One of my favorite of all time headers…dragons and books.  Thank you my brother.

A thing on TV is catching my attention right now.  We all know that lying is a sin.  9th commandment, right?  Would you lie to save your own life?  Would you lie to save the life of a loved one?  Would you lie to save the life of a stranger or even a friend?  Think about the Germans who hid the Jews in Nazi Germany.  If they were questioned and they lied, were they sinning?

It is kind of circumstantial, isn’t it?  Let’s talk about …

Would I lie to save my own life?

• A guy is holding a gun on me and is mad because I did something that upset him.  I may try to lie my way out of it to not get shot with the understanding that he is WAY over reacting to me taking the last piece of pie that he wanted, or I cut him off in traffic, or I kissed his girl … i.e. “I took this pie so I could bring it over to you.” or “I’m on my way to the hospital because it’s an emergency, I would have NEVER cut you off otherwise.” or “I had no idea at ALL she was your girl, but I should have known better, of course she would go for someone so much more handsome than I am, and if you would just gimme three step, you won’t ever see me no more.”
• I’m in front of a judge in a court of law.  Nope, probably not ever.
• You will take the mark of the beast or you will die… then kill me now.

Would I lie to save the life of someone else?

• The whole Nazi thing?  Or anything similar?  I’d definitely lie.  No question
• Anything that has to do with some moron holding a gun as in above, yeah, I’d probably lie there, too.
• The trouble comes when it comes to me lying in court to save like my daughter’s life over something she did.  Like if I could supply her an alibi or something…that would be SO HARD.  But, I don’t think I could.  I would trade my life for hers, I’d go to the gallows FOR her, but I couldn’t lie to get her out of it.  I couldn’t.
• And I would do everything I could to keep her from taking that mark.

Okay, so I lasted longer on the topic than they did on TV and I don’t know why I went where I did, but let’s move on to something else.  In fact, let’s move on to the laughter and then move on to a nice comment from Leah D. 

I love this meme.

And did you know that the only one who is supposed to get your SSN is the IRS.  No one else.  NO ONE!

This next one is from Stephanie.  Click HERE.

Bob!  It doesn’t always have to be Bob!

Kyle and Justin were about to eat with the baby-sitter when 6 year old, Kyle said, “You can’t sit in Daddy’s seat” 

“Daddy’s not home,” the babysitter replied. “Since I’m responsible for you while he’s gone, I can sit here. Today I’m the boss” 

Justin, the 4 year old, quickly piped up, “If you’re the boss, you sit over there.” He pointed to his mother’s chair.

Again?!?!  It doesn’t HAVE to be Bob!

This is pure craziness.  I agree with the person who posted this, I too am left with more questions than answers…click HERE to watch what I watched.

My wife still uses curlers in her hair after she washes it. She came into the Family Room as I was watching TV. I guess I stared at her funny because she said, “I just set my hair.” 

The last thing I remember saying was, “Oh, really? And what time does it go off?” 

Exactly!  You know, like saying how marriage is not just between and man and a woman or how this stuff doesn’t apply anymore.  The whole Progressive Christian Church thing.

A young Jew and an old Jew are riding on a bus in Jerusalem. 

The young Jew asks, “Excuse me, sir, what time is it?” 

The old Jew doesn’t answer. 

“Excuse me, sir,” the young Jew asks again, “what time is it?” 

The old Jew still doesn’t answer. 

“Sir, forgive me for interrupting you all the time, but I really want to know what time it is. Why won’t you answer me?” 

The old Jew says, “Son, the next stop is the last on this route. I don’t know you, so you must be a stranger. If I answer you now, according to Jewish tradition, I must invite you to my home. 

You’re handsome and I have a beautiful daughter. You will both fall in love and you’ll want to get married. And tell me, why would I want a son-in-law who can’t even afford a watch?” 

Believe it or not, I’ve played with guys and in places where that sign was absolutely a requirement.

Sarah, the new bride, went crying to her mother. “What’s troubling you?” asked her concerned mother. 

“Momma, I can’t get Dave to do anything. I want him to fix up the house, and he keeps putting it off.” Sarah explained. 

“Honey,” her mother replied, “after being married to your father for twenty six years, I’ve found that there’s only one way to get him to do anything.” 

“What way is that?” asked Sarah, “I want to know so that I can try it out on Dave.” 

“Well,” said her mother, “the way to get him to do anything is to tell him he’s too old.”

Okay, if I’m not mistaken, back in the day, cough syrup used to be made up of alcohol, pot, chloroform, and morphine, which was skillfully combined with other ingredients.  Oh no, that’s not scary…not at all.

Okay, so got a nice comment from Leah D. on the Memorial Day issue.  Presented to you here:

Thank you for the request not to say “Happy Memorial Day.” That has always irritated me greatly.

My years growing up in an area of small towns, back when they hadn’t stuck Memorial Day on a Monday, to make a three day weekend, we always gathered at the cemetery, received our flags, placed them on the graves of all our servicemen. There was a gun salute, then from a high cliff, taps reached out to us. It was so moving.

I know Memorial Day is about those who lost their lives defending us. However, I have been acutely aware that ALL who served, though they may have survived, were just as ready as those who didn’t, to make that sacrifice.

I had uncles lost in WWII and Korea. My father made it home, but the tormenting loss of his brothers was too much to stand. By the time his second brother’s body was delivered, my father’s was buried too.

As a teen, I lost friends to the Viet Cong, and one friend lost his mind. I totally agree with you, in anger over how our Vets are treated, left to live a homeless existence on the streets. But one friend who had rich relatives, ready to help him, and they did try, could not rescue him from the nightmares.

Some come home from the wars alive, but missing parts of their bodies. We see the gap where a leg should be . . . but can’t their sanity.

Thank you for the nice comment.  There are a lot of vets who come back with issues.  Some of which are readily apparent by looking at them.  We need to do a better job.  A much better job.

Look at that!  Three on a theme!  Thanks Pete!

That last one was sent to me by buddy Wheats!  Thanks Wheats!

Look what Izzy bought me!!!!! I came home from a graduation party for a friends daughter and she told me that she bought something for me with a big grin on her face.  I thought it would be something silly and it was this cool gift!  I thumbed through it and read a few pages and it is actually really cool and quite biblically accurate.  I’m going to have a great time reading through this!  Maybe I’ll send you guys some pages as I go through it.

Mississinewa Lake from last weekend when I was out on my buddy’s boat.  Quite relaxing for a little while.  Would have been better if it was a sailboat instead of a pontoon.  

Horrific damage from the last storm at our shop on base.

I actually hope it’s the willfully blind, because if they are that congenitally stupid than they are also rabidly dangerous.

A man flies into a new city on business. 

When he got to the hotel he found that he has come down with laryngitis.  He decided to call a doctor before he completely lost his voice.  He looks up a doctor’s phone number and calls him.

Took this picture while I was at the lake.

Tornado takes out tornado siren.  That’s just evil Mr. Tornado!

It’s a sad world we’re living in folks.

39 Ridiculously Gendered Bathroom Signs That Made Me Roll My Eyes So Hard I Could See My Brain

You deserve everything you get!

I don’t want any of you to pass this next one by.  This is SO PERFECT.  What an awesome simile … or is it an analogy?  Whatever.  This is the perfect representation of our life on earth and having a loving God who wants us to get to Heaven.  No one better skip this one.  It’s like one minute long.

WAS     THAT    NOT     AWESOME??????

One day at kindergarten a teacher said to the class of 5-year- olds, “I’ll give $2 to the child who can tell me who was the most famous man who ever lived.” 

An Irish boy put his hand up and said, “It was St. Patrick.” 

The teacher said, “Sorry Sean, that’s not correct.” 

Then a Scottish boy put his hand up and said, “It was St. Andrew.” 

The teacher replied, “I’m sorry, Hamish, that’s not right either.” 

Finally, a Jewish boy raised his hand and said, “It was Jesus Christ.” 

The teacher said, “That’s absolutely right, Marvin,come up here and I’ll give you the $2.” 

As the teacher was giving Marvin his money, she said, “You know Marvin, since you’re Jewish, I was very surprised you said Jesus Christ.” 

Marvin replied, “Yeah. In my heart I knew it was Moses, but business is business…”

Okay, the one about inside the old man….yeah, that one…absolute truth!  Time goes by so fast.  Before you know it, there’s an old man looking back at you in the mirror and you can’t but help think to yourself, “What in the world happened?”

But what happened here is that we are now done with this issue and saying good night.  Until next time.