🚀 go-pugleaf

You go ahead and work things out for yourself with Jesus and God.
That's entirely up to you.  I don't care what you do as long as it
doesn't cost me money or bother me or my family.  You can take up a
collection, mount a private military offensive, paint your rump blue
and tap dance until you fall down.  None of those activities affects
me.

What DOES affect me is using a single tax penny to save some bunch of
foreign idiots from themselves. To heck with them.  Let someone who
cares be the policeman for the world- just leave the USA out of it.

--
Tom Gauldin, Raleigh NC
ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/pub/users/scoundrl/gauldin.htm
Here's to the land of the Longleaf Pine,
The Summerland, where the sun doth shine.
Where the weak grow strong, and the strong grow great,
Here's to Downhome, the Old North State.

collardboy <duncan@algonquin.com> wrote in message
news:080919991607276510%duncan@algonquin.com...
> Tom Gauldin wrote:
>
> >Then, you and Jesus invest your own time, money and efforts to save
> >humanity.  Leave the rest of us alone.
>
> It's one thing to question the investment of time and money and
> military personnel on stopping the violence in East Timor. It's
quite
> another thing to say that "we don't give a sh*t" and "we don't
care."
>
> Regarding the use of our military:
>
> When I was in the Marines, I would have been much happier to risk my
> life for a moral good than for the strategic-economic goals we
always
> were sent off to defend. On the way back from the Gulf, my battalion
> stopped off to provide humanitarian assistance to a country that had
> suffered a natural disaster, and the common remark among the Marines
> was that we were "finally doing something worth something."
Throughout
> our training, we all were prepared to give our lives in service,
which
> is a hard concept to get your mind around. It made it easier to
accept
> when I thought I would be doing something, fighting for something,
that
> God would approve. And stopping people from killing each other, as
> Jesus stopped the Pharisees from stoning the woman caught in
adultery,
> is something God would approve, I think. What is your money, anyway?
> The concern of a man and his world.
>
> "Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am
not
> of this world." John 8:23
>
> Duncan