Seniors deserve to have a little fun too ... Thx Marge R!

     Yesterday my daughter e-mailed me again, asking why I didn't do something useful with my time."Like sitting around the pool and 
drinking wine is not a good thing?" I asked. Talking about my "doing-something-useful” seems to be her favorite topic of 
conversation.She was "only thinking of me, she said and suggested that I go down to the Senior Center and hang out with the guests.I 
did this and when I got home last night, I decided to play a prank on her.I e-mailed her and told her that I had joined a Parachute
Club.She replied,  "Are you nuts? You are 83 years old and now you're going to start jumping out of airplanes?"I told her that I 
even got a Membership Card and e-mailed a copy to her.She immediately telephoned me and yelled, "Good grief, Mom, where are your 
glasses?!This is a Membership to a Prostitute Club, not a Parachute Club.""Oh man, I'm in trouble again," I said, "I really don't 
know what to do. I signed up for five jumps a week!!"The line went quiet and her friend picked up the phone and said that my 
daughter had fainted.Life as a Senior Citizen is not getting any easier, but sometimes it can be fun.Live Well, Love Much, Laugh 
Often 

Kilroy Was here ! Hustory ... Tha Sarah R and Clay & Carol V!

LOVE THIS ONE...GREAT MEMORIES...

KILROY WAS HERE!       He is engraved in stone in the National War Memorial in Washington, DC, Back in a small alcove where very few people have seen it.  For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories.  For you younger folks, it's a bit of trivia that is a part of our American history.  Anyone born in 1913 to about 1950, is familiar with Kilroy.  No one knew why he was so well known, but everybody seemed to get into it.   So who was Kilroy?     In 1946 the American Transit Association, through its radio program,   "Speak to America," sponsored a nationwide contest to  Find the real Kilroy, offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person  Who could prove himself to be the genuine article.  Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim,  But only James Kilroy from Halifax, Massachusetts,  Had evidence of his identity.     'Kilroy' was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the   War who worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard  In Quincy. His job was to go around and check on the  Number of rivets completed. Riveters were on piecework and  Got paid by the rivet. He would count a block of rivets and  Put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk,  So the rivets wouldn't be counted twice.  When Kilroy went off duty, the riveters would erase the mark.  Later on, an off-shift inspector would come through  And count the rivets a second time,  Resulting in double pay for the riveters.     One day Kilroy's boss called him into his office.  The foreman was upset about all the wages being paid  To riveters, and asked him to investigate. It was then  He realized what had been going on. The tight spaces he  Had to crawl in to check the rivets didn't lend themselves to  Lugging around a paint can and brush, so Kilroy decided to  Stick with the waxy chalk. He continued to put his check  Mark on each job he inspected, but added  'KILROY WAS HERE'  In king-sized letters next to the check, and eventually  Added the sketch of the chap with the long nose peering  Over the fence and that became part of the Kilroy message.     Once he did that, the riveters stopped trying to wipe   Away his marks. Ordinarily the rivets and chalk marks  Would have been covered up with paint. With the war on,  However, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast  That there wasn't time to paint them. As a result,  Kilroy's inspection "trademark" was seen by thousands of  Servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced.    His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen,   Because they picked it up and spread it all over  Europe and the South Pacific.    Before war's end, "Kilroy" had been here, there,  And everywhere on the long hauls to Berlin and Tokyo.  To the troops outbound in those ships, however,  He was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was  That someone named Kilroy had "been there first."   As a joke, U.S. Servicemen began placing the graffiti  Wherever they landed, claiming it was  Already there when they arrived.    Kilroy became the U.S. Super-GI who had always  "already been" wherever GIs went. It became a challenge  To place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable It is said to be atop Mt. Everest, the Statue of Liberty,   The underside of the Arc de Triomphe,  And even scrawled in the dust on the moon.    As the war went on, the legend grew. Underwater demolition  Teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held Islands in the  Pacific to map the terrain for coming invasions by  U.S. Troops (and thus, presumably, were the first GI's there).  On one occasion, however, they reported seeing  Enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo!    In 1945, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Roosevelt,   Stalin, and Churchill at the Potsdam conference.  Its' first occupant was Stalin, who emerged and   Asked his aide (in Russian), "Who is Kilroy?"      To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy  Brought along officials from the shipyard and some  Of the riveters. He won the trolley car, which he gave to  his nine children as a Christmas gift and set it up as a  playhouse in the Kilroy yard in Halifax, Massachusetts.     And The Tradition Continues...  EVEN Outside Osama Bin Laden's House!!!   Share This Bit Of Historic Humor With All Your Friends! :)     God Bless you World War II Veterans

o's accomplishments ... Thx Paul C and friend Henry!

Begin forwarded message:

From: HENRY, RIGHT ON AND WE SIT AND WAIT FOR OUR CONGRESS TO DO SOMETHING---------

Subject: AN OUTRAGE!!!

 
Quit trashing Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. 
 
Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:

 

1. First President to be photographed smoking a joint.

 

2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

 

3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

 

4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.

 

5. First President to violate the War Powers Act.

 

6. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

 

8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.

 

9. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

 

10. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

 

11. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.

 

12. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

 

13. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.

 

14. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.

 

15. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.

 

16. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

 

17. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

 

18. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.

 

19. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.

 

20. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

 

21. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

 

22. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).

 

23. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

 

24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

 

25. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.

 

26. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.

 

27. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.

 

28. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

 

29. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.

 

30. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.

 

31. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

 

32. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

 

33. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.

 

34. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

 

35. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).

 

36. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences."

 

37. Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.

 

I feel much better now. I had been under the impression he hadn't been doing ANYTHING.

 

 

Constitutional Convention ... Thx Paul C!

I share this expression Paul.  If it would only accomplish the stated purpose.  I only worry that it won't while o and so many of his leftist progressives  who want to destroy our constitution
might power their away through and finally destroy it.  I think it might work better after one of the the Tea Party candidates win for the republicans in 2016 - please no more moderates. There is a big job to be done!.  

O and his troops have done so much to destroy America it will take a while to put Humpty Dumpty
together again.

With great respect,

SamKat aka Sam Kegley

3 states short

This is what Mark Levine has been talking about--a constitutional convention by the states to get back to the laws of the Constitution. This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on This is an idea that we need to address.

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35 STATES SO FAR...AND GROWING

One message to forward!

Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.

 

This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.

 

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Their latest stunt is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform that they passed ... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite ruling class that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.

 

If each person that receives this will forward it on to 15 people, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.

 

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:

 

"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators, Representatives of Congress and the President of the United States; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives and the President of the United States that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ..."

 

 

You are one of my 15. Please keep this going.

 

Al McGuire on Kentucky Basketball ... Thx Judi C!

Sam, I know you've heard this quote before, but thought you'd like a repeat for your blog.  Our team did not cheat us this year.  

Quote from the legendary Al McGuire about Kentucky basketball:

" I've seen all the programs, touching them as a coach, a player, and as an NBC broadcast commentator the past four or five years. I have touched all the so-called capitals of basketball, but when it gets down to the short stroke the only true capital of basketball is Lexington. I even think there are times when the horses kinda bend down a little to the roundball. They had it before you, they had it during you, they'll have it when you're gone." - Hall of Fame coach Al McGuire ‪

Yes, Judi, Al said that and it was quite a few years ago.  He used to be a UK hater because we removed his undefeated teams, often 28-0 more than once in tournament games.  But he came to appreciate.  God rest his soul.

K won his fifth last night, but I, in my predjudiced mind, believe he slipped in after the real team lost; however the real team must play and win every game towards our coveted 40-0.  Any team can win any given date especially when you get to the level of Division 1 basketball. Coach Cal has taken his UK teams to the Final Four four out of five years - NOT CHICKEN LIVER competition.   

I felt euphoria in being part of a three on three Championship competition on the Highland school yard court of Portsmouth, Ohio, one time.  I was personally  emulating the great UK teams of the  late forties when I was, even then, their fan.  I obtained my Metallurgical Engineering degree there later and felt it a privilege which has given Ohio borns Jeanie and me great entertainment throughout our lives.  It is a Kentucky religion we are happy to share with the ubiquitous UK basketball fans.

God, please also bless great coaches at all levels!  The truly great ones are also great teachers of how to live.