My blog might retain its innocence without these darts, Clay! ;)

LOVE and DEVOTION



A woman's husband had been slipping in and out of a coma for several months.



yet she had stayed by his bedside every single day. One day, when he came to, he motioned for her to come nearer.











As she sat by him, he whispered, eyes full of tears, 'You know what?

You have been with me all through the bad times.

When I got fired, you were there to support me.

When my business failed, you were there.

When I got shot, you were by my side.

When we lost the house, you stayed right here.

When my health started failing, you were still by my side...

You know what Martha?'



'What dear?' she gently asked, smiling as her heart began to fill with warmth.



'I'm beginning to think you're bad luck....'

Tolerance, Australian Thanks friend!

Typically understated Australian.....



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Tolerance



I am truly perplexed that so many of my friends are against another mosque being built in Brisbane.



I think it should be the goal of every Australian to be tolerant.



Thus the Mosque should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance.



That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque.



We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, "The Turban Cowboy ", and the other a topless bar called "You Mecca Me Hot."



Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbeque pork restaurant, called "Iraq o' Ribs."



Across the street there could be a lingerie store called "Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret ", with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods



�Next door to the lingerie shop there would be room for an adult sex toy shop, "Koranal Knowledge ", its name in flashing neon lights, and on the other side a liquor store called "Morehammered."



�All of this would encourage the Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us, so the mosque problem would be solved.

History Lesson Your social security Thanks Ron Walters!

Subject: History Lesson on Your Social Security Card



Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn't know this. It's easy to check out, if you don't believe it.



Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what's what and it doesn't matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts.



Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message,



NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION, was removed.



(http://blog.kir.com/archives/images/social+security.gif) An old Social Security card with the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message.



Our Social Security



Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:



1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary,



No longer Voluntary



2.) That the participants would only have to pay

1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program,



Now 7.65% on the first $90,000



3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,



No longer tax deductible



4.) That the money the participants put into the independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,



Under Johnson the money was moved to The General Fund and Spent



5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.



Under Clinton & Gore Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed



Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to 'put away' -- you may be interested in the following:



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Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?



A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically-controlled House and Senate.



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Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?



A: The Democrat Party



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Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?



A: The Democrat Party, with Al Gore casting the 'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the U.S.



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Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?



AND MY FAVORITE:



A: That's right! Jimmy Carter and the Democrat Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democrat Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!



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Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!



And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!



If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve.



It's certainly worth a try.



How many people can YOU send this to?



Actions speak louder than bumper stickers.



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Re- The Decade of the forties ... Thanks Sonny Hoskins!

Glad you are back, Sonny! There are a lot of vivid memories for us. Jeanie became ten and I became eight in 1940. President Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor message was so etched into our minds. My brother, George, four and a half years younger, probably only remembers the post war years. The five additional Kegley kids born after George remember lilltle of the 40's although Jim and Mary Lou were born in the late decade. Dad (Forest E.) and mom (Mary eleanor),Ted, who was a heroic medic in Europe, Joan, Forest, Jr. (Bud) and Mary Lou are now deceased. Bud and I were non-combat veterans of cold war and Korean draft vintage.




That is why we older ones tend to the conservative side of today's politics. The USA had become a sleeping giant in regards to preparation for war. Our factories were certainly not in full production all over the country, but they quickly became active and women were making guns and goods for the active service people. Rationing for civilians occurred so as to support our troops overseas. Rubber was difficult to get from Indonesia, tin was tough to acquire to plate steel cans for food, etc.



I tutor young people today at Columbus State Community College. The ones I tutor, many are immigrants, have poor preparation from their earlier experiences, but most are eager to make the grades in a subject they dread in a large way. I am impressed that they too could rise to become proud of this country God has blessed above all others. The war and post war years of the forties and fifties had so much patriotism among us, anti Americanism was just not to be tolerated.



Tolerance and freedom were won through that war's efforts by Americans, but many subsequent wars have been more politically incited in my estimation. We would NOT have tolerated so many indignant foreigners during and immediately after that war.



I am so happy my sons avoided a draft, although lotteries were not as fair as the actual draft involving all able-bodied men. Women entered service later and have become so important in America's defense.



Ah, friend, you have brought a melancholy strand of thought. Brother George will love best the 1946 Hudson in the video. We had one about 1950. New cars were not becoming available so soon after the war. Dad loved the Hudson cars!



Thanks Mr. Hoskins!



Sam Kegley

Afternoon sex ... Funny, Clay!

The only way to pull off a Sunday afternoon "quickie" with their

8-year old son in the apartment was to send him out on the balcony

with a Popsicle and tell him to report on all the neighborhood

activities.



He began his commentary as his parents put their plan into operation:



- "There's a car being towed from the parking lot," he shouted.



- "An ambulance just drove by!"



- "Looks like the Andersons have company," he called out.



- "Matt's riding a new bike!"



- "Looks like the Sanders are moving!"



- "Jason is on his skate board!"



- After a few moments he announced, "The Coopers are having sex!"



Startled, his mother and dad shot up in bed! Dad cautiously called out,

"How do you know they're having sex?"



"Jimmy Cooper is standing on his balcony with a Popsicle.."

Thoughts to ponder ... thanks Dan Baird!

Thoughts to Ponder






Number 10

Life is sexually transmitted.



Number 9

Good health is merely the slowest possible

rate at which one can die.



Number 8

Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny.

If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich ..



Number 7

Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day,

teach a person to use the Internet and they won't

bother you for weeks.



Number 6

Some people are like a Slinky ...

not really good for anything, but you

still can't help but smile when

you shove them down the stairs.



Number 5

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,

lying in hospitals, dying of nothing.



Number 4

All of us could take a lesson from the weather.

It pays no attention to criticism.



Number 3

Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200.00,

and a substantial tax cut saves you $30.00?



Number 2

In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.

Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make

it normal.



And The Number 1 Thought

Life is like a jar of Jalapeno peppers;

what you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.



and as someone recently said to me:

"Don't worry about old age;

it doesn't last long."

Best Quotes ... Thanks Dan Baird!

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself,'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'



- Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)









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I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: - 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'

- Eleanor Roosevelt



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Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement..

- Mark Twain



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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible

- George Burns

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Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.

- Victor Borge

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

- Mark Twain



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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

- Socrates



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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

- Groucho Marx



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My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

- Jimmy Durante



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I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

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Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.

- Alex Levine



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My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

- Rodney Dangerfield

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Money can't buy you happiness .... But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

- Spike Milligan



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Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP .

- Joe Namath



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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.

- Bob Hope



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I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it..

- W. C. Fields



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We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.

- Will Rogers



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Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.

- Winston Churchill



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Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty .. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out..

- Phyllis Diller



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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

- Billy Crystal


And the cardiologist' s diet: - If it tastes good spit it out.



May your troubles be less, may your blessings be more, and may nothing but happiness come through your door

The truth about Dorothy ... Thanks Bob Looney!

From: Subject: The Truth About Dorothy



Is 70 years old.




Today, if Dorothy were to encounter Men with no brains, no hearts, and no courage -


She wouldn't be in Oz -




She'd be in Congress.



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2011 08 08 3:21 AM Thanks Bob Looney!

2011-08-08 03:21 AM  
 
You are in your car driving home. Thoughts wander to the game you want to see or meal you want to eat, when suddenly a sound unlike any you've ever heard fills the air. The sound is high above you. A trumpet? A choir? A choir of trumpets? You don't know, but you want to know.. So you pull over, get out of your car, and look up. As you do, you see you aren't the only curious one. The roadside has become a parking lot. Car doors are open, and people are staring at the sky. Shoppers are racing out of the grocery store. The Little League baseball game across the street has come to a halt. Players and parents are searching the clouds and what they see, and what you see, has never before been seen.




As if the sky were a curtain, the drapes of the atmosphere part. A brilliant light spills onto the earth. There are no shadows. None.



From every hue ever seen and a million more never seen. Riding on the flow is an endless fleet of angels. They pass through the curtains one myriad at a time, until they occupy every square inch of the sky.



North. South. East. West.



Thousands of silvery wings rise and fall in unison, and over the sound of the trumpets, you can hear the cherubim and seraphim chanting, Holy, holy, holy.. The final flank of angels is followed by twenty-four silver-bearded elders and a multitude of souls who join the angels in worship..



Suddenly, the heavens are quiet. All is quiet. The angels



Turn, you turn, the entire world turns and there He is..... Jesus.



Through waves of light you see the silhouetted figure of Christ the King. He is atop a great stallion, and the stallion is atop a billowing cloud. He opens his mouth, and you are surrounded by his declaration:



I am the Alpha and the Omega.



The angels bow their heads.... The elders remove their crowns.... And before you is a Figure so consuming that you know, instantly you know: Nothing else matters.. Forget stock markets and school reports.... Sales meetings and football games. Nothing is newsworthy... . All that mattered, matters no more... For Christ has come.



Please let me know the exact time you read this.. It is mystical--honest.



This morning when the Lord opened a window to Heaven, he saw me, and he asked: My child, what is your greatest wish for today?



I responded: 'Lord please; take care of my family, my friends, the person who is reading this message, their family and their special friends. They deserve it and I love them very much'.



The love of God is like the ocean, you can see its beginnings but not its end.



This message works on the day you receive it.



To some it may sound dumb, but the person who sent this to me was impressed with its timing. Let us see if it is true.



ANGELS EXIST, but sometimes, since they don't all have wings we call them FRIENDS, SUCH AS YOU.



Pass it on to 20 of your true friends. SOMETHING GOOD WILL HAPPEN TO YOU TODAY. SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING TO HEAR.



SOMEONE WILL CALL YOU BY PHONE OR WILL SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT SOMETHING THAT YOU WERE WAITING TO HEAR. DO NOT BREAK THIS EMAIL. SEND IT TO A MINIMUM OF 4 PEOPLE.



Put the Date and Time in the ' Subject' area when you read it.



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