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IMPLAUSIBLE
From My Perspective - - - Implausible means: “not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed.” The Synonyms are: unlikely, improbable, unbelievable…That seems to be where we are in terms of our nation and world today.......Read More

Posted on: 2009-04-02 06:56:50 | Rating:

| Views: 22 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Unbelievable-Plausibility

HEROES and HEROICS
From My Perspective - - - It seems as though there is an over-abundance of bad news that has become a constant in terms of media reporting. When American and Allied wounded and killed in Iraq occurred, the news reports barraged us with the body count. While we should have been aware of......Read More

Posted on: 2009-04-06 11:13:11 | Rating:

| Views: 24 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Personal-Values

TEPID TRENDS?
From My Perspective - - - The April 13, 2009 Cover of Newsweek asserts: “ THE DECLINE AND FALL OF CHRISTIAN AMERICA …” and headlines the lead story: “The End of Christian America”. The article is written by Jon Meacham and states: “The percentage......Read More

Posted on: 2009-04-10 06:39:47 | Rating:

| Views: 16 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Post-Christian

PREDATORY PURSUITS
From My Perspective - - - The times in which we live are serious and uncertain. A brief glimpse of the current news is merely a microcosm of what is occurring throughout our world. North Korea and Iran with their nuclear ambitions; Pirates off the coast of Somalia and their ongoing......Read More

Posted on: 2009-04-14 07:50:06 | Rating:

| Views: 24 | Comments: 1 | Tags: Serious-Times

RADICALISM OR PROPAGANDA
From My Perspective - - - What is happening to America? What has happened to the “land of the free and the home of the brave…”? What happened to the Constitution of the United States? Whatever happened to the Bill of Rights, namely, Article the third [Amendment I]:......Read More

Posted on: 2009-04-15 06:51:22 | Rating:

| Views: 21 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Fascist-Socialist-or-Worse

DENIGRATION
From My Perspective - - - This past week, two separate events transpired that brought to mind different ideas that are somewhat akin to each other, namely, Belittle and Denigrate. Belittle is: “To represent or speak of as contemptibly small or unimportant; disparage; To cause to......Read More

Posted on: 2009-04-20 07:09:36 | Rating:

| Views: 26 | Comments: 0 | Tags: ridicule derision disrespect

EXPECTATIONS
From My Perspective - - - Most are familiar with a classic novel by Charles Dickens entitled Great Expectations. It is the story of the orphan Pip from the days of his early childhood until adulthood and his effort to try to be a gentleman along the way. The story begins on Christmas......Read More

Posted on: 2009-04-21 05:47:51 | Rating:

| Views: 17 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Acceptance Fairness

MR. MAGOO - WHAT CAN WE DO?
From My Perspective - - - Quincy Magoo - Mr. Magoo - is a cartoon character. He is a wealthy, short-in-stature retiree who gets into a series of sticky situations as a result of his nearsightedness compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem. Affected people (or animals)......Read More

Posted on: 2009-04-22 07:06:22 | Rating:

| Views: 18 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Blind-Man's-Bluff

A SIGNIFICANT COVER-UP
From My Perspective - - - For more than thirty (30) years, the United States has been involved in conflicts and increasingly tense relationships in the Arab-Muslim world, particularly with Iran (and the hostage crisis 1979-81) and then Iraq (1990-91, and 2003 to the present). It has......Read More

Posted on: 2009-04-24 05:47:02 | Rating:

| Views: 38 | Comments: 2 | Tags: Political-Correctness-Gone-Awry

IF YOU BUILD IT - WHO WILL COME?
From My Perspective - - - In a 1989 a film entitled, Field Of Dreams was released. It is a story about a rural Iowa farmer who hears a voice whispering - "If you build it, he will come", and sees a vision of a baseball field. Believing he is somehow being asked to build......Read More