Day: November 7, 2012

FEMA Closed Due To Weather

FEMA Closed Due To WeatherFEMA Closed Due To Weather — A sign seen taped 10:30 a.m., today, Nov. 7, at the FEMA Center at 6581 Hylan Blvd. on Staten Island. One presidential candidate thought FEMA needed major reforms and possible replacement. One thought it was just peachy. Well, you know which one won so you know what we are stuck with.

 

FEMA Closed Due To Weather

No Scowls On The Honeymoon

By Jim Vanore
Here in the south Jersey-Philadelphia area, we were fortunate, in that Hurricane Sandy didn’t slam into us the way it did to the shore’s barrier islands, or the way it disrupted New York. My cousin, who lives near the water in New York, lost his car and still doesn’t have power.
I thought I’d take a moment to let you know how we—my wife, Barbara and I—spent those “hurricane days” while hunkered down in storm mode.
Barbara read two books; I read two books. I tried watching the first half of the Eagles’ lifeless performance against the Atlanta Falcons that Sunday, but returned to my murder mystery before the second half started. I found the characters in Caroline Graham’s novel far less boring than the Eagles offensive attack—or rather lack thereof.
I stopped looking at the Weather Channel early Monday morning, because I didn’t need to hear any more about Michelin Tires or Allstate Insurance. The ratio of advertisement to actual storm information was running about three-to-one, so I opted to recline back on the couch and pick up another novel—this one by Mary Higgins Clark.
Here in south Jersey, we were right in the storm’s anticipated path of landfall—as the Weather Channel was persistently warning us. I know that information is intended to cause us concern, but as Barbara was quick to tell me, “There’s no sense worrying about things we have no control over.”

Excerpted from Good Writers Block


Cryptowit

By William W. Lawrence Sr

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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle:

When a man’s willing and eager, God joins in.
– Aeschylus

Two Nations

It appears we have become two nations — one that seeks to follow dreams and create things to help one’s neighbor, and one that responds to calls of bitterness and vengeance for imaginary wrongs; one that believes food, shelter and health are gifts and the results of the consequences of one’s actions and one that believes these things are “rights” without even pondering their source; one that believes in reason and one that follows fashion without thought; and, most tellingly, one that believes and reveres God and one that boos Him.

Last night, it appears the one that boos God won. Expect life to get a lot harder. Energy will cost more. Freedoms will disappear. 
And life will get much more dangerous.
I guess I belong to the nation that believes in consequences for actions.