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I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

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Monday, May 30, 2011

More Jim Tressel Thanks Sarah Rapp! and Jack H P.!

Retention of mutual respect continues with me too Sam, but you are


considerably more liberal than I thought you might be, like having a

tatoo was a right of citizenship and maybe we should wink at those who

break the rules to get one or a car which I never had until I was two

years out of college.. Make that three( I was back in the service

51/53.There is an aura....suggestion... "Everybody does it" here Sam.

I ,for one, am happy to see the re-affirmation of the old adage ,"

cheaters never win". Jack P. Glad I couldn't afford an OSU ring when J

graduated, I'd throw it away now.

Jack H P.


I am with you. seemed like a witch hunt and maybe there is more to a mere chance that Urban has moved to Cols. some kind of deal with someone in the NcAA? I don't like Urban but if he becoes the coach I will have to suport him.. I am a buckeye fan thru and thru.


I knew that Jack would love this and he would also like to see urban up there

if some one give s me something don't I have the right to dispose of it as I see fit? making that rule is dumb.. aren't the super bowl rings for sale?? money, money money

and now they are trying to dig up stuff clear back in Youngstown. and Gorden Gee is under the gun also..stupid. stupid stupid...why isn't some one having witch hunt for O?

Sarah Rapp

--- On Mon, 5/30/11, Sam Kegley wrote:





From: Sam Kegley

Subject: Re: Fwd: OSU

To: "Jack Plymale"

Date: Monday, May 30, 2011, 4:15 PM





Well Jack, this OSU football fan remains ashamed of the NCAA. I hardly see a young person without a tatoo as students of Columbus State Community College. If they found a way to trade their awards for them, it helps I am sure. The skin tabs are not cheap. One girl told me her shoulder tatoo (color and legible) cost $400. I don't know what the full body jobs are costing. I doubt that there is a FB team (college) in America without similar happenings. Yes it is ridding Ohio State of a good and very successful football coach and apparently a decent human being. Will there be any other similar cases? If not, the NCAA is putting its head in the sand.



I still respect you, good Trojan warrior.



Sam
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Monday, May 30, 2011

RE- OSU FB coach Jim Tressel Resigns

Labels Football, Ohio State Well Jack and Jim, this OSU football fan remains ashamed of the NCAA. I hardly see a young person without a tatoo as students of Columbus State Community College. If they found a way to trade their awards for them, it helps I am sure. The skin tabs are not cheap. One girl told me her shoulder tatoo (color and legible) cost $400. I don't know what the full body jobs are costing. I doubt that there is a FB team (college) in America without similar happenings and violatuions. Yes it is ridding Ohio State of a good and very successful football coach and apparently a decent human being. Will there be any other similar cases? If not, the NCAA is putting its head in the sand.







I still respect you, good Trojan warriors.



Sam







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From: "Jack Plymale" Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 11:12 To: "Sam Kegley" Subject: Fwd: OSU





Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 10:55:27 -0400 Subject: Re: OSU To: JAMES FOUT







It had to be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A slap on the wrist wasn't possible. I imagine the university left this option open to him( right in front of me --now. there is a small spider carrying a moth about ten times his size straight up a single web.) Now there will be hugh conjecture about whether this has been in the works for a year or so and has just become a matter of public knowledge. Urban Meyer quiting at Florida, coming back to Columbus and buying a house is just too much of a coincidence. It may not come to pass but I'll bet that was the plan. Nobody could have predicted the publicity, but anyone familiar with OSU football should have been able to There is enough shame in this fiasco for everyone officially associated with the university to share We all know what Tressel did is not uncommon. The way OSU handled it is. Shameful!!!!!!!! Jack P.







On 5/30/11, JAMES FOUT wrote: TRESSEL RESIGNS



Jack P.

RE- OSU FB coach Jim Tressel Resigns

Well Jack and Jim, this OSU football fan remains ashamed of the NCAA. I hardly see a young person without a tatoo as students of Columbus State Community College. If they found a way to trade their awards for them, it helps I am sure. The skin tabs are not cheap. One girl told me her shoulder tatoo (color and legible) cost $400. I don't know what the full body jobs are costing. I doubt that there is a FB team (college) in America without similar happenings and violatuions.  Yes it is ridding Ohio State of a good and very successful football coach and apparently a decent human being. Will there be any other similar cases? If not, the NCAA is putting its head in the sand.



I still respect you, good Trojan warriors.

Sam



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From: "Jack Plymale" Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 11:12 To: "Sam Kegley" Subject: Fwd: OSU


 Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 10:55:27 -0400 Subject: Re: OSU To: JAMES FOUT



It had to be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A slap on the wrist wasn't possible. I imagine the university left this option open to him( right in front of me --now. there is a small spider carrying a moth about ten times his size straight up a single web.) Now there will be hugh conjecture about whether this has been in the works for a year or so and has just become a matter of public knowledge. Urban Meyer quiting at Florida, coming back to Columbus and buying a house is just too much of a coincidence. It may not come to pass but I'll bet that was the plan. Nobody could have predicted the publicity, but anyone familiar with OSU football should have been able to There is enough shame in this fiasco for everyone officially associated with the university to share We all know what Tressel did is not uncommon. The way OSU handled it is. Shameful!!!!!!!! Jack P.



On 5/30/11, JAMES FOUT wrote: TRESSEL RESIGNS



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Buchanan to obama... Thanks Keith B. and Jack H!

BUCHANAN TO OBAMA This appears accurate. Blacks are 12.9% of our population, but comprise about 40% of the federal work force whose average salary is $78,000 per year as compared to the general population's annual salary of about $42,000 per year. It is odd that no one writes about this great disparity.



Harry W. Brandt, CPA







Finally............It is Said Publicly. I have never seen the white side explained better! Pat Buchanan had the guts to say it. It is about time.



BUCHANAN TO OBAMA





By Patrick J. Buchanan



Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America .. Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation.. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.... This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:



First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.. Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.



Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ' 60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants.Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks. We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude??



Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Let him go to Altoona ? And Johnstown , and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids...? Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America ? Is it really white America 's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?



Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?



As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?



Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?



We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Taiwan Brawly, the Duke rape case and Jena . And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.



Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago. This needs to be passed around because, this is a message everyone needs to hear!!!



OK...........



will you pass it on ? YES. I did but will you? Because I'm for a better America





Honor our Veterans - it's the right thing to do. I am Not racist, Not violent, Just not silent anymore


Jack P.


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Stupid statement... (presidential?)... Thanks Luis!

THE MOST STUPID STATEMENT MADE BY A PRESIDENT (Bam Bam)



If someone has to explain this to you, You are not a veteran…



He doesn't seem to have much respect for the military.

Maybe in the future our leaders should be veterans.



THE MOST STUPID STATEMENT EVER BY A PRESIDENT!



This most UNBELIEVABLE President of all time?





HERE IS HIS RESPONSE WHEN HE BACKED OFF FROM HIS DECISION TO REQUIRE THE MILITARY PAY FOR THEIR WAR INJURIES.



Bad press, including major mockery of the play by comedian Jon Stewart, led to President Obama abandoning his proposal to require veterans carry private health insurance to cover the estimated $540 billion annual cost to the federal government of treatment for injuries to military personnel received during their tours on active duty. The President admitted that he was puzzled by the magnitude of the opposition to his proposal.







"Look, it's an all volunteer force," Obama complained. "Nobody made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the risks. Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice? It doesn't compute.." "I thought these were people who were proud to sacrifice for their country, "Obama continued "I wasn't asking for blood, just money. With the country facing the worst financial crisis in its history, I'd have thought that the patriotic thing to do would be to try to help reduce the nation's deficit.. I guess I underestimated the selfishness of some of my fellow Americans."



Please pass this on to every one including every vet and their families whom you know. How in the world did a person with this mindset become our leader?

REMEMBER THIS STATEMENT...."Nobody made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the risks. Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice?"





If he thinks he will ever get another vote from an Active Duty, Reserve, National Guard service member or veteran of a military service he ought to think it over.. If you or a family member is or has served their country please pass this to them.



Please pass this to everyone. I'm guessing that other than

the 20-25 percent hardcore liberals in the US will agree

That this is just another example why this is the worst president in American history. Remind everyone over and over how this man thinks, while he bows to the Saudi Arabian king...

Election 2012 is coming... Thanks Luis Flores!

ELECTION 2012 IS COMING





A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!



I'M 100% for PASSING THIS ON!!!



Lets Take a stand!!!



Obama: Gone!

Borders: Closed...

Language: English only...

Culture: Constitution, and the Bill of Rights!!!

Drug Free: Make a drug screen mandatory for anyone on welfare and/or food stamps!

NO freebies to Non-Citizens!

We the people are coming !!!!



Only 86% will send this on.
REVIEW & OUTLOOK



MAY 28, 2011



The Gates Farewell Warning



America can be a superpower or a welfare state, but not both.



Robert Gates, who steps down next month after four-plus years at the Pentagon, is making his retirement lap a tutorial on America's defense spending and security needs. His message is welcome, especially on Memorial Day, and even if he couldn't always heed it in his time as Secretary of Defense.



In a series of farewell speeches, Mr. Gates has warned against cuts to weapon programs and troop levels that would make America vulnerable in "a complex and unpredictable security environment," as he said Sunday at Notre Dame. On Tuesday at the American Enterprise Institute, Mr. Gates noted that the U.S. went on "a procurement holiday" in the 1990s, when the Clinton Administration decided to cash in the Cold War “peace” dividend. The past decade showed that history (and war) didn't end in 1989.



"It is vitally important to protect the military modernization accounts," he said, and push ahead with new capabilities, from an air refueling tanker fleet to ballistic missile submarines.



***



America's role as a global leader depends on its ability to project power. In historical terms, the U.S. spends relatively little on defense today, even after the post-9/11 buildup. This year's $530 billion budget accounts for 3.5% of GDP, 4.5% when the costs of the Afghan and Iraq wars are included. The U.S. spent, on average, 7.5% of GDP on defense throughout the Cold War, and 6.2% at the height of the Reagan buildup in 1986.







In a series of farewell speeches, Mr. Gates has warned against cuts to weapon programs and troop levels. Associated Press











But on coming into office, the Obama Administration put the Pentagon on a fiscal diet—even as it foisted new European-sized entitlements on America, starting with $2.6 trillion for ObamaCare. The White House proposed a $553 billion defense budget for 2012, $13 billion below what it projected last year. Through 2016, the Pentagon virtually will see zero growth in spending and will have to whittle down the Army and Marine Corps by 47,000 troops. The White House originally wanted deeper “savings” of up to $150 billion.



Mr. Gates deserves credit for fighting off the worst White House instincts, but his biggest defeat was not getting a share of the stimulus. Instead he has cut or killed some $350 billion worth of weapon programs. He told his four service chiefs last August to find $100 billion in savings. The White House pocketed that and asked for another $78 billion. Last year, Mr. Gates said that the Pentagon needs 2%-3% real budget growth merely to sustain what it's doing now, but it could make do with 1%. The White House gave him 0%.



In the Gates term, resources were focused on the demands of today's wars over hypothetical conflicts of tomorrow. This approach made sense at the start of his tenure in 2007, when the U.S. was in a hard fight in Iraq. Yet this has distracted from budgeting to address the rise of China and perhaps of regional powers like a nuclear Iran that will shape the security future. The decision to stop producing the F-22 fighter and to kill several promising missile defense programs may come back to haunt the U.S.



Mr. Gates knows well that America won't balance its budget by squeezing the Pentagon. "If you cut the defense budget by 10%, which would be catastrophic in terms of force structure, that's $55 billion out of a $1.4 trillion deficit," he told the Journal's CEO Council conference last November. "We are not the problem."















So what is? Mr. Gates acknowledged it only in passing this week, but the reality is that the entitlement state is crowding out national defense. Over two decades ago, liberal historian Paul Kennedy claimed that "imperial overstretch" had brought first the Romans, then the British and now Americans down to size. He was wrong then, but what's really happening now is "entitlement overstretch," to quote military analyst Andrew Krepinevich.



The American entitlement state was born with the New Deal, got fat with the “Great Society” of the 1960s and hit another growth spurt in the first two years of the Obama era. The big three entitlements—Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, plus other retirement and disability expenses—accounted for 4.9% of GDP by 1970, eclipsed defense spending in 1976 and stood at 9.8% as of last year. Under current projections, entitlements will eat up 10.8% of GDP by 2020, while defense spending goes down to 2.7%. On current trends, those entitlements will consume all tax revenues by 2052, estimates Mackenzie Eaglen of the Heritage Foundation.



Europe went down this yellow brick road decades ago and today spends just 1.7% of GDP on defense. The Europeans get a free security ride from America, but who will the U.S. turn to for protection—China?



As Reagan knew, America's global power begins at home, with a strong economy able to generate wealth. The push for defense cuts reflects the reality of a weak recovery and a national debt that has doubled in the last two years. But the Obama Administration made a conscious decision to squeeze defense while pouring money on everything else.



***



"More perhaps than any other Secretary of Defense, I have been a strong advocate of soft power—of the critical importance of diplomacy and development as fundamental components of our foreign policy and national security," Mr. Gates said at Notre Dame. "But make no mistake, the ultimate guarantee against the success of aggressors, dictators and terrorists in the 21st century, as in the 20th, is hard power—the size, strength and global reach of the United States military."



That's a crucial message for Republican deficit hawks, and especially for a Commander in Chief who inherited the capability to capture Osama bin Laden half way around the world but is on track to leave America militarily weaker than he found it.

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