Flower from Heaven ...

A Flower from Heaven

 

 

Do this just because it makes you feel good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

"My   dad always told me if you have 5 true friends in  your lifetime,
Then  you  had a great  life"  
 
Eight  minutes starts now!!!!!

 
    
Have  faith!  You are blessed, beautiful, happy and  loved!    Have a   good  day!

Burning man not for me... Thx Marge R!

The annual revelry in the desert brings in millions of dollars, despite its anti-capitalist vibe.

Money is frowned on at Burning Man, the annual desert bacchanal that runs through Monday in Nevada. Participants are instead supposed to adhere to the festival’s feel-good philosophy of giving gifts like glow bracelets, sparklers, and vodka shots.

The group that puts on Burning Man, meanwhile, rakes in millions of dollars from selling tickets and parking passes to more than 60,000 attendees. It’s a complex operation with a full-time staff and a huge budget that dwarfs many big businesses.

Burning Man has long been led by its co-founder, Larry Harvey, who helped build it up from an informal gathering on San Francisco’s Baker Beach in 1986 to an international happening. Ostensibly, it’s an art event and free-zone for “radical self-expression.” In reality, the event’s vibe has morphed into a mix of flower power, around-the-clock rave, and Silicon Valley wheeling and dealing.

Earlier this year, Burning Man’s owners fulfilled a promise to place the event—long operated by a private company—under the control of a non-profit organization. The switch was partly intended to mollify critics who accused the organizers of hypocrisy for espousing an anti-corporate ethos while operating Burning Man as a business.

In a blog post, the organizers said the change would allow the event to survive beyond the lifetime of its owners. “Our mission has always been to serve the community,” they wrote, “and a non-profit public benefit corporation is the most socially responsible option to ensure and protect the future of Burning Man.”

Details about the new ownership structure are complex and, at least for now, mostly shielded from the public. What is clear is that the event continues to cash in on people’s appetite for baking in the heat on a dry lakebed during the week preceding Labor Day.

Burning Man’s organizers don’t say how much money they make in ticket sales. But it’s pretty easy to calculate—around $25 million—based on what they say publicly about the number of tickets sold (63,000) and their cost (anywhere from $190 to $650), plus $40 parking passes. The event also collects fees from commercial photographers and filmmakers, according to various reports.

A spokesman declined to comment about Burning Man’s finances or its switch to being a non-profit. Instead, he pointed to an annual statement by the event’s owner showing the substantial costs of organizing the revelry.

Last year, salaries ate up just over $7 million, according to the financial document. Fees for use of federal land cost another $4.5 million while taxes cost $1 million. Building a temporary city in the middle of nowhere is expensive. Toilets cost nearly $1 million (think of hundreds of porta-potties), medical services ate up $450,000, and dust abatement (i.e. trucks with water) burned through $260,000. Meanwhile, building “The Man,” a giant wood statue that is traditionally set ablaze on the event’s final night, cost $400,000 for labor, pyrotechnics, and timber.

In all, Burning Man said it spent $26.8 million in 2013. That figure includes money to support artists and donations to Nevada schools and charities.

With the change to non-profit status, Burning Man will have to make public its revenues and the salaries for top staff members. But those disclosures won’t be made until next year, along with additional details about the shift in ownership. It is unclear, for example, whether the non-profit bought out Burning Man’s original owner, Black Rock City LLC. Another possibility is that the company’s board, led by Harvey and five other shareholders, voted to donate their stakes.

Technically, Burning Man will remain under Black Rock City LLC, which Harvey helped to establish 24 years ago. But that company is now a subsidiary of the non-profit, known as Burning Man Project.

The goal is to expand Burning Man by creating events outside of Nevada. Whether they’ll use the Burning Man name is unknown at this point.

John Law, a Burning Man co-founder who had a falling out with Harvey, complained about some of the changes at the event. Although he praised the artists, and free thinkers who still attend, he took issue with how it has become a “commodity” and a “Disneyland for attorneys and accountants on ecstasy.”

“It’s become Silicon Valley’s vacation,” Law said.

Indeed, the influx of wealth is a big point of contention among long-time attendees. Tech executives, in some cases, arrive in private jets and spend their time in luxury camps catered with sushi and tended to by personal valets. How much extra money, if anything, the event collects from such camps is unclear.

Law sued Black Rock City LLC in 2007 in an unsuccessful attempt to dissolve the partnership and put the “Burning Man” name in the public domain so that it could be used by anyone who wanted to. Ultimately, the case was settled in arbitration with Black Rock City buying out his stake in the event.

All the money now collected at Burning Man was inconceivable to Law when he cut ties with the event nearly two decades ago. At the time, he said it was in debt and that his credit cards were maxed out. If it was up to him, it would have remained much smaller and idealistic, in keeping with what he saw as it original mission.

“Burning Man becoming one of these financial behemoths—it’s pretty ironic,” Law said.

Whataguy! I agree Ramey H! Thanks good friend!

Almost didn’t watch this, but part way through I wanted to stand up and salute with this guy. Where was the news media on this one?

 

Once  again, I am rejuvenated in my faith of all the goodness that still resides  in America.

 

You have to see this. I think this guy is GREAT!!!

 

God  Bless America!

 

http://www.pickleballchannel.com/2014/05/memorial-day/

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30 sexconds with God ... Thx Nita E!

       A Minute With God

       My name is God. You hardly have time for me. I love you and   will
       always bless you. I am always with you. I need you to spend 30
       secs. of your time with Me today. Don't pray, just praise. Today
       I want this message to go across the world before midnight. Will
       you help? Please do not delete it and I'll help you with
       something that you are in need of. Just trust me, a blessing is
       coming your way. Please drop everything & pass it on.
       Why do we feel sleepy in prayer, but stay awake through a 3 hour
       movie?

       Why are we so bored when we look at the HOLY BOOK but find it
       easy to read other books?

       Why are prayers getting smaller, but bars and clubs are expanding?

       Why is it so easy to worship a celebrity, but very difficult to
       engage with God?

       Think about it, are you going to forward this or are you going
       to ignore it because you think you will get laughed at?

       Forward this to all your friends. 80% of you won't. God said if
       you deny me in front of your friends, I will deny you on the day
       of judgment.

       When one door closes, God opens another. If God has opened doors
       for you, send this message to everyone...

       God has no BLACKBERRY but he's my favorite contact.

       He is not on FACE BOOK but he is my best friend.

       He is not on TWITTER but I still follow Him, and even without
       the INTERNET I am always connected to him.

       He is not on gmail but he's always online.

       Forward if God's been good to you!

       God has been very good to me, He has given me a wonderful
       family, great friends and so much more.

Alan Simposon gets an earful on Social Security! Good going Patty Myers of Wyoming! Thx Nita E!

This woman knows what she is talking about and surely those of us who feel the same can join her and come up with some fight that will get back what is ours.  

 

 

 

 

You need to read this!

I Think SHE IS PISSED!

I don't think  'pissed' really covers it!!!!

 

Alan Simpson, the Senator from Wyoming, calls senior citizens the  "Greediest Generation" as he compared "Social Security" to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats.

 

Here's a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS in Montana ... I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!

............................................................................................

 

"Hey, Alan, let's get a few things straight!!!!!

 

1. As a career politician,

you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS.

 

2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).

 

3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in "an interest bearing account" for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.

 

4. Recently, just like Lucy and Charlie Brown, you and "your ilk" pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age, 67. NOW, you and your "shill commission" are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.

 

5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from day one, and now

"you" propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because "you" mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from Medicare to pay the bills.

 

6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you  "incompetents" spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR  debt.

 

7.To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bull$hit"  to your incompetence. Well, Captain Bull$hit, I have a few questions for YOU:

       

 1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political    career?

       2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?

       3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?

       4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?

 

It is you, Captain Bull$hit, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes, your job and retirement security at our expense, you leech.

 

That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing

your political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.

And you can take that to the bank you miserable SOB .

 

NO, I did not stutter.

 

P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits "entitlements."   WHAT AN INSULT!!!!

I have been paying in to the SS system for 45 years. It's my money-give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous by doling out these monthly checks.

 

EVERYONE!!! 

If you like the way things are in America delete this.

 

If you agree with what a Montana citizen, Patty Myers, says, please PASS IT ON

 

 

What happened July 1 2024? obamacare act - no republicans voted for this- only the demoncrats aimed at destroying America ... Thx Nita E!

> Here is  what happened on July 1st 2014:
>
> Top  Income Tax bracket went  from 35%  to 39.6%
>
> Top  Income Payroll Tax went  from 37.4% to 52.2%
>
> Capital  Gains Tax went from  15 % to  28%
>
> Dividend  Tax went from 15%  to 39.6%
>
> Estate Tax went from 0% to 55%
>
> These taxes were all passed under the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obama Care.      
>
> All  these taxes were passed with only Democrat votes.
>
> Not one Republican voted for these taxes.
>
> Remember this come election time.

obama in contempt ... Thx Judi C!

By all accounts, Harold was a bright child. He grew up in America. He went to school and had a bright future ahead of him.

Harold’s full life was cut short in a violent moment.

While few people had ever heard of Harold before his death, many did afterwards.

And in death, something shocking happened.

What was so shocking, especially when it is compared to the death of someone else recently in the news?

Harold is Harold Greene, Major General United States Army.

On August 5th, General Greene was killed by a Taliban terrorist. He was returned to America with full military honors.

While Major General Greene was buried, Barack Obama was golfing. The Vice President wasn’t there either.  Flags were not even lowered to half staff.

Four days after Harold Greene gave his life for America, Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson Missouri.

It is safe to say, Brown was at best a thug.

The media has repeatedly shown photos of Brown flashing gang signs. Some media outlets have even associated him with a specific gang. In the minutes before his death, Brown committed a robbery at a local convenience store. According to other reports, Brown struck officer Darren Wilson and shattered his orbital bone.

Obama is sending a three-person delegation to Michael Brown’s funeral.

Obama would not attend the funeral of the highest ranking military officer killed in the line of duty since 9/11, yet he will send a delegation to the funeral of a thug.

When Margaret Thatcher, one of America’s staunchest allies and Ronald Reagan’s partner in bringing down Soviet communism, died Obama sent only a small low-level delegation to her funeral. The snub was not missed by the British.

When Chris Kyle, the most lethal American sniper in history was murdered, there was no expression of sympathy from the White House. There was no White House delegation at his funeral.

American heroes die and Obama goes to the golf course.

A thug dies and he gets a White House delegation.

No wonder real Americans hold Obama in contempt.

NYC Friday afternoon ... Thx Lyle S!

I knew it was coming, but NEVER expected it this soon 

 

PLEASE, JUST LOOK AT THE PICTURES BEFORE YOU READ THE BOTTOM COMMENTS CLOSELY !!

 

This is in NYC on Madison Ave - not France, Yemen, Kenya or the Middle East*

A Christian Nation cannot put up a Christmas scene of the baby Jesus in a public place, but the Muslims can stop normal traffic every Friday afternoon by worshiping in the streets.... Something is happening in America & Canada that is reminiscent of what is happening in Europe. This is Political Correctness gone crazy.. Scary, isn't it?

Is there a message here???? Yes, there is, and they are claiming America & Canada for Allah. If we don't wake up soon, we are going to "politically correct" ourselves right out of our own country! It's time to make some changes people!

 

PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY Canadian & AMERICAN YOU KNOW!!!!

 

Old Farmer's almanac predicrs 'Super Cold' winter ... Thx Marge R!

I found this interesting and thought you would too:
Old Farmer's Almanac predicts 'super cold' winter | abc7chicago.com

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obama and ignorance of the USA predecessors ... Thx Pidge F!

> > >> A few weeks ago, President Obama spoke of three former Presidents
> making prisoner swaps at the end of wars that took place on their watch,
> "much like his swap" he said convincingly.
> > >>
> > >> CNS News.com carried this quote, "This is what happens
> at the end of wars," President Barack Obama boasted Tuesday when he was
> asked about swapping American Army Sgt. Bergdahl, a Deserter, for five
> vicious Taliban terrorists. "That was true for George Washington... That was
> true for Abraham Lincoln and that was true for FDR. That's been true of
> every combat situation, that at some point, you make sure that you try to
> get your folks back. And that's the right thing to do."
> > >> Really?
> > >>
> > >> That statement blatantly demonstrates that the most powerful man in
> the World and 2 term President of the United States lacks even a grade
> school level of knowledge of American History; specifically, history as it
> relates to three of his rather critical predecessors. It shows that we have
> essentially elected a foreigner who has no understanding of the very country
> that over which he thinks he reigns supreme.
> > >>
> > >> To expound on this:
> > >>
> > >> The Revolutionary War ended in 1783.George Washington did not become
> president until six years later in 1789.
> > >>
> > >> Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in mid April of 1865. The
> Civil War ended the following month. He was still dead at that time. No
> deals were made to exchange prisoners after the war. All prisoners were
> simply freed.
> > >>
> > >> FDR died of a stroke before the end of WWII. You'll recall that Harry
> S.Truman made the
> decision to drop two nuclear bombs on Japan, ending World War II. We made no
> deals for prisoners. We went in and released them when necessary.
> > >>
> > >> If any Conservative President had made such an uninformed statement
> we'd never hear the end of it. None of the Presidents that Obama noted were
> in office at the ends of those wars, making it impossible for them to
> make any sort of prisoner swaps, let alone the 5 for 1; plus unspecified
> cash; for a deserter and traitor by Mr. President "57 States".
> > >>
> > >> It should be pointed out that countless deserters and traitors were
> shot or hung during all three of the aforementioned wars...
> > >>
> > >> What amazes even more than the ignorance of the President is that he
> has somehow managed to surround himself with a staff that is just as
> clueless.

SamKat and JeanieKat preparing for moving to ranch condo ... SamKat message

SamKat and JeanieKat have been packing and cleaning our Westerville three level house of 47 years to buy a ranch Condo, preferably in Westerville.  I have had our land lines (614-882-5991) and my computer skegley.kegley@gmail.com) out since August 5, and we have been relying upon her cell phone (She hears better than I do and the numbers are 614-216-2856 (Jeanie's ) AND 614-653-0505 (MINE).  Our land line is partially back on. have some catching up to do, perhaps in another week.  I have missed everybody, particularly those who give me such excellent Christian Conservative e-mails for my SamKat blog!

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Send the ACLU membeers to fight NSIS! God bless the US Mariners! Thx Paul C!

THIS NEEDS TO GO AROUND THE USA  MANY TIMES SO KEEP IT  GOING!

 

If you look closely at the picture  above, you will note that all the Marines pictured are bowing their heads.  That's because they're praying. This incident took place at a recent ceremony  honoring the birthday of the corps, and it has the ACLU up in arms. "These are  federal employees," says Locus Traveler, a spokesman for the ACLU, "on federal  property and on federal time.. For them to pray is clearly an establishment of  religion, and we must nip this in the bud  immediately."

 

When asked about the ACLU's charges,  Colonel Jack Fessender, speaking for the Commandant of the Corps said (cleaned  up a bit), "Screw the ACLU." GOD Bless Our Warriors. Send the ACLU to  Afghanistan!  (then watch them  pray)

 

Please send this to people you know so  everyone will know how stupid the ACLU is getting in trying to remove GOD from  everything and every place in  America.

 

May God Bless America, One Nation  Under  GOD!

 

What's wrong with the picture?  ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! GOD BLESS YOU FOR PASSING IT ON! I am not breaking  this one....Let us pray for all those who sacrifice to keep us  safe!

 

Prayer chain for our  Military...please don't break  it --

 

THIS NEEDS TO GO AROUND THE USA MANY  TIMES SO KEEP IT  GOING

 

 Let’s put the ALCU in combat for a  few weeks and then see what their beliefs would  be.

 

AMEN!

God has a sense of humor and He is love and he also has wrath when warranted, Gary. I am for the sweet old lady!

Subject: Fw: A PRAYER

> In

> church last Sunday, I

>  heard a sweet elderly lady in the pew

> next to

> me saying a prayer. It was so innocent and sincere

>  that

> I just

> had to share it with

> you:

> "

> Dear Lord: The last four to five years have been very

> tough.

> You have

> taken my

> favorite actor - Paul

> Newman;

> my

> favorite actress - Elizabeth

>  Taylor;

> my favorite singer - Whitney

>  Houston,

> my favorite author  -Tom Clancy,

> and now

> my favorite comedian-Robin Williams,

>

> I just wanted you to know

>  that my favorite politicians are

> -

> Barack

> Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi 

>  and Harry

> Reid.

> Amen

 

British and French Militaries ... Thx Dr. H!

 

Subject: FW: British And French histor

During the royal wedding, the millions around the world saw
that Prince William chose to wear a uniform that included the
famous British "red coat."

Many people have asked, "Why did the British wear red coats
in battle?"

A long time ago, Britain and France were at war.
During one battle, the French captured a British Colonel.
They took him to their headquarters and the French
General began to question him.

Finally, as an afterthought, the French General asked,
"Why do you British officers all wear red coats?
Don't you know the red material makes you easier targets for us to shoot at?"

In his casual, matter-of-fact, way, the officer informed the General that the reason British officers wear red coats is so that if they are wounded, the blood won't show,

…and the men they are leading won't panic.

And that’s why, from that day forward

all French Army officers have worn brown pants

Libs love to create voters, but the Illegal Immigrants will become the new leaders who will win the votes for themselves. ... Thx Ramey H!

I wonder who they think would pay for their "stuff" if their wish came true?They will just steal whatever they like, Ramey.  If only this country could turn this rising tide around.  We need term limits for the old in Congress and so many courageous and patriotic acts!

 

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It appears we have a slight problem.

Read the following very carefully.

"You old white people.  It is your duty to die."

HISPANIC  LEADERS SPEAK OUT

Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets; "Go back to Boston!  Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims!  Get out!  We are the  future.  You are old and tired.  Go on.  We have beaten you.  Leave like beaten rats - you old white people.  It is your duty to die.  Through love of having children, we are going to take over.         ...........Yeah and in 6 years it will look like Mexico!

Richard Alatorre,  Los Angeles City Council.  "They're afraid we're  going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions.  They're right.  We will take them over.  We are here to stay."

Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico, "The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."

Professor  Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas; "We have an aging white America. They are not making babies.  They are dying.  The explosion is in our population .... I love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear.  I love it."

Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party, "Remember 187--proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens--was the last gasp of white America in  California."

Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Supervisor, "We are politicizing every  single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens of this country..... I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, "I'm going to go out there and vote because I want to pay them back."

Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Governor Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill  Clinton, "California is going to be a Hispanic state.  Anyone who  doesn't like it should leave."

Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General, "We are practicing 'La  Reconquista' in  California."

Professor Fernando Guerra, Loyola Marymount University; "We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos . .. .  "
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WHEN I WAS YOUNG:
When I was young, I remember hearing about the immigrants that came through Ellis Island. They wanted to learn English.  They wanted to breathe free.  They wanted to become Americans.  Now too many immigrants come here with demands.  They demand to be taught in their own language.  They demand special privileges--affirmative action.  They demand ethnic studies that glorify their culture.
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Send copies of this email to at least ten other people, 100 would be even better.  Help us get the word out.

Remember, when you vote that we need someone in the White House who will balance the  budget and control illegal immigration.  If we make all illegals legal, then we have lost our country forever.  Liberalism will have won and you will have a one party system forever.  Redistribution of wealth will be the law.  It is called Communism / socialism.  Our country is heading in the wrong direction and we are doing it to ourselves without serious protest.

ALL  AMERICANS  SHOULD  BE  DISTURBED,  VERY  DISTURBED  BY   THIS.   WHAT  A  SHAME  THAT  NOT  ENOUGH  AMERICANS  HAVE  THE  BACKBONE  TO  STAND  UP  AND  SAY,  "ENOUGH  IS  ENOUGH".    IT  IS  TIME  WE  TOOK  OUR  COUNTRY  BACK!

If you are too politically correct  to pass this on then you, my friend, are a part of America's biggest  problem.

The Platters "The Great Pretender" When his lips move he is lying ... Thx Dr. H!

Subject: Fwd: The Platters

50 years ago, the platters recorded this song.

Scary how accurately the words fit 

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100 year3, 100 movie quotes ...Thx Ramey H!

100 Years, 100 Movie Quotes

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> I don't believe there are 100 quotes in this montage, but there are some
> classics.  It's amazing how many came from the same films.
>
>
>
> This set of 100 quick movie clips in 10 minutes is pretty cool.  Some of
> The "best and most memorable lines ever."
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> http://www.youtube.com/embed/594Oxq4c0XA?feature=player_embedded%20
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National Geograp[hic has done it agaoin! ... Thx Judi C!

National Geographic Has Done It Again!

  

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