Insights From The Rocking Chair

Dear Son:(We think of you that way even though you are our son-in-law) The weeks of waiting for a specified leave date has finally come. The day that we all have dreaded will be here soon. Before you go I wanted you to know some things. I have been watching you these last few weeks. The amount of love you have poured into living your life, dedicating every free moment to spend quality time with your wife and your son, has been amazing to watch. You've used every opportunity to let them know how much they mean to you, and how much you love them. I know that their well-being weighs heavily on your heart, and I won't tell you not to worry because that won't do much good. I will tell you that they will be just fine. Maybe not at first, but they soon will be able to function and will wait anxiously for the day they can wrap their arms around you and hold you close again. You made a commitment to your family, to keep them safe from evil and you have kept it. Now you must take...

The Sojourners sponsored a debate to give the Democrats an opportunity to "explain" their faith. Hmm. I did not watch but caught the sound bites. In viewing those sound bites I have never seen folks so uncomfortable as they were taking about their faith. Could it be they really don't have any, because their statements did not convince me. Neither did their body language. I don't see how some of these folks sleep at night knowingly deceiving people about some faith they really don't aspire to. There is no evidence in their public life to show me this. And don't go there with that tired argument that faith is personal and private. It is not. Nowhere in the Bible does it say to hide your faith. And these folk hide their's until it is prudent to let someone know that they even think about God once a year or so. I don't buy this attempt by the liberals to show they have what a lot of "faith based" voters base their vote on. Living by faith is a da...

Anybody here feel really bad for Paris Hilton? Come on raise your hand. I know someone out there is really upset at her re-incarceration. Because she is crying for her mommy she should receive compassion? You really think she is getting a raw deal. You bleeding hearts think crime should go punished with a slap on the hand. The rule of law should pertain to one and all. Hollywood has, to date, given the impression that if you are a "celebrity" you deserve special treatment. Robert Blake, Mel Gibson, O. J. Simpson, ZaZa Gabor to name a few and the list is way to long to finish and I am really to tired anyway. No one, no one is above the law. Even Moses found himself punished for breaking God's rules. What will one of these nut cases have to do to receive the proper punishment. We already know from two of them they even get away with murder. When I was 15 and starting to drive my dad sat me down and laid out the rules. Actually, only one rule that really stuck with me. My ...

As a first post on this site, I want you to know that we will look at a lot of different topic. Religion, politics, family and general life issues. I am pretty ticked off that we have begun the Presidential campaign so soon. But now I figure since I won't be able to completely turn them off I might as well sound off. So much will be talked about in the media so we will try to look at it with honest and maybe humorous eyes. At least I hope so. Honest for sure. It will be hard to be humorous sometimes even though I find some of the talking points down right dumb. I'll be back soon with more as I tweak this site.