User Profile: vic108

vic108

Member Since: January 29, 2012

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  • Purported Aunt of Boston Bombing Suspects Gets Into Fiery Exchange With TheBlaze’s Buck Sexton

    April 21, 2013 at 9:00am

    The older brother’s name is very telling. Anyone from India would know the history well… Tamerlane was a ruthless general and ruler – killing his way through much of West, South, and Central Asia. Rarely did he show mercy. Millions died by his orders…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur

  • Read the Heartbreaking Post From a Dad Admitting He Can’t Provide for His Kids — and See the Happy Ending

    December 8, 2012 at 12:03pm

    In reply to vic108.

    Great story!
    May God bless you and your family!

  • Read the Heartbreaking Post From a Dad Admitting He Can’t Provide for His Kids — and See the Happy Ending

    December 8, 2012 at 11:54am

    In reply to RoDogg.

    Rodogg.

    N.A.S.A. Wallops Island seems to be busy these days. Near Chincoteague Island, VA, it’s a nice place to raise kids and enjoy nature. Lot’s of good fishing, hunting, boating, bird watching, beaches, etc…

    Along with NASA, there are many sub-contractors too:

    Orbital, Lockheed Martin, Fluor, CSC, VT Group, LJT & Associates, URS Coporation, and a few more…..

    Hope it all works out for the best soon for you & yours…

  • Read the Heartbreaking Post From a Dad Admitting He Can’t Provide for His Kids — and See the Happy Ending

    December 8, 2012 at 10:40am

    In reply to vic108.

    I agree with you, MIL-DOT – don’t give a lazy person anything except inspiration to get them off of their ****… as you know, I’m talking about the helpless, someone down on their luck, the truly needy, the lonely, the widowed, the sick, the young, the elderly, and when you feel it in your heart at that moment. What and if a person gives is their own biz – after all, it’s what they’ve earned and it is theirs.

    I just think of the few times that someone went out of their way and was kind to me… Back in the early 1990′s. after I got laid off from a job that I had for 12 years, I thought I’d try my luck in the Monterey/Carmel Valley area of California. Turns out, all my money went to rent and I would go to bed hungry for months at a time – i was pinching pennies anyway I could. I lived on rice and cheap local squash for MONTHS. I also lost 30 lbs in the process. Across the street from where I worked was an older Japanese lady that ran a heath food store where I would go and buy the cheapest thing I could for lunch. After awhile, I guess she noticed that I was losing weight or something….. she started bringing me BAGS of almost out of date food over after she had closed up for the night. If it wasn’t for her sweet kindness, I would have had a tougher time than I did.

    Also, after I got laid off from my last job (after 17 years), things got really tight but someone I barely knew went out and bought me 4 big boxes of groceries. Man! Some people are so thoughtful…

  • Read the Heartbreaking Post From a Dad Admitting He Can’t Provide for His Kids — and See the Happy Ending

    December 8, 2012 at 9:58am

    In reply to vic108.

    CPTENN94,

    i think of ‘random acts of kindness’ as sport…..

    i laugh when liberals will get in their car and drive to some ‘social cause’ when on the way, they must pass all kinds of folks that are in need of some sort.

    even if they are not in need, find a active soldier or a vet and brighten their day ‘just because’.

    I’ve been doing this for years and have many dozen stories along these lines…. from paying the road toll for the person in the car behind me too and cutting the grass at the home of an elderly neighbor while he was in a nursing home – always on the sneak! :)

  • Read the Heartbreaking Post From a Dad Admitting He Can’t Provide for His Kids — and See the Happy Ending

    December 7, 2012 at 3:24pm

    A local family that used to own a small beer/wine distributorship never forgot their humble beginnings of having to work hard to make ends meet. even when they had very little, every Christmas they (kids and all) would do something for a needy (needier than them) family. When they took over the family beer biz and were better off, they kept up the tradition. Over the years even the grandkids were enlisted to save up through the year to help. they also started a fund drive to get other folks to join in too. It wasn’t just toys, they would help pay bills, bring food, the Christmas tree, pay the rent, car payments, etc. I helped with a donation but I was thinking to myself: “who heals the healers, all these years, they have given, let’s see how good they can receive!”

    One day around Christmas, the son and I were at work talking “guitars” and I showed him pictures of my many guitars. He spotted my red fender telecaster and said that he used to have one just like it but had to sell it when their first baby was born. He said he always regretted selling his guitar. The next day, I came in with the guitar in case, and showed it to him. “wow! that’s a beautiful guitar there!” and I said: “Glad you like it, Merry Christmas, It’s yours now”. He was stunned “You can’t do this…”. I said: “I just did, what goes around, comes around”.

  • Read the Heartbreaking Post From a Dad Admitting He Can’t Provide for His Kids — and See the Happy Ending

    December 7, 2012 at 3:09pm

    a few years back, on a guitar forum, we had a young lad join the forum that seemed like the nicest kid we all had met in years. with his southern Texas manners and wit, we (the older guys) soon gave him a nickname and took him “under our wings” as “one of us”. Unlike alot of the younger folks that visited the forum, he wasn’t the head-banging, self centered, “know it all” that alot of young musicians are today. He had a tough year: during Katrina, his family had to move to safety, his grandmother passed away, they got hit by another hurricane, and his guitar amp died on him. So I packaged up one of my guitar amps (a nice Vox combo) and shipped it to him for Christmas. I think he thanked me a million times. All I told him was that when he becomes an old geezer like me and sees a young musician struggling like he did, to do the same…

  • Read the Heartbreaking Post From a Dad Admitting He Can’t Provide for His Kids — and See the Happy Ending

    December 7, 2012 at 3:03pm

    In reply to RoDogg.

    Hang in there, Rodogg! I hope some good things comes your way soon…

    I was laid off on 04/01/2011 after 17 years at my job and it took 16 months to find another job – making only 46% of what I used to bring home a week. Savings will run out soon as my bills are $300 per month more than what I make now (all based on what I USED to make!) and I’ve cut off all luxuries and am down to the basics… I eat alot of rice and P&J sandwiches. I had to adopt out my dogs, as I could no longer afford to feed them – man! That broke my heart! Time will tell if I can keep my house – I hope I can refinance at a lower interest rate or get my mortgage adjusted somehow. For Thanksgiving, I ate some pasta…

    The shame is, alot of folks are in the same boat… or worse…

  • Read the Heartbreaking Post From a Dad Admitting He Can’t Provide for His Kids — and See the Happy Ending

    December 7, 2012 at 2:43pm

    I first had that lesson shown to me years ago by my father. A rough & ready 3rd degree black-belt redneck that wasn’t the warm & fuzzy type. he had been taking care of his semi-disabled sister her entire life. He bought her a home and paid her bills just to keep her off the dole. He thought it was a family’s duty to take care of family. But over the years, she took it all for granted and became demanding. Even her grown kids (with their boyfriends) moved into this house and enjoyed the free ride. On my Saturdays off, i would go and cut the grass and clean the yard because no one there was doing anything. One holiday, my dad and i were on our way over to her house when my dad said: “to hell with this” and stopped a few houses down from hers, at some place that was no more than a shack. He grabbed this huge ham and other goodies we had and went up to the door of the shack.
    A very old black man answered and my dad said: “happy thanksgiving”. The old man started crying and almost fainted. i heard him say: “I prayed all day that i would have something to eat today” as he
    grabbed my dad’s arm and hugged him and kept saying “God Bless you…”. My dad got back in the van and said nothing but i could tell he was moved. So was i…

  • Read the Heartbreaking Post From a Dad Admitting He Can’t Provide for His Kids — and See the Happy Ending

    December 7, 2012 at 2:32pm

    Pay it forward…..

    A few years back at a local restaurant, there was an elderly couple having dinner. I noticed that he had on a US NAVY hat with a WWII ship name on it. These hats are worn by veterans to show that they have served their country and which ship they were deployed on. I hinted to the waitress to come over and be discrete. I told her to put their dinner on my bill and to accept nothing from them, not even a tip. When it was time for them to leave, the old fella asked for the bill and the waitress told them that it was taken care of, that the person that did this just wanted to thank him for his service. I kept my head down looking busy eating as they scanned the dinner looking for who might have done this. They left the dinner thrilled and all smiles…

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