I don't make all the right mistakes, but as many as I can I do.

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   They can be the most wicked men of all time, killing thousands, and yet think they are in the right in killing all so many. Add Vladimir Putin to that list.

 Imperfection is more in seeing your own flaws than in assuming you do not have any. 

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Never let your shame be greater than your efforts to resolve it.

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 Those who would see into the heavens must use eyes other than those of the earth.

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Give Russian Soldiers a Chance to Surrender

   Should the Ukrainians reach a point where they know they are going to be able to knock the Russians out, they should first try to get as many as they can of the Russian soldiers to surrender. This would be difficult. How do you even contact the soldiers? If you contact Russia and ask them to allow their soldiers to surrender, Russia would not do it. And, it would arrest the soldiers who did want to surrender.

   Still, efforts should be made. Put our intelligence officers on the job. Let them search for a way to free some of the Russian soldiers. Get the message behind the enemy lines that if soldiers do find a way to escape, they will be free men. Such an effort might save a few lives.

He who has your heart, has your ear.

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For clothes, a lie dresses in those of truth.

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Friend To All Birds

God is friends with the seagulls

Friends with the swans

God is friends with all the birds of flying in morning's light

Friends with all the eagles

Friends with all the hawks 

Friends with all the birds flying in heaven's sight

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 In a Moon Boat

Take me to the moon in a riverboat

Row me to the moon in a canoe

I swear we'll never get there

But take me if you dare

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 Violence begats violence. When one has a gun, another runs to get one. 

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Will Putin Use Nuclear Bombs?

  Putin has warned us that any country that interferes in Ukraine "will face consequences that you have never experienced in your history." 

  He has also listed justifications for using nuclear weapons.

  We can only wonder why Israel does not come to the defense of Ukraine. It has declined to provide it's Dome shield to knock down any nuclear weapons. The Dome is considered the best weapons shield in the world. 

 On Easter Sunday, I add my plea to those of the rest of the world. May there be peace.

There are no highways to the top of a steep mountain. So it is in life, to reach the top, you cannot take the easy path.

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The Raft of Life

The raft of life when the storm sets in

With billowing waves that swallow most men

But the touch of the Master's hand quiets them

All thanks, then, we give to Him

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We forget much of what we have learned. We foreget much of what we have experienced. But we never forget those who have touched us the most.

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 Should the U.S. should back off on any sanctions against Russia that could lead to that country's currency being downgraded? If the Russian people would suffer, then the sanctions leading to the downgrade should no longer be consided. It seems to me, though, that the Russian people could continue to buy and sell with the rubles. The sanctions would only affect the the government and the Oligargies.

 The wind whips the willow

But it cannot bend the tree

The storm blows the man

So who will not stand tall 

Just like the tree

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President Russell M. Nelson Calls for Peaceful Resolution to World Conflict

 Perhaps he was telling us to Forgive Putin, to forgive Russia. Russell M. Nelson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said contention is against everything the Lord has taught. He urged the leaders of nations to find a peaceful resolution the the conflict. 

 If Ukraine did strike Russia, well, they ought to have. Counterstrikes are always a good idea. One needs to only look no further than Israel to know this. Their counterstrikcs have won wars.