Samson's Jawbone

Reposted with some changes Samson's Jawbone: Elisha's Axhead- Will Our Pets Join Us is Heaven? : I have been both a dog owner and a widower. I have over the course of my life grieved both the loss of  a wife and more than one dog. As dif...

Samson's Jawbone: Elisha's Axehead- Will Our Pets Join Us is Heaven?... : I have been both a dog owner and a widower. I have over the course of my life grieved both the loss of  a wife and more than one dog. As dif...

Here's how we help ourselves or others in crisis. Samson's Jawbone: Elisha's Ax Head: Does God Help Those Who Help The... : Samson's Jawbone is about using the resources God has given us to fight the war being waged on our culture. Today I announcing a new col...

Although I do like baseball, I am not a big sports fan. The reason I like baseball is you don't have to be serious to watch the game. You can wash the car in the seventh inning stretch and not miss much. Sports is about having fun. People pay money for towels, toy monkeys, bobble heads, they scream, senseless slogans and sayings, shake and gesticulate for three to four hours. They transfer their anger and frustration on the game officials. A lawyer who wears a suite to work and follows strict protocol in their work can go to the stadium bear chested with half their body painted team colors and can yell and shout and dance, doing thing that in a court room would cause him to be jailed for contempt or be disbarred,  with no consequence. Sports is about letting what therapists would call "the inner child" out. We pay unreasonable prices to eat mounds of food that the First Lady would never allow in federally funded schools. Yes, there are limits: we are not allowed to hurt o...

The recent riots spurred by a white on black shooting in Ferguson Missouri is more than reminiscent. My generation saw these kind of events on television every summer for several years. Those of us who grew up in the 60's see it very differently then those who grew up after 1974. And of course White people are going to look at it through one lens and African Americans another. It is hard to see the other persons perspective. So what I am going to do is state what the facts and draw some obvious conclusions: The media has focused so much on Micheal Johnson that I want to start with what we know about the officer. Darren Wilson is a  white 15 year veteran who has served the Ferguson police force honorably at least to this point. He has never been accused of inappropriate action or brutality. He has received citations and awards for his duty. He was patrolling when he observed Michael Johnson and his friend walking in the middle of the street. (We do not know what he knew about Mich...