“You may not be interested in Islam, but Islam is interested in you!
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“How true..
FOR ALL:
One of the big problems of ‘presenting’ poppies at local businesses is you need a permit anymore.
Not just a ‘blanket permit’, you have to apply and get approved yearly or whenever you want to ‘man the station’(this may have changed somewhat but it was the way it was a few years back).
When this first started the people used to ‘gripe’ about the permits but I would point out to them that without the permit, anyone who could afford an empty soup can or coffee cup would be standing in the doorways of the businesses.
Of course would get the argument that ‘Ours is a GOOD cause’ but I would point out that the ‘Hare Krishna’ guy at the airport is/was convinced his was a good cause as well as the guy in the median strip at the red light.
As to the permits, it is sort of like the Legions/VFWs with bingo etc...MUST HAVE MEMBERS in all phases, can’t ‘farm’ anything out. AND you can’t pay anyone.
So, since these are all VOLUNTEERs, the ‘work force’ slims down yearly and it gets harder to get members to step forward.
One of my ‘favorite’ sayings is
“Don’t whizzz off the volunteer help, you may end up doing it yourself”
People ‘hate it’ when one throws a logical answer back at them...
Now I don’t want a mosque next door to me either BUT I (not so) ‘casually’ point out that 100 years ago the Catholics/Jews/now WASP etc where being stimied when they wanted to build THEIR Houses of Worship and - I am sure - with the tired old argument...well Rome/Tel Aviv/ etc will be running OUR country from theirs.
Now I do know that part of the ‘objection’ to JFK was that ROME would be running everything from Rome.
Oh, when people ‘gripe’ about all the Blacks voting for BO because he is Black, is that the same as MOST Catholics voting for JFK just because he is Irish/Catholic?
‘I refer to myself as a ‘Devils Advocate’, while most think of me as a ‘smart ass’ and I do admit to being quite anal’..... <: <: <:
Yes...I wanted to see if I could join VFW, but I was peacetime Navy, so they still have that requirement last I checked.
That is awful...you have to get a bloody permit. God, how I hate bureaucracy.