Re-Tired and Confused

     I have done something that has resulted in several of my followers' pictures disappearing.  I don't have so many followers that I can afford to offend any of them, so I'd love to know if anyone can tell me how to get those pictures back.  I believe they vanished while I was playing around with some commands like, "Block images from ..."
     I've heard many people tell me I would be busier retired than when I held a real job.  I didn't believe them...until this week.  I've been up at 5:30 A.M. doing manual labor resulting in my accumulating blisters, intensifying my need for chiropractic assistance and making it difficult to keep my eyes open until bedtime.  I volunteered to help my son install a floor.  Oh, did I mention I have a bum knee?  Suddenly I find myself looking for more time to complete some tasks before Sunday.  I thought it was tiring dealing with misbehaving kids and disgruntled parents, yet today I was longing for those days.
     So Pastor Jones wants us all to burn copies of the Quran this Saturday?  Nobody is denying his right to do so, but many have voiced their concern, opposition and indignation at the apparently unstoppable action.  I happen to agree that he should not go through with it, but maybe not for the same reasons as others I've listened to.  First, I don't believe any government official should be saying anything directly addressing the wisdom of Pastor Jones' action.  Hilary should make it clear to the world that the government does not condone this action, but she should have stopped short of calling the plan "outrageous and distrustful, disgraceful."  By making that judgment she has put the state in the position of officially "disfavoring" a particular religion.  While this is not the same as making a "law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," it steps over the line intended by our founding fathers.  And those, like General Patraeus, who believe the pastor's actions will endanger the lives of American service personnel don't understand that Al Qaeda and the Taliban already are doing everything in their power to wipe all of us off the face of the earth because we aren't devote Muslims.  What more can this pastor's actions incite them to?
     Second, the people who will be most affected by this ill advised demonstration are those Muslims who have been fence riders or sideline sitters up to this point.  They will now be enraged and may attack American civilians, like missionaries, in emotional responses to an action intended to incite those emotions.  And emotions are all that will rule in Muslim communities around the world.  They will not stop to consider that groups like Al Qaeda, Hamas and the Taliban have desecrated the American flag, torn up and stomped on Bibles, cut the head off of Nick Berg and cheered at the news of 3,000 civilian deaths on September 11, 2001.  The burning of a few Qurans just doesn't seem to compare.
     Oh, Pastor Jones' group is called Dove Outreach Center.  The dove is a symbol of peace.  Outreach is an attempt to share the Good News with people and pray they will respond by believing that Jesus is the Savior.  I'm just not sure how declaring this Saturday International Burn a Quran Day fits in with the vision, aims and goals that title of their organization seems to declare.
     I believe I will just display the flag on the front deck.