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Monday, November 5, 2007

Dentistry Or Cosmetic Dentistry

Have you been to the dentist recently? Well it was my first time with a new dentist in a long time. So much is written about cosmetic dentistry and pain less dentistry that a regular old dentist is becoming 0bsolete.

  • The old dentist was just fine and in fact, was much better than fine. He was really good. He took pride in the fact that he was successful in being a dentist and thought it was similar to being an engineer. He had to build bridges, crowns, fill holes with different mediums and level everything up so that you can still eat.
  • This new dentist uses a procedure that fills your prepared teeth really quickly. It is free of lead and any other metal and is white. He works with an assistant and uses the latest dental equipment.
  • He said he was in the third year of college and did not know what he wanted to major in nor what he was interested in doing the rest of his life. His dad practices cosmetic dentistry. His dad asked him to come to his office and spend the day observing and see if he has any interest in dentistry.
  • His biggest interest at that time was making models. He made model boats, planes, trains and automobiles. He realized that dentistry involved model making both in art and engineering. He thought that might be a fun occupation. He didn't think that he would object to spending most of his working life looking backwards in a very small mirror.
  • He learned his trade, dentistry, completed his mandatory schooling and received his medical degree and certification from the state. At that point, he had to relearn much of his trade depending on the type of equipment he purchased for his office.
  • Fortunately, this dentist is young and enjoys his work and is satisfied with the income. He will likely stay in business for some time to come.
Frankie says get your teeth cleaned and keep good dental hygene. You only get one permanent set of teeth. Don't treat them badly and they can last you a lifetime. Too blessed to be stressed. F

Monday, October 29, 2007

If you Like An Insurance Adjuster Determining How Long You May Be Treated---

We entered into the age of insurance adjusters telling the doctors and hospitals and other medical professionals how much treatment you required. They have also set themselves up as all knowing when it comes to how long you will be allowed to stay in the hospital following the birth of a healthy baby, a ruptured blood vessel, etc.

  • The adjusters will tell you that you may stay in the hospital as long as you want to, but they will only pay for a limited number of days or hours. The insurance companies will also tell you that you are saving money on your premium by limiting your time of care.
  • While some postmodern thinking people do not give a hoot about what happens to old people, the old people do. Medicare increases the premium each year for people who have retired, no longer have an income and depend on Medicare and Medicade for their health care.
  • Also each year, the government reduces the amount which may be paid to a physician may be paid for a particular treatment. It is not at all unusual for a procedure which costs $1,000.00 to be approved for a payment of no more than $250.00.
  • The paper work required for the medical provider to process the Medicare claim is so extensive and time consuming that many physicians have stopped accepting Medicare patients. Be sure and thank your provider for accepting Medicare on your behalf when you are treated. They are not compelled to.
  • If you do not enjoy having an insurance company adjuster or CEO determine your treatment, how do you think you will like the government making that determination? That is the same government that runs the post office. That is the same government that reacted to Katrina. That is the same government that held a bogus press conference about the recent California fires. It goes on and on.
  • Even in the face of all these frightening alternatives, the United States has the very best medical doctors and patient facilities in the world. Will that change?
  • If Hillarycare is allowed to socialize medicine as she has proposed, the government will take over and determine whether or not your injury or your disease is worthy of treatment at all, never mind that the payments will be reduced to the providers. Personally, I do not want to be treated by the lowest bidder.
  • If you think for a moment that will not happen, take for example the situation where CITGO is providing gasoline to our naval bases. When questioned as to why the U. S. Navy would be doing business with and supporting Hugo Chavez an admitted and proud of it, terrorist to the United States. He has vowed to destroy the U S A and has taken over several American companies in Venezuela.
Frankie says get involved. Take an interest in your future. Don't vote for Hillary just because she is a woman or because you think her adulterating husband is good looking. She is as close to a socialist as the USA has ever had in any public office. Keep the faith, but not to yourself.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

How Can I Reduce My Size and Lose Weight?


When I was born I weighed 5 lbs and a few ounces. My dad described me as looking like a skinned squirrel. I have changed a good bit. When I was in High School I weighed in at 135 lbs. The same was true several years later when I got married. Not so today!

  • Today the scales say that my weight is 27 lbs lighter than I was 60 days ago. That sounds like a fib, but it is true.
  • Here I am with my two beautiful granddaughters who think that I am pretty special even if I am overweight. When this taken, I weighed in at 285.
  • I felt like an idiot for letting myself get so out of shape. I was in shape, but it was ball shaped. I needed to get some fat off of me and live to see these two through school.
  • This week, I have attended two funerals of good friends of mine. I do not want that to happen to me if I can avoid it. Don't get me wrong, I am ready to go whenever my God beckons me, but as long as I am still on this revolving orb, I want to feel good.
  • Nearly 1/2 lb. per day has left me. I feel really good except when my pants fall off. That is a great problem to have. When I wear shorts, I do not wear a belt. Not only that, but I am able to wear clothes which I had outgrown and have just been hanging around waiting for me to come back. "I'm Back"

Frankie says change your life and save your life. Start to lose some lbs and take a moderate walk each day for thirty minutes and you WILL see a difference. I am too blessed to be stressed.

Yemen grants house arrest to Cole attack planner?

It is inconceivable to me, a red blooded American conservative, that one of the terrorists who is responsible, and said so, in killing at 17 Americans has been allowed to spend his sentence at home. Granted, his home may not be a place where you or I would want to live, but remember, "there's no place like home."

  • This story came from Reuters News by way of Direct Matches. Direct Matches is the place for up to the minute news and extremely reasonable ads for your at home business.
  • 2007-10-26 Yemen has commuted to house arrest the prison term of a mastermind of al Qaeda's 2000 bombing of a U.S. Navy vessel after he surrendered to Yemeni authorities, his relatives said on Friday.
  • Relatives told Reuters they were allowed to visit Jamal Badawi at his home in the southern port city of Aden while under police surveillance.
  • Details of the decision to release Badawi from prison were not known. But a Yemeni government official who asked not to be identified said the militant remained "under close scrutiny and control of the security forces." He declined to elaborate.
  • Badawi was one of the architects of the attack on the destroyer Cole that killed 17 U.S. sailors in Aden port. He is wanted in the United States, which offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest after his escape from jail in 2006, according to the FBI Web site.
  • Badawi, whose death sentence had been commuted to 15 years in prison, is one of 23 inmates who escaped from a jail in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. He turned himself in about two weeks ago.
  • Yemen, the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden, joined the U.S.-led war on terrorism after al Qaeda's September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
  • The poor country on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula is viewed in the West as a haven for Islamist militants. It has witnessed several deadly attacks against Western targets and tourists including the bombing of a French oil tanker in 2002.
Frankie wonders if this bad guy can escape from a guarded prison, what is to keep him from running away from home? He may have received favor from the "court" because he missed 'that old gang of mine.' For more on this and other stories, check out Direct Matches. We are too blessed to be stressed.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

New School Jitters?

Any reason you are nervous about going to a new school? Gracie was! She says,Never be afraid of anything, God will get you through whatever comes your way. Just think good thoughts that you will have many new peers and will do outstanding effort. Yes, you will be nervous, but you will get used to it soon.

  • If your teacher isn't that nice give her a chance. Try to become friends with her or make some kind of relationship with him or her.
  • Gracie suggests that if you are about to start a new school, get your mom to take a look at this.
  • When I left my other school I left all my friends and ventured to another school and learning environment. But yet I still keep the old friends I had before. Don't throw them away like tonights pizza box. Still try to contact your old peers and keep in touch.
Gracie says, "always do your best and you will get to the ladder of success."


Gracie is a new contributor to this blog. She is 9 years old and recently started a new school. She wants to have her own blog , but will write a few for me to get the feel of being published. Frankie

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Can T.I. Be Pleased About Possibly Going To Prison?

You probably know far more about "T.I." than I do. He is billed as a rap star. His last name is Harris as in Franco Harris or Phil Harris or his dad, Mr. Harris. So what does "T.I" stand for?

  • It seems that this young man has caught the attention of not only the police who arrested him allegedly attempting to purchase some guns. One of which was a machine gun of some caliber and some others including a 9MM, but also of movie makers.
  • Now it has already been stated by him or his attorney that he was "set up." It is probably an almost sure thing that Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton will come out and exploit this situation as they have on many other occasions.
  • Those two African American "leaders" will, for a price, start an uproar that "T.I" has been framed and will enjoin a parade to show their contempt for the police entrapping this fine upstanding young man. They will hang around until they figure they have made all the publicity they are going to and all the money that "T.I" can pay them for the PR campaign.
  • Many people are wondering why they lept off of the Michael Vick caravan like fleas off of a dead dog [no pun intended].
  • They had milked that "set up" for all that it was worth and moved on to the "Jena six." Those poor lads were "set up" as well. Cynthia Tucker, a very left wing columnist and also an African American had a post in her column today that wreaked of frustration with this type of exploitation.
  • After reading Ms. Tucker's column we are left with the thought that "T.I." must stand for "terrible influence" and nothing more. He will probably be more popular than ever after he is slapped on the wrist and serves some community service. He would be doing his community a service just to shut up and go away.

Frankie says keep the faith, but not to yourself.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Divorce And Children

Divorce in any nation is hurtful on all concerned. The wife, the husband and especially the children. There are statistics that indicate that in some unions, children will actually reduce the number of divorces and sometimes it has no impact on the decision to split the sheets.

  • Frankie currently has four friends, all female, who are in the process, one step or another in getting a divorce. All of these ladies, all in their late 30's are angry, resentful, and worried about what their future may hold and what adjustments they will have to make.
  • Studies show that marriage is the largest cause of divorce. Marriage has ruined many friendships and broken up many happy couples.
  • Frankie is not suggesting that living together and not getting married is desirable and certainly not favored by him or God. The Bible speaks many times about marriage and respect for each partner.
  • Pearl asked Frankie a couple of days ago if her dad still liked her mother even tho' he was leaving home to be with his girlfriend. Pearl, the answer is yes, it is very likely that he does still like your mother, but they have just fallen out of the same type of love that brought you into this world. That was a deep and honest love and the chances are that you are the most precious thing that came out of that union. Your mother and your dad both love you.
  • Frankie recommends that each partner should decide that they ready and prepared to give up the life of a single person and to love their spouse as much as themselves. It has been my experience, he says, that in most successful marriages which last as long as the commitment made on the wedding day, the wife is in charge of humility. She keeps the husband and all of his testosterone in check.
Keep the faith, but not to yourself.




Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Can The Fair Tax Really Be Fair?

The Fair Tax is Fair or can be fair if it is implemented as it has been devised by the 54 congressional authors of the bill.

My guess is that it will not be implemented at all in it's present form because it takes too much power from the government.

This is a non partisan comment. It does not apply only to Republicans or Democrats. Taxes are the foundation for the bully pulpit of the governments.

Frankie recommends that you read the book by Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder to get up to date on the taxes you are now paying and how you will be better off and pay only your share. Keep the faith, but not to yourself.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Is There Such A Thing As A Fair Tax?

Congressman John Linder and syndicated radio personality Neal Boortz, believe there is. By the way, I also believe there is a better way to have the Feds do their business. It is known as The Fair Tax.

  • The Fair Tax is not a new idea, but it is an idea that has not reached it's time. It has not reached it's time largely because the politicians who work for you in your name do not want to lose control of the money. At one point, there were 54 representatives in favor of the plan and are listed as co-authors of the bill. That number has risen.
  • To read more about The Fair Tax plan, please go to this website and spend some time reading the pros and cons about the idea.

Frankie recommends that all of us become more interested in the world we live in and never stop learning. F

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Do You Legally Have To Pay Taxes?

Think for a moment, why do you pay income taxes? The reason may be that you do not want to go to jail and you don't want the inconvenience and expense of not paying your income taxes.

  • In the United States of America which is not a police state, but rather, a republic. We do not have a dictator such as Saddam, Ahmadinejad, Papa Doc in Haiti, and others. We have an elected President and he appoints a cabinet who look into the various aspects of running a country.
  • Theoretically, the police cannot burst into your home and perform a search or haul you off to jail for some made up reason. Mistakes are made occasionally such as the lady in Atlanta who had the police burst into her house and she took exception with a gun and wound up dead. That was a mistake and some officials are having to take responsibility.
  • Since there is no law requiring you to pay individual income taxes, why would you or how could you be arrested for keeping your money and not filing your 1099?
  • Here are a few very interesting videos, parts 1 - 5, which is very enlightening. Please do not think that I am in any way suggesting that you do not pay your taxes, that is your choice. What I am suggesting is that you get more involved in your government and learn about about what your government is doing on a daily basis.
Frankie recommends that you also learn more about The Fair Tax. More on that tomorrow. Remember, keep the faith, but not to yourself. F

Monday, October 1, 2007

What Is The Federal Reserve System?

The man on the street was first a radio program and then a tv show and in some form, does appear on some other programs. Leno goes on the street and asks ordinary citizens current event questions and then the audience gets a great laugh out of the mostly far wrong replies.

  • Those types of situations may be an indicator of the knowledge of the majority of the citizenry or, it may be only a small portion of the citizens of arguably the most powerful nation in the world.
  • Those answers that reveal a lack of knowledge or disdain for anything other than 'foo ball' or the latest indiscretion of the legal authorities against Lindsay Lohan or her pals may not reflect the core of American values.
  • Frankie recommends that you devote an hour of your time to this website and learn a little about just who and how your life is being manipulated.
  • I am not suggesting that your life is being mis-handled and most likely without the Federal Reserve System we might not have as much to handle. Frankie believes that everyone should have some knowledge and understanding of what is happening in their life.
  • We should not live like the fish in the pond in the back yard at Frankie's house. Those fish just swim around in there watching snail races and waiting to be fed. The memory of a fish is about 3 to 5 seconds. Be more interested and interesting than a fish.
Keep the faith, but not to yourself. FL

Sunday, September 30, 2007

WARNING - Your Internet May Disappear?

There are a few BIG communication companies that are putting on a BIG push with probably some BIG incentives for our representatives to make them the gate keepers of your internet.

For example, Verizon, on September 26th decided that not messages discussing pro choice abortion is no longer allowed.

For a full story, please go to this website.

Get involved in your world. Frankie says keep the faith, but not to yourself.

Friday, September 28, 2007

Hello, Is There Anyone Out there? I Have More Questions!

Some say that my 'blog is really a forum and that it is not reaching an audience that cares about my subject.' What is my subject? My thoughts and yes, opinions, are listed under the category of 'current events and/or news'.

  • Are people not interested in O J? If not, the elite media is wasting a bunch of ink and air. I am kinda tired of the subject as well, but I thought it was worth a few words. No response.
  • My opinion was that Ahmadinejad should never have been invited to the Unite States for any reason other than to spread his propaganda at the U N. As it turned out, the speaker from Columbia University made a bigger fool of himself than did the invited guest. Ahmadinejad enjoys a great victory by the complete lack of class (other than wearing a tie) shown by the leader of the university. A pitiful display!
  • For the last couple of days, I have ask, what I consider to be important and relevant questions about Islam. No comments! Is anyone listening? Does anyone care?
  • Here are a couple more questions that seem relevant to me: 1) The world is treated to pictures and stories about Muslim demonstrations about Danish cartoons, Salmon Rushdie, security profiling, etc., but nothing about RADICAL Muslims inflicting death and destruction around the world. Please help us understand why Muslims who are NOT RADICAL - and their leadership - do not loudly repudiate al-qaeda, Osama bin Laden's acknowledged 'terrorist' acts or what some are labeling as 'a holy jihad?
  • Also, for a slow hanging curve, 2) "what does the Quran say about getting along with "infidels," i.e. anyone not Muslim?"

Frankie is curious and I would like to give him an answer.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

"We Are Very Familiar With Christianity and Judaism."

This is my next comment on the learning session about Islam, ("submission"), and Muslims, ("one who submits"). Those are the definitions found in the little book entitled, Answering ISLAM: by "nadira", walid fares, james white and robert reymond. They chose not to capitalize their own names so I am honoring their style.

  • At the seminar, during a question answer time, I ask if there was another class going on in which the Christians and Jews act as the teachers and the Muslims are there to learn about them? The professor leading the class said,"we are not here to learn about theology, we are here to reach an understanding of each other." I am all for reaching an understanding - agreement - if I can know what they stand for.
  • Anxious to reply to my question, one of our guests spoke up and said that, "the Quran speaks a great deal about the Christians and the Jews so Muslims do not need to attend such a class." Does that sound like an openness to learn about Christians and Jews? Or, "don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up"
  • Another guest spoke up and said, "I am very familiar with the Christian religion. I have recently converted from Christianity to Islam." In my opinion, he is in great need of such a class as I had suggested.
  • "Extremist" Islam was used in yesterday's post on this subject, but I would like to change that. My definition of 'extremist,' not the news media, is someone that is very much involved in something - religion, sports, love, fishing, golf, etc. - and this is my post, so I can use my definition. I would prefer to think of the true peace loving and freedom loving Muslims as 'extreme,' and the Muslim terrorists as 'radical.'
  • A radial Islam believer has, in the words of one of the guest, "hijacked not only planes on 9/11, they have hijacked a religion." Well said. Radicals of any nature are not good, especially "free radicals."
Frankie says if you are interested in learning something more about Islam and some of it's claims, that is a good first step. The next step is to take action. This is one of the most important things you can pursue in your world today.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

What Do Non Muslims know about Islam? Nearly Nothing!

I am involved in a seminar as a 'student' trying to gain some knowledge about Islam. The seminar is my second time around and the information has been updated since last April and more has been added.

We have about 250 to 300 participants in the seminar and that is encouraging. It is encouraging to know that many people are interested and even concerned about this "new" religion that is being mentioned in some newspapers and on some media outlets on a daily basis.

We have learned quite a bit about the Islamic people, not much about the 'extremist' Islamic people, and nothing about the Nation of Islam even tho' a few were in attendance, or it seemed to me that they were. I don't think that anyone in attendance is a threat to my freedom, but I still do not know how to tell them apart.

I am convinced that the Islamic people - not the extremists nor the the nation of - are nice people who share many of 'our' pleasures and expectations of life as free people. Most of the true Islamic worshipers are indeed more fervent in their belief system than most non-Islamic people including Christians and Jews.

This morning, a newscaster said that "we (the feds) know that there are sleeper cells from Iran operating in the United States." My question is, if we know it, why is nothing being done to eliminate them? The phrase 'sleeper cells' in itself has come to mean a group of people who are in this country with the intention of someday doing harm to the citizens of the U.S. .

Now, I do not know what the legal definition of treason is, and I am certain that the ACLU would be all over it, but those known subversives should be shut down.

Frankie has much more to say about this subject, but he wants to see if you have any input. This site is meant to be a conversation and not just a preaching head.

Keep the faith, but not to yourself.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Right Now Is The Right Time ---

Father John Powell, a professor at Loyola University in Chicago,
writes about a student in his Theology of Faith class named Tommy:

Some twelve years ago, I stood watching my university students file
into the classroom for our first session in the Theology of Faith.

That was the day I first saw Tommy. My eyes and my mind both blinked.
He was combing his long flaxen hair, which hung six inches below his
shoulders. It was the first time I had ever seen a boy with hair that
long. I guess it was just coming into fashion then. I know in my
mind that it isn't what's on your head but what's in it that counts;
but on that day I was unprepared and my emotions flipped. I
immediately filed Tommy under "S" for strange... Very strange.

Tommy turned out to be the "atheist in residence" in my Theology of
Faith course. He constantly objected to, smirked at, or whined about
the possibility of an unconditionally loving Father/God. We lived
with each other in relative peace for one semester, although I admit
he was for me at times a serious pain in the back pew.

When he came up at the end of the course to turn in his final exam, he
asked in a cynical tone, "Do you think I'll ever find God?"

I decided instantly on a little shock therapy. "No!" I said very
emphatically.

"Why not," he responded, "I thought that was the product you were
pushing."

I let him get five steps from the classroom door and then called out,
"Tommy! I don't think you'll ever find Him, but I am absolutely
certain that He will find you!" He shrugged a little and left my class
and my life.

I felt slightly disappointed at the thought that he had missed my
clever line -- He will find you! At least I thought it was clever.

Later I heard that Tommy had graduated, and I was duly grateful.

Then a sad report came. I heard that Tommy had terminal cancer.
Before I could search him out, he came to see me. When he walked into
my office, his body was very badly wasted and the long hair had all
fallen out as a result of chemotherapy. But his eyes were bright and
his voice was firm, for the first time, I believe. "Tommy, I've
thought about you so often; I hear you are sick," I blurted out.

"Oh, yes, very sick. I have cancer in both lungs. It's a matter of
weeks."

"Can you talk about it, Tom?" I asked "Sure, what would you like to
know?" he replied "What's it like to be only twenty-four and dying?

"Well, it could be worse.

"Like what?

"Well, like being fifty and having no values or ideals, like being
fifty and thinking that booze, seducing women, and making money are
the real biggies in life.

I began to look through my mental file cabinet under "S" where I had
filed Tommy as strange. (It seems as though everybody I try to reject
by classification, God sends back into my life to educate me.)

"But what I really came to see you about," Tom said, "is something you
> > said to me on the last day of class." (He remembered!) He continued,
"I asked you if you thought I would ever find God and you said, 'No!'
which surprised me Then you said, 'But He will find you.' I thought
about that a lot, even though my search for God was hardly intense at
that time.

(My clever line. He thought about that a lot!)

"But when the doctors removed a lump from my groin and told me that it
was malignant, that's when I got serious about locating God...And when
the malignancy spread into my vital organs, I really began banging
bloody fists against the bronze doors of heaven. But God did not come
out. In fact, nothing happened. Did you ever try anything for a long
time with great effort and with no success? You get psychologically
glutted, fed up with trying. And then you quit.


"Well, one day I woke up, and instead of throwing a few more futile
appeals over that high brick wall to a God who may be or may not be
there, I just quit. I decided that I didn't really care about God,
about an after life, or anything like that. I decided to spend what
time I had left doing something more profitable. I thought about you
and your class and I remembered something else you had said: 'The
essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would
be almost equally sad to go through life and leave this world without
ever telling those you loved that you had loved them.'"

"So, I began with the hardest one, my Dad. He was reading the
newspaper when I approached him. "Dad.

"Yes, what?" he asked without lowering the newspaper.

"Dad, I would like to talk with you."

"Well, talk.

"I mean . It's really important."

The newspaper came down three slow inches. "What is it?"

"Dad, I love you, I just wanted you to know that." Tom smiled at me
and said it with obvious satisfaction, as though he felt a warm and
secret joy flowing inside of him. "The newspaper fluttered to the
floor. Then my father did two things I could never remember him ever
doing before. He cried and he hugged me. We talked all night, even
though he had to go to work the next morning. It felt so good to be
close to my father, to see his tears, to feel his hug, to hear him say
that he loved me."

"It was easier with my mother and little brother. They cried with me,
too, and we hugged each other, and started saying real nice things to
each other. We shared the things we had been keeping secret for so
many years.

"I was only sorry about one thing --- that I had waited so long. Here
I was, just beginning to open up to all the people I had actually been
close to.

"Then, one day I turned around and God was there. He didn't come to
me when I pleaded with Him. I guess I was like an animal trainer
holding out a hoop, 'C'mon, jump through. C'mon, I'll give you three
days, three weeks'"

"Apparently God does things in His own way and at His own hour.
But the important thing is that He was there. He found me! You were
right. He found me even after I stopped looking for Him."

"Tommy," I practically gasped, "I think you are saying something very
important and much more universal than you realize. To me, at least,
you are saying that the surest way to find God is not to make Him a
destination only in your time of need, but rather by opening to love. You know, the Apostle
John said that. He said: 'God is love, and anyone who lives in love
is living with God and God is living in him.' Tom, could I ask you a
favor? You know, when I had you in class you were a real pain. But
(laughingly) you can make it all up to me now. Would you come into my
present Theology of Faith course and tell them what you have just told
me? If I told them the same thing it wouldn't be half as effective as
if you were to tell it.

"Oooh.. I was ready for you, but I don't know if I'm ready for your
class."

"Tom, think about it. If and when you are ready, give me a call."

In a few days Tom called, said he was ready for the class, that he
wanted to do that for God and for me. So we scheduled a date.

However, he never made it. He had another appointment, far more
important than the one with me and my class. Of course, his life was
not really ended by his death, only changed. He made the great step
from faith into vision. He found a life far more beautiful than the
eye of man has ever seen or the ear of man has ever heard or the mind
of man has ever imagined.

Before he died, we talked one last time.

"I'm not going to make it to your class," he said.

"I know, Tom."

"Will you tell them for me? Will you ... tell the whole world for me?"

"I will, Tom. I'll tell them. I'll do my best."

So, to all of you who have been kind enough to read this simple story
about God's love, thank you for listening. And to you, Tommy,
somewhere in the sunlit, verdant hills of heaven --- I told them,
Tommy, as best I could.

Frankie wants you all to know he loves you and this was posted because of my interpretation of Luke 16 and the story of Lazarus and the 'rich' man.

Monday, September 24, 2007

O K, No OJ?

OK, if you have no OJ comments. I've heard enough of him as well. He has more attention than Charles Manson, and also better attorneys.


Let's give an opinion of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and request to be allowed to place a memorial wreath at the site of the 9/11/01 terrorist attack and also the 2/26/93 terrorist attack. Both of these attacks were staged by extremist Muslims, and the cowards remaining after they had done their deed, have proudly taken credit for it. I have come to believe that at least one of these cowardly attacks was paid for or the plans were previewed by the Iranian dictator.

  • Speaking of dictators, if you want to see some real celebrities in that community arranged by the number of human beings for which they are responsible for KILLING, click on http://www.filibustercartoons.com/monsters.htm .
  • The easy question that jumps into my mind is, for whom is the memorial intended? Is it for all of the innocent people who went up in flames along with the criminals? Or, is it for the extremist Muslims who perpetrated these world changing events?
  • My next question is would we have allowed Emperor Hirohito during WW2 to come over and place a wreath over the Arizona? I think Not! Would we have allowed Adolf Hitler to the monument of the Unknown Soldier at the same time as he was trying his best to kill men and women not giving a hoot who they were? I think not!
  • Columbia University and The New York Times should be very ashamed of themselves. Columbia for inviting him to speak and The Times for taking him to lunch at the Four Seasons. Shameful because Ahmadinejad has more than once declared the Jewish people should not be allowed to exist and the American people have been wished the same fate.
  • The first amendment which should be protected in order to allow The Times and Columbia to speak out, is an American right guaranteed by the Constitution and I don't mean the Atlanta Constitution. It is not required that the American people allow this proponent of killing American soldiers even as we speak.

Frankie's suggestion is that if Ahmadinejad be allowed to venture anywhere outside of the United Nation's building or his hotel, that NO security be provided for him by any American Government, Federal or State.

Frankie would like to hear from you. Keep the faith, but not to yourself.



How About Some O J?

Frankie's post for today has to do with O J Simpson and how he is being treated. Many people were very upset yesterday when the bond for his reappearance was set so low at $125K. That means that he has to come up with a percentage of that amount in order to walk out of the L.A Jail, about $12,500.00.

  • In my opinion, I was very disappointed that the coffee had been saucered and blown before it was ever served to all the waiting public.
  • The attorneys had already decided what was to be and only they know what was taken into consideration. It may have been that nearly all of the people involved were known thugs with rap sheets and probably are accustomed to all that went on in that hotel room.
  • I heard a pundit who is an attorney and, according to him, a psychologist describe Simpson as having "a malignant narcissistic" personality. That is a new description for a sociopath.
  • A person who will not take responsibility for his or her own bad actions. This type of person is very dangerous and all people should be aware of their "tells." You should watch for signs and little nuances that will tip you off before you become just another of their victims.

    Frankie recommends that you visit http://www.takebackyourheart.com/ and see if you are dating or perhaps, married to a malignant narcissistic type.

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What We Are All About---

This blog is all about listening to people who have something to say and maybe no one wants to listen. You can ask a question; you can make a statement just to get a reaction; you can try out a new dating line and see if it works; tell us why the USA should not go to war; tell us why the USA should go to war; A new recipe; anything you want. If you want some advice about most anything, if I have none, I am sure someone will. However, I do have a few guidelines:

· Be NICE, but firm and do not be afraid to take a stand.

· NO PORN - I'll know it when I see it.

· PLEASE DON"T "CUSS." You will know it when you think it. Try to use a new word instead. My granddaughter's are reading this.

Well, lets see how that goes for a while.