Joe Palen

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I am a retired heat transfer research engineer with a PhD in Chemical Engineering. I was a non-believer until age 42 when I became a "born-again" Christian. I enjoy reading (e.g.Robin Cook, Ted Dekker, Dean Koontz, Bob Woodward, Marcus Borg, Bible), playing soprano sax, and singing in choir. Six children and 11 grandchildren

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We stand in rows to honor themwhose lives were taken by another like themalso in uniform but not uniform in purpose.Fine men and women in uniformtrained with their weapons standing ready to fightas su...
No not sharks! – stop that movie music! –sharps, those pesky music marks that look like the pound sign on your cell phone. It started when I became a Christian a few years ago, and as an...
I am a supporter of Obama , but not a supporter of the “war” in Afghanistan. We, under Bush, originally attacked the Taliban in Afghanistan because they were harboring Al Qaeda, who claime...
4 more died todaythe demos are in, i heard them say but4 more died todaywe stopped those right wingers, held them at bay but4 more died todayhow can we help it, what part can we play4 more died todayw...
I think we always remember our embarrassments. Years ago, I was a brand new BS chemical engineer on his first airplane flight to New Jersey to be interviewed by Esso (as Exxon Mobil was called in thos...
They said God helps those who help themselves.I tried hard to conform.The program called for drink and drugs.Live hard and fast was the norm.God seemed to not care - he wasn’t around.“The...
For a number of years I worked for a not-for-profit company dedicated to research that would benefit an entire industry. We had no stock and all income was divided between salaries and research equip...
I heard something that made sense to me today. Someone said, "why not just remove the requirement 65 and over from Medicare?" I have Medicare and it works fine. My wife had a serious disease costing o...
Wow, I just read on the web that Sarah Palin is calling the Democrat's health plan "Evil" and warning against an Obama Administration "Death Panel" that would decide, under their proposed health plan,...
As the president speaks today I have to say drug prices are too high. Thought about that and quickly decided that profits are the reason why. They say "but we need this extra for research and so forth...
Obama says we must change it,We need health care now and for all.We agree, but we so need a vacation;We'll think about it more in the Fall....
Something I snatched off Politics Daily about none other than the Pope:"But what is clear, whether one reads every word or just excerpts, is that the pope is a liberal, at least in American political ...
What's New? (by Bob Haggart and Johnny Burke)"What's new?How is the world treating you?You haven't changed a bitLovely as ever, I must admit"-----------------------------------------------------------...
"Stuck in Gitmo prison, black and blue as I can be Stuck in Gitmo prison, black and blue as I can be Obama said he'd spring us But nobody wants us if we're free"Well yeah, I can see that side: "Not i...
I used laugh when people commented on old folks reading the obituaries - not any longer. That is where the names of my friends appear in print - usually for the first time. Dina and I went to a Memori...