THE STEEL DEAL

Should I Give Up?

             I am almost to the point where I want to give up.

   It seems as though the assault on this nation is so relentless, so without reason and so blind, that I want to cash my chips in. I am beginning to think there's no winning in this war. And war is what this is.

   The Left has no love for the freedoms we used to cherish. I am convinced they would prefer another sort of reality. A world in which someone else takes responsibility for everything. Everything. Your life, your family, your entire existence. Just leave it to someone else. 'THEY' know better. 'WE' don't know anything. Life is just too complex for the common man to comprehend, much less live without THEIR guidance.

   After all, they have have the best of intentions - right? They only want to insure we all 'get along' and have 'peace'. All we have to do is turn our lives over to them and they will see to it that we are 'taken care of'.

   They will never give up making this happen, they will stop at nothing to do so and this goal is all they live for.

   Perhaps they are correct. 'Free thinking' has resulted in WHAT? This chaotic world, rife with destruction and death, is apparently all free thinking can accomplish.

   Maybe it would be better to have someone else in control of our lives.

   Someone to tell us the what, when, where, how and why we exist. If we just get onboard they will lead us to the 'Promised Land'.

   But there's this little voice inside of me that says I am best equipped to make my decisions. Silly little thing. I shouldn't listen.

   That same voice tells me to allow YOU to make your own choices. Silly little thing.

   There's a term that refers to the once incarcerated - 'institutionalized'. It means that once a man has become a prisoner, had his routine dictated, his day planned and regulated, he yearns for that discipline. Hence the high rate of recivitism in our penal system.

   Ask yourself this ... am I more able to make YOUR choices? I'll grant you that YOU may be better at making mine. Do YOU want that responsibilty?

   Maybe I'm just getting old, maybe I am worn out. Maybe I just don't have that 'fight' left in me.

   And maybe I'll do battle until I die to make damned sure we all make our own lives.

                                                   That is all.

Ouch!

        Man Allegedly Bites Off Girlfriend's Nose

A family sitting down to dinner had to call police and an ambulance after a man allegedly bit off the nose of his girlfriend, authorities said.

Jody Bennett came out of a back room of a north Tulsa residence on Thursday with a napkin over her face and said her boyfriend, identified as Greg Hill, had bitten her nose.

Medics responding to the house saw that Bennett's nose had been severed and called police.

"We looked around and tried to find a nose but couldn't find it," Cpl. Larry Edwards, a police spokesman, said. "I think he swallowed it."

                                                 Snot funny.

Hmmm ...

   

HOW can this happen?

         Light bulb believed made by Edison stolen

CRESTWOOD, Ky. - It was hidden in a shoe box inside a drawer, but the burglar who stumbled upon it must have thought the ancient-looking light bulb was worth something.

The light bulb's owner said it was probably made by Thomas Edison, who is credited with developing a long-burning filament that made the incandescent light bulb marketable.

Helena Grimes, owner of the Waldeck Mansion that was burglarized this week, said the light bulb had belonged to her great-great-uncle. Grimes said she was told by a Smithsonian Institution expert that there are likely only 12 others like it.

Edison lived and worked in Louisville as a telegraph operator in 1866 and 1867. The Thomas Edison House in Louisville has appraised the bulb.

"We're not interested in selling it, so it doesn't matter how much it's worth," Grimes said.

Instead, Grimes and her husband, David Gleason, are offering a reward for information leading to the return of the light bulb and some silver trays and trophies that were also swiped during the burglary.

The bulb has a wooden base and is about the size of a peach, with glass tapering to a point on the top, Grimes said. Though it has an electrical cord, it shouldn't be plugged into an electrical outlet, she said.   Link

                      Sounds to me like a security problem.

From Jo