AL My mom writes to one of Frankie's relatives in Washburn. I'll try to find out what his name is and how he is related and let you know.
As a kid it was always fun to ride to town with Frankie on his wagon with team of horses. He loved those horses and they would mind him better than most kids will mind their parents.

JH Is there going to be a class reunion this year?

Folks, let's take the Muslim / Christian discussion to the discussions.

Daisy, Another beautiful day here as well. You sound like you are enjoying your kitty. The girls have tried to telk me into getting one, but I guess not.
Going to T.H. for some light hearted chit chat, always a good start to the day, then I'm off for a hair cut.

Ah, another beautiful day ... another blue sky filled w/ sunshine ... and then I came on COM ... hatred being spewed by the usual suspects; nothing new there.


Ms Em greeted the morning by growling a the excavator working near the house -
a five pound attack cat - just what I need to keep me safe!

jh; All I remember is is going fishing on what they called Burntland stream? It was off the Chapman Rd. probably toward Westfield or Bridgewater. Too many years ago for my memory.

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Tell me, if you have a nest of ants, roaches, piranha or other, how can you determine which ones are good and which ones are bad? I think you know the answer to that question.

He was deemed a HERO so what does that tell you? There are no good piranhas!

Do you know who your neighbors are? How many piranhas do you have in your neighborhood?

In order to get rid of a whole nest of ants, roaches and the like, you must do away with all of them. That's logic and fact. The scum must be removed before they remove our own. Mona, Arch, I have to disagree with you all on this one.

Our kids won't have a place to live, but in HELL if we don't do something now. Maybe we are in HELL now and don't know it. It appears so. Logic 101

Arch

Once again, your attempt to use “logic” to dismiss someone else’s opinion falls far short of logical. Let’s look at what you are saying regarding Muslims (And, no, Arch, “Muslim” isn’t a race any more than “Christian” is. It’s not “trivializing” to make a clarification). So let’s look at your “logic”... Israel has had nuclear capability for many years. It has not tried to “eliminate the Islamic states” in all that time. Logically, we can deduce that Israel is a credible keeper of nuclear arms. On the other hand, Iran (as well as other Islamic states) has directly stated that it wants to “eliminate the Jewish state” and will not be satisfied until all Jews are removed from the face of the earth. Your statement that you “understand why they want” nuclear weapons is meaningless. For instance, I can understand why my 2 year old might want to play with my loaded revolver. That has no bearing on whether I will let her have it or not. Logic says I should not (it makes no difference if I understand why he wants it or not). If he also told me he wanted to use it to “eliminate his 5 year old sister from the face of the earth”, I’m pretty sure I would be doubly positive the lock was secure on the gun cabinet.

Arch, why should anyone care that you “understand why [Iran] wants nuclear arms”? Good for you, but so what? We simply cannot allow them to have them. Period. End of story. It’s not a matter of “understanding” or prejudice,

it’s a matter of understanding a fundamental threat and recognizing that you don’t allow that threat to get its hands on the badest weapon on the planet.

As for your other point... I’ll explain the difference to you (since you asked) between the Muslim infidel and the Christian non-believer. Here, I’ll show you the difference in a little vignette:

Non-believer: I don’t believe in Christ.
Christian: You don’t? I will pray for you so that you might accept Christ and be saved.

Infidel: I don’t believe in Allah
Muslim: You don’t? Would you kindly lower your collar so I can make a good clean cut with my machete.

Yeah, yeah, I’ve heard the weak logic that “It’s only the radicals who believe in killing the infidels!”, but that doesn’t explain why there was cheering in the streets of many Islamic nations by the “kind and gentle” Muslims when 3,000 Americans were murdered on 9-11. It also doesn’t explain why there has been no general outcry by practicing Muslims even here in the United States concerning these religious killings... why isn’t it taught and repeated throughout the Muslim world that fatwas, and the murdering of infidels is against the teachings of Mohamad and will not be tolerated in the modern Muslim world? And were they all radicals who rallied in the streets to order the murder of a cartoonist - a cartoonists!! - for drawing a cartoon depicting Mohammed in a less-than-favorable light?