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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!

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Sunday, March 26, 2017

Better read this America and World! Germany and immigrants ... Thx Paul C!

MESSAGE FROM GERMANY -- ALL NEED TO READ & HEED!.
To: 


BETTER READ THIS AND HEED.  NO PRESS RELEASED ONLY E-MAIL!!!!!!!

Message from Germany
NURSE IN GERMANY SENDS A MESSAGE TO THE WORLD


Just in case you don't think President Trump is doing the right
thing! Read it!

Pass this on to everyone you know!
"Yesterday, at the hospital, we had a meeting about how the situation
here and at the other Munich hospitals is unsustainable. Clinics
cannot handle the number of migrant medical emergencies, so they are
starting to send everything to the main hospitals.

Many Muslims are refusing treatment by female staff, and we women are
now refusing to go among those migrants!

Relations between the staff and migrants are going from bad to worse.
Since last weekend, migrants going to the hospitals must be
accompanied by police with K-9units.

Many migrants have AIDS, syphilis, open TB and many exotic diseases
that we in Europe do not know how to treat.

If they receive a prescription to the pharmacy, they suddenly learn
they have to pay cash. This leads to unbelievable outbursts,
especially when it is about drugs for the children. They abandon the
children with pharmacy staff with the words: So, cure them here
yourselves!
So the police are not just guarding the clinics and hospitals, but
also the large pharmacies.

We ask openly where are all those who welcomed the migrants in front
of TV cameras with signs at train stations? Yes, for now, the border
has been closed, but a million of them are already here and we will
definitely not be able to get rid of them.
 
Until now, the number of unemployed in Germany was 2.2 million. Now
it will be at least 3.5 million. Most of these people are completely
unemployable. Only a small minimum of them have any education. What is
more, their women usually do not work at all. I estimate that one in
ten is pregnant. Hundreds of thousands of them have brought along
infants and little kids under six, many emaciated and very needy. If
this continues and Germany re-opens its borders, I am going home to
the Czech Republic. Nobody can keep me here in this situation, not
even for double the salary back home. I came to Germany to work, not
to Africa or the Middle East!

Even the professor who heads our department told us how sad it makes
him to see the cleaning woman, who has cleaned every day for years for
800 Euro's and then meets crowds of young men in the hallways who just
wait with their hands outstretched, wanting everything for free, and
when they don't get it they throw a fit.

I really don't need this! But I am afraid that if I return home, at
some point it will be the same in the Czech Republic. If the Germans,
with their systems, cannot handle this, then, guaranteed, back home
will be total chaos.....

You - who have not come in contact with these people have absolutely
no idea what kind of badly behaved desperados these people are, and
how Muslims act superior to our staff, regarding their religious
accommodation.
 
For now, the local hospital staff have not come down with the
diseases these people brought here, but with so many hundreds of
patients every day of
 this is just a question of time.
In a hospital near the Rhine, migrants attacked the staff with knives
after they had handed over an 8-month-old on the brink of death, who
they'd dragged across half of Europe for three months. The child died
two days later, despite having received top care at one of the best
pediatric clinics in Germany. The pediatric physician had to undergo
surgery and the two nurses are recovering in the ICU. Nobody has been
punished.
The local press is forbidden to write about it, so we can only inform
you through email. What would have happened to a German if he had
stabbed the doctor and nurses with a knife? Or if he had flung his own
syphilis-infected urine into a nurses face and so threatened her with
infection? At a minimum he would have gone straight to jail and later
to court. With these people so far, nothing has happened,

And so I ask: Where are all those greeters and receivers from the
train stations? Sitting pretty at home, enjoying their uncomplicated,
safe lives. If it were up to me, I would round up all those greeters
and bring them here first to our hospitals emergency ward as
attendants! Then in to one of the buildings housing the migrants, so
they can really look after them there themselves, without armed police
and police dogs, who, sadly today, are in every hospital here in
Bavaria."
 
Is this "situation" coming to your country?  
 IF YOU DO NOT TAKE AN INTEREST IN THE AFFAIRS OF YOUR GOVERNMENT,
THEN YOU ARE DOOMED TO LIVE UNDER THE RULE OF FOOLS. - PLATO
 

KSR PM 3/26/2017 NC 75 UK 73 Seasons over for UK!


North Carolina wins a close one, season officially over

Justin Ford | USA Today
Justin Ford | USA Today
Welp, it was fun while it lasted.

HALF: Kentucky behind 38-33 in a game of 8 on 5

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Thanks to the officials, Kentucky’s first half was not ideal. De’Aaron Fox, Malik Monk, Bam Adebayo, and Derek Willis all have two fouls and spent a good portion of the first half on the bench, but Dominique Hawkins has kept the Cats in it, leading the way with 10 first-half points. Kentucky trails UNC 38-33, but with so many scorers on the bench, it could be a lot worse.
Even Jay Williams agrees the officiating is crap:

Here’s hoping for a better second half…
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17 Inches ... A profund message, Paul C! Thx!

 "17 INCHES"








          Twenty years ago, in Nashville, Tennessee, during the first week of January, 1996, more than 4,000 baseball coaches descended upon the Opryland Hotel for the 52nd annual ABCA's convention.

          While I waited in line to register with the hotel staff, I heard other more veteran coaches rumbling about the lineup of speakers scheduled to present during the weekend.  One name, in particular, kept resurfacing, always with the same sentiment — “John Scolinos is here? Oh, man, worth every penny of my airfare.”

          Who is John Scolinos, I wondered.  No matter; I was just happy to be there.

          In 1996, Coach Scolinos was 78 years old and five years retired from a college coaching career that began in 1948.  He shuffled to the stage to an impressive standing ovation, wearing dark polyester pants, a light blue shirt, and a string around his neck from which home plate hung — a full-sized, stark-white home plate

          Seriously, I wondered, who is this guy?

          After speaking for twenty-five minutes, not once mentioning the prop hanging around his neck, Coach Scolinos appeared to notice the snickering among some of the coaches.  Even those who knew Coach Scolinos had to wonder exactly where he was going with this, or if he had simply forgotten about home plate since he’d gotten on stage.  Then, finally …
“You’re probably all wondering why I’m wearing home plate around my neck,” he said, his voice growing irascible.  I laughed along with the others, acknowledging the possibility.  “I may be old, but I’m not crazy.  The reason I stand before you today is to share with you baseball people what I’ve learned in my life, what I’ve learned about home plate in my 78 years.”  
Several hands went up when Scolinos asked how many Little League coaches were in the room.  “Do you know how wide home plate is in Little League?”

          After a pause, someone offered, “Seventeen inches?”, more of a question than answer.

          “That’s right,” he said.  “How about in Babe Ruth’s day?  Any Babe Ruth coaches in the house?” Another long pause.

          “Seventeen inches?” a guess from another reluctant coach.

          “That’s right,” said Scolinos.  “Now, how many high school coaches do we have in the room?”  Hundreds of hands shot up, as the pattern began to appear.  “How wide is home plate in high school baseball?”

          “Seventeen inches,” they said, sounding more confident.

          “You’re right!” Scolinos barked.  “And you college coaches, how wide is home plate in college?”

          “Seventeen inches!” we said, in unison.

          “Any Minor League coaches here?  How wide is home plate in pro ball?”............“Seventeen inches!”

          “RIGHT!  And in the Major Leagues, how wide home plate is in the Major Leagues?

          “Seventeen inches!”

          “SEV-EN-TEEN INCHES!” he confirmed, his voice bellowing off the walls.  “And what do they do with a Big League pitcher who can’t throw the ball over seventeen inches?”  Pause.  “They send him to Pocatello !” he hollered, drawing raucous laughter.  “What they don’t do is this: they don’t say, ‘Ah, that’s okay, Jimmy.  If you can’t hit a seventeen-inch target?  We’ll make it eighteen inches or nineteen inches.  We’ll make it twenty inches so you have a better chance of hitting it.  If you can’t hit that, let us know so we can make it wider still, say twenty-five inches.'”  

Pause.  “Coaches… what do we do when your best player shows up late to practice? or when our team rules forbid facial hair and a guy shows up unshaven?  What if he gets caught drinking?  Do we hold him accountable?  Or do we change the rules to fit him?  Do we widen home plate? "

The chuckles gradually faded as four thousand coaches grew quiet, the fog lifting as the old coach’s message began to unfold.  He turned the plate toward himself and, using a Sharpie, began to draw something.  When he turned it toward the crowd, point up, a house was revealed, complete with a freshly drawn door and two windows.  “This is the problem in our homes today.  With our marriages, with the way we parent our kids.  With our discipline.
We don’t teach accountability to our kids, and there is no consequence for failing to meet standards.  We just widen the plate!”

          Pause.  Then, to the point at the top of the house he added a small American flag.  “This is the problem in our schools today.  The
 quality of our education is going downhill fast and teachers have been stripped of the tools they need to be successful, and to educate and discipline our young people.  We are allowing others to widen home plate!  Where is that getting us?”

          Silence.  He replaced the flag with a Cross.  “And this is the problem in the Church, where powerful people in positions of authority have taken advantage of young children, only to have such an atrocity swept under the rug for years.  Our church leaders are widening home plate for themselves!  And we allow it.”

          “And the same is true with our government.  Our so called representatives make rules for us that don’t apply to themselves. They take bribes from lobbyists and foreign countries.  They no longer serve us.  And we allow them to widen home plate! We see our country falling into a dark abyss while we just watch.”

          I was amazed  At a baseball convention where I expected to learn something about curve balls and bunting and how to run better practices, I had learned something far more valuable. 
From an old man with home plate strung around his neck, I had learned something about life, about myself, about my own weaknesses and about my responsibilities as a leader.  I had to hold myself and others accountable to that which I knew to be right, lest our families, our faith, and our society continue down an undesirable path.

          “If I am lucky,” Coach Scolinos concluded, “you will remember one thing from this old coach today.  


It is this: "If we fail to hold ourselves to a higher standard, a standard of what we know to be right; if we fail to hold our spouses and our children to the same standards, if we are unwilling or unable to provide a consequence when
 they do not meet the standard; and if our schools & churches & our government fail to hold themselves accountable to those they serve, there is but one thing to look forward to …”

          With that, he held home plate in front of his chest, turned it around, and revealed its dark black backside, “…We have dark days ahead!.”

          Note: Coach Scolinos died in 2009 at the age of 91, but not before touching the lives of hundreds of players and coaches,including mine.  Meeting him at my first ABCA convention kept me returning year after year, looking for similar wisdom and inspiration from other coaches.  He is the best clinic speaker the ABCA has ever known because he was so much more than a baseball coach.  His message was clear: “Coaches, keep your players—no matter how good they are—your own children, your churches, your government, and most of
all, keep yourself at seventeen inches."

          And this my friends is what our country has become and what is wrong with it today, and now go out there and fix it!

          "Don't widen the plate."



Recycled Interview With God ... Thx Paul C!


. Outstanding photography and some wonderful words of wisdom.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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