Gm China with bail-out $ ... Thx Rameyt H!

This is not new but kinda fell through the cracks during the "bailout phase" however it should be seen by everyone!

Hi to all,

 

Here's you're wake up call, specially if you've been sleeping and enjoying CHANGE

We have been sold out with the help of OBummer and DC politicians. No more Chevys or GM products for this household..
Another hmmmm
The GM bailout was just another Obama "social justice" program to redistribute wealth.
CHINESE CHEVROLET - Must Be Circulated
Now That GM is Removing Camaro Production From Oshawa ...
Thought of Buying a GM Car Lately ...
This will make you sick
Why haven't we heard this on the nightly news channels ????

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http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Lvl5Gan69Wo
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Safe bets ... Thanks Carol and Clay V!

I am willing to make a safe bet: You've probably haven't heard of most of these interesting yet bizarre facts! Well this is your chance to learn some new things!

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."  -- Margaret Thatcher

“Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.” Peter of South Yorkshire  

Whispering Hope- Musical Leaf Thx Dr. H!

Subject:  Musical leaf-Whispering Hope

   This is so very beautiful & unbelievable.

Oh man, this is totally awesome. It gave me chills. I've never heard it played so beautifully.

 

It looks a little silly when it starts out, but what a blessing seeing someone using the simplest element - a leaf - to make worship to God!  I'll bet He was smiling bigger than a rainbow!  If you know the words to this beautiful old hymn, you will find it even more incredible! 葉笛Musical leaf-å¾®è ²ç›¼æœ›Whispering Hope

Life's An Adventure ~ be Ready!

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Crucifixion, Death and resurrection- Thx Alma H!

Easter is not really about bunnies and brightly colored Easter eggs . . .  it is about betrayal and unjust judicial trials; whips and nails, suffering and humiliation; sin and payment for redemption; guilt and innocence; death and resurrection.  If you do not have a temperament for things like these and do not want to concentrate too deeply on such facts, then think about Christmas and a little baby in a manger, of shepherds and angels, of wise men and gifts, and skip the Passover week altogether  . . .  and if you do, know that you are missing the whole point of the Christmas story which was to bring a Savior into the world to die for us!

At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to the death penalty.

At the time crucifixion was the "worst" death. Only the worst criminals were condemned to be crucified. Jesus was to be nailed to the cross by His hands and feet. Each nail was 6 to 8 inches long.

The nails were driven into His wrist. Not into His palms as is commonly portrayed. There's a tendon in the wrist that extends to the shoulder.

The Roman guards knew that when the nails were being hammered into the wrist,
that tendon would tear and break, forcing Jesus to use His back muscles to support himself so that He could breathe.

Both of His feet were nailed together. Thus He was forced to support Himself on the single nail that impaled His feet to the cross. Jesus could not support himself with His legs because of the pain, so He was forced to alternate between arching His back then using His legs just to continue to breathe.

Imagine the struggle, the pain, the suffering, the courage. Jesus endured this reality for over 3 hours. Yes, over 3 hours! Can you imagine this kind of suffering?

A few minutes before He died, Jesus stopped bleeding. He was simply pouring water from his wounds. From common images, we see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear wound to His side... But do we realize His wounds were actually made in his body.

A hammer driving large nails through the wrist, the feet overlapped and an even large nail hammered through the arches, then a Roman guard piercing His side with a spear. But before the nails and the spear, Jesus was whipped and beaten. The whipping was so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. The beating so horrific that His face was torn and his beard ripped from His face. The crown of thorns cut deeply into His scalp.

Most men would not have survived this torture. He had no more blood to bleed out, only water poured from His wounds. The human adult body contains about 3.5 liters (just less than a gallon) of blood. Jesus poured all 3.5 liters of his blood; He had three nails hammered into His body; a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond that, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into His chest.

All these without mentioning the humiliation He passed after carrying His own cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his face and threw stones (the cross was almost 30 kg of weight, only for its higher part, where His hands were nailed).

Jesus had to endure this experience, so that we can have free access to God,

So that our sins could be "washed" away. All of them, with no exception!

JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR US!

But the story does not end there!   On the third day He conquered death and rose again!

Praise God, we have a Savior!

Portsmouth catch-up ... Thx Dave M!

Hey Sam. I had a great visit with Frank Hunter at Davis Island yesterday. John Eby (class of 55) and I spent about 6 hours together at Franks condo and one of the local eaterys,where he and Hop Cassidy(spelling ?) Hang out. We solved most of the worlds problems,butdid leave some for you and Jack Plymale to work on . Sorry too hear about Ruth Oakley.she and I , along with Jack wereMabert rd urchins. Hope Frank will send along pictures of our visit.
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Yes, the Darwin Awards are out again ... Thanks Mr. L!

> *Yes, The Darwin Awards are out again!*
>
> *It's that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed,
> honoring the  least evolved among us*.
>
> *Here is the glorious winner:
>
> *1. When his .38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim
> during a hold-up in Long Beach, California would-be robber James Elliot did
> something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried
> the trigger again. This time it worked.
>
> *And now, the Honorable mentions:*
>
> 2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting
> machine and after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his
> insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men
> to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a
> finger.. The chef's claim was approved.
>
> 3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during
> a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken
> the space. Understandably, he shot her.
>
> 4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver
> found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from
> Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the
> driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free
> ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the
> staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies.
> The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.
>
> 5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head
> wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the
> injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he
> could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.
>
> 6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter,
> and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled
> a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly
> provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20
> bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer...
> $15. [If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime
> committed?]
>
> 7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that
> he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some
> booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head
> at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on
> the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of
> Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.
>
> 8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed
> her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able
> to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the
> police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to
> the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there
> for a positive ID. To which he replied,  Yes, officer, that's her. That's
> the lady I stole the purse from."
>
> 9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger
> King in Ypsilanti , Michigan at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded cash.
> The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash
> register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk
> said they weren't available for breakfast... The frustrated gunman walked
> away.
>
>                *And Finally, the 5-STAR "STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER"*
>
> 10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a
> Seattle street by sucking on a hose, he got much more than he bargained
> for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to
> a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man
> admitted to trying to steal gasoline, but he plugged his siphon hose into
> the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined
> to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had and the
> perp had been punished enough!
>
> They walk among us.
>

Texas Machine Shop Very good! Thanks brother, Jim K!

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Jim Kegley	10:44 AM (9 minutes ago)
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Remember T & I, "Trades and Industry" training at PHS?

 

 It doesn't get any better than this, folks.
Who needs CAD? A stick and some dirt work just fine. Take a few moments
and watch this. American Heartland.
Real work, keep it simple, get the job done with pride and quality.
Remember, Take the time in your life to stop and "have a Dr. Pepper
(soda pop) and some peanuts".

http://www.youtube.com/embed/BckZ4i1BzF0?feature=player_embedded

New Years expectations- Prayers for Greg Whitehead...

New Years expectations:

Each new year we humans have a tendency to make resolutions; however, if we forget to make them as we grow older, we still tend to look forward. Jeanie and I mainly looked forward to our sixty-first anniversary in January.

I heard from home town Portsmouth Ohio friends, Tom and Carolyn Lynch yesterday by email.  Sad news that a classmate, Ruth Oakley, the most athletic of our 1950 female classmates was in intensive care and not doing well.  She had a knee operation at Mayo Clinic in January, but her recovery has not gone well.  T & C invited me to pray for Ruth and I immediately complied.  In forwarding their message and my reply, I realized that I had somehow lost Patti Richards Whitehead's email address so I called the young lady, now in her eighties like me and most of the 1950 grads.  Patti has sent some wonderful email messages which I have added to this blog in the past. 

I called Patti and shared the news on Ruth.  After some pleasant conversation and memories and just before I hung up, she asked me to do her a great favor in praying for her fifty-eight year old son, Greg.  She has three sons,  all living in the Michigan vicinity where she has spent most of her life after Portsmouth.  They began this 2013 year with no particular expectations except to enjoy their good health.  Greg had a Hemmorhoid operation in January.  The surgeon noted that Greg was borderline anemic as noted in the pre-surgery medical tests. 

Follow-up MRI showed that Greg had a mass on his adrenal glands and further biopsies showed that that the mass was cancerous and had affected his lungs, pancreas, and stomach.  Patti says that the adrenal glands supply some vitality to the kidneys. 

Patti claims Greg has been such a good son, calling her most nights since her husband passed several years ago.  Those who attended our last reunion in 2010 may remember that Greg had brought his mother there.  He ends each call with the very coveted mother's hopes:  "I love you mom".

So, as the year progresses and, particularly at this Easter season join, me in praying for Greg, his brothers, and his mom.  They enjoyed lives like most of ours, where we strived our best and took what came to us each year in raising our offspring to carry on.  The central part of the Christian religion most of us enjoy is the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Without that we are but dust after death, but through God's great plan there is much more good to see in the hereafter.  Jesus promised.  We want you to stay here on earth with your mother, Greg.  Keep treating her as a major love of your life.

You have a wonderful legacy from Portsmouth Ohio relatives and friends.  Our prayers on your behalf rise up this Easter season.

SamKat aka Sam Kegley