Assignment ... Thanks Sarah Rapp!

Fifth Grade Assignment


Wouldn't this be great if it was taught in every school.





A fifth grade teacher in a Christian school asked her class to look

At TV commercials and see if they could use them in 20 ways

To communicate ideas about God.





Here are some of the results: scroll down.



God is like.

BAYER ASPIRIN

He works miracles.

God is like.

A FORD

He's got a better idea..



God is like.

COKE

He's the real thing.





(This is great)

God is like

VERIZON

he rules the AIR.....



God is like.

HALLMARK CARDS

He cares enough to send His very best.



God is like.

TIDE

He gets the stains out others leave behind. ..

God is like.

GENERAL ELECTRIC

He brings good things to life.



God is like.

WAL-MART

He has everything.



God is like.

ALKA-SELTZER

Try Him, you'll like Him



God is like.

SCOTCH TAPE

You can't see Him, but you know He's there.



God is like..

DELTA

He's ready when you are.



God is like.

ALLSTATE

You're in good hands with Him.



God is like.

VO-5 Hair Spray;

He holds through all kinds of weather



God is like.

DIAL SOAP

Aren't you glad you have Him? Don't you wish everybody did?

(that one is my favorite)



God is like .

The U.S. POST OFFICE

Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet nor ice will keep Him from

His appointed destination.





God is like.

Chevrolet

. . . .the heart beat of America



God is like

Maxwell House

Good to the very last drop





God is like.

B o u n t y

He is the quicker picker upper. . Can handle the tough jobs. ..

And He won't fall apart on you



God is like.

The Energizer Bunny

He Keeps Going, Going, and Going





Forward this to! your email friends so that they can know what God is like.......

( only! If you want to)!

BLESSINGS FROM

MY HOUSE TO YOUR HOUSE

IBM's generosity turned down by o and his cohorts.

UNBELIEVABLE ! For you to decide


Unbelievable indeed!  Why not elect a president next time?   UGH!

IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free...

The offer is true. Zukermann, US News and World Report, owner, a Democrat was interviewed on Fox and confirmed it. IBM has confirmed it. You won't believe it .





IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free...



What if I told you that the Chairman and CEO of IBM, Samuel J. Palmisano, approached President Obama and members of his administration before the healthcare bill debates with a plan that would reduce healthcare expenditures by $900 billion? Given the Obama Administration's adamancy that the United States of America simply had to make healthcare (read: health insurance) affordable for even the most dedicated welfare recipient, one would think he would have leaned forward in his chair, cupped his ear and said, "Tell me more!"



And what if I told you that the cost to the federal government for this program was nothing, zip, nada, zilch?



And, what if I told you that, in the end and after two meetings, President Obama and his team, instead of embracing a program that was proven to save money and one that was projected to save almost one trillion dollars - a private sector program costing the taxpayers nothing, zip, nada, zilch - said, "Thanks but no thanks" and then embarked on passing one of the most despised pieces of legislation in US history?



Well, it's all true.



Samuel J. Palmisano, the Chairman of the Board and CEO for IBM, said in a recent Wall Street Journalinterview that he offered to provide the Obama Administration with a program that would curb healthcare claims fraud and abuse by almost one trillion dollars but the Obama White House turned the offer down.



Mr. Palmisano is quoted as saying during a taping http://video.foxnews.com/v/4366002/did-white-house-snub-fraud-fighter/

of The Wall Street Journal's Viewpoints program on September 14, 2010:



"We could have improved the quality and reduced the cost of the healthcare system by $900 billion...I said we would do it for free to prove that it works. They turned us down."



A second meeting between Mr. Palmisano and the Obama Administration took place two weeks later, with no change in the Obama Administration's stance. A call placed to IBM on October 8, 2010, by FOX News confirmed, via a spokesperson, that Mr. Palmisano stands by his statement.



Speaking with FOX News' Stuart Varney, Mort Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief of US News & World Report, said,



"It's a little bit puzzling because I think there is a huge amount of both fraud and inefficiency that American business is a lot more

comfortable with and more effective in trying to reduce. And this is certainly true because the IBM people have studied this very carefully. And when Palmisano went to the White House and made that proposal, it was based upon a lot of work and it was not accepted. And it's really puzzling...These are very, very responsible people and don't have a political ax to grind.





In Mr. Obama's shunning of a private sector program that would have saved our country almost $1 trillion in healthcare expenditures, presented to him as he declared a "crisis in healthcare," he proves two things beyond any doubt: that he is anti-Capitalist and anti-private sector in nature and that he can no longer be trusted to tell the truth in both his political declarations or espoused goals.

It's what you scatter ... Thanks Pat Whitehead!

IT'S WHAT YOU SCATTER




I was at the corner grocery store buying some early potatoes... I noticed a small boy, delicate of bone and feature, ragged but clean, hungrily apprising a basket of freshly picked green peas.



I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of fresh green peas. I am a pushover for creamed peas and new potatoes.



Pondering the peas, I couldn't help overhearing the conversation between Mr. Miller (the store owner) and the ragged boy next to me.



'Hello Barry, how are you today?'



'H'lo, Mr. Miller. Fine, thank ya. Jus' admirin' them peas. They sure look good.'



'They are good, Barry. How's your Ma?'

'Fine. Gittin' stronger alla' time.'

'Good. Anything I can help you with?'

'No, Sir. Jus' admirin' them peas.'

'Would you like to take some home?' asked Mr. Miller.



'No, Sir. Got nuthin' to pay for 'em with.'



'Well, what have you to trade me for some of those peas?'



'All I got's my prize marble here.'



'Is that right? Let me see it', said Miller.



'Here 'tis. She's a dandy.'



'I can see that. Hmm mmm, only thing is this one is blue and I sort of go for red. Do you have a red one like this at home?' the store owner asked.



'Not zackley but almost.'



'Tell you what. Take this sack of peas home with you and next trip this way let me look at that red marble'. Mr. Miller told the boy.



'Sure will. Thanks Mr. Miller.'



Mrs. Miller, who had been standing nearby, came over to help me.



With a smile she said, 'There are two other boys like him in our community, all three are in very poor circumstances. Jim just loves to bargain with them for peas, apples, tomatoes, or whatever.



When they come back with their red marbles, and they always do, he decides he doesn't like red after all and he sends them home with a bag of produce for a green marble or an orange one, when they come on their next trip to the store.'



I left the store smiling to myself, impressed with this man. A short time later I moved to Colorado , but I never forgot the story of this man, the boys, and their bartering for marbles.



Several years went by, each more rapid than the previous one. Just recently I had occasion to visit some old friends in that Idaho community and while I was there learned that Mr. Miller had died. They were having his visitation that evening and knowing my friends wanted to go, I agreed to accompany them. Upon arrival at the mortuary we fell into line to meet the relatives of the deceased and to offer whatever words of comfort we could.



Ahead of us in line were three young men. One was in an army uniform and the other two wore nice haircuts, dark suits and white shirts...all very professional looking. They approached Mrs. Miller, standing composed and smiling by her husband's casket.



Each of the young men hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, spoke briefly with her and moved on to the casket. Her misty light blue eyes followed them as, one by one; each young man stopped briefly and placed his own warm hand over the cold pale hand in the casket. Each left the mortuary awkwardly, wiping his eyes..



Our turn came to meet Mrs. Miller. I told her who I was and reminded her of the story from those many years ago and what she had told me about her husband's bartering for marbles. With her eyes glistening, she took my hand and led me to the casket.



'Those three young men who just left were the boys I told you about.



They just told me how they appreciated the things Jim 'traded' them. Now, at last, when Jim could not change his mind about color or size....they came to pay their debt.'



'We've never had a great deal of the wealth of this world,' she confided, 'but right now, Jim would consider himself the richest man in Idaho ..'



With loving gentleness she lifted the lifeless fingers of her deceased husband. Resting underneath were three exquisitely shined red marbles.



The Moral:

We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath.

Today I wish you a day of ordinary miracles ~ A fresh pot of coffee you didn't make yourself...



An unexpected phone call from an old friend.... Green stoplights on your way to work....



The fastest line at the grocery store....



A good sing-along song on the radio...



Your keys found right where you left them.



Send this to the people you'll never forget. I just did...



If you don't send it to anyone, it means you are in way too much of a hurry to even notice the ordinary miracles when they occur.



IT'S NOT WHAT YOU GATHER, BUT WHAT YOU SCATTER THAT TELLS WHAT KIND OF LIFE YOU HAVE LIVED!

Bar joke ... Thanks Marge Rusnak!

Remember friends, this is just a joke!  ;)

Drinking with a FLORIDA Girl !!!!







A Mexican, an Arab,







and a FLORIDA girl are





in the same bar.

When the Mexican





finishes his beer,





he throws his glass





in the air, pulls out





his pistol, and shoots





the glass to pieces.





He says, 'In Mexico ,





our glasses are so





cheap we don't need





to drink with the same one twice.'





The Arab, obviously





impressed by this,





drinks non-alcohol beer





(cuz he's a muslim!),





throws it into the





air, pulls out his





AK-47, and shoots





the glass to pieces.





He says, 'In the





Arab World, we have





so much sand to make





glasses that we don't





need to drink with





the same one twice either.'





The Florida girl,





cool as a cucumber,





picks up her beer,





downs it in one gulp,





throws the glass into





the air, whips out her





45, and shoots the





Mexican and the Arab.





Catching her glass,





setting it on the bar, and calling for a refill,





she says,

'In FLORIDA ,





we have so many





illegal aliens that





we don't have to





drink with the same ones twice.'




God Bless

FLORIDA!

800 numbers ... Thanks good friend, Doug Brooke!

This is valuable.  I am so disatisfied with most all customer service today.  The yuppies wghio have replaced us old dogs of industry and marketing seem to forget about customer seervice in the intwerest of less expensive 'phone systems'.  Give me an operator(s) to get to the right person in reasonable time.  Our entrepreneur benefactor, W.C. Denison knew that so well.  

Sam Kegley



Subj: FW: 800-number information



I'll pass this along, however, personally I have been getting US reps for a long time so perhaps US companies are getting the message,




This is good to know----I have struggled to understand people----don't want to ever be rude but----GEEZ I want to have a decent phone conversation!!!!


Sounds like a pretty good idea to me.

800-number information

Any time you call an 800 number (for a credit card, banking, charter

communications, health and other insurance, computer help desk, etc)

and you find that you're talking to a foreign customer service

representative (perhaps in India, Philippines, etc), please consider doing the following:

After you connect and you realize that the customer service

representative is not from the USA (you can always ask if you are not

sure about the accent), please, very politely (this is not about

trashing other cultures) say, "I'd like to speak to a customer service

representative in the United States of America."

The rep might suggest talking to his/her manager, but, again, politely

say, "Thank you, but I'd like to speak to a customer service

representative in the USA." YOU WILL BE IMMEDIATELY CONNECTED TO A REP

IN THE USA. That's the rule and the LAW..

It takes less than one minute to have your call re-directed to the USA.

Tonight when I got redirected to a USA rep, I asked again to make sure

- and yes, she was from Fort Lauderdale.

Imagine what would happen if every US citizen insisted on talking to

only US phone reps from this day on.

Imagine how that would ultimately impact the number of US jobs that

would need to be created ASAP..

If I tell 10 people to consider this and you tell 10 people to

consider doing this - see what I mean...it becomes an exercise in

viral marketing 101.

Remember - the goal here is to restore jobs back here at home - not to

be abrupt or rude to a foreign phone rep. You may even get correct

answers, good advice, and solutions to your problem - in real English.

If you agree, please tell 10 people you know, and ask them to tell 10

people they know....etc...etc

WSJ article ... Thanks Ramey Hoskins!

WSJ Article

REVIEW & OUTLOOKJULY 15, 2011.The Obama Downgrade

The real reason the U.S. could lose its AAA rating..Article Video Comments (626) more in Opinion ».EmailPrintSave This ↓ More.



So the credit-rating agencies that helped to create the financial crisis that led to a deep recession are now warning that the U.S. could lose the AAA rating it has had since 1917. As painfully ironic as this is, there's no benefit in shooting the messengers. The real culprit is the U.S. political class, especially the President who has presided over this historic collapse of fiscal credibility.



Moody's and the boys are citing the risk of a default on August 2 as the proximate reason for their warning. But Americans should understand that the debt ceiling is merely the trigger. The gun is the spending boom of the last three years and the prospect that Washington lacks the political will to reduce it in the years to come.



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.On spending, it is important to recall how extraordinary the blowout of the last three years has been. We've seen nothing like it since World War II. Nothing close. The nearby chart tracks federal outlays as a share of GDP since 1960. The early peaks coincide with the rise of the Great Society, the recession of 1974-75, and then a high of 23.5% with the recession of 1982 and the Reagan defense buildup.



From there, spending declines, most rapidly during the 1990s as defense outlays fell to 3% of GDP in 2000 from its Reagan peak of 6.2% in 1986. The early George W. Bush years saw spending bounce up to a plateau of roughly 20% of GDP, but no more than 20.7% as recently as 2008.



Then came the Obama blowout, in league with Nancy Pelosi's Congress. With the recession as a rationale, Democrats consciously blew up the national balance sheet, lifting federal outlays to 25% in 2009, the highest level since 1945. (Even in 1946, with millions still in the military, spending was only 24.8% of GDP. In 1947 it fell to 14.8%.) Though the recession ended in June 2009, spending in 2010 stayed high at nearly 24%, and this year it is heading back toward 25%.



This is the main reason that federal debt held by the public as a share of GDP has climbed from 40.3% in 2008, to 53.5% in 2009, 62.2% in 2010 and an estimated 72% this year, and is expected to keep rising in the future. These are heights not seen since the Korean War, and many analysts think U.S. debt will soon hit 90% or 100% of GDP.



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...Congress is responsible for the way so much of this spending was wasted, resulting in little job creation and the slowest economic recovery since the 1930s. But in the U.S. political system, Presidents are supposed to be the fiscal adults. When they abdicate, the teenagers invite over their special interest friends and blow the inheritance.



The President is now claiming to have found fiscal virtue, but notice how hard he has fought House Republicans as they've sought to abate the spending boom. First he used the threat of a government shutdown to whittle the fiscal 2011 spending cuts down to very little. Then he invited Paul Ryan to sit in the front row for a speech while he called his House budget un-American.




Deputy editor Daniel Henninger and Joseph Rago of the editorial board analyzes President Obama's Friday press conference.

..Now Mr. Obama is using the debt-ceiling debate as a battering ram not to control spending but to command a tax increase. We're told the White House list of immediate budget savings, the ones that matter most because they are enforceable by the current Congress, are negligible. His offer for immediate domestic nondefense discretionary cuts: $2 billion.



As for Mr. Obama's proposed entitlement cuts, they are all nibbling around the edges of programs that are growing far faster than inflation. He's offering few reforms that would make a difference in the long run. Oh, and ObamaCare is untouchable, despite its $1 trillion in new spending over the next several years, growing even faster after that.



So now we have the inevitable showdown over the debt limit, which must be raised to pay for all of this spending. And Mr. Obama is blaming Republicans for being irresponsible because they won't raise taxes in return for promises of modest future spending restraint. And some people even fall for it.



We've said we think it would be foolish of Republicans to walk into Mr. Obama's debt-limit trap and let him blame them for the financial fallout, including a possible credit downgrade. But this is not because we think they will deserve the blame. Even if this debt-ceiling crisis passes, the threat of a credit downgrade will continue and grow until Mr. Obama changes his policies, or Americans change Presidents.



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