A life devoted to Iraqis ends with a single bullet

Its stories like this that really anger me. They make my blood boil. This person was over in Iraq to help the Iraqi people with humanitarian work. She wasn’t there to fight a war or to try to talk Sadam into changing his mind about being a dictator. She was there to lend a helping had. And what do these Insurgent Muslim Terrorist do? They kidnap her, use her for propaganda and then kill her.

But as I write this I am reminded what Jesus said about loving our enemies. Whether or not this lady was a Christian she was definitely doing the work of Jesus Christ. My prayers go out to her family.

Lake Winnipesaukee in October

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of thier country.

Is this blog sad or what?

E-Mail...

From "Gary Gaines"
Subject Re: Question?
Date Sun, October 17, 2004 1:24 pm
To "Jonathan"<

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Jonathan,

I haven't seen the movie yet. The speech is not mine although I'm sure there are parts of it which might be something I would have said. It's Hollywood!

All the best!

Gary Gaines

At 10:50 PM 10/16/2004 -0400, you wrote:

>Mr. Gaines,
>
>I just watched the movie about you coaching in
>Odessa. I liked the story and content of the
>movie but I didn’t like the cinema photography,
>it gave me a headache.
>
>I was curious if what was said in the locker
>room during halftime of the championship game
>in the movie was what you actually said?
>
>Thanks,
>Jonathan

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Major League Baseball : Schedule : 2004 Postseason

Here is a nice link to the MLB postseason schedule. Go Cubs!

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I am just posting becasue I have't posted in a long time.

Here is a rather unique site that might confuse you at first but is really quite simple.

www.purple.com

If you don't get it just read the FAQ.

Now here is a twist to the Iraq prison abuse scandal that I haven't heard from any of the other media outlets.

Family.org - CitizenLink - FNIF News - Iraq Abuses Tied to Pornography?

When I saw the pictures on the Internet that had been released showing abuse of Iraqi POWs I was somewhat confused. The pictures didn’t appear, to me, to be of people being beaten or being skinned alive or being burned while hanging from a tree or even being beheaded. They were pictures of naked men with bags over their heads posed in precarious positions. It wouldn’t surprise me if the whole incident stems from an over exposure to pornography.

I have to start writing more! So I'll start tonight at 11:00 pm, when I should go to sleep. Now I need a good subject to write about? How about this morning?

On my way to work this morning I was listening to Imus, like I always do, and he was interviewing Jim Lehrer. Apparently Jim is an avid fiction writer and he has just finished a new book, “Flying Crows”. The book is about these two bums that escaped from an asylum and have been living in a train depot for the past 60 years. The story is based on some truth and Jim said that he had fun researching places and people for the book. His wife, Kate, was also being interviewed because she just published her first book, “Confessions of a Bigamist”. Imus was his usual rude self but the interview made me think, “Maybe I could write a book?” Nah! I don’t even like to write.

Weather I like to write or not I do believe that I am getting to a point in my life where I need to start putting down more of my thoughts on paper, or the Internet. I have started many journals but they all have only a few entries and that’s it. I definitely like this blog thing; it makes it easy to publish short paragraphs about anything. And I like typing in MS Word to fix all of my spelling mistakes.

So long for now.