Gas is ranging from $2.11 to $2.40 here for 87 octane. Depends on the station you go to.
We did Dutch Oven cooking in Rangers this evening. Made blueberry muffins in the oven and the boys made baked apples in foil pouches over the coals. I preheated the Dutch Oven in my oven at home and wrapped it in foil and a large towel and a cardboard box to preheat it to save time. I had all the ingredients pre-mixed too. We started the Kingsford inside a stack of three large coffee cans to make a chimney (bottoms cut out). The heat roars up through there and turns the charcoal white in no time. The muffins came out perfect, even if they were done right when it was time to leave. All the boys had plenty of time to eat their baked apples though. As for whether the war is "needless" or not, it's all a matter of who you think the enemy is and what his objective is. Some think the enemy is restricted to a rag-tag group called AlQueda and its leader, Osama bin Laden. That's all. Those folks also tend to think that the objective of "Terrorists" is to induce terror--to upset our routines--to simply take away the ability to participate in American daily life without fear. Supposedly, if they win, that's what we loose... Apparently, they think that's all we loose. I believe this opinion is the result of egalitarianism. Egalitarianism is a secular and atheistic idea that says that everyone is basically good and equal. It assumes that all religions and philosophies are equal in value and no one's "truth" is superior to anyone else's. Egalitarianism is the tool that secular thinkers use like God and Christian thinkers use "Unconditional Love". The difference is that egalitarianism denies that anyone can possess a truth that is any better than anyone else's truth and freedom is allowing everyone to wallow in their different opposing "truths" as long as they don't proselytize. Christianity's "unconditional love" has one truth that sets us free and we are commissioned to inform everyone of it. Most in this forum agree with me that we've got a lot more to lose than our sense of security and we agree that the enemy's objective is much more ambitious than inducing fear or getting us out of Iraq and Israel out of "occupied territories". You can't determine the objective of Radical Islam (RA) by looking up the definition of "terror" or "terrorism" in the dictionary. After all, they don't even call themselves terrorists. That's a label we gave them. They call themselves Jihadists. "Terrorists" may mean to frighten--- but Jihadists mean to rule the world. It would be silly and foolish to try to discuss what paths we should take so that the world might avoid the Tribulation and Armageddon. In fact, the problems are looming so large that the Tribulation and Armageddon are starting to look like a tool to fix the world's problems rather than the evidence that the "fix" has failed. Silly fool that I am, I think there is the possibility we struck too hard and too soon. "Nip it in the bud", you say, before the terrorists gain more strength. Just as Lance Armstrong let an opponent pass him on the flat ground and then gained back the lead in the mountains, we have to pace ourselves. The military is already falling short on recruitment for several months. Did we try too hard to hang on to the lead early on at any cost? I don't know. -Dave Perich _______________________________________________ The Golden Rule is my daily rule. To send mail to everyone on the RangerNet mailing list, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only list members may post. To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://lists.rangernet.org/mailman/listinfo/rangernet
