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Welcome to my blog http://www.skegley.blogspot.com/ . CAVEAT LECTOR- Let the reader beware. This is a Christian Conservative blog. It is not meant to offend anyone. Please feel free to ignore this blog, but also feel free to browse and comment on my posts! You may also scroll down to respond to any post.

For Christian American readers of this blog:


I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.











Sunday, September 28, 2014

Very Urgent- Don't open message "Black Muslim in the White House" ... Thx Clay V!





 
 

 Subject:  Very urgent!!! PLEASE CIRCULATE!
 The Snopes  reference is dated 9/8/14 so this is  current.

 Verified  by Snopes
 
 
  VERY URGENT!!! PLEASE  CIRCULATE to your friends, family  and  contacts.
 
      In the coming days, DO  NOT  open  any message  with  an 
attachment called:
 
    BLACK  MUSLIM IN  THE WHITE  HOUSE , regardless  of who  sent it to 
> you.
 
      It is a  virus that  opens an Olympics torch that  burns the whole 
 hard  disk of your computer.  This  virus  comes from a known  person  who you 
 have  in your list.
 
                                                              Directions:    You  should send this message to all  of your  contacts.
 
      It is  better to receive this e-mail  25 times than  to receive the  
 virus
 and  open  it.
 
     If you receive a message called  BLACK  MUSLIM  IN THE WHITE  HOUSE 
 even if sent by a friend, do not  open,  and shut down your  machine  
 immediately.
 
      It is the worst  virus  announced by CNN.  This  new virus  has  been
 discovered  recently it  has been classified by Microsoft as  the  virus 
 most destructive  ever.
 
      This virus was discovered yesterday  afternoon by  McAfee.  There  
 is no repair yet for this  kind  of  virus.
 
      This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the hard disk,  where 
 vital  information function is stored.
 
Verified  by _snopes.com_ (http://snopes.com/) 
 

O. Henry's "The Last Leaf" and our Westerville Ohio home ... SamKat

We are selling our home at 428 Illinois Ave. in Westerville, Ohio, having raised our two sons and lived here  over 47 years now.  Neither Jeanie and are nor I are gifted at growing things.  In fact our one tree that has lasted on this property is the quickest to die in late summer of the neighborhood's trees.  I cleaned out my extremely cluttered office and have only my computer now, facing our window.  I notice but a very few leaves remain on the flowering crab apple.  I'm not much at naming author's except for my love of Oh Henry's short stories, especially "The Last Leaf" (Wikipedia story copied herein).

I've tried to capture one of the last leaves on the tree and I hope that I can insert the edited photo here:


 

The Last Leaf

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Last Leaf"
Author O. Henry
Country  United States
Language English
Genre(s) short story
Published in The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories
Publication date 1907
"The Last Leaf" is a short story by O. Henry published in 1907 in his collection The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories. Set in Greenwich Village, it depicts characters and themes typical of O. Henry's works.

Plot

A woman nicknamed Johnsy has come down with pneumonia, and is now close to death. Outside the window of her room, the leaves fall from a vine. Johnsy decides that when the last leaf drops, she too will die, while her best friend Sue who stays with her, tries to tell her to stop thinking so pessimistically.
In the same apartment building, an elderly, frustrated artist named Behrman lives below Johnsy and Sue. Behrman has been claiming that he will paint a masterpiece, even though he has never even attempted to start. Sue visits Behrman, telling him that Johnsy, who is dying of pneumonia, is losing her will to live. Sue tells Behrman that Johnsy claims she will die when the last leaf falls off of the vine outside her window. Behrman scoffs at this as foolishness, but—as he is protective of the two young artists—he decides to visit Johnsy and see the vine from her window.
In the night, a very bad storm comes and wind is howling and rain is splattering against the window. Sue closes the curtains and tells Johnsy to go to sleep, even though there is still one leaf left on the vine. Johnsy protests against having the curtains closed, but Sue insists on doing so because she doesn't want Johnsy to see the last leaf fall. In the morning, Johnsy wants to see the vine to be sure that all the leaves are gone, but to their surprise, there is still one leaf left.
While Johnsy is surprised that it is still there, she insists it will fall that day. But it doesn't, nor does it fall through the night nor the next day. Johnsy believes that the leaf stayed there to show how wicked she was, and that she sinned in wanting to die. She regains her will to live, and makes a full recovery throughout the day.
In the afternoon, a doctor talks to Sue. The doctor says that Mr. Behrman has come down with pneumonia and, as there is nothing to be done for him, he is being taken to the hospital to be made comfortable in his final hours. A janitor had found him helpless with pain, and his shoes and clothing were wet and icy cold. The janitor couldn't figure out where he had been on that stormy night, though she had found a lantern that was still lit, a ladder that had been moved, some scattered brushes, and a palette with green and yellow colors mixed on it. "Look out the window, dear, at the last ivy leaf on the wall. Didn't you wonder why it never fluttered or moved when the wind blew? Ah, darling, it's Behrman's masterpiece - he painted it there the night that the last leaf fell."

Adaptations

  • The story was first adapted for the screen as part of O. Henry's Full House in 1952.[1]
  • In 1983 a second screen adaptation was done as a 24-minute film produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[2] In this adaptation the protagonist's nickname of Johnsy is not use, and instead uses Joanna (or Jo for short). Additionally Susan (Sue) is portrayed as a sister, not a friend.
  • The 2013 Hindi film Lootera lists it as inspiration and not adaptation in its final credits.[3]

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