spoken of by Abraham Lincoln. It must always be remembered that what government gives it can also take away, and it must take from some in order to give to others, or take from all in order to give back to all what was already theirs. Government can never fulfill hopes and desires, it can only and should only provide a safe place for people to live and work to achieve their own ideas of success. If Americans begin to choose the easy path of depending on their government to provide what they want and need, then the greatest idea for government in the history of the human race will begin its inexorable path to extinction, and freedom and independence will slowly but surely give way to bondage and dependence. Dependence on government is like an insidious drug that feels good at first, but gradually it takes complete control and renders its abuser completely incapable of taking care of him or herself. Government leaders in America should not dictate to passive, dependent people. They should motivate and inspire their fellow Americans to see possibilities where it seemed before that there were only impossibilities. Don?t choose a leader who promises to give you things, but rather choose one who makes you want to put everything you are and everything you have on the line in order to see what you can accomplish for yourself and others. The Spirit of America is to help others, especially those who can?t help themselves. America has a great tradition of people joining together of their own free will to help others because of their love for God and their neighbor. Men and women in uniform volunteer to help their neighbors both within and without the borders of this great land. Some pay a terrible price for their service. Abraham Lincoln?s closing words at Gettysburg reach back to Lexington and Concord, and they span the decades from then right up to today wherever an American goes into harm?s way for his or her country. Hear these familiar words again and think about them in a new way. Think of them as applying to you right here and right now. Let there be a new birth of freedom in you, so that your country will endure, because America depends on each and every one of its citizens, not the other way around. This is the secret to its greatness. Abraham Lincoln said: It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ? that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion ? that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ? that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom ? and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Copyright © 2008 Rick McCorkle. Small Town Soapbox, Monday 7/28/2008 $20.00 Sometimes we just need to be reminded! A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this. He proceeded to crumple up the $20-dollar bill. He then asked, "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air. Well, he replied, "What if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?" Still the hands went into the air. My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who love you. The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by WHO WE ARE and WHOSE WE ARE. You are special - don't EVER forget it." Small Town Soapbox, Monday 7/21/2008 AMERICAN FIGHTING MAN The average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father's, but he has never collected unemployment either. He's a recent High School graduate; he was probably an average student, pursued some form of sport activities, drives a ten year old jalopy, and has a steady girlfriend that either broke up with him when he left, or swears to be waiting when he returns from half a world away. He listens to rock and roll or hip-hop or rap or jazz or swing and a 155mm howitzer. He is 10 or 15 pounds lighter now than when he was at home because he is working or fighting from before dawn to well after dusk. He has trouble spelling, thus letter writing is a pain for him, but he can field strip a rifle in 30 seconds and reassemble it in less time in the dark. He can recite to you the nomenclature of a machine gun or grenade launcher and use either one effectively if he must. He digs foxholes and latrines and can apply first aid like a professional. He can march until he is told to stop, or stop until he is told to march. He obeys orders instantly and without hesitation, but he is not without spirit or individual dignity. He is self-sufficient. He has two sets of fatigues: he washes one and wears the other. He keeps his canteens full and his feet dry. He sometime s forgets to brush his teeth, but never to clean his rifle. He can cook his own meals, mend his own clothes, and fix his own hurts. If you're thirsty, he'll share his water with you; if you are hungry, his food. He'll even split his ammunition with you in the midst of battle when you run low. He has learned to use his hands like weapons and weapons like they were his hands. He can save your life - or take it, because that is his job. He will often do twice the work of a civilian, draw half the pay, and still find ironic humor in it all. He has seen more suffering and death than he should have in his short lifetime. He has wept in public and in private, for friends who have fallen in combat and is unashamed. He feels every note of the National Anthem vibrate through his body while at rigid attention, while tempering the burning desire to 'square-away? those around him who haven't bothered to stand, remove their hat, or even stop talking. In an odd twist, day in and day out, far from home, he defends their right to be disrespectful. Just as did his Father, Grandfather, and Great- grandfather, he is paying the price for our freedom. Beardless or not, he is not a boy. He is the American Fighting Man that has kept this country free for over 200 years. He has asked nothing in return, except our friendship and understanding. Remember him, always, for he has earned our respect and admiration with his blood. And now we even have women over there in danger, doing their part in this tradition of going to War when our nation calls us to do so. As you go to bed tonight, remember this shot. . 'Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen.' Please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our ground troops in Small Town Soapbox, Monday 7/14/2008 A German's Perspective A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. 'Very few people were true Nazis 'he said,' but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.' We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up , because like my friend from Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the European peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life. Anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just ignores it, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world wide, think about it ? and apply pressure to the leaders of our still (for now) free world to intervene in this insanity. Small Town Soapbox, Monday 7/7/2008 As of this past Friday, Take note of this, my friends, ?We did not inherit this country from our ancestors. We borrowed it from our children.? Have you recently taken time to thank God for the founding fathers that had the dream of a country, a liberated nation, that they borrowed from their children. They dreamed of a land where every man could pray to ?his? God who or what ever he perceived him to be. These were devoutly Christian men who, through their Christian benevolence, created a nation, one nation, under our loving Christian God, where men could come legally to new homes & new futures within our borders, put their shoulders to the wheel, work their part of American Utopia, and worship as they saw fit, without fear of persecution. What have we allowed to become of Thomas Jefferson?s dream of truths he found to be self-evident? Those were also the dreams of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and on and on. Could any of our current day leaders of When did the government of, by and for the people & the just laws of our land become the whim of seated justices that have never faced the American voter on a ballot, but none the less conduct themselves as royalty ruling over all American voters from their lofty bench? The nine seated justices can?t agree that the Bill of Rights, and guarantees of the Constitution are for citizens of these Those deemed potential enemy combatants by the military devoted to protect us from them, are guaranteed no rights what so ever, and should certainly never set foot in an American court of law. But by a 5 to 4 decision, we?re told by our American Supreme Court that I?m wrong. Not only is the enemy at our gate, we must let him in and treat him with the same rights guaranteed Americans. That same Supreme Court couldn?t unanimously agree with the 2nd amendment. 4 of the 9 wanted to deny us our rights to keep and bear arms. Think about that. We came with in one liberal vote of becoming So, if I understand all this correctly, at least for now, we have to potentially set the most violent free, but we get to keep our guns. These might be good days to take stock of your ammunition. Happy birthday,
Small Town Soapbox, Monday 6/23/2008 Bob, my dear fellow conservative, how can you think this story isn?t right on the money? Buddy, you have to KNOW you can?t win this. No one really gives you a chance in hell. You gotta bail on this thing, if only for now. If only for the ?08 election. Let?s spend a moment with this. Until you made the confusing decision to insert your self in the ?Degrade in ?08? fiasco, there was only the Demo (ultimately Barrack Hussein Obama) & the conservative 71 year old war hero, John McCain... 2 choices for the type manure will fertilize the White House grounds in January? Caca de Elephante or caca de donkey? Because the public is sure it?ll some kind of critter caca regardless. Then, Bob, buddy you jump in on the ?we need a third party? Libertarian ticket, at the worst possible time you could have done this. Congressman, I was with you & your unbelievable wife, Jeri all the way through your tireless work during those ?have all our morals & ethics been flushed down the crapper?? I cheered when the brilliant, but totally self-serving liar was impeached. He had lied under federal oath, and you wouldn?t let up until he admitted it. He lied to our nation on all network TV, and you wouldn?t ease up until he would admit it. Then I was totally dismayed when you couldn?t convince your peers in Congress to convict him. You did try because it was the right thing to do, and you were trying to get on he path of fixing what?s really wrong with But now, Bob, buy now?!??Let me run a little scenario by you, congressman. Let?s say I?ve already made my mind up on who I?m gonna vote for, even if I really don?t feel like there?s a good selection, and it?s horrifying to me. Then the Congressman from Georgia, with the name I remember from nearly a decade ago, insists on putting poop in the political punch bowl & gives me a 3rd choice at a time I?m already freaking out a little bit. I listen to your thoughts and What your plan would be if the White House fertilizer ending up being the droppings of what the heck ever kind of mascot you & Boortz dreamed up for the Libertarians at the Holiday Inn ballroom where you folks had your convention.. Well, that?s what it looked like on the news. You know what, I like what I hear, and you get my vote. I like ya. Frankly, I?m not positive you?ve got many answers, but in many cases you & I share similar visions & values. I?m sold on the whole Barr ?08 enchilada. I?ll enthusiastically jump on the bandwagon with all 2 or 3 percent other voters also make the decision I?ve made. ?Bob Barr is the man to lead us back to a future we can be proud to leave our children.? I?m not sure I could even have the ability to say we were all fooling ourselves, and you didn?t stand a snowballs chance in (you know) of winning. Now, we?ll lose, but look on the wagon with me. Do you possibly think many of those 2 or 3 percent came from the Barrack Hussein Obama camp? In 2012, if you & your party do nothing in the next 4 years except establish your party, maybe then. I?d even be proud to come sing the Anthem under God at a Bob Barr event. But Bob, Buddy, Buddy, Buddy?.don?t make a horrifying situation even worse in ?08 Small Town Soapbox, Monday 6/16/2008 COURT FAVORS DETAINEES - The Supreme Court has ruled that detainees at Has our Supreme Court lost their collective minds? They?ll probably sponsor fundraisers in their behalf, and finding lawyers to be on their side will be easy, because it?ll be the lawyers that make all them money from it while our nation continues to crumble. We?re the citizens of our Honestly, the American judicial system should not have a dog in this fight. The people the military feels are a threat to us, are not protected by the Constitution, and thank God for that simple fact. These are things that should strictly be under the authority & scrutiny of the United States Military. These detainees have no American rights what so ever. Nor should they. They are potential enemy combatants. I promise you, any one of them would kill and decapitate you or your children if given half a chance to do so. And they?d do it amid American screams for mercy. They?d consider American screams entertainment. The torment of Americans would have the folks back home in their foreign cesspools dancing in the streets. How dare our Supreme Court be arrogant enough to intervene in this arena of our international safety & security? As I understand it, the job of the American Supreme Court is to interpret the Constitution as it pertains to our American laws, not to dictate international policy. That?s why we have brilliant men and women with stars on their shoulders, and the legions of those that have sworn to protect us all. They?re pledged to not only protect and uphold our Constitution, but to stand between all American families, and any aggressor. They consider it their prideful and honorable duty to place themselves, at the risk of their own lives, between the wolf and the sheep. Being an American citizen, you have every right to disagree with me on this, but in my opinion as an American patriot you?re wrong. No gray areas here. Right/wrong Good/evil Enemies/Patriots. Period!! End of story.
Do Good Anyway People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway. Anonymous Small Town Soapbox, Monday 6/2/2008 THE OLD PATHS
You?re probably not gonna like today?s Soap Box, and I apologize in advance for that. But, on the off chance there are any scientists that are also country music fans; I wanted them to hear this. This wonderful and mentally challenging movie, I hadn?t even heard about until the link regarding it happened to be attached to an unrelated email I got Saturday. It?s called: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed????by Ben Stein It?s probably the most thought provoking movie I?ve ever seen. It was great, but it ain?t really a date flick that you?d hold hands through. No chase scenes & no kissin?. It?s more of a micro-biological documentary that asks modern science to challenge itself in areas where it refuses to do so. It?ll not win any awards for very apparent politically correct reasons, but it reveals an unasked and unanswered scientific question that the academic community needs to broaden its collective mind to ask and attempt to answer, regardless how much it challenges Charles Darwin, and his theory of evolution that itself hasn?t evolved one little bit even though it came from the mid 1800?s. According to Darwin, we all evolved from a single cell that somehow rose from primordial muck to become all the life we see on planet Earth today, and that it?s impossible that intelligent design could have played any role in life at all. By the way, Adolph Hitler was a devout Darwinist. In other words, Expelled really wasn?t a Gracie movie, but I?m very glad I saw it. Oooh, that?s a side of Uncle Moby you haven?t seen before, ain?t it.
That was my beautiful spring Saturday morning, riding in the bed of one of Terry Reid's big ol' Chevy trucks, Mary Beth at my side, waving to good Americans that had come out & brought their children to watch the parade.
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