Aug 11, 2013

Cork, Ireland

John B. Wells, Sailing Through the Night Coast to Coast......

This 1928 Rolls Royce Phantom 1 was featured in the film "The Great Gatsby," starring Robert Redford in 1974. It was purchased by one of John B.'s friends and carried the happy confederates to dinner tonight. The location is not to be disclosed, of course!

John B. WElls, sailing through the night coast to coast at the helm of the mother ship, week-end host and filling in for Ship's captain, George Noory.

Good job, John

this picture is copied form the Coast to Coast website and here is a link:

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

Aug 9, 2013

The Case of the Vanishing Angel Priest of the Missouri Highway.......

copied from the Daily Mail............

The riddle of the 'angel priest': Holy man appeared from nowhere to pray with trapped girl and rescuers in traffic accident, told them she would be OK and then vanished

Katie Lentz was hit head-on by a drunk driver on Sunday morning on an isolated stretch of Missouri highway
Emergency workers battled for over an hour to rescue her but they couldn't free her from the car wreck
Lentz requested a moment of prayer and a priest appeared - even though the road was blocked off
He prayed and told the rescuers that Lentz would now be freed - and she was
They turned to thank him - but he was gone

By JAMES NYE

PUBLISHED: 21:31 EST, 7 August 2013 | UPDATED: 05:43 EST, 8 August 2013

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Pinned inside her mangled Mercedes, seriously injured and fading fast, Katie Lentz turned to her rescuers on the lonely open stretch of Missouri highway and asked them to pray.

Struck head-on by a drunk driver on Sunday morning, emergency workers had been battling for an hour and a half to free Lentz, but to no avail.

But as they joined hands a Catholic priest appeared, even though there were no bystanders and the road was blocked, who offered a prayer and an instruction to the rescuers that they would now be able to free her.

Suddenly, heavy equipment needed to cut through the metal arrived from a nearby town and Lentz was pulled from the wreck in time to be saved - but when they turned to thank the priest, he was gone.

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Mangled Wreck: Emergency workers were struggling to save Katie Lentz when she was hit head-on by a drunk driver on Highway 19 near to Center, Missouri

Prayer: When emergency workers could not free her - Katie Lentz asked them to stop so that a prayer could be said

Effort: The desperate effort to save Katie Lentz was blessed by a Catholic priest who appeared from nowhere and just as mysteriously vanished

'He came up and approached the patient, and offered a prayer,' Chief Raymond Reed told KHQA-TV.

'It was a Catholic priest who had anointing oil with him. A sense of calmness came over her, and it did us as well.

'I can’t be for certain how it was said, but myself and another firefighter, we very plainly heard that we should remain calm, that our tools would now work and that we would get her out of that vehicle.'

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That is when officers from the neighboring Hannibal Fire Department arrived with their jaws-of-life and Lentz was pulled to safety and put into an air ambulance to hospital.

Turning to thank the guardian angel who had arrived from nowhere at their lowest ebb, the emergency crews could not find him.

The highway had been blocked for a quarter of a mile each end during the hour and a half rescue and no bystanders and parked cars were anywhere near the crash site on Highway 19 near Center.

Divine Intervention: Katie Lentz was saved after emergency workers from Hannibal fire services arrived with heavy duty cutting equipment

'We would like to find this gentleman and be able to thank him,' Reed said.

'As a first responder, you don't know what you're going to run into. We have a lot of tools, and we have intensive training.

'In this particular case, it is my feeling that it was nothing more than sheer faith and nothing short of a miracle.'

Lentz suffered several broken bones to repair her legs, but her friends and family say that her spirit has been boosted by the apparent divine intervention.

'Both of her legs are very damaged,' Lentz's friend Amanda Wiseman said.

'Her wrist is broken, several broken ribs, so she's had a lot of broken bones to deal with.'

Scene: Dozens of emergency workers battled to free Katie Lentz as she lay pinned in her Mercedes wreck on Highway 19

Chief Raymond Reed said that the Catholic priest made everyone including Katie Lentz calmer before the jaw-of-life appeared from Hannibal

Chief Raymond Reed said rescue crews were struggling to cut through the strong metal of Lentz's Mercedes.

'It was a very well-built car, and when you compact materials like that one, they become even stronger because you're cutting through multiple things instead of one layer,' Reed said.

Reed says Lentz was pinned in between the steering wheel and the seat and the prayer was offered just as he was told by the paramedics that Lentz was failing.

'Where did this guy come from?' Lentz's friend Travis Wiseman asked.

'We're looking for the priest and so far, no one has seen him. Whether it was a priest as an angel or an actual angel, he was an angel to all those and to Katie.'

Empty Stretch: The road was closed for a quarter of a mile either side of the crash and there were no bystanders

The driver of the other car in that accident, Aaron Smith, has been charged with a DWI, second degree assault and failure to drive on the right half of the roadway.

There are several Catholic churches in the area to Highway 19 - the nearest being St Paul's - however, the mystery priest has still not come forward.

Do you know the guardian angel priest of Highway 19? If so, call 646 885 5149

Elizabeth Casey

Thu 4:53 AM

Years ago,my van broke down and a man in a pick up truck pushed me into a hugh parking lot and got out of his truck and opened my passenger door. When he saw I was pregnant, he said "Oh, I didn't know you were like that!" He then proceeded to look under hood and tell me it was the such and such and it couldn't be fixed there-I would have to go with him to get assistance. At that moment, this other man appeared and asked if he too could help. The first man quickly said "oh, let me go then " and jumped in his truck and drove away. I turned to the second man and he said "there is no such part as he told you in an engine. I looked away to watch the truck leave and when I looked back at the second man, there was no one there...I swear to God...I stood outside my van and looked around the entire hugh parking lot and there was no one there. My van easily started and I went home. Hours later, I realized what had happened and how lucky I had been. A few months later, a man fitting the description of the first guy was in the paper-he was found to be raping and killing women under the guise of fixing their cars when they wouldn't start. That was when I realized how generous God had been - to let me go home to my 2 small children and carry my 3rd. You can all be skeptical but I know what I experienced.

Aug 8, 2013

James Carville Explains the Facts of Life to Bill O'Reilly

O'Reilly "goes o'reilly"

I predicted this....It was just a matter f time before James took O'Reilly out. Notice how James waits for O'Reilly to trip himself up with his own stupid version of the facts. O'Reilly should have known better than to go up against a fast talker like James Carville.

Good Job, James.

Thanks for explaining the facts of life to Bill O'Reilly.

now here is the real story from Slate.........

Bill O'Reilly's Brilliant Pregnancy Prevention Program, Featuring Jay Z

By Amanda Marcotte

Posted Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, at 1:12 PM

The glaring contradiction in conservative rhetoric between the hostility toward contraception and the endless hand-wringing about single motherhood so often goes unchallenged in cable news discourse that James Carville was able to get Bill O'Reilly to go into a rhetorical death spiral just by bringing it up on Thursday. O'Reilly was running his mouth with the usual race-baiting talking points that incorrectly assume that rising numbers of births to legally unmarried women means that huge numbers of women are raising children alone when he proposed that the federal government fund (with money!) a campaign to tell young women to stop having all of the sex. Carville took this as a fun opportunity to provoke O'Reilly's notorious dislike for contraception by pointing out that any kind of campaign to prevent unplanned pregnancy should include contraception and sex education.

Watching O'Reilly try to reconcile his "contraception is bad" position with his "stop having babies" position is delightful. First he attempted to deny that contraception, which he associates with sex, has anything to do with baby-making:

Carville: I think the idea that the federal government is going to tell a 17-year-old that you just wait and you don’t have sex—I don’t think that’s going to be effective.

O'Reilly: It has nothing to do with sex. It has to do with getting pregnant.

After Carville pointed out the fundamental problem with this argument, O'Reilly changed tactics, claiming that you can just go to Planned Parenthood and get contraception. When Carville noted that this is a funding issue—alluding to the fact that the anti-choice movement O'Reilly supports attacks any effort to make contraception more accessible—O'Reilly flipped out: "So, you don’t want peer pressure brought, you want to fund, fund, fund! More money, more money!"

He added, "Why don’t we just have the Good Humor man have contraception on the ice cream truck?" before giving more details about what his proposed "federal program" to discourage unmarried motherhood would entail: Having Jay Z tell young women not to have sex.

O'Reilly: It’s going to discourage! Actively discourage! Peer pressure! Jay Z, the multimillion-dollar man—have him get out and do a couple public service announcements.

Sadly, Carville did not have a chance to ask any of the pertinent follow-up questions, but I have a few: 1) Why does O'Reilly think that the 43-year-old Jay Z is a "peer" to the young women the Fox News star would dearly love to stop having sex? 2) If a federally funded Jay Z had dropped a line to O'Reilly in 2004 to discourage the then-married man from calling up a female colleague to invite her over for potentially pregnancy-causing activities, would that have stopped him? I'm not being flip. I just want to understand how this rappers-against-sex program is expected to work.

Aug 7, 2013

Why Chris Matthews is wrong and Chloe Louise is right....Chris Christie wins it easily over Rand Paul

Right, I watch Chris Matthew’s Hardball on MSNBC each and every day. Love Chris but this time he has got it wrong--except for his name, that is.

He is predicting Rand Paul for the presidential nominee of the republican party.....

Chris, sorry about this one but you are dead wrong.

Chris Christie, republican rock star, will easily be the chosen one to bring his party out of darkness--out of the walking dead of negativity headed by fox new and the ROWG branch of the GOP--which Rand Paul is, indeed, a part of and now embarrassed about his position.

Chris, it’s already over and done with.....

Chris Christie already proved it....Rand Paul tried to go to battle with the great fighter, lost and has tried to beg forgiveness. Christie won the ground over his statement about libertarianism with the comment focused on Rand Paul.

Rand Paul can’t keep up. Chris Christie did not need to try and get together with loser Paul and like confrontations will continue.

Christie can fight without being ugly.

He has the back of the citizens of New Jersey and he will show he also has the back of the working class citizens of the United States.

He has that certain something--the Christie Swagger--Rand Paul comes off as little, afraid and whining, just like his fox news cohorts. That is a bad choice of a gang to hang-out with. That will bring him down.

Chris Christie has already ditched the limbaugh sinking ship of fools of the republican party.

Chris Christie has a certain panache--he rolls with the big boys--talking about President Obama being the biggest boy of all.

He won the race with his passion on Sandy and he will ride home on a clean finish--the tea-partiers will be crying in the wind as they are left behind.

My only fear and hope at the same time--Chris Christie will be much harder to beat for my girl Hillary Clinton but the race will be great.

See you there Chris Mathews--I love you but you are wrong on this one--Chloe Louise is right.

chloe louise...Hillary girl forever.

this is from Real Clear Politics.........

Kordane Chloe Louise
42 minutes ago
You're wrong because you're thinking like a Democrat whilst trying to predict how Republicans will vote. You have to think like a Republican to know how Republicans will vote.

You guys thought that Huntsman was the best Republican candidate ever, even though he barely got any support at all among Republicans.

The same will happen with Chris Christie.
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- Chloe Louise Kordane
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  Your dog is pretty. Actually, you are absolutely right--I hate to admit it. I was so sure that Huntsman would take off--he was the only sensible choice. Romney was a disaster--he was so weak; he would have had a fighting chance if he would have just stuck to his original plans--he just kept getting weaker and weaker. Then the next question is what is wrong with republicans? Who are the voters? What is the make up of the voters and the US? Who won the election. Even the tea-party-est of the GOP must realize they have to change if they want to win. The crazy rush-ite era is over for the republican party--even they have to know that--if they can count--that is. Strength is attractive--with dogs and politicians--that is why Christie will win the nomination. The repubs have got to think it through this time. Christie is a breath of fresh air from the O'Reilly haters.