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Yahoo November 18
No, not 'Manson' from 'The Non-Conformist of the Year', yearly saga on this blog...let us be realistic.
Cited
'CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) — Mass murderer Charles Manson plans to marry a 26-year-old woman who left her Midwestern home and spent the past nine years trying to help exonerate him. Afton Elaine Burton, the raven-haired bride-to-be, said she loves the man convicted in the notorious murders of seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. No date has been set, but a wedding coordinator has been assigned by the prison to handle the nuptials, and the couple has until early February to get married before they would have to reapply.'
Cited
'The Kings County marriage license, viewed Monday by The Associated Press, was issued Nov. 7 for the 80-year-old Manson and Burton, who lives in Corcoran — the site of the prison — and maintains several websites advocating his innocence.'
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An eighty-year old man and twenty-six year old woman?
Is this the primary philosophical, ethical problem here?
My co-worker and senior colleague stated that obviously they would have nothing in common because of the massive age difference.
However, that is not for me to judge with any significant accuracy.
In general I tend to think that 'birds of a feather flock together'.
Philosophically and theologically, marriage Biblically via Genesis 1-3 is tied to the production of family.
Under normal circumstances, to be fair in this fallen realm.
My issue with a fifty-four year year age difference, even if the two persons do actually relate romantically, is that because of a typical eighty-year old man's limited life expectancy, it is not a good reasonable choice for the twenty-six year old woman to enter into such a relationship, based on a Biblical model.
Significant limited marriage length and family possibilities.
That is based philosophically on the idea that the man would be a typical biological eighty-year old.
In other words, an old man and a young woman is not a reasonable and good romantic relationship.
In this case, Charles Manson appears biologically a typical old man.
A marriage between a twenty-six year old woman and one such as or similar to well-known celebrity Chuck Norris that is seventy-four years old that could potentially live another thirty years, because he is extremely youthful and fit could be reasonable.
That would be a union of two youthful persons, even with a large biological age difference.
There would still be significant marriage length and family possibilities.
This is an example of philosophical subtlety.
However, the age difference is obviously, if one uses reason not the primary concern in this Manson case.
I mention it because I reason many observers will overly dwell on the age difference.
Far more importantly, no rational young woman, no sane young woman, should desire to be with a mass murderer in a romantic capacity.
Including in marriage, obviously.
CNN November 18
Cited
'Manson intends to marry Afton Burton, who goes by Star. Several years ago, she moved from Illinois to Corcoran, a small central California city that's home to Corcoran State Prison, where the 80-year-old convicted murderer has lived for the past 25 years.
She talks to Manson almost every day by phone and visits him on most weekends. No date has been set for the wedding, the source said. The couple has 90 days to exercise the license, without having to reapply. According to Jeffrey Callison, a spokesman with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the wedding must happen on a visiting day.'
Cited
'The prison limits physical contact. During visits, Star and Manson can only hug each other at the beginning and end. Because Manson is serving a life sentence, they won't be allowed conjugal visits, even when they're married.'
Yahoo November 18
Cited
'Afton Elaine Burton, the raven-haired bride-to-be, said she loves the man convicted in the notorious murders of seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate.' Cited 'Burton gave an interview a year ago to Rolling Stone magazine in which she said she and Manson planned to marry.
But Manson, who became notorious in 1969 as the leader of a roving "family" of young killers, was less certain about tying the knot.
"That's a bunch of garbage," Manson said in the December 2013 interview. "That's trash. We're playing that for public consumption."
Asked Monday about those comments, Burton said, "None of that's true," adding that they're waiting for the prison to complete their paperwork.'
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I reason that there is likely something significant to my senior co-worker's suggestion that there are financial considerations at work here with this story.
I will not speculate how that works in regard to someone in prison for life in the State of California as I am not expert, but Charles Manson is one of the most famous mass murderers in modern Western history and there would be financial considerations I reason.
My co-worker comparing this situation to eighty-eight year old Hugh Hefner of Playboy and his young girlfriends...
Worth consideration.
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ReplyDeleteMy son
ReplyDeleteThis is great. Take a moment to read it; it will make your day!
The ending will surprise you.
Take my Son.....
A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had everything in their collection, fromPicasso to Raphael. They would often sit together and admire the great works of art..
When the Vietnam conflict broke out, the son went to war. He was very courageous and died in battle while rescuing another soldier. The father was notified and grieved deeply for his only son.
About a month later, just before Christmas,
There was a knock at the door. A young man stood at the door with a large package in his hands..
He said, 'Sir, you don't know me, but I am the soldier for whom your son gave his life. He saved many lives that day, and he was carrying me to safety when a bullet struck him in the heart and he died instantly... He often talked about you, and your love for art.' The young man held out this package. 'I know this isn't much. I'm not really a great artist, but I think your son would have wanted you to have this.'
The father
Opened the package. It was a portrait of his son, painted by the young man. He stared in awe at the way the soldier had captured the personality of his son in the painting. The father was so drawn to the eyes that his own eyes welled up with tears. He thanked the young man and offered to pay him for the picture.. 'Oh, no sir, I could never repay what your son did for me. It's a gift.'
The father hung the portrait over his mantle. Every time visitors came to his home he took them to see the portrait of his son before he showed them any of the other great works he had collected.
The man died a few months later. There was to be a great auction of his paintings. Many influential people gathered, excited over seeing the great paintings and having an opportunity to purchase one for their collection.
On the platform sat the painting of the son. The auctioneer pounded his gavel. 'We will start the bidding with this picture of the son. Who will bid for this picture?'
There was silence...
Then a voice in the back of the room shouted, 'We want to see the famous paintings. Skip this one.'
But the auctioneer persisted. 'Will somebody bid for this painting? Who will start the bidding? $100, $200?'
Another voice angrily. 'We didn't come to see this painting. We came to see the Van Gogh's, the Rembrandts. Get on with the Real bids!'
But still the auctioneer continued. 'The son! The son! Who'll take the son?'
Finally, a voice came from the very back of the room. It was the longtime gardener of the man and his son. 'I'll give $10 for the painting...' Being a poor man, it was all he could afford.
'We have $10, who will bid $20?'
'Give it to him for $10. Let's see the masters.'
The crowd was becoming angry. They didn't want the picture of the son.
They wanted the more worthy investments for their collections.
The auctioneer pounded the gavel.. 'Going once, twice, SOLD for $10!'
A man sitting on the second row shouted, 'Now let's get on with the collection!'
The auctioneer laid down his gavel. 'I'm sorry, the auction is over.'
'What about the paintings?'
'I am sorry. When I was called to conduct this auction, I was told of a secret stipulation in the will... I was not allowed to reveal that stipulation until this time. Only the painting of the son would be auctioned. Whoever bought that painting would inherit the entire estate, including the paintings.
The man who took the son gets everything!'
ReplyDeleteGod gave His son over 2,000 years ago to die on the Cross. Much like the auctioneer, His message today is: 'The Son, the Son, who'll take the Son?'
Because, you see, whoever takes the Son gets everything!
FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, WHO SO EVER BELIEVETH, SHALL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE...THAT'S LOVE
Please send this to ten people and back to the one who sent it to you.
God Bless.
If I don't get this back, I will know you really didn't read it. I got this from someone and thought the last part was really a good thought..
Drinking with an Alberta girl
ReplyDeleteA Mexican, an Arab, and an Alberta girl are in the
same bar.
When the Mexican finishes his beer, he throws his glass in the
air, pulls out his pistol, and shoots the glass to pieces. He says, 'In Mexico , our glasses are so cheap we don't need to drink with the same one twice.'
The Arab, obviously impressed by this, drinks his beer, throws it into the air, pulls out his AK-47, and shoots the glass to pieces. He says, 'In the Arab World,
we have so much sand to make glasses that we don't need to drink with the same one twice either.'
The Alberta girl, cool as a cucumber, picks up her beer, downs it in one gulp, throws the glass into the air, whips out her 45, and shoots the Mexican and the Arab.
Catching her glass, setting it on the bar, and calling for a refill, she says,
'In Canada
we have so many illegal aliens that we don't have to drink with the same
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'God Bless
Canada! '
You gotta love
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ReplyDeleteDon't worry about 'Old Age'...it doesn't last that long.
Number 1 - Life is like a jar of jalapeno peppers. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteNumber 2 - In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.
ReplyDeleteNumber 3 - All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteNumber 4 - Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing.
ReplyDeleteNumber 5 - Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to fish the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks, months... maybe years.
Number 6 - Men have two emotions: hungry and horny, and they can't tell them apart. If you see a gleam in his eyes, make him a sandwich.
ReplyDeleteNumber 7 - Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
ReplyDeleteNumber 8 - Life is sexually transmitted.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteNumber 9 - Death is the number 1 killer in the world.
Verbal report @ work...
ReplyDelete'The black guys are not giving a briefing at shift end'.
There is only one black guy...
How the Internet Started (according to the Bible) ...
ReplyDeleteIn ancient Israel , it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a healthy young wife by the name of Dorothy.
And Dot Com was a comely woman, Large of breast, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com.
And she said unto Abraham, her husband, "Why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?"
And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said, "How, dear?"
And Dot replied, "I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling you who hath the best price. The sale can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."
Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums.
And the drums rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent.
To prevent neighboring countries from overhearing what the drums were saying, Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers knew. It was known as Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures - Hebrew To The People (HTTP).
And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS.
And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that enterprising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off every drum maker in the land. Indeed he did insist on drums to be made that would work only with Brother Gates' drumheads
and drumsticks.
And Dot did say, "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others."
And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel , or eBay as it came to be known.
He said, "We need a name that reflects what we are."
And Dot replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators."
"YAHOO," said Abraham.
And because it was Dot's idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com.
Abraham's cousin, Joshua, being the young Gregarious Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot's drums to locate things around the countryside.
It soon became known as God's Own Official Guide to Locating Everything (GOOGLE).
That is how it all began.
And that's the truth.
Question 1:
ReplyDeleteIf you knew a woman who was pregnant,
Who had 8 kids already,
Three who were deaf,
Two who were blind,
One mentally retarded,
And she had syphilis,
Would you recommend that she undergoes an abortion?
Read the next question before looking at the response for this one.
Question 2:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts..
Here are the facts about the three candidates.
Candidate A:
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists.
He's had two mistresses.
He also chain smokes
And drinks 8 to 10 Martinis a day.
Candidate B:
He was kicked out of office twice,
Sleeps until noon,
Used opium in college
And drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.
Candidate C:
He is a decorated war hero,
He's a vegetarian,
Doesn't smoke,
Drinks an occasional beer
And never committed adultery.
_______________________________________________________________
Which of these candidates would be your choice?
Decide first ... No peeking, and then scroll down for the response.
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.
And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion question:
If you said YES, you just killed Beethoven.
Pretty interesting isn't it?
Makes a person think before judging someone.
Remember:
Amateurs ... Built the ark.
Professionals ... Built the Titanic
Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, 'I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?' 'Just use paper from the photocopier', the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.
ReplyDeleteBrunette, by the way!!
ReplyDeleteA mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine, the mother says, 'I just gave him some ant killer......'
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I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car.
ReplyDelete'Do you need some help?' I asked.
She replied, 'I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door un-locker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?'
Hmm, I don't know. Do you have an alarm, too?' I asked.
'No, just this remote thingy,' she answered, handing it and the car keys to me.
As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, 'Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk....'
PLEASE just lay down before you hurt yourself !!!
A woman at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly.
ReplyDeleteWhen I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM thingy.
(Keep shuddering!!)
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ReplyDeleteNumber One Idiot
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Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants.
I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital.
She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants.
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