Van Wert Get Together 2015

Jim & Elaine Anspaugh

Joe & Nancy Byer

Jerry, Carla, & Brett Doner

Janet Fauble

Bob and Ann Good

Terry & Marsha Linton

Bil & Dawn Jeffries

John & Dorcas Merkle

Gary & Vickie Pugsley

Carl & Darlene Reid

Darrel & Marilyn Rhoad

Bob & Gina Say

Rick & Linda Say

Roger & Irene Shimp

Karen Thompson & Ernie Edmonds

George & Shirley Weir-Nelson

Bob & Bev Wolke

Don Wright & Ann Hoover

Karen Wisenborn

Marlene Lammers

Wilbur & Joan Clymer

Now if I can somehow or other manage to get the photo here it will all make sense.  Until then, this page will be the list of the people who are in the photograph for the VWCounty 2015 gathering at Golden Corral in Mesa, Arizona.

Will Arnett and Late Night Show

I will finish this maybe after his show is finished.

Life's Sorrows

To me, the greatest sorrow in the world is when people actually believe a lie so that it takes control of their lives.

Sharia Law is a lie, a monstrous lie, that grips the lives of Muslims around the world.  It is now being practiced in the worst of ways by ISIS, a group of terrorists who claim allegiance to a self proclaimed Caliph as he tries to create his Caliphate in the areas of Syria and Iraq.  It is an abomination to realize that these men are tools of the very devil but if any body of men exemplify the meaning  of  Jesus's exhortation "by their fruits they shall be known ", these group of terrorists are it.

Whether these leaders actually believe their own lies is more than I know but the fact that their followers blindly and willingly buy into it is what is most disturbing.

My first introduction to the world of Islam was the film Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O'Toole which I saw years ago here in the Valley of the Sun with my friend Mary Gola.  She and I went to see it in downtown Phoenix after I had bought my first air of contact lens.   Therefore, I never forget that movie. The fatalism that is a part of the life of the Arabians is fascinating to watch since the Englishmen fights it so much.  This was the first look into the lives of the Arab world then.

Since that time the world has slowly come to know more and more about Islam as television exposes them to us.  When royalty ruled the nations of Islam, most nations were pretty quiet and peaceful it seemed.  Underneath the broiling sun brewed a hostility and anger against the royal families so deep that they have since been overthrown and forgotten, being replaced by fundamentalist extremists who have raised chaos and havoc in their lands.

The Muslims hate the Jewish settlement of Israel which has long been a cause of dissension between the Jews and the Palestinians.  This state of Israel was created after WWII so that the Jews who had been persecuted under Hitler could have a homeland somewhere to practice their faith without interference.  However, the problem is that none of the Muslim nations were truly considered and ever since because the state of Israel has grown so much that it has begun to encroach upon the Palestinian lands.  Much of the world is angry at Israel for its land grabs and its contempt for the Palestinian people no matter who the leader of Palestine is.  Benjamin Netanyahu, the current elected leader of Israel, does not care what the Palestinians think. All he cares abut is the safety of his citizens and how many more settlements that he can build. He rather fearlessly thinks that he has some parts of the Christian world in his hands due to their misinterpretation of scriptures so that he imperialistically grabs land that rightfully belongs to the Palestinians.

In fact, a local Arizona martyr who obviously sided with the Palestinians has been killed in Syria by some means.  ISIS had kidnapped her and held her hostage as a pawn with which to barter.  But after the capture of a Jordanian pilot was burned alive, Jordan set out to take revenge against the ISIS group which resulted in the death of Kayla Mueller, a former Arizona resident.  The Jews hate her because she sided with the Muslims and the Palestinians who are under attack from the bombs being sent from Israel.

Life is not simple in this day and age.  Benjamin Netanyahu was asked by the Republican majority leader to come to Congress to speak to the members of Congress about the possibility of nuclear weapons in Iran.  Netanyahu is very paranoid about the likelihood of Iran's destroying Israel which it has often promised to do.  The USA is afraid of Iran's potential for building nuclear weapons. In truth, several other nations who are friendly to Iran already have nuclear weapons with which they could bomb Israel as well if it were necessary to do so.

Both China and Russia are able to use  nuclear weapons against Israel, and for some reason, Israel likes to pretend that it is the only true friend to the USA.  That is a ploy to keep those Republican and Democratic congressman whose pockets they line and whose coffers they fill in their pocket.

The truth is that both Netanyahu and the Republicans alike prove how silly and stupid they are in their eagerness to cozy up to one another about the dire consequences if Iran gets nuclear weapons.  Nothing makes either look more stupid than their silly fears running amuck making them look like the scared bunnies they obviously are.  The Iranians truly do not trust Americans at all so it is rathe surprising that either are in speaking terms, but the nations are trying to come to some agreement to make certain that Iran does not have the capability to create nuclear weapons.

I likened government the other day to a man visiting a brothel but who cannot get his erection, and so now I liken Iran to a woman who would like to be one of the prostitutes but who is kept in her chastity belt.  It is a ridiculous state of affairs to pick on one nation of the world when so many others who are just as potentially dangerous already have those same weapons.  Trying to keep a woman a virgin in a brothel does seem a bit odd but that is the way it looks to me.  Israel is often one big prick who does fear all the other pricks around it.

60 Day Notice from Landlord

I received two notices from the manager of our apartment complex tonight. I had been prepared for this but the page 1 notice surprised me.  Two neighbors next door to me received the same notices so that I knocked on Jane's door to see if hers was like mine.  Dale's is stuck in his door but I did look at it to see if the date was the same as ours since Jane had the same end date as I had.

Jane had already told me that she was not supposed to be out until July since she opted for a 15 month lease. I did not have that option. Mine is a 12 month lease.  My date was correct as far as I could see.  I knew that her apartment had needed renovation but I then found out that mine needs it too.

While small problems in comparison to other poor suffering groups of people in the world, they nonetheless are problems with which I must deal and I have been doing that in the past week.
I have to find a place to live that is not going to be increasing in rent costs each and every year.

So I am going through all my packed boxes to see what I am going to throw away and which I will keep.  I may try to sell some things on Craigs List but I do not know how quickly that offers are read and items sold.  They get new items daily and it is a game that I do not fully understand at all.  One can advertise in newspapers too but that always takes some time I think. But it is  a place that I will try since Sandra seems to do so well at it.

Time flies so fast, and I must act quickly since time is of the essence for me. I will have to see how much I can move and to where I can move it.

There is the option to stay here at a higher rate, but I think for me the important thing is to find something that will be permanent over the course of time.

I did play a lotto ticket for $2.00 tonight.  I had an idea that a group of numbers would come in.  3 of the numbers that did come in were from that group and so I was did have two of them.  But that does not pay me anything.

Also my allergies are acting up here.  I do not like the watery eyes and puffiness in my face. My neighbor says that she is having trouble sleeping at night too.

I actually resisted the truffles at Target today.  They were Godiva Belgian chocolates but I had to say no. I must lose some of the fat that I have put on in recent years and if I get the truffles I will not be able to lose at all.

I am going to go to bed now. I am a nervous wreck right now.  I must find the right place asap.

Videos from the New York Times

There are two videos from the New York Times which I placed on Facebook tonight. One is about a young Egyptian man who became a body builder and then finally seems to have ended up joining ISIS since his hopes and dreams have not been realized in Egypt.  He wanted to find girls and enjoy life but instead found religion which appears to have changed him so that now he is in the army of ISIS.  The ideals of these youth seem to want Sharia Law to become the law of the Universe.  That is what I gleaned from watching this video.

A more powerful video followed this tale of the young Egyptian to tell the story about the Iraqi soldier who had joined the army since he had no job, no salary, nothing at all but sheer desperation to raise his family in Iraq.  The plight of the Iraqi's is that they do need jobs and a life.  But while in the army, his troop or group was tricked by ISIS.  They had tried to escape by changing into civilian clothes but ISIS trucks and troops caught up with them to lead them to become the first casualties in this Iraq  takeover.

This man was left for dead and he tells his story of how he managed to survive and escape on his own, though starving.  It is a miraculous story of how Sunni Muslims actually helped this young Shia muslim.  It is a must see to realize the truth of how these ISIS militants are treating all the people in their path.

I hope that as many people as possible will see this video because it helps to explain how even the simplest story in that wretched land can affect you.  These poor people in that part of the world need help desperately.

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What a week!

This has been a very rough week in many ways, and it is only a few days old!  It is now the 18th early this morning but i have been working steadily all week with little to demonstrate it if you just walk into the apartment. I have so much work to do but I have been working steadily.  Laundry, sorting out boxes, paying bills, cooking, doing dishes, working on my lottery game which I may finally have gained a foothold in solving, and just doing daily tasks, running to the post office, to the grocers, etc. is a lot to cover for me at this time.

I have to keep my plants watered, I have to collect the mail which for today I have not done yet, and I have to keep and sort out all that I have collected in the past two weeks.

I am just trying to keep my head above water, and the water is rising all the time as I try to stay afloat.

I went to Mesa this past week, was reminded tonight due to a road rage incident of an incident that I had with a male driver who was mean and nasty when he suddenly pulled in to  where I was driving out so that he nearly hit me. I had to honk the horn loudly and insistently to get him to stop because I swear that he would have hit me had I not.  I was so angry at him but I backed up to get around him and he screamed and hurled nasty invectives at me which I naturally swore right back at him with his  not hearing a word I said. I got out of there but was angry about it and was reminded of it again tonight.

Then on the weekend I sent 60 some Valentine greetings to Facebook friends from 123greetings.  A former high school classmate, Janet Monce Snyder,  took it upon herself to remove names from the list so that from what I understand these people did not get the Valentine. I do not know if she did it on purpose or not but  it made me angry to think that Facebook would even let her know that I had sent those Valentine greetings out.   Each person should have gotten it without knowing that any had been sent to others.

It was one single card with 60 addresses and in my opinion it was nice of 123 greetings to do that. But next night I went back to try an experiment which I could not do.  I had sent the same cards to twitter and to google plus which meant that they went on the timeline.  At Facebook it was sent to each individual name that I listed.  I only did a third of the number of friends that I have.  So now none of them know if they were or were not on the list.  Thanks to Connie Beach for notifying me that someone had told her about it, and she was kind enough to tell me.  Kristin Davis Dean stepped in to help me understand what may have happened.

As a result, last night I did not get to sleep until 4:30 this morning and got up at 9:30 to sleep until ten.   I may get to bed sooner tonight.

But not by much I see  by the clock on the wall.



And I was reminded of 9/11 again tonight to recall my visions of seeing the two American airliners go into the World Tower Building and the Pentagon.  For a moment, the images that I had seen when they first came to me returned vividly again tonight.  That interests me a lot,  the fact that memories stored in the brain came return to be seen again so vividly.

And because of another post about the Ten Commandments tonight, I read something in Matthew about the transformation where both Moses and Eli come to appear before Jesus. Jesus says in only Matthew information about Eli that proves he believed in reincarnation.  So that was enough for me to understand something.  I knew immediately what he meant and who he meant and sure enough I was right.  That is all for now.   A slip just now made me think of something else as well.

Must close now.  Jesus is here.  I will elucidate a bit. I was considering the fact that visions may be thoughts placed in one's head by angelic spirits.  That while sitting in front of a tv which is an instrument that receives images transmitted from one spot to many others, so can probably  images that are in one source be transmitted to another so that one can see the image as projected to you when you are the receiver.  I had had a vision of Shared Belief the week before his race so that I was convinced that he would win. I have a saying that I use at the track which is "come to me. I am the winner's circle."  Thus, when the horse was so near to me in my vision I was certain that he would win.  He did.

In that respect, Jesus as known in the teachings of the Christian faith, is in Heaven, but while in Heaven, the father or Jesus either one can project and transmit to any receiver they choose to either receive an image or to receive even the fullness of their being. I am convinced of that totally.  That is why I said Jesus is here.  Whenever Jesus wishes to project himself or an image of any kind,  He can do that.

That is all.  Jesus is ever with us, and uses me whenever He sees fit.