I HOPE THEY WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL

Federal Bailout May Include Credit Card, Loan Companies (LINK) (see also "Get Off Your Butts and Lend")

MATT 18 : 23"Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents^[a] was brought to him. 25Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

 26"The servant fell on his knees before him. 'Be patient with me,' he begged, 'and I will pay back everything.' 27The servant's master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.

 28"But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii.^[b] He grabbed him and began to choke him. 'Pay back what you owe me!' he demanded.

 29"His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.'

 30"But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.

 32"Then the master called the servant in. 'You wicked servant,' he said, 'I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?' 34In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

 35"This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart."

RELATIVELY SPEEKING

ANSWERS TO THE RANDOM QUESTIONS GOING THROUGH MY HEAD.

The US is larger than China but has about 1,000,000,000 fewer people.

The US is slightly smaller than Canada but has 10 times its population.

The US is more than twice the size of the entire glorious European Union with 100,000,000 fewer people.

All this to say we have more land and resources with fewer people to use them than any country except Russia. And people, lets face it if push comes to shove and we needed Canada... well you get the picture.

We let everybody else supply our oil and resources while we spend very little of our own. Gas prices suck but we are still making it. I am glad to know that in the grand scheme of things we stand a pretty good chance of surviving a little bump in the road.

The doomsdayer EU lovers can put that in their pipe...er cigarettes... and smoke it.

I feel better now.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

CAN YOU BELIEVE HE GREW UP TO DO THIS

FORT WORTH — The case against an Arlington man accused of killing a 17-year-old during a confrontation over a minor car crash has ended in a mistrial.
The jury deliberated for about six hours Friday before indicating that they were deadlocked — seven for guilty, five for not guilty.
Giorgio Raleigh Debose, 20, was on trial last week in state District Judge George Gallagher’s court.
Debose is accused in the July 5, 2006, death of Terrance Chance.
The background
Police have said that Chance and another man were in a red Chevrolet Malibu when it struck a Chrysler New Yorker occupied by Debose and some other men. Witnesses told police that two people who were in the New Yorker tried to chase the Malibu on foot, but the car got away.
The cars eventually met up again on East Mulkey Street and New York Avenue, where witnesses said Debose and another man got out of the New Yorker and confronted the driver of the Malibu and Chance, a passenger. Witnesses told police that Debose shot Chance during the confrontation.
Afterward, police have said, Chance’s friends loaded his body into the back seat of the Malibu and drove it to an abandoned house on East Powell, where the body was left. The driver of the car later told police that he left Chance’s body there while he tried to retaliate for the killing.
What the prosecution said
Prosecutor Jim Hudson, who tried the case with Sheila Wynn, said that Debose is still charged with murder and that the case will remain pending until it is either retried or a plea bargain is reached. Hudson tipped his hat to defense attorney Jim Shaw, a "superb cross-examiner" who he said attacked the credibility of his witnesses. Hudson said some of his witnesses had criminal cases, at least two were alleged gang members, one had mental issues and another couldn’t be located. "We had our work cut out for us," Hudson said.
What the defense said
Shaw, who defended Debose with Jim Renforth, said he pointed out inconsistencies in the state’s witnesses and placed blame on others besides his client. At one point, Shaw said, Gallagher told him he would sanction him at the end of the trial because he continued to cross-examine a witness about his perjured testimony. A hearing on the matter has been scheduled for next week.
Shaw said that if he was found in contempt of court and had to spend Fourth of July in jail it would be "better than spending all day with my wife’s family."
"I’m sorry it happened," Shaw said. "I’m very contrite. I don’t want to go to jail."
MELODY McDONALD, 817-390-7386 Fort Worth Star Telegram