Demoncrats and little o

Many teachers and state union people are also upset (my teaching son included) with Governor John Kasich for his bill, but not me, Sarah. It has to begin and cutting government expenditures has to be done. Now the Tea Party representatives had better begin on the national level. Entitlement cuts will hurt tax payers all over this country, but it will be better than national bankruptcy and dictatorship, which little o is bringing on at an accellerated pace.







To: Sam Kegley

Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 14:54

Subject: re d estruction of America





I have probably told you before that my sis and her husband go on elderhostel trips she said a lot of them are retired teachers 75+ and all are democrats and think he is great.. and these are supposed to be educated people.. my friend's daughter is a Fulbright scholar and also thinks he is great (of course with her education in our liberal colleges and if the teachers think that way what else could the students think?) her parents are really upset about it too. to pay for your children's education is not supposed to be an indoctrination to political slant.

Please pass this on with great respect

Thanks Patricia Whitehead!

Sam




Sent: Thu, March 31, 2011 2:51:28 PM

Subject: Fw: Fwd: PLEASE PASS THIS ON WITH YOUR DEEPEST RESPECT






Subject: Fwd: PLEASE PASS THIS ON WITH YOUR DEEPEST RESPECT




I forward with deepest respect. This just made perfect sense to forward on. Please keep it going for our real celebrities.



Lindsay Lohan is 24 and her story is all over the news because she's a celebrity drug addict and allegedly, a thief.



Charlie Sheen is 45 and you would have been under a rock all week if you hadn't heard about his antics.

While................

Justin Allen 23,

Brett Linley 29,

Matthew Weikert 29,

Justus Bartett 27,

Dave Santos 21,

Jesse Reed 26,

Matthew Johnson 21,

Zachary Fisher 24,

Brandon King 23,

Christopher Goeke 23, and

Sheldon Tate 27..........



are all Marines that gave their lives this week for you. There is no media for them; not even a mention of their names.





Honor THEM by sending this on!

0 the compulsive liar Thanks Keith Brooker & Jack H

Sam, I have been in the service twice during two wars. I was really


lucky and was never shot at in anger. I never once felt, not once,

that I was giving more than my country was due, but; it saddens me to

the point of despair at the cavalier fashion with which the electorate

choses it's leadership. I see no salvation for us.Being almost 84

ain't all that bad. I'll probably be gone before our country is. Jack

P.

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: keith brooker

Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:44:19 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: Fwd: Obama - A Compulsive Liar


Can you imagine if a Republican told a whopper like this? The media

would skin him.

This guy is the biggest lying P-O-S I have ever seen. He is

absolutely shameless. Shameless.

I pray for one term.





Does he even realize he's lying?


If you are a veteran or know a veteran you should be totally outraged!



If you are not a veteran, you should be outraged anyway.




Know Who is Sitting in YOUR White House......



Obama's father served in WW II? Really?



Of all the things I've seen or heard about Obama on the Internet, NONE

has hit me like this one!!!



How can we not believe some of the charges about citizenship,

religion, etc., after hearing what he says on this?





Obama said his father served in WW II?

Barack's father served in WW II?? He said so in a speech.

Here is an 18 second video:




CNN news clip:






http

This man is a compulsive liar. Why were there no reporters who

checked or double checked



these statements and called the party on this?



They did for everyone else. Why not him?















Like it or not, here are the TRUE facts:


Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (Obama's father)

Born: 4/4/36



Died: 11/24/82 at the age of 46.



He was 5 years old when WW II started, and less than 9.5 years old

when it ended.



















Lolo Soetoro (Obama's step father)



Born: 1935



Died: 3/2/87 at the age of 52.



He was 6 years old when WW II started, and 10 years old when it ended.

He must have been the youngest Veteran in the war.




Returned?? Returned where??





Barack Hussein Obama Sr was in Kenya and Lolo Soetoro was in Indonesia.




Watch the video. RIGHT OUT OF HIS MOUTH!!!



And the media doesn't say anything.

If you doubt it, Google both of these guys.



It appears this guy doesn't know how to tell the truth -- or he

doesn't care about telling the truth! --



or perhaps he doesn't know when he isn't telling the truth (which is

also a very scary angle on it).



Talk about STOLEN HONOR!!!


If this had been Bush the Media would have had a fit.



The CNN clip of Obama is surprising. I guess I shouldn't be surprised

that this lie wasn't uncovered,



questioned and debated before the Nov. 2008 election. Oh well. He

must have just "forgotten" the



facts, again. Or perhaps he really doesn't even know the difference

between truth and fabrication?


This should be sent to every Veterans group in the USA !! STOLEN HONOR!!!!



I'm insulted.....are YOU?



Jack P.

Me too, Jack, but the devout or apathetic liberals would reelect the liar!

Grace... Thanks Alma Holl!

I came across a very simple explanation of grace and wanted to share it with you (very fitting at this time of year):








GRACE







God’s



Riches



At



Christ’s



Expense





(Daily Devotions by Standard Publishing Company)

o and destruction of America Thanks Sonny!

Is it not scary that there are so many voters who are not able to see through the façade of this man? As the Czech editorial said, “…the follies of Obama can be undone, but the ignorance of those who voted for him cannot.” Thus, the saying, “You can’t fix stupid.” Those who voted for him are also vulnerable to others of his ilk. The article below nails Obama very accurately but the writer is part of a shrinking minority in America I doubt Obama could have gotten elected dog catcher 50 years ago. His election shows what has happened to the American electorate.



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WALL STREET JOURNAL SIZES UP OBAMA---FINALLY!





Article from the Wall Street Journal - by Eddie Sessions:



"I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group (George Soros anybody?) took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.



In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father" was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The "Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a "communist with a small 'c'" was the real author.



His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his disposal.



He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?



He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.



And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole and then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska. It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.



The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.



Now, a full 2 years into his first term, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.



Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish away" some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain.



The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign "world tour" were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.



Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.



Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar.” The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.



He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America. He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.



The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.



Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual's life.



When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man has spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.



We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy at the teleprompter is President of the United States of America?

Best Video of the Wave that Hit Japan

 OMG !!!!!  How far inland this water went....
http://tinyurl.com/5srqtz7

Mammograms and dental x-rays Thanks Sharon and Roseann

Subject: Fw: Dr. Oz info (Mammogram and Dental X-Rays)



Please read and forward to female friends and family...







Dr. Oz:



Precautions re Mammograms and Dental XRays/ A Useful Warning



On Wednesday, Dr. Oz had a show on the fastest growing cancer in women, thyroid cancer. It was a very interesting program and he mentioned that the increase could possibly be related to the use of dental x-rays and mammograms. He demonstrated that on the apron the dentist puts on you for your dental x-rays there is a little flap that can be lifted up and wrapped around your neck. Many dentists don't bother to use it. Also, there is something called a "thyroid guard" for use during mammograms. By coincidence, I had my yearly mammogram yesterday. I felt a little silly, but I asked about the guard and sure enough, the technician had one in a drawer. I asked why it wasn't routinely used. Answer: "I don't know. You have to ask for it." Well, if I hadn't seen the show, how would I have known to ask?



Someone was nice enough to forward this to me. I hope you pass this on to your friends and family.

Detroit- What is to become of our free nation?

Thanks Sonny and Clay!

Subject: Fw: If This Doesn't Get Your Attention ...DONT DELETE PASS IT ON



If this does not get the full attention of some "doubting Thomas's" nothing will.!





To help put the following article in perspective it is important to know that in 1960 Detroit had the highest per capita income in the US. In 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "war on poverty", created the "Great Society" and nominated Detroit as his example of this great society.





(Frosty Wooldridge (born 1947) is a US journalist, writer, environmentalist, traveler)



By Frosty Wooldridge



For 15 years, from the mid 1970's to 1990, I worked in Detroit , Michigan . I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs, and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses, and school yards. Trash everywhere!



Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps!



With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and in one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollars. She collected over $90.000 a year.



A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson's 'Great Society' flourish in Detroit . If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing nothing. Common sense.



Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America, outside of Richard Daley in Chicago, rode Detroit down to its knees... He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a black man, he said, "I am the MFIC." The IC meant "in charge".





You can figure out the rest. Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent African-Americans.



As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state.



Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan, but most work in Detroit . As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in. Shirah law is not far behind.



As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace.. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations. You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife!



Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike, and total separation from America.



Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan , paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC's Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America. English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.





Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the city. In Time Magazine's October 4, 2009, "The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell, and how it can rise again," I choked on the writer's description of what happened. "If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane, and submerged by a ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more about it," said Daniel Okrent. "If drought, and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we'd see it on the evening news every night."



Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice.



But Detroit , once our fourth largest city, now 11th, and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country.



Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision making."

As Coleman Young's corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kick backs, and illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city's death from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit . Anarchy is coming.



"By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit 's treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services," Okrent said. "The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans , unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit , the unemployment rate is 28.9% and rising.



That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent.." At the end of Okrent's report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit, he said, "That's because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city's collapse, it's also about the erosion of the industries that helped build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century. If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can't find a way to get up, what does that say about our future?"



As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner's book, "$20 Per Gallon", the auto industry won't come back. Immigration will keep pouring more, and more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit , thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America. If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit. Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs. Don't be so naive to think it won't happen.



You have already seen it in Madrid, Spain ; London, England and Paris, France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers, and brothers that demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying. Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture, country, and way of life. This is not radicalization of the Muslim religion. This is written in the Koran. Read it.



I PRAY EVERYONE THAT READS THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DON'T STAND UP, AND SCREAM AT WASHINGTON, AND OUR STATE, CITY, AND LOCAL LEADERS THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THE REST OF AMERICA . IF YOU FOLLOW THE NEWS AT ALL YOU KNOW THIS HAS HAPPENED IN ENGLAND , AND FRANCE AND SPAIN .



IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF BULL CRAP AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I'M SORRY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO STAND AND FIGHT THE VERY THING THAT WILL SOMEDAY CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

Mortgages... Thanks Marge Rusnak!

Sent: 3/29/2011 9:02:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time

Subj: FW: interesting info



I am sure you are aware of this.... but I thought it was an interesting

article.






Is it curtains for the 30-year mortgage?

If the government stops subsidizing mortgages for the middle class, home loans could look a lot more like they do in other countries. That could mean the nation's favored mortgage could nearly disappear.

By Marilyn Lewis of MSN Real Estate








After more than 40 years of subsidizing and boosting homeownership, the federal government is talking about backing away. The Obama administration wants to eliminate federal guarantees for home loans for all but creditworthy buyers "with modest incomes" who otherwise could not get a mortgage from a private lender, according to a report that the administration gave to Congress in February (PDF).

Change like that could make buying a mortgage more expensive. Americans' favorite home loan, the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage, would lose ground against other mortgage types.

There's even talk that the popular 30-year loan could become extinct, though that's unlikely.

"There would definitely be fewer 30-year mortgages, but they would not disappear," says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He wrote the books "Taking Economics Seriously" and "False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy."

It's all talk, at this point, about how to shrink, change or eliminate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two huge, government-run corporations that have kept costs low for middle-class homeowners by guaranteeing home loans.

Massive defaults by homeowners, along with management and accounting scandals at Fannie and Freddie, are costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. Even political rivals agree it's time for a new approach.

The debate among regulators, economists, politicians, consumer advocates and lobbyists could continue for years before Congress passes a plan, experts say. After that, any changes would be phased in slowly over many more years.

Read: Why Fannie and Freddie may never die

Meanwhile, homeowners may wonder how this change could affect mortgages today and in the long term.

What's happening to 30-year mortgages?

Today, 80% of all mortgages are 30-year, fixed-rate, "conventional" loans, Freddie Mac says. "Conventional" means Fannie and Freddie can guarantee them, as long as they're below a maximum amount, so they're cheaper. By spreading lower payments over decades, conventional loans more expensive in the long run, but they've allowed many people to buy a home.

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At the tail end of the housing boom in 2008, the conventional loan's market share dropped as low as 67%. But at least 80% to 90% of all mortgages since 1990 have been conventional, Freddie Mac says.

But if the government eliminates the guarantee for conventional mortgages, buyers might look at other loan types.

"Without the guarantee, I think long-term, fixed-rate mortgages will still exist, but they'll be higher priced, and there'd be less of them," says Michael Lea, director of The Corky McMillin Center for Real Estate at San Diego State University. "You wouldn't see 90%, but you'd see maybe 30%."



MSN Money: 3 mortgage refinancing nightmares

Mortgages haven't always been cheap and easy. Look at the 1920s.

"It was a prosperous period, but if you wanted a mortgage loan, you put 40% down and got an interest-only loan for 10 years. And then you refinanced it," says mortgage expert Jack Guttentag, author of "Mortgage Encyclopedia: An Authoritative Guide to Mortgage Programs, Practices, Prices and Pitfalls" and of the Mortgage Professor educational website for consumers.

Read: 4 mortgage alternatives

In most other countries — where governments don't subsidize mortgages or where they do it differently than we do here — the 30-year mortgage is a rare bird. In Denmark, the exception, it comprises about half of all home loans.



What's your home worth?



"You don't need 30-year mortgages to have high rates of homeownership," Baker says. In the U.S., homeownership is 66.5%, down from a high of 69.2% in 2004, the Census Bureau says. But other countries do as well or better with different financing systems and different loan types, and many suffered less during the housing crash.

Lea cites these 2008 homeownership rates, for example:



Ireland: 74.5%

Australia and the United Kingdom: 70%

Canada: 68.4%

Japan: 61%

Emerging markets often have even higher rates of homeownership because they don't have well-developed rental markets, Lea says.

Teen ager's view into Heaven Thanks Tom & Carolyn!

Very moving!!!!!!



I can only imagine...



"THE ROOM" as written by a 17 Year Old Boy.



This is excellent and really gets you thinking about what will happen in Heaven.



17-year-old Brian Moore had only a short time to write something for a class. The subject was What Heaven Was Like. "I wowed 'em," he later told his father, Bruce. It's a killer. It's the bomb It's the best thing I ever wrote." It also was the last.









Brian's parents had forgotten about the essay when a cousin found it while cleaning out the teenager's locker at Teays Valley High School in Pickaway County .



Brian had been dead only hours, but his parents desperately wanted every piece of his life near them, notes from classmates and teachers, and his homework. Only two months before, he had handwritten the essay about encountering Jesus in a file room full of cards detailing every moment of the teen's life. But it was only after Brian's death that Beth and Bruce Moore realized that their son had described his view of heaven.





It makes such an impact that people want to share it. "You feel like you are there," Mr. Moore said. Brian Moore died May 27, 1997, the day after Memorial Day. He was driving home from a friend's house when his car went off Bulen-Pierce Road in Pickaway County and struck a utility pole. He emerged from the wreck unharmed but stepped on a downed power line and was electrocuted.



The Moore 's framed a copy of Brian's essay and hung it among the family portraits in the living room. "I think God used him to make a point. I think we were meant to find it and make something out of it," Mrs. Moore said of the essay. She and her husband want to share their son's vision of life after death. "I'm happy for Brian. I know he's in heaven. I know I'll see him.



Here is Brian's essay entitled:











"THE ROOM"



In that place between wakefulness and dreams, I found myself in the room. There were no distinguishing features except for the one wall covered with small index card files. They were like the ones in libraries that list titles by author or subject in alphabetical order. But these files, which stretched from floor to ceiling and seemingly endless in either direction, had very different headings.



As I drew near the wall of files, the first to catch my attention was one that read "Girls I Have Liked." I opened it and began flipping through the cards. I quickly shut it, shocked to realize that I recognized the names written on each one. And then without being told, I knew exactly where I was. This lifeless room with its small files was a crude catalog system for my life. Here were written the actions of my every moment, big and small, in a detail my memory couldn't match. A sense of wonder and curiosity, coupled with horror, stirred within me as I began randomly opening files and exploring their content. Some brought joy and sweet memories; others a sense of shame and regret so intense that I would look over my shoulder to see if anyone was watching.



A file named "Friends" was next to one marked "Friends I Have Betrayed." The titles ranged from the mundane to the outright weird. "Books I Have Read," "Lies I Have Told," "Comfort I have Given," "Jokes I Have Laughed At."



Some were almost hilarious in their exactness: "Things I've Yelled at My Brothers." Others I couldn't laugh at: "Things I Have Done in My Anger", "Things I Have Muttered Under My Breath at My Parents." I never ceased to be surprised by the contents. Often there were many more cards than expected. Sometimes fewer than I hoped. I was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of the life I had lived.



Could it be possible that I had the time in my years to fill each of these thousands or even millions of cards? But each card confirmed this truth. Each was written in my own handwriting. Each signed with my signature.



When I pulled out the file marked "TV Shows I Have Watched," I realized the files grew to contain their contents. The cards were packed tightly, and yet after two or three yards, I hadn't found the end of the file. I shut it, shamed, not so much by the quality of shows but more by the vast time I knew that file represented.



When I came to a file marked "Lustful Thoughts," I felt a chill run through my body. I pulled the file out only an inch, not willing to test its size, and drew out a card. I shuddered at its detailed content. I felt sick to think that such a moment had been recorded. An almost animal rage broke on me.



One thought dominated my mind: No one must ever see these cards! No one must ever see this room! I have to destroy them!" In insane frenzy I yanked the file out. Its size didn't matter now. I had to empty it and burn the cards.



But as I took it at one end and began pounding it on the floor, I could not dislodge a single card. I became desperate and pulled out a card, only to find it as strong as steel when I tried to tear it. Defeated and utterly helpless, I returned the file to its slot. Leaning my forehead against the wall, I let out a long, self-pitying sigh.



And then I saw it. The title bore "People I Have Shared the Gospel With." The handle was brighter than those around it, newer, almost unused. I pulled on its handle and a small box not more than three inches long fell into my hands. I could count the cards it contained on one hand.



And then the tears came. I began to weep. Sobs so deep that they hurt They started in my stomach and shook through me. I fell on my knees and cried. I cried out of shame, from the overwhelming shame of it all. The rows of file shelves swirled in my tear-filled eyes. No one must ever, ever know of this room.. I must lock it up and hide the key. But then as I pushed away the tears, I saw Him.



No, please not Him. Not here. Oh, anyone but Jesus. I watched helplessly as He began to open the files and read the cards. I couldn't bear to watch His response. And in the moments I could bring myself to look at His face, I saw a sorrow deeper than my own. He seemed to intuitively go to the worst boxes.



Why did He have to read every one? Finally He turned and looked at me from across the room.. He looked at me with pity in His eyes. But this was a pity that didn't anger me. I dropped my head, covered my face with my hands and began to cry again. He walked over and put His arm around me. He could have said so many things. But He didn't say a word. He just cried with me.



Then He got up and walked back to the wall of files.. Starting at one end of the room, He took out a file and, one by one, began to sign His name over mine on each card. "No!" I shouted rushing to Him. All I could find to say was "No, no," as I pulled the card from Him. His name shouldn't be on these cards. But there it was, written in red so rich, so dark, and so alive.



The name of Jesus covered mine. It was written with His blood. He gently took the card back He smiled a sad smile and began to sign the cards. I don't think I'll ever understand how He did it so quickly, but the next instant it seemed I heard Him close the last file and walk back to my side. He placed His hand on my shoulder and said, "It is finished."



I stood up, and He led me out of the room. There was no lock on its door. There were still cards to be written.



"For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16



If you feel the same way forward it to as many people as you can so the love of Jesus will touch their lives also. My "People I Shared the Gospel With" file just got bigger, how about yours?



IF THERE IS ONE EMAIL THAT I HAVE READ THAT NEEDS TO GO AROUND THE WORLD, IT IS THIS ONE, PLEASE PASS THIS TO EVERY ONE YOU KNOW, CHRISTIAN OR NOT! "LET'S FILL OUR OWN FILE CARD" AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL!



You don't have to share this with anybody, no one will know whether you did or not, but you will know and so will He.

WWJD KY basketball fans prayer Thanks Judi Cole!

God, please forgive our zeal as University of Kentucky fans.  Thanks Judi Cole!

Just had to share this with you all!




Our father who art in Kentucky, let basketball be thy game. Seven banners won, the eighth to come, in Rupp as it is Big Blue Nation. Give us this day our defensive effort, and forgive us our turnovers as we forgive those who seeded against us. Lead us not into a shooting slump and deliver us from bad officiating. In the name of Rupp, and Hall, and the spirit of Bill Keightley. Amen GO BIG BLUE !!!!!!!!!!!:

Sensitive stuff Dr. H again!

Three rednecks were working on top of a cell phone tower: Cooter, Ronnie,


and Donnie.



As they start their descent, Cooter slips, falls off the tower and is killed

instantly. As the ambulance takes the body away, Ronnie says, "Well, damn,

someone should go and tell his wife."



Donnie says, "OK, I'm pretty good at that sensitive stuff, I'll do it."



Two hours later, he comes back carrying a case of Budweiser.



Ronnie says, "Where did you get that beer, Donnie?"



"Cooter's wife gave it to me," Donnie replies.



"That's unbelievable; you told the lady her husband was dead and she gave

you a case of beer?"



"Well, not exactly," Donnie says. "When she answered the door, I said to

her, 'You must be Cooter's widow.' She said, 'You must be mistaken, I'm not

a widow.' Then I said, 'I'll bet you a case of Budweiser you are.'"



Rednecks are real good at that sensitive stuff.

Crime and punishment... Thanks again Dr. H!

Subject: Fw: Shoplifter injured in Atlanta



A+ for report writing!




Garrville Smith, a store manager for Best Buy in Atlanta, Georgia, told police he observed a male customer, later identified as Tyrone Jackson of Augusta, on surveillance cameras putting a laptop computer under his jacket... When confronted the man became irate, knocked down an employee, drew a knife and ran for the door.Outside on the sidewalk were four Marines collecting toys for the "Toys for Tots" program. Smith said the Marines stopped the man, but he stabbed one of the Marines, Cpl. Phillip Duggan, in the back; the injury did not appear to be severe. After Police and an ambulance arrived at the scene Cpl. Duggan was transported for treatment. The subject was also transported to the local hospital with two broken arms, a broken ankle, a broken leg, several missing teeth, possible broken ribs, multiple contusions, assorted lacerations, a broken nose and a broken jaw...injuries he sustained when he slipped and fell off of the curb after stabbing the Marine. Now that was a well written Police report.

Jeanie loves cukes- I get heartburn Thanks Dr. Hovermale!

WOW WHAT A LITTLE GEM THE CUCUMBER IS, I WILL LOOK AT IT DIFFERENTLY NOW.



1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc.



2. Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber. Cucumbers are a good source of B Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick-me-up that can last for hours.



3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower? Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing, spa-like fragrance.



4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds? Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long. The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area.



5. Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool? Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumbers along your problem area for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten, firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulite. Works great on wrinkles too!!!



6. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache? Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!!



7. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used by European trappers, traders and explores for quick meals to thwart off starvation.



8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don't have enough time to polish your shoes? Rub a freshly cut cucumber over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a quick and durable shine that not only looks great but also repels water.





9. Out of WD 40 and need to fix a squeaky hinge? Take a cucumber slice and rub it along the problematic hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone!



10. Stressed out and don't have time for massage, facial or visit to the spa? Cut up an entire cucumber and place it in a boiling pot of water, the chemicals and nutrients from the cucumber with react with the boiling water and be released in the steam, creating a soothing, relaxing aroma that has been shown the reduce stress in new mothers and college students during final exams.



11. Just finish a business lunch and realize you don't have gum or mints? Take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30 seconds to eliminate bad breath, the phytochemcials will kill the bacteria in your mouth responsible for causing bad breath.



12. Looking for a 'green' way to clean your faucets, sinks or stainless steel? Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean, not only will it remove years of tarnish and bring back the shine, but is won't leave streaks and won't harm you fingers or fingernails while you clean.





13. Using a pen and made a mistake? Take the outside of the cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen writing, also works great on crayons and markers that the kids have used to decorate the walls!!



Pass this along to everybody you know who is looking for better and safer ways to solve life's everyday problems..

Men- Don't make women angry... Thanks Bob Looney

A man left for work one Friday afternoon. But it was


payday, so instead of going home, he stayed out the

entire weekend partying with the boys and spending

his entire pay check. When he finally appeared at

home on Sunday night, he was confronted by his angry

wife and was barraged for nearly two hours with a

tirade befitting his actions. Finally his wife stopped

the nagging and said to him, "How would you like it

if you didn't see me for two or three days?" He

replied, "That would be fine with me."

Monday went by and he didn't see his wife. Tuesday

and Wednesday came and went with the same results.

But on Thursday, the swelling went down just enough

where he could see her a little out of the corner of his left eye.

____________

Watching tight bucketball games... Jack H Plymale

Sam. I don't care if it is watching monkeys shoot marbles.Anything that stimulates us old guys( and mature ladies) has got to be worth our time........................ I'm happy for us. Sick to death of dishonesty in OSU's football coaching ranks. There is no way to justify the continuation of an out and out liar and I was sold on the SOB. Jack P






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From: skegley@columbus.rr.com

To: pettifoger@hotmail.com

Subject: Re: UK 76 UNC 69

Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:27:18 -0400





It is difficult on the ticker, Jack. I strongly believe all games are closer due to much more Parity in college basketball.



I do get nervous, Jack, but Jeanie does moreso than me.



SamKat

----- Original Message -----

From: Jack Plymale

To: Sam Kegley

Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 19:06





I don't know how much excitement an old rascal like you can stand but congrats. Onward and upward. Jack P.

UNBELIEVABLE photos from Japan

Japan's apocalypse now: Rescuers pick their way through a wasteland of bodies, wreckage and people washing in rivers

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 9:19 AM on 16th March 2011

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• 70-year-old woman found alive in house that had been washed away by the tsunami
• Japan injects £60.8bn into money markets after Nikkei plunges by more than 10 per cent
• Bread, tinned goods and batteries growing scarce as Japanese panic buy amid nuclear crisis
• Fears for hundreds of Britons believed missing. FO expresses 'serious concern' for at least 50

With millions of people without electricity, thousands missing and warnings of an imminent second earthquake, the task for Japanese authorities is too daunting to imagine.
Some 3,000 people have now been confirmed dead since last week’s earthquake and subsequent tsunami but officials believe the death toll could rise into the tens of thousands, with a further 2,000 bodies washing up on the shores of north-east Japan yesterday.
Bodies wrapped in blue tarpaulins were laid on military stretchers and lined up for collection while panic-buying has begun in Japan amid fears of a second quake and growing concern about nuclear leaks.
And tonight there were fresh fears over the possibility of a full-scale nuclear disaster as the operator of stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant said a fire has broken out again at its No. 4 reactor unit.

Wiped out: Rescue workers are dwarfed by the scale of the rubble as they pick their way through the shattered city of Otsuchi


United in death: The bodies of victims at a village destroyed by the tsunami in Rikuzentakata (left) and the wreckage of Toyota Yaris at the port of Sendai

Firefighting: Ships try to extinguish a blaze at oil refinery tanks in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, which has been burning since Friday's earthquake and tsunami


Rescue: Japanese relief workers carry a man who survived being buried alive for five days in Ishimaki (left) and a truck dangles from a collapsed bridge in Ishinomaki, northern Japan

Precarious: A house perches on top of a bridge in Ishinomaki after being swept away by the tsunami
Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Hajimi Motujuku says the blaze erupted early Wednesday in the outer housing of the reactor's containment vessel.
The bad news came as survivors continue to struggle to find food and water as supplies run low. There have been major power outages since the double disaster, many planned to preserve resources.
As the stock market plunges and the government warns it is receiving just a fraction of the emergency aid it needs, it is unclear how Japan can even begin to tackle the destruction.
The level of desolation is on an epic-scale with many towns completely destroyed. A shattered infrastructure makes it almost impossible to move heavy lifting equipment and rescue crews have struggled to reach the worst hit areas.

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• ‘At least 10 Britons killed’ in tsunami with 450 missing
• Is California next? Experts warn U.S. West Coast could be next victim of quake on Pacific's 'Ring of Fire'

The death toll from last week's earthquake and tsunami jumped today as police confirmed the number killed had topped 3,300, although that grim news was overshadowed by a deepening nuclear crisis. Officials have said previously that at least 10,000 people may have died in Miyagi province alone.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed that radiation had been released into the atmosphere after yet another explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, inside Number 2 reactor.

Eerie: Cars drive along one of the few passable roads in the devastated Minamisanriku where 10,000 people are feared dead

People carry the body of a victim through debris in Kesennuma, Miyagi, northern Japan


Squatting amid the ruins: A woman cooks for her family in front of their devastated house in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture (left) while an older survivor swaddles herself in blankets and gloves at makeshift shelter at Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture
Explosions had already occurred in the Number 1 and Number 3 reactors. Number 4 reactor is also on fire and there are fears for those who have not yet made it outside the 12-mile exclusion zone.
Rescuers have pulled a 70-year-old woman from her the wreckage of her home , four days after it was demolished in the Japanese quake.
The rescue of the elderly Sai Abe and a younger man pulled from rubble elsewhere in the region were rare good news following Friday's disaster.
Mrs Abe's son said he had tried to save his mother but could not get her to flee her home in the port town of Otsuchi. His relief at her rescue, he said, was tempered by the fact that his father is still missing.
'I couldn't lift her up, and she couldn't escape because her legs are bad,' Hiromi Abe said. 'My feelings are complicated, because I haven't found my father.'

Ship out of water: A boat dumped in the street in Hishonomaki, Miyagi, after being swept inshore by the tsunami

Heart of the wasteland: Japanese survivors of Friday's earthquake and tsunami walk under umbrellas through the leveled city of Minamisanriku


Swept away: A house drifts in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after being hit by the tsunami (left) while people are forced to wash their clothes by a river at Otsuchi, northeastern Japan

Vanished: An astounding aerial view of the tsunami-devastated town of Rikuzentakata shows the full scale of the damage. Very little remains


Match stick city: Heavy machines crawl through the rubble in Rikuzentakata (left) while a rescue crew surveys the damage in Ofunato, northeastern Japan

Mrs Abe was suffering from hypothermia and sent to a hospital, but appeared to have no life-threatening injuries.
Another survivor, described as being in his 20s, was pulled from a building further down the coast in the city of Ishimaki after rescue workers heard him calling for help.
Conditions for those still alive in the rubble worsened as a cold front arrived today, further pushing down temperatures. Snow is forecast over the next few days
Millions of people spent a fourth night with little food, water or heating in near-freezing temperatures as they dealt with the loss of homes and loved ones. Asia's richest country has not seen such hardship since the Second World War.
Hajime Sato, a government official in Iwate prefecture, one of the hardest-hit, said deliveries of supplies were only 10 per cent of what is needed. Body bags and coffins were running so short that the government may turn to foreign funeral homes for help, he said.
Indonesian geologist Hery Harjono, who dealt with the 2004 Asian tsunami, said it would be ‘a miracle really if it turns out to be less than 10,000’ dead.
The 2004 tsunami killed 230,000 people - but only 184,000 bodies were found.
The impact of the earthquake and tsunami dragged down stock markets. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average plunged for a second day today, nosediving more than 10 per cent to close at 8,605.15 while the broader Topix lost more than 8 per cent.
To reduce the damage, Japan's central bank made two cash injections totalling 8 trillion yen (£60.8 billion) into the money markets today.
Initial estimates put repair costs in the tens of billions of dollars, costs that are likely to add to a massive public debt which , at 200 per cent of gross domestic product, is the biggest among industrialised nations.
The pulverised coast has been hit by hundreds of aftershocks since Friday, the latest a 6.2 magnitude quake which was followed by a fresh tsunami scare yesterday.
As sirens wailed, soldiers abandoned their search operations and told people on the devastated shoreline to run to higher ground.
The warning turned out to be a false alarm.
‘It’s a scene from hell, absolutely nightmarish,’ said Patrick Fuller, of the International Red Cross Federation.
‘The situation here is just beyond belief. Almost everything has been flattened.’


Pictures released by NASA shows the Japanese city of Ishinomaki (left) after the tsunami and in 2008 (right). Water is dark blue, plant-covered land is red, exposed earth is tan, and the city is silver.

PUTIN OFFERS SANCTUARY TO JAPAN'S JUDO TEAM

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has offered members of Japan's judo national team and their families an invitation to Russia for training.
Putin's proposal is the latest move in Russia's outreach to Japan following last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami.
The prime minister, a judo black belt, has often been filmed practicing judo and even recorded an instructional judo DVD.
Russia has put a bitter territorial spat with Japan on hold after the disaster, sending relief supplies and rescue teams to help the victims and offering to provide extra energy supplies.
Japan Red Cross president Tadateru Konoe added: ‘After my long career in the Red Cross where I have seen many disasters and catastrophes, this is the worst I have ever seen.’
The Japanese government and aid agencies are struggling to ferry food, water and medicines to survivors after panic-buying stripped shelves bare in the few shops left standing.
Far outside the disaster zone, stores are running out of necessities, raising government fears that hoarding may impede the delivery of emergency food aid to those who really need it.
‘The situation is hysterical,’ said Tomonao Matsuo, spokesman for instant noodle maker Nissin Foods, which donated a million items including its Cup Noodles for disaster relief. ‘People feel safer just by buying Cup Noodles.’
The company is trying to boost production, despite earthquake damage which closed down its facilities in Ibaraki prefecture until today.
The frenzied buying is compounding supply problems from damaged and congested roads, stalled factories, reduced train service and other disruptions caused by Friday's magnitude 9.0 earthquake off Japan's north-east coast and the major tsunami it generated.
Officials have been overwhelmed by the scale of the crisis, with millions of people spending a fourth night without electricity,  water, food or heat in near-freezing temperatures.

A ship is seen perched on top of a house in the tsunami devastated remains of Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture


Details of the scale of the disaster (left) while destroyed houses are seen in the river at a devastated area hit by earthquake and tsunami  in Kesennuma (right)

Ghost town: A once thriving industrial town off the coast in notheast Japan that has now been decimated by the tsunami wave that washed over the region
Officials estimate that 430,000 people are living in emergency shelters or with relatives.
The government has sent 120,000 blankets, 120,000 bottles of water and 29,000 gallons of petrol plus food to the affected areas.
The stock market plunged over the likelihood of huge losses by Japanese industries including big names such as Toyota and Honda following the 9.0 magnitude quake on Friday.
Almost 2million households are without power in the freezing north and about 1.4million have no running water while drivers are waiting in queues for five hours for rationed petrol.

Grim: The Japanese army search for bodies in Higashimatsushima City, in Miyagi, the state where up to 10,000 people may have died

Clean up: Police walk in file down a hillside today into a coastal town in northeast Japan that has been flattened by the tsunami wave
Experts are now warning a second huge quake - almost as powerful as the first - could hit the country, triggering another tsunami.
The director of the Australian Seismological Centre, Dr Kevin McCue, told the Sydney Morning Herald that there had been more than 100 smaller quakes since Friday, and a larger aftershock was likely.
'Normally they happen within days.
'The rule of thumb is that you would expect the main aftershock to be one magnitude smaller than the main shock, so you would be expecting a 7.9.
'That's a monster again in its own right that is capable of producing a tsunami and more damage.'
In a rare piece of good news, a 70-year-old woman has been found alive four days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in north-eastern Japan.
Osaka fire department spokesman Yuko Kotani said the woman was found inside her house which had been washed away by the tsunami in Iwate prefecture.
Her rescuers, from Osaka in western Japan, had been sent to the area for disaster relief.
Ms Kotani said the woman was conscious but suffering from hypothermia and was being treated in hospital. She would not give the woman's name.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366395/Japan-tsunami-earthquake-Rescuers-pick-way-apocalypse-wasteland.html#ixzz1HwB2AoyV

A picture for you!

Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 23:47

Subject: a picture for you

Sam. I took this picture of Doc Yeagle a few months before he died.
You'll recignize his reading material. Jack P
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Now, you made me cry, Jack!

How great our man, Doc!

The Portsmouth area and I are so proud of Jim Fout, Jack Plymale, and Stephen "Doc" Yeagle and their football ilk! (I must add the name of another great Trojan footballer and departed friend, Gib Lakeman).  Pointy ballers of the nth degree!

 I was so honored when Jim Fout let me sit in the seat of Paul Walker with you three at an OSU fb game. Paul Walker, Ohio's great Middletown bounceyball coach, considered you guys superstars for getting him the Middletown job and he used to share those seats with you.  Of course Paul Walker coached you guys to an undefeated football season before going to Middletown after the Big War. You guys tied Middletown 0-0 that season, and that is all their selection commitee wanted to talk about in their interview of Paul!

Only a football game? Yeah, but guided by a higher source IMHO!

Jim Fout's interview story is in the book Doc is holding- "Excellence in Athletics in the Portsmouth Area".

Jack Plymale's wonderful email story of some pre and post war era Portsmouth Trojan greats is also in my "SamKatBlog 2008" book.  P'Sports from my steel trap mind, which has spent time on the bottom of the ocean and has become a little rusty and forgetful- if not on the written page.

Again I am humbly honored by the picture. The great "Doc", Miss DuPuy's pet gentle giant, was visiting P'Town once more through my book. If I must sincerely say? "Golly gee, Mr. P"!   Would your mentor, Bert Leach, accept those words as poetry?

From the bottom of my heart, I Thank you good friend!

SamKat- Sports fan of the wonderful 2011 Kentucky  Final Four bounceyballers team and another great coach, John Calipari of the Coach Adolph Rupp ilk.

Deal- Thanks Tom & Carolyn Lynch!

The Hair Cut


Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:44:57 -0400





























A teenage boy had just passed his driving test and inquired of his

father as to when they could discuss his use of the car.





His father said he'd make a deal with his son, "You bring your grades up

from a C to a B average, study your Bible a little, and get your hair

cut. Then we'll talk about the car."





The boy thought about that for a moment, decided he'd settle for the

offer, and they agreed on it.





After about six weeks his father said, "Son, you've brought your grades

up and I've observed that you have been studying your Bible, but I'm

disappointed you haven't had your hair cut."





The boy said, "You know, Dad, I've been thinking about that, and I've

noticed in my studies of the Bible that Samson had long hair, John the

Baptist had long hair, Moses had long hair, and there's even strong

evidence that Jesus had long hair."





(You're going to love the Dad's reply!)





"Did you also notice they all walked everywhere they went?"

Lessons from football Thanks Dr. Hovermale!

Lessons from Football







A great list of comments.











#1 �Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas ' - Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.



#2. 'After you retire, there's only one big event left... and I ain't ready for that.' - Bobby Bowden / Florida State



#3. 'The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.' - Lou Holtz / Arkansas



#4. 'When you win, nothing hurts.' - Joe Namath / Alabama



#5.. 'Motivation is simple.. You eliminate those who are not motivated.' - Lou Holtz / Arkansas



#6. 'If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, 'Roll, tide, roll!' - Bear Bryant / Alabama



#7. 'A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.' - Frank Leahy / Notre Dame



#8.. 'There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.' - Woody Hayes / Ohio State



#9... 'I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.' - Bob Devaney / Nebraska



#10. 'In Alabama , an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.' - Wally Butts / Georgia



#11. 'You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.' - Paul Dietzel / LSU



#12. 'It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.' - Bear Bryant / Alabama



#13. When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world: 'No, but you can see it from here.' - Lou Holtz / Arkansas ...



#14. 'I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.' - Bear Bryant / Alabama



#15. 'There's one sure way to stop us from scoring---give us the ball near the goal line.' - Matty Bell / SMU



#16. 'Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.' - Frank Leahy / Notre Dame



#17. 'I never graduated from Iowa , but I was there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.' - Alex Karras / Iowa



#18. 'My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.' -Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee



#19. 'I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.' - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State



#20. 'Always remember...Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.' - Shug Jordan / Auburn



#21. 'They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.' - Darrell Royal / Texas



#22. 'Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame



#23.. 'They whipped us like a tied up goat.' - Spike Dykes / Texas Tech



#24. 'I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good..' - Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State



#25. 'Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.' - Bobby Bowden / Florida State



#26. 'Football is not a contact sport - it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.' - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State



#27. After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his postgame message to his team: 'All those who need showers, take them.' - John McKay / USC



#28. 'If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.' - Murray Warmath / Minnesota



#29. 'The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame



#30. 'Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.' - Spike Dykes / Texas Tech



#31. 'It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame



#32. 'We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches....' - Darrell Royal / Texas



#33. 'We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking..' - Wilson Matthews / Little Rock Central High School



#34. 'Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.' - Darrell Royal / University of Texas



#35. 'I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame



#36. 'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.' - John Heisman



#37. After losing to Missouri , 35-10, in the 1968 Gator Bowl -- "They run up and down the field on us like we was some barber college." - Bear Bryant / Alabama




A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Blonde Cop..,. Thanks Clay!

Subject: blonde cop









































Two Mexicans are on a bicycle about 15 miles outside of Phoenix,

Arizona. One of the bike's tires goes flat and they start hitching a lift

back

into town. A friendly trucker stops to see if he can help, and the Mexicans

ask him

for a ride. He tells them he has no room in the trailer as he is carrying

20,000

bowling balls.



The Mexicans put it to the driver that if they can manage to fit into

the back with their bike, will he take them back into town and he

agrees. They manage to squeeze themselves and their bike into the back

and the driver shuts the doors and gets on his way.



By this time he is really late and so puts the hammer down and sure

enough, a blonde cop pulls him over for speeding. The lady officer asks

the driver what he's carrying, to which the driver jokingly replies

"Mexican eggs."



The Blonde Lady Cop obviously doesn't believe this so wants to take a

look in the trailer.



She opens the back door and quickly shuts it and locks it. She gets on

her radio and calls for immediate backup from as many officers as

possible plus the Swat Team. The dispatcher asks what emergency she has

that require so many officers.



"I've got a Tractor-Trailer stopped with 20,000 Mexican eggs in it. Two

have hatched and they've already managed to steal a bicycle.

True story- Thanks Ramey Sonny Hoskins!

True story. God put Doug right where he was needed.



From: Ridener, K. Douglas

Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Subject: True story, this is NOT a joke



True story, it happened to me this past Sunday (March 6th, 2011).







Early Sunday morning I got a call from my brother and he said he had just heard from our cousin Sherrie who was coming through Birmingham and wanted to see us on her way through. I have not seen Sherrie in about 8 years. Not since she joined the Air Force, so he said to come over and we would take her out for lunch around noon. So I got ready and was out the door in time to get there about 11:30. I am driving up I-59/20 towards Birmingham and as I am passing though Bessemer I noticed someone walking along the Interstate (not hitchhiking just walking). As I pass I notice that it is a man in uniform, the uniform of an American Army soldier. So I pull over and ask if he needs a ride and the first thing he does is reach into his fatigues and produces his honorable discharge

papers (DD214) and military I.D. card (he says to put me at ease and to prove that he is who he says he is). So I ask him where he is going. He is on his way to South Carolina. I load his ruck sack into my car and off we go.







I tell him I can give him a ride to Birmingham but I will be going North from there and he will be going east. "Roger that Sir, and thank you for the ride" is the reply I heard. I tell him "first of all I thank you for your service to our country, and second, any man in that uniform no matter what his or her age, does not call me SIR."







We talk for a while and he tells me his story. This man, "First Sgt. Jeffrey Loving, 10th Mountain div." has just returned from his 5th tour of duty, two in Iraq and three in Afghanistan, during which time he was wounded multiple times (and he has the scars to prove it, I saw them). He proceeded to tell me that his wife of 17 years was suppose to pick him up at the airport upon his arrival in Jackson, Mississippi and they were to pack up and move back to South Carolina where he was from. She didn't pick him up. He took a taxi to their apartment and he found out she had cleaned out everything including his bank account, his Harley, and both of his guitars;.... everything, not even a pair of jeans left! He has no idea where she is, but a neighbor told him, she moved out the night before with her HUSBAND. (Side note...there is a special place in Hell for people that do this)



He had nothing and only a few dollars to his name and the clothes on his back. (Heck of a note for someone who has just returned from his 5th tour of duty). I asked him when was the last time you have eaten? "Not in the last three days Sir." I said let's get you something to eat then. "No sir, not your problem sir,"







"uuhhmm, YES IT IS soldier, I am an American. It's my family you protect, it's my country you protect, it's my way of life you protect, I can get you something to eat!" I look at the next exit and see that all that's there is a McDonalds and ask if that would be ok? "Roger that sir, that would be great, Thank you sir."







"Please stop calling me SIR, Sergeant" however I realize he can't stop, it's who he is. I bought him 5 hamburgers, fries, and a coke. He went through 2 burgers, the fries and coke in about 5 minutes; then asked if it would be ok if he saved the other 3 burgers for later?







"Son, if you are still hungry you eat them and I will get you more for later"







"I can't have you do that sir, if it's ok with you I will just save them."







I then asked how long have you been walking?







“I started in Jackson, Mississippi five days ago.” He walked to the state line and someone picked him up and gave him a ride to Tuscaloosa, Alabama and he has been walking from there to Bessemer, Alabama where I picked him up (for anyone who doesn't know, that's about 45-50 miles) and he did this with a 50-60lbs. ruck sack on his back. It was about here where I made the statement that I couldn't believe that he, in full U.S. Army uniform, had to walk that far without someone stopping to pick him up? You will not believe the reply I got!







"Sir, this is not anyone's problem but mine, but since you asked, I will tell you that not only has no one stopped to give me a ride, but I have had beer bottles thrown at me, I have had garbage thrown at me and have been cursed and been called murderer."







"Sir, I have never been more ashamed in my life." I pulled the car over, because I started to cry. He thought I was going to put him out! I told him, “Son, don't you EVER feel ashamed to wear that uniform. There may be some in this country that feel that way but Son, I am not one of them. It's me that feels ashamed, for the way you were treated.” I told him that my father served in the Navy and had 8 tours to Vietnam, that 5 of his 6 brothers all had numerous tours in Vietnam, that my grandfather was a POW in Germany in WWII. “I am the one who is ashamed and you Son, hold your head high and don't ever feel ashamed. When was the last time you slept and had a hot shower?”







He dropped his head and told me his last shower was in Afghanistan and he had not slept in 3 days. I told him I was on my way to see my brother and cousin in Gardendale and there are some hotels there. I will get you a hotel for the night and you can have a shower.







"NO SIR, I'm not your problem, just drop me off and I will keep walking, but thank you Sir."







"With all due respect Son, I am not asking for your permission. I am simply telling you what I am going to do, you can get some sleep and continue in the morning."







"Roger that sir, and thank you Sir."







I got him a room at a Days inn in Fultondale, Alabama. I made the comment that it's not the Ritz and his reply was priceless..







"Sir, for the last 3 months I have slept on the ground in the mountains of Afghanistan where its hot as blazes in the day and freezing cold at night. This is paradise to me SIR. Thank you for your generosity. If you will leave me your name and address, as soon as I get squared way in South Carolina, I will send you money to repay you, I promise."







"Sergeant, you owe me nothing. I am simply repaying you."







I got him squared away and was happy I got to help him out, I am sure he was asleep before I got out of the parking lot.







I went to my brothers and my cousin was there and told them of the encounter with 1st Sgt. Loving. My cousin Sherrie (Sgt. U.S. Air Force) asked my brother to look on the Internet and see how much it would be for a bus ticket to South Carolina? We looked and it was about $70.00. So we devised a plan. We went out to eat like we had planned and we ordered WAY more food than we needed and we boxed up everything we didn't eat (enough to feed 2-3 more people) and as we left the restaurant we went by the hotel to drop in on 1st Sgt. Loving.







Sure enough he was dead asleep. We woke him up and to his surprise we gave him more food (so he didn't have to save the burgers). I introduced him to my brother Steve, his wife Tracey and my cousin Sherrie. Tears welled up in his eyes and he was telling them of his plight and that I had taken good care of him and they should be proud of me, like I had saved his life or something. Then out of the blue, my brother handed him a folded up bill and said for him to put it in his pocket. He refused.







"No sir, I am not your problem Sir, I can't take it. You all have been so nice and I can't possibly take anything else, but thank you Sir."







Steve told him please take it. It's not much but it will help some. He took it and unfolded the bill. It was a $100.00. WOW, my brother is amazing. He cried, I cried....well we all did.







My cousin asked where he was stationed in Afghanistan? He told her (I can't remember the name of the base. Wouldn't you know it, in 3 months that is where Sherrie is going? They both were very excited, he was telling her things she needed to do to prepare for and things she needed to take and what not to do, and etc...

The rest of us just sat back and watched the two of them in amazement. He was just what she needed, to prepare for her first trip into a hot zone and I think he felt good in being able to help out a fellow soldier. It was great.







This went on for about 5-10 minutes and I hated to break it up, but I told him, that I would be coming back at 6:30 A.M. or so and pick him up to take him to the bus station and get him a ticket to South Carolina. The look on his face was AWESOME. (more crying) lots of hugs, (more crying).







1st Sgt. Loving told my family, that when he came back from Afghanistan and his wife was gone he was in despair, and as he was walking from Tuscaloosa to Bessemer, he had lost his faith in America and was losing his FAITH period. He told my Family...."that I was his hero." (O.K., more crying). Not sure anyone has ever called me a hero, and coming from him, I have to tell you it meant something!



So Monday morning, I picked him up some breakfast and I arrived at the hotel to pick up 1st Sgt. Loving, and he told me, "Sir I wish I could have called you to save you a trip, but, I met the man next door in the hotel and he is a truck driver who happens to be heading to South Carolina, not only the state, but to my home town in South Carolina.”







Can you believe it? God works in mysterious ways doesn't He? He told me that he could never repay what we had done for him, but truth be told, he did more for us than you can imagine.







I didn't write this to pat myself on the back; simply to let everyone know that sometimes a simple ride can be more than a simple ride. Sunday March 6th, 2011 I met a true American hero, selfless, kind, dedicated, respectful and humble. A true example of what America is all about. I promise you I got more from meeting him than he got from meeting me.



God Bless America and God Bless our Soldier, Sailors, Airmen and Marines!



Doug Ridener

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Girl from Tennessee... Thanks Mr. Looney

A girl, from Tennessee, walked up to the information desk in a


hospital and asked to see the "upturn".

"I think you mean the 'intern', don't you?"

asked the nurse on duty.

"Yes," said the girl. "I want to have a

'contamination.'"

"You mean 'examination,'" the nurse corrected her.

"Well I want to go to the 'fraternity ward,' anyway."

"I'm sure you mean the maternity ward."To which the

girl replied: "Upturn, intern; contamination,

examination, fraternity, maternity.... what's

the difference? All I know is I haven't demonstrated

in two months, and I think I'm stagnant."

Congratulatory emails from good friends- UK62 OSU 60

Sam,



Congratulations on an excellent game against OSU.



I fell asleep before it was over but my wife can tell you,

that I predicted that Kentucky would win and they did.



Dan


SamKat's Reply-


You are a good man, Dan Baird!

Thanks good friend, as well as the best government employee I ever met. And imagine that Sammie K got to earn a lot of good value engineering savings for our citizens along with my friend, Dan Baird!





I certainly believe Arelis! The Cats played nearly perfectly and the game might have gone either way, but Cal had our team ready! Sullinger played absolutely great, but our Harrelson stayed right with him. Diebler was hitting when he could find room, but couldn't always. Coach Cal's defense was right on the right place at the right time. Liggins became part of Craft. Liggins was our outstanding player on KY radio, but coach Cal and the whole team defended and defended!





Thanks good friend, as well as the best government employee I ever met. And imagine that Sammie K got to earn a lot of good value engineering savings for our citizens along with my friend, Dan Baird!





A few friends and family know, of course, that JeanieKat and I are Kentucky fans.  I particularly want to give our sincere thanks to Carl Clark, Jr, our retired former family doctor Dr. Tom Pappas, Jack H. Plymale, former Portsmouth Trojan footballer of the forties, Blaine Bierley (PHS 55) and sincere KY fan and friend, Judi Cole.  These friends gave me congratulatory emails. I will always cherish these!

 Let me temper that abit in that I am a Kentucky basketball fan above all my sports loves and an Ohio State football fan above being a Kentucky football fan.  KY fb is a wannabe to Ohio State.   Coach Cal correctly imtimated the same because the coach has acquired IT.  IT is, of course, being a Kentucky basketball fan.  IT is a sickness to last for a lifetime's entertainment.  When one is infected, it becomes part of you and you never want cured.

Oh, that the Dispatch's Rob Oiler could make some good sense in writing for the Columbus Dispatch.  The "Matta Lover" nor his coach never will get IT !



SamKat