If...then?

Please pray that the Japanese people remain as strong as they can, and contend with yet another onslaught of adversity to their existence.

An observance:

Is all this the wrath of Satan, Lucifer, the evil angel who was allowed to be put in command of the world for 7,000 years? (READ your Bible...NOT your Koran!).

Who? BOO-WHO?

WHEN IDIOTS PREVAIL

Leftist Chris Matthews.

Silly. Silly. Silly man!



Interestingly or not, I was married to a TV Sports guy, who on his first broadcast after we were married, called a local score at "SEX" to four. He never lived it down.

Perhaps that is why he was shortly fired by the company (WTMJ4, Milwaukee WI)

The Moment it Hit!

From CBS, courtesy of TBS

Just stop what you are doing right now, and take some moments to imagine the humungous loss!!

Lives! Livelihoods! Homes! Cars! Trains! Roads!

The need for FOOD and WATER!

I urge ALL to pray for and with the people of Japan, that they may remain strong in this time of extreme adversity.

Help however you can, if only to be kind to someone else.

None of us can ever know what the next day may present us with, can we?

Shhh! I prefer the 'back' nine!

He does not like being criticized, and wants no one to 'bully' him. Man's got some pretty severe psychological problems, dating back to his Communist upbringing!

You might want to wander over to American Thinker, where Frank Burke offers an appraisal of Barack Hussein Obama's management capabililties in the areas of:

Management Style

Team Building and Leadership

Strategic Planning

Crisis Management

Financial Acumen

It's an excellent post, and what intrigued me even more was this comment:

Posted by: Crawdad64
Mar 14, 06:24 AM

Republicans, Tea Partiers, conservatives as a group, need to put forth a strategy that not only turns the country in 2012 back to the Right, but will keep it there for the long haul.

The damage being done now will take more than a first term to undo.

We'll need to invest a team in the first 8 years that is willing to make the changes, cuts and sacrifices to set a path for the future and pave the way for a second administration that will build on that and reestablish Constitutional authority in it's proper balance.

The liberal mold needs to be Cloroxed

Hurrah, it's Pi Day! 3.14159265...

From Wikipedia:

Many schools around the world observe Pi Day (March 14, from 3.14).

In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Wolf in the Fold", after a murderous alien entity (which had once been Jack the Ripper) takes over the Enterprise's main computer with the intention of using it to slowly kill the crew, Kirk and Spock draw the entity out of the computer by forcing it to compute pi to the nonexistent last digit, causing the creature to abandon the computer, allowing it to be beamed into space.

The Wheel of Dublin (Ferris wheel) has been nicknamed "the pi in the sky".

In the fictional movie, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, pi is the answer to the combination that will allow the Tablet of Akh-man-Ra to open the gates to the Underworld.

Pi Day pie, which actually looks more like a temptingly-delicious cheesecake!

I am more concerned however, with the thought of how tomorrow will be celebrated.

Again, from Wikipedia:

The Ides of March (Latin: Idus Martii) is the name of 15 March in the Roman calendar, probably referring to the day of the full moon. The term ides was used for the 15th day of the months of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th day of the other months. The Ides of March was a festive day dedicated to the god Mars and a military parade was usually held. In modern times, the term Ides of March is best known as the date that Julius Caesar was killed in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar was stabbed (23 times) to death in the Roman Senate led by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus and 60 other co-conspirators.

On his way to the Theatre of Pompey (where he would be assassinated), Caesar saw a seer who had foretold that harm would come to him not later than the Ides of March. Caesar joked, "Well, the Ides of March have come." , to which the seer replied "Ay, they have come, but they are not gone." This meeting is famously dramatized in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, when Caesar is warned to "beware the Ides of March".

Vincenzo Camuccini, Mort de César, 1798.

Sad to say, considering the thuggery and death threats over the past several weeks (especially in Wisconsin), I would not be surprised if some UNION GOON tries SOMETHING!

We can look at tragedy...

...perhaps, in this way.



And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,

and all flesh shall see it together;

for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. (Isaiah 40:5)

WE may not understand why,

but there is a reason for everything that happens

on this great planet.

Dry Time....

Let us ALL take some moments to pray for those in Japan.

Too many have lost everything, including their lives.

*********

Below are two photos I took some 31 or so years ago. I haven't seen them as 'positives', nor enlarged, until I worked on them this morning.

They reminded me that superb, dry weather is so necessary for northeastern Japan over the next several weeks.

Some Drying Grasses, 1980

Most unfortunately, northeastern Japan
will not be seeing
any sort of drying for some time.

My Dried Rose, 1980

May the Japanese people continue to maintain strength and fortitude, as they look forward to 'a dry time', as these old photos of mine represent.

It's that time again!

No matter what time your clock may say when you wake up tomorrow morning,
you'll be an hour late if you don't reset the time tonight.

Daylight Saving Time begins at 2:00 AM Sunday morning!

FYI: Helping Japan

From the Chicago Sun-Times:

Here are some ways to help or contact victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and others throughout the Pacific:

CONSULATE GENERAL OF JAPAN AT CHICAGO — For information on Japanese citizens or loved ones and links to area mobile service providers’ Emergency Message Lines. Visit www.chicago.us.emb-japan.go.jp/

AMERICAN RED CROSS — U.S. mobile phone users can text REDCROSS to 90999 to add $10 automatically to your phone bill. Or visit http://www.redcross.org or call 1-800-RED-CROSS.

Natori, Miyagi Prefecture

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — Sending relief teams and supplies to the area. Call 1-800-481-4462, or visit http://internationalmedicalcorps.org

SAVE THE CHILDREN — The relief effort providing food, medical care and education to children is accepting donations through mobile phones by texting JAPAN to 20222 to donate $10. People can also call 1-800-728-3843 during business hours or visit www.savethechildren.org/japanquake to donate online.

Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture

GLOBAL GIVING — The non-profit which works through grassroots efforts says Americans can text JAPAN to 50555 to give $10 through their phone bill. Or visit http://www.globalgiving.org/

Sendai City, (AP/Kyodo News)

INTERACTION — The group is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations and lists many ways to help on its site, http://www.interaction.org

NETWORK FOR GOOD — The aggregator of charities has a list of programs and ways to donate to relief efforts. Visit http://www.networkforgood.org

Elementary School in Sendai City (AP/Kyodo News)

And, if nothing else...please follow this young man's example:

At prayer in Manami Soma, Fukushima Prefecture (AP/Kyodo News)