WOW!- From the L.A. Times ... thanks John M.!

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We have to assume these numbers are pretty accurate since they are printed in the LA Times. Sure makes one wonder just what is happening in our Country, but gives us a much better understanding of why our debt is so out of control and growing.

I would also like to know the statistics in every State as further proof that our do nothing politicians are giving our country away and presenting us with the bill!

Just One State, this is only one State.......what an eye opener! From the Los Angeles Times Newspaper 1. 40% of all workers in Los Angeles County (Los Angeles County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal aliens working without a green card. 2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens. 3. 75% of people on the most-wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens. 4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers. 5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally. 6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages! 7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border. 8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal. 9. 21 radio stations in Los Angeles are Spanish speaking. 10. In Los Angeles County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish. (There are 10.2 million people in Los Angeles County.) (All 10 of the above statements are from the Los Angeles Times) Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare. Over 70% of the United States' annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York ) results from immigration. 29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens. We are a bunch of fools for letting this continue! HOW CAN YOU HELP? Send copies of this letter to at least two other people. 100 would be even better. This is only one State. If this doesn't open your eyes, nothing will.

Chuck Ealey a Portsmouth guy's career built on faith

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A career built on faith

05.23.12 - 08:00 pm

FRANK LEWIS
PDT Staff Writer
The Canadian Football League is celebrating its 1ooth anniversary, and one of the milestones it is celebrating as a part of its rich history is the life of Chuck Ealey, the league’s first African-American quarterback to win the Grey Cup, which is Canada’s equivalent to the NFL’s Super Bowl.
Ealey returned to his roots Wednesday for the filming of a documentary about the league’s history. His roots are at Portsmouth’s Notre Dame High School, where he rolled off 27 consecutive victories, followed by 35 consecutive wins in a three-year span (1969-1971) at Division-1 Toledo, an NCAA record that still stands, and where he also won three Tangerine Bowls, being named most valuable player for all three of those victories. He then played for the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the CFL, and won the Grey cup.
“They (CFL) are doing a series of eight historical periods of documentaries in regards to things that happened in the Canadian Football League,” Ealey said, surrounded by cameras, a boom mike, and a video director. “My story being the first African-American quarterback to win the Grey Cup Championship, and where I came from became one of the historical stories that they wanted to build on.”
But before Ealey was a winner in college and a winner in the pros, he was a winner at Notre Dame. From 1964 to 1967, Ealey played under Ohio High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Famer Ed Miller. In 1967, Notre Dame captured a state championship. So it was with fond memories that he strolled the Notre Dame halls Wednesday afternoon.
The camera was rolling as Ealey walked up the aisle of the Notre Dame High School chapel and explained to his daughter, Jael Ealey Richardson, the routine the Titans followed before a Saturday night game.
“Being a Catholic school and a church we were quite involved with our church and what was happening,” Ealey said. “So as we began to focus on things, we recognized that, and it’s hard to recognize it, but you understand the difference between just being moral and being spiritual and having the things involved in your life that just go beyond the things that you do on the physical side. So it was that avenue that sort of set the precedence of where I am now with my family, and what we believe in spiritual matters. It all kind of started from this faith.”
Ealey also spoke of his education at Notre Dame High School.
“It was great here (Notre Dame), when you win that many games in a row,” Ealey said. “The one thing I do remember is the educational process and the discipline that I learned, not only from football, but from the classroom. I wasn’t what you would call a great student, but I was disciplined enough to make sure that things happened and go through, and this school was very good and instrumental in keeping me in those disciplines.”
Richardson walked next to her father as he took her on a tour of the school where he never lost a game.
“My daughter is here because she has written a book to be published in September,” Ealey said. “It’s done in regards to her viewpoint of my life in comparison to hers, and the story that happened that she learned about over the years. It’s a good thing that she is here, so she is reliving part of those things that she has already got in the book. It’s part of the things that we are covering again because of the event that is happening in the Canadian Football League.”
Richardson said the book is called “The Stone Thrower” and is a memoir about her father.
“It explores not only what he accomplished in Portsmouth and Toledo, but how he ended up in Canada, and what that story has meant to my life as a black Canadian, and what I have learned about my black history in America.”
Richardson said the book will be available Sept. 9 from Thomas Allen Publishers.
At the age of 30, Richardson traveled with her father for the first time to Portsmouth for his 40th high school reunion. Knowing very little about her father’s past, Richardson was searching for a story behind her father’s move from the projects in Portsmouth to Canada’s professional football league in the early 1970s. At the railroad tracks where her father first learned to throw with stones, Richardson begins an unexpected journey into her family’s past, dealing with issues such as her father’s experiences growing up during the Civil Rights era, and her own life growing up as a young black woman in Canada.
“We’re filming here, then we go to Toledo, then back into Canada with the story,” Ealey said.
Ealey also spoke Wednesday at Bealuh Baptist Church in Portsmouth.
Frank Lewis may be reached at 740-353-3101, ext. 232, or at flewis@heartlandpublications.com.

© portsmouth-dailytimes.com 2012

Let's all eaty at Chick-Fil-A ... More decency theft by the left

I am forwarding the email, with comments preceding, just as it came to me.

As a matter of choice we almost never eat fast food. We do not have a Chic-fil-A within 70 miles, however, I would be stopping there today if we were in the area. If we do not care for the food we can take it to the American Legion or some similar group.

Please read the entire article and send on to all reasonable people you know. Let's not allow this to happen in the Unites States.

Some things are just too important not to pass along. If you do not agree, let me know and I will take you email address off my email list.

Please read about this Christian company

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Let's all eat at Chick-Fil-A this week Now the Socialists (AKA Obama Democrats) have targeted Chick-Fil-A, a Southern based company with the below resume.. I think, I'll have a Chick-Fil-A sandwich tomorrow. See below. Chick-fil-A is an American success story. Founded by Georgian entrepreneur Truett Cathy in 1946, the family-owned chicken-sandwich chain is one of the country's largest fast-food businesses. It employs some 50,000 workers across the country at 1,500 outlets in nearly 40 states and the District of Columbia ... The company generates more than $2 billion in revenue and serves millions of happy customers with trademark Southern hospitality. So, what's the problem? Well, Chick-fil-A is run by devout Christians who believe in strong marriages, devoted families, and the highest standards of character for their workers. The restaurant chain's official corporate mission is to "glorify God" and "enrich the lives of everyone we touch.." The company's community-service initiatives, funded through its WinShape Foundation, support foster-care, scholarship, summer-camp, and marriage-enrichment programs. On Sunday, all Chick-fil-A stores close so workers can spend the day at worship and rest. Over the past month, several progressive-activist blogs have waged an ugly war against Chick-fil-A. The company's alleged atrocity: One of its independent outlets in Pennsylvania donated some sandwiches and brownies to a marriage seminar run by the Pennsylvania Family Institute, which happens to oppose same-sex marriage. In the name of tolerance, the anti-Chick-fil-A hawks sneered at the company's main product as "Jesus Chicken," derided its no-Sunday-work policy, and attacked its operators as "anti-gay." Petition drives on websites are demanding the company change and disavow their standards. Facebook users dutifully organized witch hunts against the company on college campuses. Progressive groups are gloating over Chick-fil-A's public-relations troubles. This is not because they care about winning hearts and minds over gay rights or marriage policy, but because their core objective is to marginalize political opponents and chill Christian philanthropy and activism.. The fearsome "muscle flexing" is being done by the hysterical bullies trying to drive them off of college grounds and out of their neighborhoods in the name of "human rights." TO READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE: HTTP://WWW.NATIONALREVIEW.COM/ARTICLES/258646/CHRISTIAN-BUSINESS-LEFT-S-CROSSHAIRS-MICHELLE-MALKIN Please pass this on if you believe companies with Christian principles have a right to freely conduct business in the U.S. ' IN GOD WE TRUST' Amen to this!!!! May the Lord Direct Your Steps!!!!

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It’s The Only Good Fight There Is

In thinking out loud on May 21, 2012 at 6:26 pm

“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery–isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.”
Charles Bukowski

Brilliant message in its simplicity ... Thanks good friend, Ron W.!

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Brilliant in its Simplicity

A. Back off and let those men who want to marry men, marry men.

B. Allow those women who want to marry women, marry women.

C. Allow those folks who want to abort their babies, abort their babies.

D. In three generations, there will be no Democrats.

Man - I love it when a plan comes together!

When you weren't looking ... thanks Steve H. and Sharon D.!

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The picture is priceless, but the verse is wonderful . . .

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WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING A message every adult should read because children are watching you and doing as you do, not as you say. When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator, and I immediately wanted to paint another one. When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you feed a stray cat, and I learned that it was good to be kind to animals. When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you make my favorite cake for me, and I learned that the little things can be the special things in life. When you thought I wasn't looking I heard you say a prayer, and I knew that there is a God I could always talk to, and I learned to trust in Him. When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you make a meal and take it to a friend who was sick, and I learned that we all have to help take care of each other. When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you take care of our house and everyone in it, and I learned we have to take care of what we are given. When you thought I wasn't looking I saw how you handled your responsibilities, even when you didn't feel good, and I learned that I would have to be responsible when I grow up. When you thought I wasn't looking I saw tears come from your eyes, and I learned that sometimes things hurt, but it's all right to cry. When you thought I wasn't looking I saw that you cared, and I wanted to be everything that I could be.. When you thought I wasn't looking I learned most of life's lessons that I need to know to be a good and productive person when I grow up. When you thought I wasn't looking I looked at you and wanted to say,' Thanks for all the things I saw when you thought I wasn't looking.' I AM SENDING THIS TO ALL OF THE PEOPLE I KNOW WHO DO SO MUCH FOR OTHERS, BUT THINK THAT NO ONE EVER SEES. LITTLE EYES SEE A LOT ... Each of us (parent, grandparent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, teacher, nurse, friend, co-worker) influences the life of a child and so many others. How will you touch the life of someone today? Just by sending this to your mothers to thank her, friends and families you will probably make them at least think about their influence on others. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly, and Leave the rest to God.

A Lesson in US job creation, the CCC: Frank Ackerman

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A Lesson in US Job Creation: The Civilian Conservation Corps

Frank Ackerman

How could the Obama Administration have spent two years in office and forgotten to create any visible new jobs for the millions of unemployed Americans? Nothing contributed as much to the Democrats’ midterm electoral losses as the high rate of unemployment; the party in power routinely gets clobbered when lots of people are out of work on Election Day.

Once upon a time, there was a much smarter response to unemployment. In fact, I recently spent a week enjoying the results of the wisdom of the past. In a vacation trip to Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon National Parks, I walked on trails, protected by retaining walls and guardrails, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s. The CCC, part of the Roosevelt Administration’s response to the Great Depression, created vast numbers of jobs – 600,000 at its peak – in repairing, protecting, and improving parks, forests, and other natural resources.

The CCC recruited unemployed young men (gender equality was not yet on the horizon) for six- month assignments. Living in camps run by the Army, the recruits received $30 a month ($480 in today’s dollars) – plus food, housing, and medical and dental care. They were required to send $25 home to their families, who were quite often destitute, keeping $5 a month for their own spending. At a time when the likely alternative was long-term unemployment, the CCC attracted more applicants than the agency could hire.

To address the loudest contemporary objection to government job creation: Yes, the CCC increased the federal deficit – but not by much. The total cost over its nine years of operation was $3 billion, equivalent to an average of less than $6 billion a year in today’s dollars. Priced at today’s minimum wage or a bit above, with corresponding increases in other costs, my guess is that the CCC could still be recreated for around $20 billion a year, a small fraction of the Obama stimulus package.

But the important question is not, did it cost money, but rather, did the nation get its money’s worth? The CCC planted 4 billion trees. It built 63,000 buildings, 125,000 miles of roads, 47,000 bridges, and 28,000 miles of park trails. It installed 89,000 miles of telephone lines and 5,000 miles of water lines. And it did many other projects as well. There is no other time, before or since, when the National Park Service had the resources to undertake so many park improvements and repairs. If you’ve visited the Grand Canyon or other national parks, you’ve walked on the results of the CCC’s labors. Would we be better off today with a fractionally smaller deficit, and inaccessible parks?

The much more expensive Obama stimulus package left no such tangible legacy. If you look carefully, you can see the occasional signs on highway projects advertising “your stimulus dollars at work.” But the funds are so diffuse, channeled through so many existing agencies and businesses, that there is no public sense of overall accomplishment. In the know-nothing climate of this year’s campaigns, it was easy for Republicans to make the absurd claim that the stimulus was a complete failure which didn’t create any jobs.

Why was so much spent, with so little to show for it? Perhaps, as Paul Krugman has suggested, Obama’s economic advisers were committed to the fantasy that the recession would be minor and short-lived, so that nothing new or long-lasting was needed to address unemployment. Or perhaps the Obama Administration couldn’t have gotten anything better adopted, due to intransigent Congressional opposition. But it would have been nice to see them try.

The CCC wasn’t a perfect model; in some ways, it was a prisoner of the prejudices of its times. Hiring women was never considered. Black and Native American men were often (not always) sent to segregated CCC camps, and faced hostility from nearby white communities. But it had important accomplishments for its recruits, as well as for the nation. Beyond the work day, CCC camps offered a rich cultural life, with sports teams, music and theater groups, and extensive educational opportunities. Most of the recruits had not finished high school; the CCC hired 30,000 teachers to provide academic, vocational, and business classes, which launched many young men into promising new careers.

I had a great time on vacation in the national parks, but I came back with selective amnesia: I can’t remember what’s wrong with repeating the CCC program that made all this possible.

Facts about the CCC are from “With Picks, Shovels, and Hope: The CCC and its Legacy on the Colorado Plateau,” by Wayne K. Hinton with Elizabeth A. Green (Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, MT, 2008).

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More wisdom from the young eighties, Mr. Plymale

I too, Sam, have a genuine fondness for Cliches'. One of my favorites , " Goods and services do not spontaneously generate!" Of course we know that some of God's gifts do, but even a great number of them require movement through our economic system( God's gift also) to have utility.I too would like to see a reawakening in our wonderful country, but I am fearful that we have passed the "point of no return" much like the children of Israel. You,very euphemistically, suggest that we have allowed non-Christians . I say we have invited and endorsed these people and will ultimately pay for our sinfulness. Obama became president with an 8 million vote plurality. I think that republicans offered a ,"me too" platform. A difference without a distinction and we could very well be paying the ultimate price. I think you and I should thank God for his graciousness and in the wonderous quote of Jesus say," Forgive them Father for they know not what they do." Jack P

E-mail correspondence between Jack Plymale and Sam

You sound good, Jack. Funeral visitations and celebrations are a main part of senior social life. It is good to remember the good of life, though, as you have here. P’Town has a lot of that for us.

I, too, had confrontations with Catholic boys in Portsmouth, as I recall you once shared; but I am so grateful for the strong part of Christianity that Catholics and Protestants share today. We have allowed the non-Christians to force their way into our schools, courts and legislative halls of America, though, and I don’t like that at all.

Dr. Dan Ross has so much good sense to make our city proud as his Job in leading the Ohio High School Athletic Association- OHSAA- attests. I am a cliché’ lover, much as you enjoy your poetry loving gift from “Uncle Bert Leach”. Dr. Ross had ten siblings (a good Catholic family) and I had only nine ( a good protestant family). My cliché’ for him at this time in America when the parochial schools are taking an inordinate number of athletic championships due, I think, to a recruiting advantage over the public schools: “When the going gets tough, the tough get going”. His is a tough job, but he is the man for it, bred in Portsmouth Town.

Another I would contribute as my own cliche’: “I hate apathy, I hate it, but I am not going to complain too strongly. I may have to do something about it.”

Would that the apathetic voters in this wonderful country would awaken in November, 2012.

BFF, if only very late in our lives, Jack,

Sam

From: Jack Plymale

Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 11:13 PM

To: Sam Kegley

Subject: Re:

Thank you Sam! All seems well for a guy soon to be 85. Had to come back from Costa Rica. Blood in urine but the VA hospital in W. Palm Beach has that stopped. I feel great except one of my oldest and best friends died day before yesterday. Dick Diehl. Catholic guy. Captain of central catholics football team in 1944. One of the most moral, kindest, thoughtful humans I ever knew. We were in the navy together at Denison U.( room mates there) and Union college in Schenectady, N.Y.. The V-5 pre-flight program. The war ended before either of us got flight training. Dick was a real pillar in the catholic church in Portsmouth and was the close friend of this questionable hard-shell Baptist from up on Mabert Rd. My wife of 58 years died on last Thanksgiving. We had been amicably seperated for the last 21 years. Another fact that might interest you. Another close friend and Frat Bro of mine and Frank was a catholic and capt. of their football team in 1943. Rod Kinskey. His fanily owned The Ideal Milk Company. He and Dick were two real pillars of strength in the catholic church in Portsmouth. The Kinskey family charity is also a hugh financial supporter. Thanks again Sam. Jack P

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Sam Kegley <skegley@columbus.rr.com> wrote:

I received this ok, Jack. Frank Hunter told me that your estranged wife died. I hope you are ok with everything.

Sam

From: Jack Plymale

Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 6:04 PM

To: Sam Kegley

Sam, I am still having problems with addresses. If you get this send me something, please so I'll know it's right. Jack P

A Lesson of time ... Thanks Norma C.!

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. When a bird is alive..it eats Ants, When the bird is dead.. Ants eat the bird! So..Time & Circumstances can change at any time.. devalue or hurt anyone in life. You may be powerful today.But Remember.. ... Time is more powerful than You!!! One tree makes a million match sticks.. But when the time comes.. Only one match stick is needed to burn a million trees.. So be good and do good !!

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Portsmouth Columbus Breakfast 5-17-2012

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Portsmouth-Columbus Breakfast

5-17-2012

A few of us met at Marshall’s in Grandview this morning at 8:30. Traffic caused a few delays all over Columbus this morning, but four of us shared a quality time.

Dr. Dan Ross, in coming in from Gahanna, was twenty minutes late due to I-670 traffic. I was delayed a few minutes due to 315 south traffic. It isn’t easy to get around in C’Town these days.

Dick Klitch, Blaine Bierley, Dan Ross and I shared some stories.

Dr. Ross had played HS football with Chuck Ealy at Portsmouth Notre Dame for Coach Ed Miller. Dan was a year ahead of Chuck at Portsmouth Notre Dame High School.  They played for the highly successful Ed Miller there. Dan has been in recent contact in a group’s efforts to get Chuck Ealy into the NFL Hall of Fame. It is deservable recognition for our fellow Portsmouthite who never lost a game, in which he was a starting quarterback during high school, college, or his first year in Canadian football as the qb for the Gray Cup Champion. There was one black qb in the NFL until then, Warren Moon. Nfl pro teams wanted Chuck to play defensive back, not qb, supposedly because he was only six feet tall.

Dick shared a few stories I have heard in his and my nearly weekly breakfasts. They are always classic tales.

Blaine is the retired Upper Arlington School Adminstrator who normally regales us with remembrances of P’Town incidents in the PHS Trojan Alumni Prints edited by Frank Hunter and circulated by Bob Cook.

Alice Gibson told me by phone yesterday that Smokey is having a difficult time right now due to a recent cataract surgery and she could probably not get him there. Blaine told me that Paul Bierley, Portsmouth’s great music writer, was becoming less transportable. Smokey became 90 last year and Paul is probably 86.

Dr. Ross has his hands full today due to Ohio High School Athletic Association’s TV stories last night and Columbus Dispatch Headlines and Sports stories today. The issue is athletic competion between non-public and public schools, an OHSAA plan turned down by vote. Nonetheless he attended our breakfast, his faithful secretary, Molly Donnard, scheduled with us with his agreement back in February.

It overwhelmed in quality, in spite of my presence, even though we were only four Portsmouth guys.

Sam

P.S. : Nelson barker sent his regrets today (5-18) and said that Dick Hansgen is in Europe until August.

 

OMG ... Thanks Anon Ymous friend!

Is no longer what you think, it has a whole new meaning! How do you starve an Obama supporter? It's really very simple. Just hide their food stamps under their work shoes.