In closing the other night, bill used this word and claimed it fit himself. It fits me too. Too many of us curmudgeons are fading away in this dear world.
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
Science and God
Thanks Ramey Sonny Hoskins! Were any of us to be so profound?
This write up should be well worth your time if you haven't already read it before. Wow!
'Let me explain the problem science has with religion.'
The atheist Professor of Philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand.
'You're a Christian, aren't you, son?'
'Yes sir,' the student says.
'So you believe in God?'
'Absolutely.'
'Is God good?'
'Sure! God's good.'
'Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?'
'Yes'
'Are you good or evil?'
'The Bible says I'm evil.'
The professor grins knowingly. 'Aha! The Bible! He considers for a moment. 'Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here and
you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?'
'Yes sir, I would.'
'So you're good...!'
'I wouldn't say that.'
'But why not say that? You'd help a sick and maimed person if you could.
Most of us would if we could. But God doesn't.'
The student does not answer, so the professor continues.
'He doesn't, does He?
My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to Jesus to heal him.
How is this Jesus good? Can you answer that one?'
The student remains silent. 'No, you can't, can you?'
The professor says. He takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk to give
The student time to relax. 'Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?'
'Er..yes,' the student says.
'Is Satan good?'
The student doesn't hesitate on this one. 'No.'
'Then where does Satan come from?'
The student falters. 'From God'
'That's right. God made Satan, didn't he? Tell me, son.
Is there Evil in this world?'
'Yes, sir.'
'Evil's everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything, correct?'
'Yes'
'So who created evil?' The professor continued, 'If God created everything, then God created evil,
since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil.'
Again, the student has no answer.
'Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things, do they exist in this world?'
The student squirms on his feet. 'Yes.'
'So who created them?'
The student does not answer again,
So the professor repeats his question.
'Who created them?' There is still no answer.
Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace in front of the classroom.
The class is mesmerized.
'Tell me,' he continues onto another student. 'Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?'
The student's voice betrays him and cracks. 'Yes, professor, I do.'
The old man stops pacing.
'Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?'
'No sir. I've never seen Him.'
'Then tell us if you've ever heard your Jesus?'
'No, sir, I have not.'
'Have you ever felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelled your Jesus?
Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for that matter?'
'No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't.'
'Yet you still believe in him?'
'Yes'
'According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your God doesn't exist.
What do you say to that, Son?'
'Nothing,' the student replies. 'I only have my faith.'
'Yes, faith,' the professor repeats. 'And that is the problem that science has with God. There is no evidence, only faith.'
The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of His own.
'Professor, is there such thing as heat?'
' Yes.'
'And is there such a thing as cold?'
'Yes, son, there's cold too.'
'No sir, there isn't.'
The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested.
The room suddenly becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain.
'You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat,
but we don't have anything called 'cold'. We can hit down to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that.
There is no such thing as cold; otherwise we would be able to go colder than the lowest -458 degrees. Everybody or object is susceptible to
study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-458 F) is the
total absence of heat. You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold.
Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.'
Silence pervades across the room. A pen drops somewhere in the classroom, sounding like a hammer.
'What about darkness, professor. Is there such a thing as darkness?'
'Yes,' the professor replies without hesitation. 'What is night if it isn't darkness?'
'You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light,
flashing light, but if you have no light constantly you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it?
That's the meaning we use to define the word. In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?'
The professor begins to smile at the student in front of him. This will be a good semester. 'So what point are you making, young man?'
'Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed to start with, and so your conclusion must also be flawed.'
The professor's face cannot hide his surprise this time. 'Flawed? Can you explain how?'
'You are working on the premise of duality,' the student explains. 'You argue that there is life and then there's death; a good God and
a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought.'
'It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is
to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it.'
'Now tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?'
'If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes, of course I do.'
'Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?'
The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes where the argument is going. A very good semester, indeed.
'Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor,
are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a preacher?'
The class is in uproar. The student remains silent until the commotion has subsided.
'To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, let me give you an example of what I mean.' The student looks
around the room. 'Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor's brain?' The class breaks out into laughter.
'Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain, felt the professor's brain, touched or smelled the professor's brain?
No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says
that you have no brain, with all due respect, sir.' 'So if science says you have no brain, how can we trust your lectures, sir?'
Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the student, his face unreadable..
Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers.
'I guess you'll have to take them on faith..'
'Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith exists with life,'the student continues.
'Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?'
Now uncertain, the professor responds, 'Of course, there is. We see it every day.
It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man.
It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world.
These manifestations are nothing else but evil.'
To this the student replied, 'Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God.
It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil.
Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no
heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.'
The professor sat down.
The student was Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein wrote a book titled "God vs Science" in 1921...
This write up should be well worth your time if you haven't already read it before. Wow!
'Let me explain the problem science has with religion.'
The atheist Professor of Philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand.
'You're a Christian, aren't you, son?'
'Yes sir,' the student says.
'So you believe in God?'
'Absolutely.'
'Is God good?'
'Sure! God's good.'
'Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?'
'Yes'
'Are you good or evil?'
'The Bible says I'm evil.'
The professor grins knowingly. 'Aha! The Bible! He considers for a moment. 'Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here and
you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?'
'Yes sir, I would.'
'So you're good...!'
'I wouldn't say that.'
'But why not say that? You'd help a sick and maimed person if you could.
Most of us would if we could. But God doesn't.'
The student does not answer, so the professor continues.
'He doesn't, does He?
My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to Jesus to heal him.
How is this Jesus good? Can you answer that one?'
The student remains silent. 'No, you can't, can you?'
The professor says. He takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk to give
The student time to relax. 'Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?'
'Er..yes,' the student says.
'Is Satan good?'
The student doesn't hesitate on this one. 'No.'
'Then where does Satan come from?'
The student falters. 'From God'
'That's right. God made Satan, didn't he? Tell me, son.
Is there Evil in this world?'
'Yes, sir.'
'Evil's everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything, correct?'
'Yes'
'So who created evil?' The professor continued, 'If God created everything, then God created evil,
since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil.'
Again, the student has no answer.
'Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things, do they exist in this world?'
The student squirms on his feet. 'Yes.'
'So who created them?'
The student does not answer again,
So the professor repeats his question.
'Who created them?' There is still no answer.
Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace in front of the classroom.
The class is mesmerized.
'Tell me,' he continues onto another student. 'Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?'
The student's voice betrays him and cracks. 'Yes, professor, I do.'
The old man stops pacing.
'Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?'
'No sir. I've never seen Him.'
'Then tell us if you've ever heard your Jesus?'
'No, sir, I have not.'
'Have you ever felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelled your Jesus?
Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for that matter?'
'No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't.'
'Yet you still believe in him?'
'Yes'
'According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your God doesn't exist.
What do you say to that, Son?'
'Nothing,' the student replies. 'I only have my faith.'
'Yes, faith,' the professor repeats. 'And that is the problem that science has with God. There is no evidence, only faith.'
The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of His own.
'Professor, is there such thing as heat?'
' Yes.'
'And is there such a thing as cold?'
'Yes, son, there's cold too.'
'No sir, there isn't.'
The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested.
The room suddenly becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain.
'You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat,
but we don't have anything called 'cold'. We can hit down to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that.
There is no such thing as cold; otherwise we would be able to go colder than the lowest -458 degrees. Everybody or object is susceptible to
study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-458 F) is the
total absence of heat. You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold.
Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.'
Silence pervades across the room. A pen drops somewhere in the classroom, sounding like a hammer.
'What about darkness, professor. Is there such a thing as darkness?'
'Yes,' the professor replies without hesitation. 'What is night if it isn't darkness?'
'You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light,
flashing light, but if you have no light constantly you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it?
That's the meaning we use to define the word. In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?'
The professor begins to smile at the student in front of him. This will be a good semester. 'So what point are you making, young man?'
'Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed to start with, and so your conclusion must also be flawed.'
The professor's face cannot hide his surprise this time. 'Flawed? Can you explain how?'
'You are working on the premise of duality,' the student explains. 'You argue that there is life and then there's death; a good God and
a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought.'
'It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is
to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it.'
'Now tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?'
'If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes, of course I do.'
'Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?'
The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes where the argument is going. A very good semester, indeed.
'Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor,
are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a preacher?'
The class is in uproar. The student remains silent until the commotion has subsided.
'To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, let me give you an example of what I mean.' The student looks
around the room. 'Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor's brain?' The class breaks out into laughter.
'Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain, felt the professor's brain, touched or smelled the professor's brain?
No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says
that you have no brain, with all due respect, sir.' 'So if science says you have no brain, how can we trust your lectures, sir?'
Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the student, his face unreadable..
Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers.
'I guess you'll have to take them on faith..'
'Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith exists with life,'the student continues.
'Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?'
Now uncertain, the professor responds, 'Of course, there is. We see it every day.
It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man.
It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world.
These manifestations are nothing else but evil.'
To this the student replied, 'Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God.
It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil.
Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no
heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.'
The professor sat down.
The student was Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein wrote a book titled "God vs Science" in 1921...
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Thanks John bob L.
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Local area news article on my new book
Grandparents and Softball-Girls Love Softball
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Purchase these or other SNP photos.
Westerville resident Sam Kegley's first work of fiction is titled Grandparents and Softball .
Love for softball inspires Westerville man's family fiction
* Sam Kegley discovered his book not only appeals to young softball players, but to the parents and grandparents of those players.
By AARON SCHWARZ
Published: Monday, August 3, 2009 9:20 AM EDT
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Westerville resident Sam Kegley, 76, always has had a passion for softball. Now, he's turned that passion into a book.
Kegley's book, Grandparents and Softball, is a story about a set of grandparents, Andy and Princess, who follow their granddaughter, Audrey, throughout her softball career, starting when she is a young girl all the way to her 20s, when she competes in the Olympics as part of Team USA.
Grandparents and Softball, Kegley's first attempt at fiction, was born in large part from his own experiences after being involved in softball for much of his life.
"I've played softball, my kids played softball and now my granddaughters play softball. Girls are completely taking over the sport," Kegley said.
As the game of softball has evolved throughout the years, so have the people playing it.
"The enthusiasm of little girls when they play softball is something else. They play like boys out there," Kegley said.
When he started writing the book, Kegley originally intended for his audience to be children who are playing softball.
One of the editors of the book, an Ohio State softball alumna, showed Kegley his audience was much broader.
Since taking the advice of the collegiate player, Kegley realized his book is not only enjoyable for kids playing softball, but also for the parents and grandparents of those kids.
Kegley's exuberance for softball is rarely rivaled.
"I love softball. Most people who are associated with softball do. Everybody counts and the girls do such a good job. It's a team game and being part of a team really helps the self-esteem of these little girls." Kegley said.
Plans for another book already are in the works; however, Kegley doesn't yet know what the topic will be.
Kegley and his wife Jeanette have lived in Westerville for 48 years.
Grandparents and Softball is available for purchase at the Web site authorhouse.com or by calling 888-280-7715.
Click image to enlarge
Purchase these or other SNP photos.
Westerville resident Sam Kegley's first work of fiction is titled Grandparents and Softball .
Love for softball inspires Westerville man's family fiction
* Sam Kegley discovered his book not only appeals to young softball players, but to the parents and grandparents of those players.
By AARON SCHWARZ
Published: Monday, August 3, 2009 9:20 AM EDT
Text Size
Westerville resident Sam Kegley, 76, always has had a passion for softball. Now, he's turned that passion into a book.
Kegley's book, Grandparents and Softball, is a story about a set of grandparents, Andy and Princess, who follow their granddaughter, Audrey, throughout her softball career, starting when she is a young girl all the way to her 20s, when she competes in the Olympics as part of Team USA.
Grandparents and Softball, Kegley's first attempt at fiction, was born in large part from his own experiences after being involved in softball for much of his life.
"I've played softball, my kids played softball and now my granddaughters play softball. Girls are completely taking over the sport," Kegley said.
As the game of softball has evolved throughout the years, so have the people playing it.
"The enthusiasm of little girls when they play softball is something else. They play like boys out there," Kegley said.
When he started writing the book, Kegley originally intended for his audience to be children who are playing softball.
One of the editors of the book, an Ohio State softball alumna, showed Kegley his audience was much broader.
Since taking the advice of the collegiate player, Kegley realized his book is not only enjoyable for kids playing softball, but also for the parents and grandparents of those kids.
Kegley's exuberance for softball is rarely rivaled.
"I love softball. Most people who are associated with softball do. Everybody counts and the girls do such a good job. It's a team game and being part of a team really helps the self-esteem of these little girls." Kegley said.
Plans for another book already are in the works; however, Kegley doesn't yet know what the topic will be.
Kegley and his wife Jeanette have lived in Westerville for 48 years.
Grandparents and Softball is available for purchase at the Web site authorhouse.com or by calling 888-280-7715.
George Orwell's 1984
This book was a futuristic unthinkable when I was a junior at Portsmouth High School. Winston and Julia are caught in an anti-love crime by the thought police and questioned separately. I thought then that it could never happen in the USA, but here it is happening 60 years after the June 1949 publishing for George Orwell.
It was required reading then by our bright teachers and it should be today unless it becomes part of a burning pile soon. You can go to Google and put in Orwell 1984. I like the current Wikipedia link.
Just this much tells something about Orwell:
Popular misconceptions
In a letter to Francis A. Henson of the United Automobile Workers, dated 16 June 1949 (seven months before he died), excerpts from which were reproduced in Life (25 July 1949) and The New York Times Book Review (31 July 1949), Orwell stated the following:
"My recent novel [Nineteen Eighty-Four] is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions ... which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism. ...The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere."
—Collected Essays[12]
In his 1946 essay, "Why I Write", Orwell described himself as a Democratic Socialist, though said political agenda carried with it far different implications than would be expected today.[13]
[edit] Copyright status
Nineteen Eighty-Four will not enter the public domain in the United States until 2044 and in the European Union until 2020, although it is public domain in countries such as Canada, Russia, and Australia.
Sam Kegley
It was required reading then by our bright teachers and it should be today unless it becomes part of a burning pile soon. You can go to Google and put in Orwell 1984. I like the current Wikipedia link.
Just this much tells something about Orwell:
Popular misconceptions
In a letter to Francis A. Henson of the United Automobile Workers, dated 16 June 1949 (seven months before he died), excerpts from which were reproduced in Life (25 July 1949) and The New York Times Book Review (31 July 1949), Orwell stated the following:
"My recent novel [Nineteen Eighty-Four] is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions ... which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism. ...The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere."
—Collected Essays[12]
In his 1946 essay, "Why I Write", Orwell described himself as a Democratic Socialist, though said political agenda carried with it far different implications than would be expected today.[13]
[edit] Copyright status
Nineteen Eighty-Four will not enter the public domain in the United States until 2044 and in the European Union until 2020, although it is public domain in countries such as Canada, Russia, and Australia.
Sam Kegley
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Patriotic songs?
Are the Hollywood group, the media, or the liberal administration even aware of the patriotic songs of America.
Too much apologizing, cutting strength for appeasement, and blasting the good. I heard o say during his campaign that he wanted to replace our national anthem with "I'd Love to teach the world to sing". That song was beautiful, but nothing like the Star Spangled Banner for the national anthem of this great country. Too many have forgotten "America". "Oh beautiful for spacious skies..." God has blessed the world with so much good, but no country more than He has the United States of America.
I share these thoughts as a patriotic American in a most perilous political time.
Too much apologizing, cutting strength for appeasement, and blasting the good. I heard o say during his campaign that he wanted to replace our national anthem with "I'd Love to teach the world to sing". That song was beautiful, but nothing like the Star Spangled Banner for the national anthem of this great country. Too many have forgotten "America". "Oh beautiful for spacious skies..." God has blessed the world with so much good, but no country more than He has the United States of America.
I share these thoughts as a patriotic American in a most perilous political time.
Senior Death Warrant
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 10:21 AM
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>> "If you believe in yourself and have dedication
>> and pride and never quit, you'll be a winner. The
>> price of victory is high, but so are the rewards."
>>
>> Paul "Bear" Bryant
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>>
>> > Several years ago, my dear friend Geoff
>> > Faircloug, at Brit living in Leyland, England, had an ear
>> > ache. the doctor determined that it was a boil in the ear.
>> > After a week of awful pain the doctor agreed to lance the
>> > boil. Geoff, 77 years old never woke from the "elective
>> > surgery". The boil ruptured, poisoning his entire system.
>> > Had he been 20 and a "productive worker" antibiotics and an
>> > aggressive treatment course would have been pursued. But at
>> > 77 the "cost out weighted the benefit"....TO THE STATE RUN
>> > MEDICAL SYSTEM....but not to me, his wife, his two children
>> > or 6 grandchildren!! I just received this bit of info and
>> > had to forward it....
>> >
>> > SENIOR DEATH WARRANTS:
>> >
>> > The actress Natasha Richardson died after
>> > falling skiing in Canada. It took eight hours to drive her
>> > to a hospital. If Canada had our healthcare she might be
>> > alive today. In the United States , we have medical
>> > evacuation helicopters that would have gotten her to the
>> > hospital in 30 minutes.
>> >
>> > In England anyone over 59 cannot receive heart
>> > repairs or stents or bypass because it is not covered as
>> > being too expensive and not needed.
>> >
>> > Obama wants to have a healthcare system just
>> > like Canada 's and England's.
>> >
>> > I got this today and am sending it on. If
>> > Obama's plans in other areas don't scare you, this should!
>> >
>> > Please do not let Obama sign senior death
>> > warrants!!
>> >
>> > Everybody that is on this mailing list is
>> > either a senior citizen, is getting close or knows somebody
>> > that is.
>> >
>> > Most of you know by now that the Senate
>> > version (at least) of the "stimulus" Bill includes
>> > provisions for extensive rationing of health care for senior
>> > citizens. The author of this part of the bill, former
>> > senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle was credited today by
>> > Bloomberg with the following statement:
>> >
>> > Bloomberg: Daschle says "health-care reform
>> > will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of
>> > the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."
>> >
>> > If this does not sufficiently raise your ire,
>> > just remember that our esteemed Senators and Congressmen
>> > have their own healthcare plan that is first dollar or very
>> > low co-pay which they are guaranteed the remainder of their
>> > lives and are not subject to this new law if it passes.
>> >
>> > Please use the power of the Internet to get
>> > this message out. Talk it up at the grassroots level.
>> >
>> > We have an election coming up in one year and
>> > nine months, and we have the ability to address and reverse
>> > the dangerous direction the Obama administration and it
>> > allies have begun and in the interim, we can make their
>> > lives miserable. Lets do this!
>> >
>> >
>> > If you disagree, do nothing.
Subject: Fw: SENIOR DEATH WARRANTS
Subject: SENIOR DEATH WARRANTS
>>
>> "If you believe in yourself and have dedication
>> and pride and never quit, you'll be a winner. The
>> price of victory is high, but so are the rewards."
>>
>> Paul "Bear" Bryant
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Several years ago, my dear friend Geoff
>> > Faircloug, at Brit living in Leyland, England, had an ear
>> > ache. the doctor determined that it was a boil in the ear.
>> > After a week of awful pain the doctor agreed to lance the
>> > boil. Geoff, 77 years old never woke from the "elective
>> > surgery". The boil ruptured, poisoning his entire system.
>> > Had he been 20 and a "productive worker" antibiotics and an
>> > aggressive treatment course would have been pursued. But at
>> > 77 the "cost out weighted the benefit"....TO THE STATE RUN
>> > MEDICAL SYSTEM....but not to me, his wife, his two children
>> > or 6 grandchildren!! I just received this bit of info and
>> > had to forward it....
>> >
>> > SENIOR DEATH WARRANTS:
>> >
>> > The actress Natasha Richardson died after
>> > falling skiing in Canada. It took eight hours to drive her
>> > to a hospital. If Canada had our healthcare she might be
>> > alive today. In the United States , we have medical
>> > evacuation helicopters that would have gotten her to the
>> > hospital in 30 minutes.
>> >
>> > In England anyone over 59 cannot receive heart
>> > repairs or stents or bypass because it is not covered as
>> > being too expensive and not needed.
>> >
>> > Obama wants to have a healthcare system just
>> > like Canada 's and England's.
>> >
>> > I got this today and am sending it on. If
>> > Obama's plans in other areas don't scare you, this should!
>> >
>> > Please do not let Obama sign senior death
>> > warrants!!
>> >
>> > Everybody that is on this mailing list is
>> > either a senior citizen, is getting close or knows somebody
>> > that is.
>> >
>> > Most of you know by now that the Senate
>> > version (at least) of the "stimulus" Bill includes
>> > provisions for extensive rationing of health care for senior
>> > citizens. The author of this part of the bill, former
>> > senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle was credited today by
>> > Bloomberg with the following statement:
>> >
>> > Bloomberg: Daschle says "health-care reform
>> > will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of
>> > the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."
>> >
>> > If this does not sufficiently raise your ire,
>> > just remember that our esteemed Senators and Congressmen
>> > have their own healthcare plan that is first dollar or very
>> > low co-pay which they are guaranteed the remainder of their
>> > lives and are not subject to this new law if it passes.
>> >
>> > Please use the power of the Internet to get
>> > this message out. Talk it up at the grassroots level.
>> >
>> > We have an election coming up in one year and
>> > nine months, and we have the ability to address and reverse
>> > the dangerous direction the Obama administration and it
>> > allies have begun and in the interim, we can make their
>> > lives miserable. Lets do this!
>> >
>> >
>> > If you disagree, do nothing.
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