Speak Out 9/26/13

Memory short

on chemicals

As an American I'm tiring of our Secretary of State feigning back to a 1925 law prohibiting the use of chemical weapons while our political mind set is short, it was the United States that provided chemical weapons to Saddam Huessin to use against the Iranians. Now mind you that wasn't all that long ago and it was definitely well after 1925, now wasn't it? Now, President Bush had the good thought to go into that country after other threats were made and to try and degrade the weapons that he knew the U. S. had sent--to find them--recapture them, but few people think that being Iraq and Syria (their next door neighbors) could these weapons have been shipped to Syria? And are actually now being used against those very same people over in Syria right now? And wouldn't it be ironic if they were U. S. munitions? How sad it is that we as the United States are such hypocrites on shipping death around the globe and yet when it comes to drawing these wonderful political red lines in the sand we tend to watch the waves of political in action wash the red lines away allowing these regimes to reposition, hide and move these military targets into civilian areas that the military doesn't have the stomach to ever touch. Well, America, get ready to be drawn into a morass and yes it will upset Muslims all across the globe, but then, again, we're used to being the great Satan, aren't we?

Thank you

1st Methodist

This is to the members of the First United Methodist Church here in Poplar Bluff who volunteered their time and talents to help me with some much needed repairs and maintenance problems at my home recently . . . THANK YOU!!! God Bless each and every one of you and to all those who organized this event! Sometimes just a little means a whole lot. (There are also other churches in Poplar Bluff who do this very same kind of thing.)

Most carpenters in the area do not want to do small jobs for older people on older homes. I have news for them . . . some of us are willing to pay someone to do good work for us, but we have to rely on these good folks to help us out from time to time so that we do not have to live in dilapidated homes!

It was MUCH appreciated!