Sunday, April 14, 2024
This came to me when I heard of OJ's Death.
He realizes he is no longer suffering the pain.
He feels younger, stronger, and healthy.
He sits up and looks around
"Hello Orenthal James Simpson," says the receptionist.
“Welcome to eternity. We have been waiting for you.”
“Hello,” he glances around and back at the woman.
“Where am I? Am I dead?” He asks.
“Of course,” she answers picking up her clipboard, “your time has come to meet your reward. Please follow me.”
Her beautiful smile is very friendly and inviting. As they walk down the hallway she continues.
“Everyone comes through this office to be sorted. Where you spend eternity is based on how you lived your life. We have been following yours for quite a while.”
“So, where will I…?” He never finishes his question as she continues talking.
“Looking at what you have been through, there was such unfairness in how you were treated.”
He looks at her in surprise.
“You never really received what you were due in your life.” She looks up from her clipboard.
“It says here that you were found innocent. But you lost your career and respect in the eyes of many.”
He nods.
“Here we are,” she says, “please walk into this garden. This will be where you stay.”
He looks around.
It is the most wonderful garden he has ever seen, filled with flowers, well-manicured shrubbery, and a beautiful home.
He gasps as he looks around. “This is wonderful, I think I can handle this.”
He steps through the gate and starts walking to the house.
He turns back to thank her but she is gone.
The gate is gone.
There is only a tall brick wall.
He turns back and the house is gone. Just another brick wall.
The plants that were so beautiful before are all thorns and dripping poison.
He spins around again finding no exit.
Suddenly a Demon appears beside him.
Before he can think, it quickly slices his throat almost to the spine.
As he grabs his throat, the pain hits him and he falls to the ground. He can’t breathe.
The pain in his chest as his lungs scream for oxygen grows almost to the level of the pain in his throat.
He realizes he can’t pass out.
The pain will not stop.
He continues struggling to breathe as he glances up at the demon.
“Don’t worry Juice,” says the Demon, “you’ll heal up just in time for us to do that again.
And again.
And again.”
A look of horror comes over OJ’s face as the Demon laughs.
“Yes. Now you get the idea.”
The demon stands over him, watching, waiting, sharpening his blade, and laughing as he slowly fades from sight.
OJ realizes he will never see it coming.
Sunday, June 11, 2017
You don’t have to agree with it.
Saturday, March 4, 2017
I have seen several theories about the reason why Kylo Ren was so easily defeated by Flynn and Rey
Here is another thought about Chewbacca’s Bowcaster.
It has been said that those chosen for becoming Stormtroopers, or for cloning, were force sensitive making them easier for Palatine to control while leading a battle from his throne.
Anyway... That is my Bowcaster Theory.
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Sometimes I get bothered by what I see posted on facebook. I feel I have to write something down.
Then I remembered a Bible verse:
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector - Luke 18,9-14
with that in mind I began to write.
Jesus came to them today and told them this story
I tell you, this humble gay person, not the government official, returned home justified before God. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
This is what came to me to write. I was unsure of myself at this point, so I sent it to my brother Rodney. I asked him if I had overstepped, or gone too far.
Anyone who says Jesus hates him... doesn't know him, or Jesus, or speak for Jesus.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
I never went to college for Business… but I have several questions.
I have been thinking about this for several years.
I am still not sure I am going to say this correctly.
But still… Here goes…
There is a trend that has been going on for several years where companies have put a great deal of importance in cutting “costs” to improve the bottom line.
In order to cut these “costs” several companies have chosen to lay off employees and freeze raises for the employees who actually do the work, and provide the services, labor, and products that the company is supposed to be in the business of supplying to their customers.
These companies often get rid of the longest standing employees that have the most experience and highest skills in the company’s product.
This is hindering the capabilities of the company, leading to customer dissatisfaction, and customers going to other suppliers, thus leading to the company seeing their bottom line going further down.
To fix this issue they decide to cut more people from their workforce and continue to hold employee raises at 0%.
What I do not understand is how corporations can look at this self destructive behavior and say “Hey Mr. “Chief-whatever” You did a great job”, then pay obscenely large bonuses to these people with a “C” at the front of their title. Sure they cut costs to make the bottom line look good at the end of the year. However, continuing to shrink the workforce leads to a loss of client satisfaction.
That will lead directly to a further degradation of the company’s bottom line the next year, ruins the companies reputation, eventually leading to potential clients not considering that company for business as the reputation has gone down as they lose quality employees.
Why would you consider giving a bonus to any CEO, CFO, CTO, anyone with a “C” at the front of their title, if they ran the business so poorly that in order to salvage the bottom line, they have to freeze raises, or lay off employees? Isn’t that an abject failure of the “Chiefs” that they have to butcher the company to save the bottom line?
Thursday, April 18, 2013
April Showers 2013
4/18/2013 7:47 AM - Naperville has reported over 9 inches already today.
Radio weather said we are getting an overall average of 1” per hour. ..They also said the worst of the storm is on the way. ON THE WAY? My house is going to float away!
So there you have it… This is what Woodridge looks like when we are getting 1” an hour…
Saturday, January 12, 2013
What? You want to impeach who? For what?
I say that we cannot do that yet.
We cannot begin impeachment proceedings against Obama before we bring George W. Bush up on the following charges.
1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of over one hundred thousand Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.
2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.
3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable.
4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.
5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.
6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.
8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.
9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."
10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.
11) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.
12) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief.
13) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the United States, including in response to Congressional inquiry.
14) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials.
15) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged communications by the government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an incarcerated person has not been charged with a crime.
16) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity that at the discretionary designation of the Executive has been deemed "terrorist."
17) Engaging in criminal neglect in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, depriving thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and other Gulf States of urgently needed support, causing mass suffering and unnecessary loss of life.
18) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and political activity.
19) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive functions.
20) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of the obligations of the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations without consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM treaty between the United States and Russia, and rescission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court.