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I saw a yard sign that read, “To stop violence, try prayer.” I thought to myself if pray worked (or worked like that) this world would have been an utopia centuries ago.
Boys Will Be Boys
I generally work a half day on Fridays which allows me to go golfing in the afternoon if the weather is nice. At the course I generally go to, they have a senior scramble Friday mornings. When I say senior, I mean most of the guys appear to be in their 60s and 70s. They are generally in the club house when I get there between 1 and 2. They are going over the standings, prizes, etc. If not that they are in the parking lot unloading their golf carts.
I check in, and go to the first tee. As I am warming up I hear all this racket, gravel spewing, old men laughing hysterically and cheering. I look through the woods to the graveled parking lot to discover that they are having golf cart drag races.
Of course, at this point in the round, more than a few Budweiser have had their tops popped. However, boys will be boys no matter their age.
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 2,583
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I’m flipping through the channels and got stuck for a moment on the Rachel Maddox show. They were showing a Trump rally somewhere. There was a “gentleman” carrying a hand lettered sign that read, “Better to grab a P*&%y than to be one.
First at that point why are you bothering with masking the word pussy. You have already stepped over the line. Secondly, my thought was, “Hillary was right, many of the Trump supporters are deplorable.”
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 5,168
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Somehow or another, one of my email addresses has become known to the spammers. I am getting several emails a day that read something like this, “Guys do you want to do it 3, 4, 5 or even 6 times a night…”
First of all in my prime I would have been lucky to do it 3 times a night, let alone 4, 5 or 6 times. Secondly, I could see a couch in my future if tried to wake up my wife up for whatever it is they think I could do 3, 4, 5 or even 6 times in one night.
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 6,214
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So I sitting in rush hour traffic behind an Audi TT convertible. We are moving at the pace of the prodigal snail. I notice the license plate holder on the Audi. It reads, “I’d rather be diving.” I think to myself, “I’d rather be driving.”
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 3,589
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If more drivers handled their vehicles like middle-aged men on motorcycles, the fatality rate from automobile accidents might not go to zero, but it definitely would drop dramatically.
Powerball
So I am standing in line at Sam’s (go figure that there was a line in Sam’s), and the guy 
behind me starts talking about the $900 million Powerball. I comment how it is amazing how people go crazy when the jackpot gets this high as it would be life changing for most folks if they won $2 million.
He then comments that maybe if he won he would buy the Rams.
He thinks a minute longer then goes, “Nah, no worth it.”
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 4,502
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It seems like a natural disaster or personal tragedy brings out the best in many folks. A sense of community and shared responsibility, dare I say socialism exists. People are willing to go to extremes to help and give what they have for complete strangers. How wonderful it would be if this attitude caring and love persisted when our situation was less urgent.
3:39 a.m. – Random Thoughts
Staring at the unseen ceiling at 03:39 a.m. with random thoughts trying to rattle their way into or maybe out of my thoughts…
- Life is a machine for generating regrets
- Never regret being kind, even when it does not work out the way you intended. It was still the right thing to do
- It’s worn and trite and all too true… when it is all said and done all we have are each other
- When I was young used to think old age was the way God prepared folks so they could let go of life. Now as someone on the cusp of that phase of my life, I think old age and the ungraceful exit so many people get to make is proof that there is no god, that there is no intelligent design.
- We need to remember that most of us most of the time are really doing the best we can
- Not only do we need to forgive each other, we need to forgive ourselves
- All too often we take things far too seriously when it is just the other person stuck in their own bag of skin
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 7,416
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By any definition of the word terrorism that I can think of, drive-by shootings fit into the category of terrorism. So why are we not mobilizing against this internal terrorism? Sadly, the answer that I can come with involves race and class.
There is not a lot being reported on this, but one study I did find cited the following statistics from 2006:
“During the six-month period covered in this report, 549 drive-by shooting incidents were reported in the news media as identified by Google, claiming 156 lives and injuring 465 individuals.” 1
Earlier in the document the authors made the statement that they believed drive-by shootings to be vastly under reported.