GOD'S OLD FISHERMAN

Trader Rick watching Demo Primaries

It is 9:05 a.m. and Patrick is here wih me and Junior is in bed. It is 42.4 degrees outside!

Watched the world premier of Letters From Iwo Jima, introduced by Clint Eastwood, last night. Interesting film, but subtitles were designed for big screen, not television--to0 tiny--plus with having to read them, you can't watch the actors--don't like this format.

WHY IS SPELL CHECK DISABLED????????

This Obama phenomenon is just proving that democracy is a scary, scary thing. Just as Franklin warned, as soon as the people realize they can vote themselves money out of the treasury, our Republic is doomed--projections show our taxes will have to go WAY WAY UP to support all his give-away programs...

Nancy Pelosi showed her vast illogical ignorance the other day by stating that the democrat super delegates should all vote for whatever candidate is ahead in the primary/ caucus voting. What an idiot! May as well not have them at all if you are going to tell them how to vote.

Jane Fonda, one of the two known traitors from the Viet Nam War that has never been brought to justice, said the word "cunt" on the TODAY show the other day. Merideth I-have-no-brain Viera, didn't react at all, like it was a normal deal. Later on, she was forced to apologize for Fonda, on air, calling the incident a "slip" --for anyone watching the film clip, this was a transparently false LIE LIE LIE. The MSM hold us in such distain that they think they can call the sky red and we will believe it and bow down to them. It's like that old movie, How to I can't rembember the Name--The wife catches the husband in bed with a woman, and they calmly get dressed, she leaves, the husband all the time denying it, until the wife questions herself as to weather she actually saw it. So we now have to put this dumb cunt Merideth Viera on our list of LYING ASSHOLES. Nappy headed Ho.

Email me if you want to know how I really feel.

FROM THE INBOX THIS MORNING:

Gods little old fisherman(A little long but worth it)

THE OLD FISHERMAN

Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore . We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to out-patients at the Clinic.

One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. 'Why, he's hardly taller than my eight-year-old,' I thought as I stared at the stooped, shriveled body.

But the appalling thing was his face, lopsided from swelling, red and raw Yet his voice was pleasant as he said, 'Good evening. I've come to see if you've a room for just one night. I came for a treatment this morning from the eastern shore, and there's no bus 'till morning.'

He told me he'd been hunting for a room since noon but with no success; no one seemed to have a room. 'I guess it's my face. I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments...'

For a moment I hesitated, but his next words convinced me: 'I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch. My bus leaves early in the morning.' I told him we would find him a bed, but to rest on the porch. I went inside and finished getting supper. When we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. 'No thank you. I have plenty' And he held up a brown paper bag.

When I had finished the dishes, I went out on the porch to talk with him a few minutes. It didn't take a long time to see that this old man had an oversized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his daughter, her five children and her husband, who was hopelessly crippled from a back injury.

He didn't tell it by way of complaint; in fact, every other sentence was prefaced with thanks to God for a blessing. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was apparently a form of skin cancer. He thanked God for giving him the strength to keep going.

At bedtime, we put a camp cot in the children's room for him. When I got up in the morning, the bed linens were neatly folded, and the little man was out on the porch.

He refused breakfast, but just before he left for his bus, haltingly, as if asking a great favor, he said,
'Could I please come back and stay the next time I have a treatment? I won't put you out a bit. I can sleep fine in a chair.' He paused a moment and then added, 'Your children made me feel at home. Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don't seem to mind.' I told him he was welcome to come again.

And on his next trip he arrived a little after seven in the morning. As a gift, he brought a big fish and a quart of the largest oysters I had ever seen. He said he had shucked them that morning before he left so that they'd be nice and fresh. I knew his bus left at 4 a.m. , and I wondered what time he had to get up in order to do this for us.

In the years he came to stay overnight with us there was never a time that he did not bring us fish or oysters or vegetables from his garden.

Other times we received packages in the mail, always by special delivery; fish and oysters packed in a box of fresh young spinach or kale, every leaf carefully washed. Knowing that he must walk three miles to mail these and knowing how little money he had made the gifts doubly precious.

When I received these little remembrances, I often thought of a comment our next-door neighbor made after he left that first morning. 'Did you keep that awful looking man last night? I turned him away! You can lose roomers by putting up such people!'

Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice But, oh! If only they could have known him, perhaps their illness would have been easier to bear. I know our family always will be grateful to have known him; from him we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with gratitude to God.

Recently I was visiting a friend who has a greenhouse. As she showed me her flowers, we came to the most beautiful one of all, a golden chrysanthemum, bursting with blooms. But to my great surprise, it was growing in an old dented, rusty bucket. I thought to myself, 'If this were my plant, I'd put it in the loveliest container I had!'

My friend changed my mind. 'I ran short of pots,' she explained, 'and knowing how beautiful this one would be, I thought it wouldn't mind starting out in this old pail. It's just for a little while, till I can put it out in the garden.'

She must have wondered why I laughed so delightedly, but I was imagining just such a scene in heaven. There's an especially beautiful one,' God might have said when he came to the soul of the sweet old fisherman. 'He won't mind starting in this small body.'

All this happened long ago -- and now, in God's garden, how tall this lovely soul must stand.

The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.'

Friends are very special. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear and they share a word of praise. Show your friends how much you care.

Pass this on, and brighten someone's day.

Nothing will happen if you do not decide to pass it along.

The only thing that will happen if you do pass it on is that someone might smile (or cry like I did...) ~ because of you! **********************************************************************************
Friends are special Hugs from GOD!

And I am blessed to have so many friends whom I think would be just like the woman in this story.

go gators, please beat somebody, anybody.