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A Few Important Factoids
Undeniable facts
1. A girl is said to be grown up when she starts wearing a bra. A boy is grown up when he starts removing it.
2. We all love to spend money buying new clothes, but we never realize that the best moments in life are enjoyed without clothes.
3. Having a cold drink on hot day with a few friends is nice, but having a hot friend on a cold night after a few drinks — PRICELESS.
4. Breaking News: Condoms don’t guarantee safe sex anymore. A friend of mine was wearing one when he was shot dead by the woman’s husband.
5. Arguing over a girl’s bust size is like choosing among Molson, Heineken, Carlsberg and Budweiser. Men may state their preferences, but will grab whatever is available.
6. A recent study found that women who carry a little extra weight live longer than the men who mention it.
1. A girl is said to be grown up when she starts wearing a bra. A boy is grown up when he starts removing it.
2. We all love to spend money buying new clothes, but we never realize that the best moments in life are enjoyed without clothes.
3. Having a cold drink on hot day with a few friends is nice, but having a hot friend on a cold night after a few drinks — PRICELESS.
4. Breaking News: Condoms don’t guarantee safe sex anymore. A friend of mine was wearing one when he was shot dead by the woman’s husband.
5. Arguing over a girl’s bust size is like choosing among Molson, Heineken, Carlsberg and Budweiser. Men may state their preferences, but will grab whatever is available.
6. A recent study found that women who carry a little extra weight live longer than the men who mention it.
Hot coffee and grandkids ... Thx Dr. H!
Hot Coffee
Gotta love those grand-kids . . .
I was eating breakfast with my 10-year-old Granddaughter and I asked her,
"What day is tomorrow?"
Without skipping a beat she said, "It's Presidents Day!"
She's smart, so I asked her "What does Presidents Day mean?"
I was waiting for something about Obama, Bush or Clinton, etc.
She replied, "Presidents Day is when the President steps out of the White
House, and if he sees his shadow, we have 4 more years of Bull Shit."
You know, it hurts when hot coffee spurts out your nose.
No alarm at persecution of Iraqui Christians ... Georgie Anne Geyer Commentary 10/23/14 Dispatch
Georgie Anne Geyer commentary: Where’s outrage over persecution of Iraqi Christians?
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In all the innumerable words and pictures that have told the misery-ridden stories of these two sagas, almost none have attempted to tell the story of Christianity being wiped out, usually viciously, in the very sands in which Christ and the Bible were born. And this is strange, indeed, for Christianity remains the world’s largest religion, with 2.18 billion adherents, or a third of the global population.
Consider first the American doctor, Kent Brantly, whose work confronting Ebola in Nigeria resulted in being infected himself. He became the very symbol of the disease when he was flown back to the U.S. and was healed at Emory University Hospital. Dr. Brantly is an impassioned member of the medical wing of Samaritan’s Purse, the Protestant overseas missionary group led by Billy Graham’s son, the Rev. Franklin Graham, and yet I never saw him referred to as a Christian missionary.
After he had recovered, Brantly spoke to other members of the group, expressing his Christian faith, saying: “I will never grow tired of talking of this. I’m going to keep telling my story, so I can remember what God has done in my life.”
Yet, it is not only in the Ebola story, which has primarily spread its poison across Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea on the northwest coast of Africa, but also in the story of the Islamic State, in Iraq and Syria, that the Christian element has been ignored.
For days after Islamic State seemingly came out of nowhere to ride across the sands of Iraq in tanks and trucks, ravaging everything in sight, the story seemed to be about their persecution of a religious group rare to Iraq, the Yazidis. An ancient group with touches of Zoroastrianism, this people were driven by the Islamic State zealots to a lone mountain, where they survived thanks to American bombs and Kurdish fighters.
The strange thing here is that the Yazidis, one of many fascinating minority religious groups in Iraq, were neither as numerous as Iraqi Christians nor more persecuted. Islamic State had been going house to house in Christian neighborhoods in northern Iraq, marking doors to identify the residents as Christians, to be moved out and/or destroyed.
Almost nothing has been reported with regard to this persecution, although the Christians (like the earlier Jewish community, which was sent to Israel) were a large group. Pre-2003, the Christian population of Iraq was about 1.5 million or 5 percent of the population, according to The Economist; today, it has fallen to under 400,000, and is falling every day.
Ironically, during this time, the most complete and moving article on the media’s silence has been from Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, in The New York Times.
“Historians may look back at this period and wonder if people had lost their bearings,” Lauder wrote. “Few reporters have traveled to Iraq to bear witness to the Nazi-like wave of terror that is rolling across that country. The United Nations has been mostly mum. World leaders seem to be consumed with other matters in this strange summer of 2014. There are no flotillas traveling to Syria or Iraq. … Why doesn’t the slaughter of Christians seem to activate their social antennas?”
But where are the words that should be coming from the heads of the Methodist Church, from the Presbyterians, from the Episcopalians? The pope has rent his conscience over the persecution of the Christians in both Iraq and the West Bank, but where are the other Catholic leaders, much less the accomplished scholars from the various divinity schools?
And the word Protestant, a movement that gave birth to capitalism, human equality and the constitutional construction of modern states, is virtually never seen in the media.
If the word Protestant is not heard here, then perhaps one should not be surprised when one day it becomes as rare as the Chaldeans, the Melkite Greek Catholics, the Syrian Orthodox, the Nestorians or the Assyrian Church of the East, only a few of the churches that have constituted the rich Christian tradition in what was once the true world of the Bible.
Georgie Anne Geyer writes for Universal Press Syndicate.
NARFE - COLAannouncement needs New formula! ... Thx Marge R!
This press release is being sent to all NARFE members.
COLA Announcement Renews Need for New Inflation
Formula
Alexandria, VA – Following the
Bureau of Labor Statistics announcement of a 1.7 percent cost-of-living
adjustment (COLA) for 2015, Joseph A. Beaudoin, president of the National
Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE), released the
following statement on the impact to federal civilian retirement annuities and
Social Security benefits:
"News of the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for the coming
year always is eagerly awaited by the countless Americans who rely on the
increase to keep up with the rising price of food, housing, transportation and
medical care. However, despite the partial relief this 1.7 percent COLA will
provide, the announcement is a reminder that our method for calculating the
increasing cost of goods and services is out of sync with the reality faced by
millions of federal annuitants, Social Security recipients and military
retirees, who spend more than twice as much on medical care than the
population measured by the current CPI-W formula.
“The average 3.8 percent increase in health
care premiums for federal employees and retirees in 2015 shows that medical
costs continue to outpace the COLA as it is calculated presently. We need a
cost-of-living formula that doesn't force these Americans to take one step
forward, then two steps back.
"As members of Congress and the President
develop their budget proposals for fiscal year 2016, I urge them to include a
switch to the CPI-E formula, a more accurate measure of inflation that
accounts for health care and other costs facing seniors.
"Conversely, they should reject previous
proposals to switch to the Chained CPI, which would only make a bad situation
worse by further decreasing the hard-earned benefits of Social Security
recipients and federal retirees, while increasing taxes on lower- and
middle-income taxpayers.”
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Target Stores 2013- Surprising Read
I thought everyone knew this.
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If wefalter and lose ourfreedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."-AbrahamLincolnTARGETSTORES ARE NOW IN CANADA , SINCE MARCH OR APRIL OF2013.THEYHAVE TAKEN OVER THE ZELLERS STORES. TARGET ISLOOKING FOR NEW AREAS ASTHEY ARE GETTING A VERY BAD RECEPTIONIN THE U.S.MAINLYDUE TO THEIR NON-CHRISTIAN ATTITUDES AND POLICIES.TARGETSTORES HEAD OFFICE IS IN FRANCE . THE OFFICE IS NOWMUSLIMCONTROLLED, WHICH EXPLAINS THE NON-CHRISTIANATTITUDE.WE SUPPORT CANADIAN TIRE, HOME HARDWARE, ETC.THOSEWHICH ARE CANADIAN OWNED AND OPERATED.TargetStores What a surprise! Wasn't it last Christmas thatTarget refused to lettheSalvationArmy ring their bells in front of their stores?DickForrey of the Vietnam Veterans Association wrote:Recentlywe asked the local TARGET store to be a proudsponsorof the Vietnam Veterans Memorial all during ourSpringrecognition event. Remember, there are alsoCanadiansoccupying space on these walls.Wereceived the following reply from the local TARGETmanagement:"Veteransdo not meet our Area of giving. We only donate to thearts,social action groups, gay & lesbian causes, andeducation."SoI'm thinking, if the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall,and Veteransingeneral, do not meet their donation criteria, thensomething is reallywrongat this TARGET store. We were not asking forthousands of dollars,noteven hundreds, just a small sponsorship for amemorial remembrance.As afollow-up, I e-mailed the TARGET U.S. CorporateHeadquarters andtheirresponse was the same...That's their Nationalpolicy!!!ThenI looked into the company further. They will notallow the Marines tocollectfor'Toys for Tots' at any of their Stores. And duringthe recent Iraqdeployment,theywould not allow families of employees who werecalled up for Active dutytocontinuetheir insurance coverage while they were on militaryservice..Now,I'm thinking again.. If TARGET cannot supportAmerican (or Canadian)Veterans,then why should my family and I support their storesby spendingourhard earned American or Canadian dollars in theirstores??? and,havetheirprofits sent to France to Support MuslimOrganizations.Sincerely,DickForreyVeteransHelping VeteransPleasesend this on to everyone you know, to let Targetknowwedon't need them either, we're all in a position toreduce sales tothesestores as soon as this gets around....THEREIS POWER IN THE PEN AND THE COMPUTER EMAILS !!
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