Question & Thought for 14 August 2016

Good Sunday Morning! & Happy Birthday!
1. Question – Do you think God is too busy and just leaves some minor things for us to handle?
2. Thought – GOD Was Too Busy

If you don’t know GOD, don’t make stupid remarks!!!!!!
A United States Marine was attending some college Courses between assignments.

He had completed missions in Irag and Afghanistan. One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist, and a member of the ACLU.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in.
He looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, “GOD if you are real then I want you to knock me off this platform. I’ll give you exactly 15 minutes.”

The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, “Here I am GOD, I’m still waiting.”

It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him;
Knocking him off the platform.

The professor was out cold.

The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently.

The other students were shocked and stunned, and sat there looking on in silence.

The professor eventually came to,
Noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked, ‘What in the world is the matter with you? “Why did you do that?”

The Marine calmly replied, “GOD was too busy today protecting American soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid
stuff and act like an idiot.
So He sent me.”

The classroom erupted in cheers! 

Have a great week! School’s in session. What was it that C.S. Lewis said about saints and tyrants? Maybe, “How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been, how gloriously different the saints.”

rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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Question & Thought for February 22nd, 2016!

Hello Monday Folks!
1. Question – Does this sum up how we seem to be fighting the War on Global Terror?
2. Thought – “Some of these new thinkers say if we have better intelligence, if we can see everything, we can’t lose,” Colonel Van Riper said. “What my brother always says is, ‘Hey, say you are looking at a chess board. Is there anything you can’t see? No. But are you guaranteed to win? Not at all, because you can’t see what the other guy is thinking.’ More and more commanders want to know everything, and they get imprisoned by that idea. They get locked in. But you can never know everything. The big giant is tied down by those little rules and regulations and procedures. And the little guy? He just runs around and does what he wants.” (Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell)
“The wise does at once what the fool does last.” (Baltasar Gracian)
Wonderful book. Commanders are tied down by regulations and the fear of making a mistake and we let an opportune moment go by to get better intel or process improve. I’ve seen it and lived it.
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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Question & Thought for January 16th, 2016!

Good Saturday Morning!
1. Question – What is the only thing more expensive than war?
2. Thought – From: Defending Our National Defense, January 20, 2011.
Providing for the national defense is the single most essential responsibility of our federal government, without which we have nothing – no freedom, no treasure, no country. The only thing more expensive than war is losing one. Leon Trotsky got one thing right when he observed that, “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” (Reality by Mike Rosen)
“We are a country that looks at people as individuals, not groups. We select the best man for the job, even if it’s a woman.” (Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz, a retired Air Force colonel.)
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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Question & Thought for December 7th, 2015!

Good Monday Morning on Pearl Harbor Day!
1. Question – Is the War on Terror a quagmire?
2. Thought – A war of limited goals or restrained tactics was inconceivable. As Vice Resident Henry Wallace declared in 1942, “No compromise with Satan is possible.” Even after the horrific fighting at Iwo Jima in 1945, Americans geared up for an invasion of Japan. Secretary of State James Byrnes told Truman that the president would be “crucified” domestically if the United States abandoned the policy of unconditional surrender and began negotiating with Tokyo. (How We Fight by Dominic Tierney)
“Can the U.S. use force – even go to war – for carefully defined national interests, or do we have to have a moral crusade or a galvanizing event like Pearl Harbor?” (Brent Scowcroft, National Security Advisor to President George H.W. Bush, December 1990)
“I don’t do quagmires.” (Donald Rumsfeld, July 2003)
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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