Hi lovely lady
just thought I'd say hello
your post only shows your highly thoughtful intelligence
as per usual
wish you and all others on OPP a great day

HI again all my old friends and enemies(I really didn't have any enemies)
any how to try to get your minds off all that political chit
heres a St Paddy's Day joke



Paddy tiptoed as quietly as he could toward the stairs leading to their upstairs bedroom, but misjudged the bottom step. As he caught himself by grabbing the banister, his body swung around and he landed heavily on his rump. A whiskey bottle in each back pocket broke and made the landing especially painful.

Managing not to yell, Paddy sprung up, pulled down his pants, and looked in the hall mirror to see that his butt cheeks were cut and bleeding. He managed to quietly find a full box of Band-Aids and began putting a Band-Aid as best he could on each place he saw blood. He then hid the now almost empty Band-Aid box and shuffled and stumbled his way to bed.
In the morning, Paddy woke up with searing pain in both his head and butt and Kathleen staring at him from across the room She said, 'You were drunk again last night weren't you?'

Paddy said, 'Why would you say such a mean thing?

‘Well,' Kathleen said, 'it could be the open front door, it could be the broken whisky bottles at the bottom of the stairs, it could be the drops of blood trailing through the house, it could be your bloodshot eyes, but mostly, it's all those Band-Aids stuck on the hall mirror.

well thank you very much Auntie

but intelligent?
naw
Ijust copied it

great to see you pr

We should start the new year with some interpretations and wise guidance. These are the words women most often use that are not exactly what is meant. Good Luck

(1)"Fine": This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

(2)"Five Minutes": If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

(3)"Nothing": This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine.

(4)"Go Ahead": This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!

(5)"Loud Sigh": This is not actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an i***t and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to # 3 for the meaning of Nothing.)

(6)"That's Okay": This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. That's okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

(7)"Thanks": A woman is thanking you, do not question, or faint. Just say you're welcome. (I want to add in a clause here - This is true, unless she says 'Thanks a lot' - that is PURE sarcasm and she is not thanking you at all. DO NOT say 'you're welcome' . that will bring on a 'wh**ever').

(8)"Wh**ever": Is a woman's way of saying F-- YOU!

(9)"Don't worry about it, I got it": Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking 'What's wrong?' For the woman's response refer to # 3.


thought I'd warn all my male buddies
while I was here

STAY SAFE

been nice visitin with you guys
guess I had more friends than I thought
STAY SAVE

we have made reservations at the drs office the drug store and at heb groceries
there are no v*****es in Humble yet
Houston has some but they are limited and you must be a resident
reckon south Texas just aint very important
but the hospitals are full of c***d patients
and now the Gov has shut down the bars and inside dining again
c***d is rampant in our area

thank you very much Rose
nor do you

I spose for old folks we are doin average to well
Mama's blood ain't exactly behavin and she is gonna have to have some B12 shots
but she is a sreong lady and will be ok
now if we can just get some v*****e shots in our area,mayhaps we can survive the p******c
weather has kinda shut down the area fishin
preciate your kind thoughts lovely lady

thank you Linda
preciate the wishes
miss you a lot dear lady
and happy new year

just visitin hopin to see the lovely Linda
and other friends


and enemies

I went on safari with my wife and mother-in-law.
this was of course in our younger years

One evening, while still deep in the jungle, Mama, awoke to find her mother gone.

Rushing to me, she insisted on us both trying to find her mother.



I picked up my rifle, took a swig of Jack, and started to look for her. In a clearing not far from the camp,we came upon a chilling sight: the mother-in-law was backed up against a thick, impenetrable bush, and a large male lion stood facing her.

Mama said, "What are we going to do?"

"Nothing," I said "The lion got himself into this mess, let him get himself out of it."

During a recent outing in New Orleans, a woman snuck off to visit a fortune teller of some local repute. In a dark and hazy room, peering into a crystal ball, the mystic delivered grave news.


"There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just be blunt: Prepare yourself to be a widow. Your husband will die a violent and horrible death this year."



Visibly shaken, the woman stared at the fortune teller's lined face, then at the single flickering candle, then down at her hands. She took a few deep breaths to compose herself.

She simply had to know. She met the fortune teller's gaze, steadied her voice, and asked,

"Will I be acquitted?"

I posted this long ago
but dont it fit today?

Western civilization. It’s been around for a while, but suddenly everybody is talking about it. Some are anxious to save it; others are happy to see it go.

But what exactly is Western civilization?

Is it the great cathedrals of Europe or the N**i concentration camps? Is it the freedoms secured in the US Constitution or chattel s***ery? Life-saving medicines or poison gas?

The left likes to focus on the bad – genocide, s***ery, environmental destruction. But those have been present in every civilization from time immemorial.



The positives are unique to the West – religious tolerance, abolition of s***ery, universal human rights, the development of the scientific method: these are accomplishments of a scope and scale that only the West can claim.

These aren’t the only achievements that make the West special and uniquely successful. As Western thought evolved, it secured the rights of women and minorities, lifted billions of people out of poverty, and invented most of the modern world.

Progress hasn’t been a straight line, of course. But the arc of history is clear. The obvious proof is that the world is overwhelmingly Western. And, with few exceptions, those parts of the world that aren’t aspire to be.

Why? Why has Western civilization been so successful?

There are many reasons, but the best place to start is with the teachings and philosophies that emerged from two ancient cities: Jerusalem and Athens.



Jerusalem represents religious revelation as manifested in the Judeo-Christian tradition: the beliefs that a good God created an ordered universe and that this God demands moral behavior from His paramount creation, man.

The other city, Athens, represents reason and logic as expressed by the great Greek thinkers Plato and Aristotle and many others.

These two ways of thinking – revelation and reason – live in constant tension.

Judeo-Christian religion posits that there are certain fundamental t***hs handed down to us by a transcendent being. We didn’t invent these t***hs; we received them from God. The rules He lays down for us are vital for building a functioning, moral civilization and for leading a happy life.

Greek thinking posits that we only know t***h by what we observe, test, and measure. It is not faith, but fact, that drives our understanding and exploration of the universe.



Western civilization, and only Western civilization, has found a way to balance both religious belief and human reason.

Here’s how the balance works.

The Judeo-Christian tradition teaches that God created an ordered universe, and that we have an obligation to try to make the world better. This offers us purpose and suggests that history moves forward. Most pagan religions taught the opposite: that the universe is illogical and random, and that history is cyclical. History just endlessly repeats itself – in which case, why bother to innovate or create anything new?

Second, Judeo-Christian tradition teaches that every human is created in the image of God; that is, each individual’s life is infinitely valuable. This seems self-evident to us now, but only because we have lived with this belief for so long. The far more natural belief is that the strong should subjugate the weak – which is precisely what people did in nearly every society in all of history. Only by recognizing the divine in others did we ever move beyond this amoral thinking toward the concern for human rights, democracy and free enterprise that characterize the West.

But Judeo-Christian religion alone didn’t build our modern civilization. We also required Greek reason to teach us objective observation: that man has the capacity to search beyond revelation for answers.

Greek reason brought us the notion of the natural law, the idea that we could discover the natural purpose – the telos – of everything in creation by looking to its character. Human beings were created with the unique capacity to reason; therefore, our telos was to reason. By investing reason with so much power, Greek thought became integral to the Western mission.

Nowhere is this more perfectly expressed than in the American Revolution, in which the Founding Fathers took the best of the European Enlightenment with its roots in Greek thought and the best of Judeo-Christian practice with its roots in the Bible and melded them into a whole new political philosophy.

Without Judeo-Christian values, we fall into scientific materialism – the belief that physical matter is the only reality, and therefore also fall into nihilism – the belief that life has no meaning, that we’re merely stellar dust in a cold universe.

Without Greek reason, we fall into fanaticism – the belief that fundamentalist adherence to unprovable principles represents the only path toward meaning.

The Soviet Union, C*******t China and other socialist tyrannies rejected faith and murdered 100 million people in the 20th century.

Much of the modern Muslim world has embraced faith but rejected reason. It’s noteworthy that when the Muslim world did embrace Greek reason, from the 8th to the 14th centuries, it was a leading center for scientific advancement.

So, again, we need both – Jerusalem and Athens. Revelation and reason.

And yet, many want to reject both. These people call themselves “progressives.”

Ironically, they want to take us backwards, to a time when man was governed neither by reason nor faith, but by feeling, and therefore back to a time of moral chaos and disorder, of feeling over fact.

It would be a fatal mistake to follow the “progressives.” Stick with Athens and Jerusalem.

I’m Ben Shapiro, editor of The Daily Wire and author of The Right Side of History, for Prager University.

son in law decided he couldn't give up fishin
so he bought a bass tracker ,16 foot with 90 horse mercury on it
here's the boat
and here is a six and a half black bass
caught the fish bot lost my hat