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This happened to a family member. His wife went through years of depression, along with heightened senses (she could hear literally everything in their house, which was three stories. Everything, and I mean everything, bothered her. She slept with multiple pillows and earplugs.), and a host of other things. Even after they split, he still helped her out by paying for clinics, treatments, and institutions. After about 3 years, she decided to off herself. She made appointments with her friends and family to say good-bye, and there was no talking about second chances, etc. She moved back to her parents house during this time. After all the good-byes (she thanked my family member, told him it wasn't his fault and all that), she got the meds in the mail and decided one night to take them. Her mother (!) found her the next morning.

She had gone through a lot. She and my family member were Believers. He was devastated and went through a time of funk himself. Her whole family, and even down to my end because we weren't that close, were wiped out by it. There are so many what if's that your mind goes through. I can't imagine how her parents, especially her mom, felt.

That said, the boyfriend is a coward. He won't fight for his girlfriend, won't try to convince her it's wrong. Won't try to find the cause, even if it costs a fortune, like my friend did. Won't stand up and say that he loves her and that they can somehow work it out. It didn't work for my friend, but it might with her. FWIW, the above scenario also played out in Holland. God brought another woman into my family member's life, and they are now married. He is happy now, and he treasures his wife. It took awhile for her to break through the pain, though. I know it was heavy sledding for awhile.

On the surface, we can say that such people are weak, or too woke, or whatever. There is a reason this woman wants to off herself, so pray fiercely that God would reveal it, so that she can be healed. Pray that the junk in her psyche from all the psychology stuff she studied would be blown out the door by the Love of Jesus. Pray for the boyfriend and the family to grow backbones. This is bad stuff, straight from the pit, but it can be redeemed. What say, Freepers? I'll pray for her. Who's in?

He had that incident in the movie theater where he was caught...in a handy way. But about 6 months later, there was some awards show or something and he came out in his Pee Wee outfit, looked at the silent crowd, and said, "Heard any good jokes lately??" The audience busted up, and the tension, which had been hovering over the crowd, was broken.

He played "The Spleen" in "Mystery Men," a pretty good superhero movie, even if it did have that annoying leftist woman in it, you know, the one who's so forgettable.

I had a kid in my class who acted like him, even though he'd never seen any of Pee Wee's show. Uncanny. RIP, Pee Wee, and say hi to Large Marge for us.

It looks kinda like a bowling ball.

Sparks: Hasta Manana, Monsieur. A great song about a guy with no clue about language as he goes to another country to pick up babes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WWCpvoedfE

H-A-T-R-E-D by Tonio K.

Life with the Macbeths by Sparks.

There is a children's book series that addresses something like this called "Shredderman." The protagonist, a smart-but-socially-awkward kid 5th grader, decides to create an online persona/super hero to deal with the school bully, appropriate named "Bubba."

During the course of the story, the kid takes pics and vids of Bubba doing bad things and posts them on his Shredderman website. It's all anonymous, and Bubba eventually gets nailed and punished. Their classroom teacher figures it out, and tells all the kids in their class that they are ALL Shredderman, and that it's their responsibility to be kind, call out kids who are doing wrong, and be the best they can be. It's not a bad series, and the protagonist grows up, makes friends, and is still a good kid. Bubba becomes his friend & stops being a jerk. I just wonder how many kids who could expose sexual predators now won't because of what happened at Blake High.

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? I think not.

Sparks. THE best band nobody's ever heard of.

Seriously. Ron and Russell Mael have been making tunes for 50 years. They've had hits in Europe and Japan, and their latest disc, "A Steady Drip-Drip-Drip," debuted at #4 this week in England. They are all over the place musically, but their songs are always good. They're both over 70 now, I think. About 15 years ago they did 21 concerts in 21 days, each day covering a disc, and all the songs were played IN THE ORDER THEY APPEARED ON THE DISC. Lesse some other band match that marathon. They've performed with orchestras, opera singers, small bands, and, believe it or not, Queen. Their lyrics are topical, sarcastic, and fun. For great musicianship, coupled with sheer staying power, they get my vote. Check 'em out.

On KMJ 580 from 11-2 Pacific Time we have Ray Appleton. He's been on the radio for 30 years, and the guy's a beast. He covers some local and state stuff, but has lots of national topics as well. He was part of the group that spearheaded the 3 Strikes law in California after the father of the girl who was killed was on his show. He has Devin Nunes on regularly, as well as Dr. Halderman, who used to be one of our assembly people. Ray is sharp, very conservative, and a nice guy as well. Check him out.

There was a guy named Jack Sparks who wrote a book called 'The Mindbenders.' It came out in '79/'80. Besides the moonies and a bunch of others, there was an analysis of Jones and the whole Jonestown thing. Jones was VERY involved in Bay Area politics. He was the go-to guy, apparently, if someone wanted the black vote, since his church was predominantly black. He was head of at least one committee for the city of SF. The analysis had Jones setting up a socialist compound in Guyana, with himself as the head. Rejecting the Gospel, he set himself up as god, with Christian songs re-written to show what a great guy and wonderful savior dude Jim Jones was.

The book is out of print. Sadly, Mr. Sparks got into legal trouble with one of the cults he mentioned in 'Mindbenders,' but there is a lot of stuff on the internet about Jones and Jonestown. But yeah, the whole 'we're gonna build a socialist utopia, even if it kills you' is still the mantra of the Dems, whether they admit it or not.

And if you say, "We're gonna get through this." ONE MORE TIME....

What Newsom needs to do is two basic things. 1. He needs to give the farmers of the central valley of Calif. all the water they want and/or need. Farming is still going on, in spite of the 'lockdown.' The farmers need water, and lots of crops could help get the state back on its feet, at least a bit, financially. 2. He needs to cancel AB5 and let people work, doing what they can and want to do, without any gvt. interference. (For non-CA Freepers, AB5 was this horrendous law that stops people from doing gig work unless they're a registered employee of the company they're doing the gig for. It has decimated the arts and music industries, made it harder to get Uber, and puts limits on writers and so forth. It's a stupid law. There was a push to pass another law that would repeal it, but guess what? The insect Dem who put it forth in the first place is chaircreature of the committee that decides what bills go forward in the state legislature!) Seriously, Newsom can come out of this looking like a *real* governor if he lets people work. But I'm not holding my breath.

One of the glaring mis-steps that guys like Martin and Buttkreig (or however it's spelled) take is that because of the whole "love" thing, gayness is elevated above other sins, even though it's expressly forbidden in the OT and NT. Because of this, thousands of gay believers who might've followed the admonishment to 'take up their cross daily, and follow Me' (as Jesus says), don't. And because they don't take up their cross of same-sex temptation, they lose out on a deeper relationship with God. Their sins aren't washed because they're taught by theological midgets that the same-sex attraction, and the acting on of those impulses, aren't sins. How dare guys like Martin say that Jesus was wrong when he said, "Deny yourself, pick up your cross, and follow Me."

There are a couple of websites that are useful. One is electroverse.net This is a site with all kinds of news about extreme weather, earthquakes, etc. The writer’s take is that the lack of sunspots is causing the jetstream to go in extreme undulations, instead of the straight path round the globe it has had in the past. He also says that this lack of sunspots is an historically observable thing, that in the past when it’s occurred, we’ve had dips in temps. His take is that we are headed toward a mini ice age, such as what happened in the Maunder and Dalton minimums.
I go to this site, read the news, then check against weatherunderground.com to see if his temps and conditions match. Guess what? The do.
The other site is https://earth.nullschool.net/ This site provides a global map with chooseable parameters: temperature, wind, waves, etc., at different altitudes. Wind and 250 give you the jetstream, and you’ll see that the poor things is tattered and fragmented. There’s also a CO2 and SO2 concentration button. Guess what? The US is peanuts compared to...China and India.
Sorry if the links don’t show up blue....my html is weak these days.

A cursory examination of ancient Egyptian society and theology would reveal all manner of loose sexuality including: Pharaohs marrying and having children by their daughters and sisters, festivals involving sex and their pantheon of deities, and a tolerance for homosexual sex. The Law given by God had things that pointed specifically to what the Jews had come out of. Each of the plagues was aimed at a specific god of Egypt, and it making the jump from "our God smacked down these gods" to "so here's what you need to do as a result of this...." isn't such a great leap. The "scholar" who is fighting for a revision of the Law is a fool.

Thank you for this. I grew up on Edwards during the mid to late 70's. It was a very isolated place, but wonderful once you got used to it. Dick Scobee of the Challenger was a test pilot there, and Buzz Aldrin was the commander for a couple of years. The B-1 had its start there, was cancelled by Carter, then reactivated by Reaganus Maximus. This led to continued testing and development. NASA also tested different engine types....usually at around 8 on Saturday mornings. Seriously. The windows shook with the sounds of sonic booms on an almost daily basis, and it was just something you got used to. The high school on the base has made state rankings almost yearly, and once it had the highest percentage of graduates going to the service academies of any high school in the nation. 'The Right Stuff' doesn't even begin to define the caliber of the people there, officers, enlisted, or dependents.

Well, there's always this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwIrFTo495E

You'll have to copy and paste. Enjoy!

Jock Sturges was featured in an issue of Camera & Darkroom back in the '90's or so. One of the salient points Mr. Sturges brought up was that one time when he took his film of portraits to a lab, the lab worker called the cops when he saw what the subject matter was. He was angry that he was subject to 'harassment', and he blamed the lab worker (who, turned out, was a Christian). The pics were forgettable, but it was bothersome that they were of under-18 kids.

Jock Sturges can go pound sand. If it's true that he had an affair with a 14 year old, why isn't his ass in jail??

Seattle has gone out of its way to provide for the homeless. A firehouse in the Lake City area was shut down and renovated for homes for vagrants. Other things of similar nature have happened: apts, constant food handouts, etc. Some parts of town are worse, but it's a growing problem everywhere. The Seattle PD won't do anything. But hey, this is the same place with the 15 dollar minimum wage, streets cut down to provide bike lanes, and a billion-dollar drill that is currently idle.

I quit reading NR years ago. The eastie slant just got to be too much, and the guys who ran it after Buckley passed started being very condescending to the west. Their view of the tea party smacked of elitism, and they were never willing to give viable candidates who thought outside the box a real chance.

Nuts to them.