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Current Events / So, now what?
« Last post by Jim Nunziato on May 05, 2016, 01:11:19 PM »
Ok, now that Ted Cruz dropped out of the race, it is presumed that Donald Trump will be the republican nominee.

If you have conservative leaning tendencies (and I realize that not everyone does) will you support him in the general election in November?  He was not my first choice in the primary election, which is where we all should be, "making our statements."

After all the primaries are over, and the parties have nominated their candidates, then it's time to get serious. Those of us who share the same general mindset, no matter which side of the aisle on which you prefer to sit, must come together and get the candidate elected who you think will best promote your individual ideas.

I have heard quite a few folks proclaim that if their favorite candidate didn't get the nomination, they'd stay home because they just couldn't bring themselves to vote for the party nominee. I wish someone would explain that logic to me because I just don't understand it.

If you're a Hillary supporter, and for some reason, Bernie gets the nomination, how would staying home help promote your ideas? If you refuse to vote for Bernie, do you think that Trump would better promote your ideas? If you stay home, you fail to negate a Trump vote, so he has one more vote than Bernie. You in essence, voted for Trump!  Nice going!

The exact same logic holds true on the other side of the aisle as well. I've heard a lot of folks say they'd vote for Hillary before they'd vote for Trump. Do they really believe that Hillary would better support their ideas than Trump? The way I see it, if I'm not happy with Trump, I certainly wouldn't be happier with either Hillary or Bernie! So, if I stay home because I'm too stubborn to support the republican party candidate, then my vote will not cancel out one from the other side. If it came down to a close election, and I stayed home, then me and all my other stubborn friends could have made the difference. Remember folks, barack obama won his second term with a margin of a half million votes. This happened because 4 million republicans stayed home because they couldn't bring themselves to vote for Romney.

I'm really trying to understand this stubborn, "staying-home" logic, so I hope someone can help to enlighten me...
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Current Events / Re: Cruz and Kasich team up to stop Trump
« Last post by Jim Nunziato on April 26, 2016, 10:28:45 PM »
Quote from: Louise on April 26, 2016, 09:45:29 PM
Trump wins big on April 26th. Now where are Cruz and Kasch going?


Home?   :-\


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Current Events / Re: Cruz and Kasich team up to stop Trump
« Last post by Louise on April 26, 2016, 09:45:29 PM »
Trump wins big on April 26th. Now where are Cruz and Kasch going?
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Current Events / Cruz and Kasich team up to stop Trump
« Last post by Jim Nunziato on April 25, 2016, 08:59:58 PM »
Is this not scraping the bottom of the cesspool?

This is rigging an election, and it'd bad enough if some one or some group does it. But when the candidates themselves participate in it, they should be automatically disqualified from holding the office they are seeking.

If they cannot be trusted to participate in an honest election, how can they ever be trusted with the integrity of the office to which they hope to be elected?

We have hit a new low bottom and it makes me sick! I hope this backfires in their faces and every voter sees it for exactly what it is.




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The Living Room / Old Ed
« Last post by Jim Nunziato on April 06, 2016, 11:10:55 PM »
          This is a wonderful story and it is true. You will be pleased that you read it, and I believe it is an important piece of American history.

          It happened every Friday evening, almost without fail, when the sun resembled a giant orange and was starting to dip into the blue ocean.

          Old Ed came strolling along the beach to his favorite pier. Clutched in his bony hand was a bucket of shrimp. Ed walks out to the end of the pier, where it seems he almost has the world to himself. The glow of the sun is a golden bronze now.

          Everybody's gone, except for a few joggers on the beach. Standing out on the end of the pier, Ed is alone with his thoughts...and his bucket of shrimp.

          Before long, however, he is no longer alone. Up in the sky a thousand white dots come screeching and squawking, winging their way toward that lanky frame standing there on the end of the pier.

          Before long, dozens of seagulls have enveloped him, their wings fluttering and flapping wildly. Ed stands there tossing shrimp to the hungry birds. As he does, if you listen closely, you can hear him say with a smile, 'Thank you. Thank you.'

          In a few short minutes the bucket is empty. But Ed doesn't leave.

          He stands there lost in thought, as though transported to another time and place.

          When he finally turns around and begins to walk back toward the beach, a few of the birds hop along the pier with him until he gets to the stairs, and then they, too, fly away. And old Ed quietly makes his way down to the end of the beach and on home.

          If you were sitting there on the pier with your fishing line in the water, Ed might seem like 'a funny old duck,' as my dad used to say. Or, to onlookers, he's just another old codger, lost in his own weird world, feeding the seagulls with a bucket full of shrimp.

          To the onlooker, rituals can look either very strange or very empty. They can seem altogether unimportant .... maybe even a lot of nonsense.

          Old folks often do strange things, at least in the eyes of Boomers and Busters.

          Most of them would probably write Old Ed off, down there in Florida ... That's too bad. They'd do well to know him better.

          His full name: Eddie Rickenbacker. He was a famous hero in World War I, and then he was in WWII. On one of his flying missions across the Pacific, he and his seven-member crew went down. Miraculously, all of the men survived, crawled out of their plane, and climbed into a life raft.

          Captain Rickenbacker and his crew floated for days on the rough waters of the Pacific. They fought the sun. They fought sharks. Most of all, they fought hunger and thirst. By the eighth day their rations ran out. No food. No water. They were hundreds of miles from land and no one knew where they were or even if they were alive. Every day across America millions wondered and prayed that Eddie Rickenbacker might somehow be found alive.

          The men adrift needed a miracle. That afternoon they had a simple devotional service and prayed for a miracle. They tried to nap. Eddie leaned back and pulled his military cap over his nose. Time dragged on. All he could hear was the slap of the waves against the raft...

          Suddenly, Eddie felt something land on the top of his cap. It was a seagull!

          Old Ed would later describe how he sat perfectly still, planning his next move. With a flash of his hand and a squawk from the gull, he managed to grab it and wring its neck. He tore the feathers off, and he and his starving crew made a meal of it - a very slight meal for eight men. Then they used the intestines for bait. With it, they caught fish, which gave them food and more bait . . . and the cycle continued. With that simple survival technique, they were able to endure the rigors of the sea until they were found and rescued after 24 days at sea.

          Eddie Rickenbacker lived many years beyond that ordeal, but he never forgot the sacrifice of that first life-saving seagull... And he never stopped saying, 'Thank you.' That's why almost every Friday night he would walk to the end of the pier with a bucket full of shrimp and a heart full of gratitude

          Reference:
          (Max Lucado, "In The Eye of the Storm", pp...221,   225-226)

          PS: Eddie Rickenbacker was the founder of Eastern Airlines. Before WWI he was race car driver. In WWI he was a pilot and became America's first ace. In WWII he was an instructor and military adviser, and he flew missions with the combat pilots. Eddie Rickenbacker is a true American hero. And now you know another story about the trials and sacrifices that brave men have endured for your freedom.

          As you can see, it is a great story that many don't know... You've got to be careful with old guys, You just never know what they have done during their lifetime

 
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Just For Fun / What's the strategy?
« Last post by Jim Nunziato on March 29, 2016, 11:16:35 PM »

The warden welcomed the 23 new prisoners.  They were all in for life without parole. After orientation, he proposed a challenge to them.

He said: "There is one room in the prison, called, "the switch-room," that has nothing in it but two light switches, labeled "A" and "B". They are not connected to anything, and none of you know what position each switch is now in. At various times, whenever I please, I will randomly take one of you to the room, at which time you must change the position of one (and only one) switch. You may move either switch, but you must move one of the two switches to its opposite position. Then I will escort you back to your cell. I may take the same one of you to the room two or three times in a row, or spread it around, however I see fit. At some point, every one of you will have been taken to the room an equal number of times to change the position of one of the two switches."

Here's the challenge- "Whenever any one of you thinks he knows for sure when everyone has been to the switch-room at least once, he will let me know. If he is correct, you will all be set free. But if he is wrong, you will all be fed to the alligators." 

Now, here's the deal- "For today only, I will allow you all one hour together as a group to develop a strategy. After that, you will all be confined to your cells with no further contact with each other. You must decide how you will determine when every one of you has been to the room at least once."

What strategy did they develop?
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The Living Room / Re: New Bumper Sticker
« Last post by Janet Nunziato on March 28, 2016, 09:44:46 AM »
Right now, Louise, they're available right off of Jim's computer.  They match the cards which he/we designed which we pass out at our Sentinel Patriots meeting.  Truth be told, the stickers don't have any sticky on the back since we've not yet had them professionally reproduced.  If enough interest was there in doing so, then maybe we would look into engaging Vistaprint or some other printing company to make them up.  The ones that Jim and I presently have on our vehicles are simply cardstock taped to the inside of the rear window.  You're welcome to one of them if you like and if later, we DO decide to get them made up professionally, then you would be first in line to get one of them, too!   ;D
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The Living Room / Re: New Bumper Sticker
« Last post by Louise on March 28, 2016, 12:25:22 AM »
Now where do we get one?  We could sell them for a small amount at the GOP clubs and the SP club meeting. Maybe could get someone like Jane to sell them at the booth they have at the gun shows. Just a thought.
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The Living Room / Re: Pray for our country
« Last post by Louise on March 28, 2016, 12:22:27 AM »
I just sent it out to most of my email list.  ;D
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The Living Room / Re: Free stuff
« Last post by Janet Nunziato on March 25, 2016, 11:21:43 PM »
The giving of ALL FREE stuff needs to come to an abrupt halt.  Using some of the FREE stuff money which was previously being handed out so nonchalantly ought to be used to try to find honest people with great integrity, who will evaluate (on a case-by-case basis) those who truly need assistance. Then, those who were on the receiving end of the FREE stuff can apply individually to have some of the FREE stuff restored for a period not to exceed 1 year.

Able-bodied persons, who can't (or won't) look for work on their own, if they want FREE stuff, are to be assigned civic work details around their neighborhoods or towns.  They would do such jobs as picking up litter, cleaning out sewer and drainage culverts, cutting grass along roadside right-of-ways, shoveling out snow-packed parking lots of public properties (parks, municipal buildings, etc), and other non-fun jobs until they come to the realization that getting off their lazy butts and getting a better job would be more advantageous.

As for those women who choose to simply spend their lives living of the dole of FREE stuff by making a career of being baby factories, daycare facilities can be set up where each of them take turns caring for others offspring while the the larger number of them go out to do the jobs mentioned above, right along side of their lazy butt male counterparts.

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