When a friend isn't !!!

When you think of a "Friend", what comes to mind?

Is it your boyfriend? Your girlfriend? Someone you've known forever? Someone you may have just met? Who is it that listens to your problems or helps to meet your needs when you are having a problem, or is there with you through thick and thin? Someone who parties with you or works side-by-side with you even though it is not their project. You are together because you enjoy the other persons problems.

Does that person go out of their way to help when really needed? Do they bring you chicken soup when you are sick, or drop off aspirins when you have none? Are they willing to stop what they are doing to come to your aid or are they always too busy. Do they answer the phone no matter when you call or do they wait and let you leave a message? Does your friend hear you when you are speaking or do they always dominate the conversation with things about them.

I have had many friends through the years and always wonder what happened to them. How is it that when you make a friend, they end up disappearing? Are they really to be considered friends? Is life truly so busy in everyone's world that they have absolutely no time any longer to share themselves even for a short conversation with those they counted as, friend?

I have lost track of many friends that I never wanted to lose. I have also left messages for many friends that I have never received a call back from. That part I truly don't understand. I try to respond to all of my calls and when a friend calls I am always eager to take it. I am not needy, and I don't require anything from anyone so I find it odd that a friend would not return a phone message. And I find it even more odd when a friend really needs something that no one is willing to reach out and at least try to help. Being realistic, we cannot always help. We do not always have the resources to do everything that comes along, but there are many times when all someone needs is a friend to listen or just a hand with a heavy object.

Today I had a friend who was feeling under the weather and just needed a couple of aspirin. He phoned a mutual friend whom he had recently done some things for, as a friend, and asked if they could drop some by on their way home. The friend responded that they did not have anything with them, nor did they have anything at their house. BUT, they were currently at their parents house and could have easily obtained a few aspirins there and dropped them off. (How many of your mothers don't have some form of pain reliever in the house? -- Exactly !) But they refused to return favor by doing the good deed and bringing some relief to a friend. What kind of friend is that? I offered to bring something immediately but the friend said they were already going out for something but would stop over to get it, rather than going to the store. I gave them extra for later.

I am no hero. I am no different than what anyone should be. I didn't go out, but I offered and I would have. That is the difference.

My friend got what he needed, but will the other friend get what they need when it comes back around? We should all take inventory of the list of people we consider friends. Are they really? How good a friend are they?

I am, in no way, perfect. But I do appreciate my friends. I have some pretty good ones right now and I pray I never lose them. I have some previous ones that I would like to have back. But I do not know what the problem is to begin with so I guess we wait.

There is an old saying: "If you want a friend........Be One !"

Who's In Charge Anyway

It's the end of a busy week for what seems like the whole world.

When we have an election it tends to reverberate around the globe with mixed emotions. This one happens to have the radicals excited and gleeful that the democrats took over control. If you think about that idea for one minute and let it sink in, can you understand the impact this has? The fact that the democrats won control of both houses of congress and this makes our enemy happy. It makes them jump for joy! Can no one else see the irony in this picture? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand the implication that if this is something that they are happy about, then we all should be very nervous and afraid.

The thing that many americans continually forget is that our enemy; communism and radical islamists, never forget that they are at war. When we think that we are in the midst of peace, they are at war. Their idealism does not sleep and it does not die. It grows and spreads like a cancerous disease. Those that are fighting this war on our behalf, the men and women in uniform, know full well that we must never become complacent or we will die. But we vote and we go about our daily lives as though we are safe and content. But what we must never forget is that our enemy wants us to drop our guard. They want us to decide to go home. The want us to cut and run. They want very much to be able to come to our country and wage this war, the same way they did on 9/11/2001.

People blame Bush for this war and for everything that has happened since 9/11/2001. But if people would remember their history correctly, there was an attempt at a 9/11 style attack years before while Clinton was President! The enemy bombed the World Trade Center, but they didn't use enough explosives to cause the damage they wanted. They realized from that error that they would need much more to inflict the kind of hurt they wanted to impose on us. There were many other attacks against us that we never did anything about because of the democratic President and leadership we had, such as the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, the bombing of our embassy's in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998 and our marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. Our democratic government never did anything about those attacks and it emboldened our enemy. They wanted to do more.











On 9/11/2001 we wanted our government to protect us and to push back this enemy from our borders. Unfortunately in order to do that, you have to take the battle to their borders. It's sort of like the saying, ("if you build it they will come"), well if you create a battle the enemy will show up. They honestly believe that they can beat us merely by killing a few of our people. Because the democrats are not militarily endowed. They think you should be able to talk about it and fix it. Our enemy does not believe that way. Our President did the right thing by taking the war to their borders. And we repay him by cutting the legs out from under him before the battle is even half way over. It just shows that the majority of the American people are exactly what the enemy say we are. Cowards! At the sight of blood, we want to cut and run. Yet at the sight of blood, our enemy gets stronger.

Anyone ever heard of Bosnia?

The following is a short recitation about the Bosnian conflict that President Clinton got us into and guess what? Yes, we are STILL there! I, personally, have a nephew that returned from a tour there this year.

The Yugoslav Wars were a series of violent conflicts in the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that took place between 1991 and 2001. They comprised two sets of successive wars affecting all of the six former Yugoslav republics. Alternative terms in use include the "War in the Balkans", or "War in (the former) Yugoslavia", "Wars of Yugoslav Secession", and the "Third Balkan War" (a short-lived term coined by British journalist Misha Glenny, alluding to the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913).

They were characterised by bitter ethnic conflicts between the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between the Serbs on the one side and Croats, Bosniaks or Albanians on the other; but also between Bosniaks and Croats in Bosnia and Macedonians and Albanians in Republic of Macedonia. The conflict had its roots in various underlying political, economic and cultural problems, as well as long-standing ethnic and religious tensions.

The wars ended with much of the former Yugoslavia reduced to poverty, massive economic disruption and persistent instability across the territories where the worst fighting occurred. The wars were the bloodiest conflicts on European soil since the end of World War II. They were also the first conflicts since World War II to have been formally judged genocidal in character and many key individual participants were subsequently charged with war crimes. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by United Nations to prosecute these crimes.

We are at a point in the world of conflicts that we have to take a very serious look at the state of affairs, not just in our country but in all the world. Radical Islam, is not going away. They have one goal and that is to kill those they oppose. One of those happens to be us, US.

Anis Shorrosh, author of "Islam Revealed" and "The True Furqan", is a Christian Arab-American who emigrated from Arab-controlled Jerusalem in January 1967.

"The following is my analysis of Islamic invasion of America, the agenda of Islamists and visible methods to take over America by the year 2020", Shorrosh says. "Will Americans continue to sleep through this invasion as they did when we were attacked on 9/11?"

We need to be proactive in our position, not reactionary. If we chose the later, we will be too late. If you don't believe it just see the documentary Obsession, Radical Islam's War Against The West . This is truly an eye opening movie and every American should see it.

But what do I know? I'm just one of you.
The only difference is, I know, and you are wondering, is he right?