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Closing Thought--11Dec23 Can we put a price tag on our happiness? Some will say you cannot put a price tag on happiness....but apparently you can. Most Americans (59%) think money can buy happiness, and a new survey on the subject even puts a number on it. On average, Americans say they'd need about $1.2 million…

I thought it was about time for me to reinstate the 'Closing Thought' portion of my day. EGG PRICES A few months ago the word came out that many chickens had to be destroyed because of Avian Flu and there would be a shortage of eggs for market....as soon as word got out supermarkets in…

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…ye have not, because ye ask not. – James 4:2 (KJV)This is a very popular scripture to quote—especially when you are praying and believing God for something in your life. Jesus instructs us to ‘ask’ in many places in Scripture, so it makes sense that if y...

When I was a young man, I seemed to continually wrestle with knowing God’s will for my life. I wanted more than anything to follow His plan. Interestingly, now that I’m “old” (currently 47 years old), I still wrestle with doing His will in my life. I have...

Closing Thought--04Jun21 Donald the Orange has made yet another of his 'brilliant' and uninformed predictions......it seems this 'really smart person' thinks that he will be reinstated as president come August...... Yep he believes that the election of 2020 will be overturned and he can once again sit in the seat of power...(and the peasants danced)....…

Trying to Reason With The Hurricane Season–2021 Closing Thought–01Jun21 Today is 01 June….and the 2021hurricane season begins…..it actually got kicked off with a subtropical storm, Ana, in late May….. This means little to anyone that does not live in Hurricane Alley….but since I do it is a big deal. NOAA has made its predictions for 2021….. Subtropical storm Ana formed in the Atlantic Ocean early Saturday, according to the National Hurricane Center. Ana was the first named storm i...

Closing Thought--31May21 It is Memorial Day I would like to remember some absent friends from my days in Vietnam. In 1967 I was sent to South Vietnam and became part of the 9th Infantry Division Long Range Recon...my team was made of Buchanan, Puckett, Stern, Miller and myself....we served together from 1967-1968....in that year we…

Closing Thought--28May21 In the past couple of months readership has fallen off of IST....I hope it is because that people are starting to get out and about and chase life and not that people are starting to care less about the events in this country. So I have decided to cutback on my time on…

A “Year Of Carnage”? Closing Thought–25May21 So far this year there have been a wealth of fatal shootings all over the country…..far too many and yet nothing is being done to curb the trajectory of events. Over this past weekend I read some disturbing news on gun violence…..12 mass shootings. At least a dozen mass shootings took place over the weekend across the country, killing at least 11 people and injuring another 69. CNN combined its own stats with those from the Gun Violence Ar...