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Hurricane Isaias is today's news here on the Florida panhandle, it's already raining, a heavy mist at this point, but that will change as the morning goes on and storm feeder bands wander by heading north and west. IDK, we have no wind, but that may change as the hurricane closes in on Pensacola. A 7' to 9' storm surge is predicted for us, but we'll see. 7H is right on the Bay and looking out over Shell Island, a low barrier strip that a high storm surge would roll across.

Life is short, and we haven't much Time, so I'm using my morning to keep a storm watch. Both porch areas are clear, the living room and my room are loaded with the outside stuff. Also the front hall entry way and the powder room. 

A monument to people's good sense, there's no water traffic to be seen on the Bay.

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With America as we are at the moment (hopefully, prayerfully, this too shall pass, though I'm not with St Paul in believing it will happen in my lifetime), it's not surprising, but appalling beyond the pale, to see that the firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the evil and justly condemned soldier who shot trusting Army comrades, will be public, and that it will be live-streamed for people to watch. Many will watch, marking themselves personally, along with what they have made of America, a land where even little children are abused in the immigrant deportation frenzy, as morally depraved. I cannot believe this. My judgment: a line drawn, a damnation, an impassable chasm: for any comrades in life who self-righteously watch Major Hasan's execution, I will go quietly my way and there will be no reason or cause for us ever again to be in contact in any way whatsoever, and no way back for us.

There was a Time in human history, as civilization developed, and apparently climaxed before heading back down into the barbarism where some nations still are today and watching as we rejoin them, when public hangings and other executions such as beheadings and hanged, drawn & quartered, were a great public entertainment spectacle. God forbid. 

"Great" is turning out to be something of self-righteously sadistic, incomprehensible evil. Turn us away from bloated self-importance. Make America Moral Again.

Remember who you are, and what you have covenanted with God.

Do you renounce the evil powers of this world which corrupt and destroy the creatures of God?

Do you reaffirm your renunciation of evil?

Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?

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There are no exceptions to "every."

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One might trust that our present generation is but a temporary set-back in our evolution toward the likeness of God.

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Life is short, and we haven't much Time to gladden the hearts of those who travel with us. So be quick to love, and make haste to be kind.

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