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As I've watched John Wall this season

#21 Today, 09:01 AM
Stucat
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Like the rest of you I love to watch John Wall play. He means so very much for our team. There is no doubt in my mind that Calipari will take us deep into the NCAA tournament with John Wall at the helm. Also the rest of the team is great too. I have a good feeling about this year primarily because I trust Coach Cal as our leader and coach.


Stucat

#22 Today, 11:26 AM
SamKat
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Location: Westerville, Ohio, USA
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Please endure the thoughts of a truly old UK basketball fan here as well as these posts on your great thread, BigBlue75:

I think of West, Robinson, Maravich, Chamberlain, Lucas, and so many others who were more reknown for outstandingly high scoring averages first. The game was very different during their times on the stage.

Curly agreed right away with BigBlue75 as I also do. JWorld mentions Chapman and he could do many things but was also a scorer first. Will aplauds the coach's decison to use Bledsoe at point even before Wall's second foul. Freethrow brings up the 'fastest gun in the west' comment and the likelihood of a 'hatchet man' purposely injuring John W. I considered that Calhoun sent Edwards in with that purpose as he did a real hatchet job on Wall very soon after entering the game. I disliked Edwards immediately for that, but I give him credit for playing a fine game thereafter. Soldier69 scares me with the 'soon as he can' comment. Is it possible that he could bolt for the pros after any point in this season? Catdaddy brings up the 'ultimate comparison' in MJ. ...Possible? Wanderingcatfan has some "If" and beautiful thoughts. Stucat brings CoachCal back into the thoughts and I have to agree. The greatest thing Cal has done is to bring John Wall to Kentucky along with the coach, but the even greater thing is that Coach Cal should be around for a few years at least.

Coach Cal repeatedly speaks of a 'will to win' which John Wall has deep inside himself.

Thanks again, BigBlue75! I hope you know I loved your thread and all of the WCN posters thoughts and concerns for our young star. God has been so good to have the stars align themselves and bring John Wall and Coach Cal to the University of Kentuckly. I am a true believer.

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World time begins at Greenwich Village in London, England. GMT 11:27AM was 06:27AM EST.

Thanks Bob Looney The best jokes are so straight forward

Subject: Best Joke I've rec'd in a while







A guy traveling through Mexico on vacation lost his wallet and all of his identification.
Cutting his trip short, he attempted to make his way home but was stopped by the U.S. Customs Agent at the border.

"May I see your identification, please?" asked the agent.

"I'm sorry, but I lost my wallet," replied the guy..

"Sure buddy, I hear that every day. No ID, no entry," said the agent.

"But I can prove I'm an American!" he exclaimed. "I have a picture of Ronald Reagan tattooed on one side of my butt and George Bush on the other."

"This I gotta see," replied the agent.


With that, the guy dropped his pants and showed the agent his behind.

"By golly, you're right!" exclaimed the agent. "Have a safe trip back to Chicago."

"Thanks!" he said. "But how did you know I was from Chicago ?"

The agent replied, "I recognized Obama in the middle."

Thanks Dave Miller. Birthday party

Subject: birthday party


Dear loved ones,
As you well know, we are getting closer to my birthday. Every year there is a celebration in my honor and I think that this year the celebration will be repeated. During this time there are many people shopping for gifts, there are many radio announcements, TV commercials, and in every part of the world everyone is talking that my birthday is getting closer and closer.
It is really very nice to know, that at least once a year, some people think of me. As you know, the celebration of my birthday began many years ago.. At first people seemed to understand and be thankful of all that I did for them, but in these times, no one seems to know the reason for the
celebration. Family and friends get together and have a lot of fun, but they don't know the meaning of the celebration.
Please remember that last year there was a great feast in my honor. The dinner table was full of delicious foods, pastries, fruits, assorted nuts and chocolates. The decorations were exquisite and there were many, many beautifully wrapped gifts. But, do you want to know something? I wasn't invited. I was the guest of honor and they didn't remember to send me an invitation. The party was for me, but when that great day came, I was left outside, they closed the door in my face ..... and I wanted to be with them and share their table.
In truth, that didn't surprise me because in the last few years many have closed their doors to me. Some even say it isn’t politically correct to mention my name in connection with this this season.
Since I wasn't invited, I decided to enter the party without making any noise. I went in and stood in a corner. They were all drinking; there were some who were drunk and telling jokes and laughing
at everything. They were having a grand time. To top it all, this big fat man all dressed in red wearing a long white beard entered the room yelling Ho-Ho-Ho!
He seemed drunk.. He sat on the sofa and all the children ran to him, saying: "Santa Claus, Santa Claus" .. as if the party were in his honor!
At 12 Midnight all the people began to hug each other; I extended my arms waiting for someone to hug me and ... do you know ... no one hugged me. Suddenly they all began to share gifts. They opened them one by one with great expectation. When all had been opened, I looked to see if, maybe, there was one for me.
What would you feel if on your birthday everybody shared gifts and you did not get one? I then understood that I was unwanted at that party and quietly left.
Every year it gets worse. People only remember to eat and drink, the gifts, the parties and nobody remembers me. I would like this Christmas that you allow me to enter into your life. I would like that you recognize the fact that almost two thousand years ago I came to this world to give my life for you, on the cross, to save you. Today, I only want that you believe this with all your heart.
I want to share something with you. As many didn't invite me to their party, I will have my own celebration, a grandiose party that no one has ever imagined, a spectacular party. I'm still making the final arrangements. Today I am sending out many invitations and there is an invitation for you. I want to know if you wish to attend and I will make a reservation for you and write your name with golden letters in my great guest book. Only those on the guest list will be invited to the party. Those who don't answer the invite, will be left outside.
Be prepared because when all is ready you will be part of my great party.

See you soon.
I Love you!
Jesus

Thanks Jackie Brown! "The New AARP"

----- Original Message -----
From: Jackie Brown
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: The new AARP...


I hate their guts and always have! For reasons you mention plus the fact that they lobbied for a bill a few years ago that caused people who had both Social Security checks and pension checks (in the public sector) to have their hard-earned SS reduced to just a fourth of what they otherwise would have gotten. I worked in private industry for 20 years and public sector for 20 years - I was due over $l200. a month from SS and when their bill was passed, I got $300. a month - the S.O.B.'s - because they called it "double-dipping"....my arse it was...and this bill didn't apply to those who work in the private sector but still get a regular pension on top of full SS benefits. The management is comprised of goofy liberals and self-interested morons who want hideous travesty of a health bill passed because it means much more money in their pockets! Congrats for what you did - wish all seniors would do the same!

Jackie
----- Original Message -----
From: DDPAISLEY@aol.com
To: DDPAISLEY@aol.com
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 1:06 PM
Subject: The new AARP...



Yes, since they consistently ignore the wishes of their constituents (just like your US Congress), then I say to hell with the 'uber-liberal' AARP (American Association for Retired People). I have been a member for twenty-eight years (except for a period when they had my membership screwed up). They have now gone 'gaga' for Obamacare, despite the fact that two-thirds of 'us sheep' don't want it; even fewer among so-called 'senior citizens.' I have sent my shredded membership card to AARP and joined the 'new' AARP.





Let me get this straight. Obama's 2,000 page health care plans have been written (supposedly) by congressional committees whose Senate Chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed in the House by members who acknowledged that they didn't read it, will be signed by a narcissistic, deceptive President who apologizes to our enemies and who smokes, funded by a Treasury Chief who did not pay his taxes, despite reimbursement by his employer, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that is hopelessly in debt.



"A fine mess you've gotten us in to, Ollie!"

Thanks Jackie Brown! Swiss voting into law ban on construction of muslim minarets

Publication:The Columbus Dispatch; Date:Dec 9, 2009; Section:Opinion; Page Number:A11


Swiss have their reason for minaret ban

Georgie Anne Geyer writes for Universal Press Syndicate.



Oh, the poor Swiss! Usually they’re in deep water — though many of them live upward of 10,000 feet in the air — because they won’t reveal some poor Kuwaiti’s or Saudi’s wealth stashed away in a Swiss bank account. Other times, they’re the object of jealousy for their prosperity and their self-righteous, Calvinist ways.

But this time, it’s so very different. This time, large parts of the world, including voices from the United Nations, are criticizing the 7.6 million Swiss, 57.5 percent of whose voters just had the unfashionable temerity to vote into law a constitutional ban on the construction of Muslim minarets on sacred Swiss territory.

Voters responded with remarkable agreement to the nationalist Swiss People’s Party labeling of the minarets as the forerunners of a feared Islamic takeover of the state.

It’s all quite terrible, isn’t it? But let’s think for a moment. For in fact, the Swiss are simply behaving in their usual way, being cautious about liberally embracing trends that are gnawing at all of Europe — and that have already transformed the continent, not for the better.

In fact, the Swiss are taking the fall for trying to get out ahead of a feared “Islamization” of Europe that has the French banning Muslim headscarves, the Dutch forcing would-be Muslim immigrants to watch movies showing Dutch men kissing Dutch men and, on the geopolitical scale, Turkey having all but lost out on its long-held hope of joining the European Union.

In reality, the Swiss are only trying to stop Muslim religious expansion before it becomes radicalized and transforms their peaceable little state into something nobody wants — often called “Eurabia.”

In Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and The West, an excellent book on the larger European subject, Christopher Caldwell pauses to recall how it all began. After World War II, the European states, forced to adopt certain liberal assumptions about human nature such as the idea that all cultures were basically equal, opened their doors.

Immigrants would be few in number and would assimilate. “That they would retain the habits and cultures of southern villages, clans, marketplaces and mosques was a thought too bizarre to entertain,” he writes.

And today? “Europe is now, for the first time in modern history, a continent of migrants. Of the 375 million people in Western Europe, 40 million are living outside their countries of birth. In almost all Western European countries, the population of immigrants and their children approaches or surpasses 20 percent.”

Most important, instead of assimilating and becoming “good” Parisians or Amsterdammers, too many of the Muslim immigrants often only were grabbing onto the European welfare state. Worse, they began to insist that Islam be recognized as equal to Christianity, or even as superior. The next step was terrorism from within “European Islam,” as has happened in Britain and Holland and elsewhere.

Caldwell points out, for instance, that two-thirds of French imams are on welfare; that mosque-building began to become “particularly alarming to Europeans” in the last decade because it was a “declaration that people intended . . . to live henceforth as they had in the old country from time immemorial”; that the riots in the Paris suburbs were Muslim youth-inspired; and that the bloody street murder of a prominent Muslim critic in The Netherlands means that “for the first time in centuries, Europeans are living in a world they did not, for the most part, shape.”

What Europeans did not understand, he goes on, was that immigration “means importing not just factors of production but factors of social change.”

Meanwhile, for those who doubt that all of this is really very serious, consider the story of Marseille. “Ah, oui,” you say. “Marseille, that great French city on the Mediterranean, with its Notre Dame de la Garde, the elegant Roman Catholic basilica that has watched over the French fishermen with such tenderness and concern for 150 years. I remember it well.”

You do? Well, then you will know that the church is about to be outranked in size and influence by a $30 million Grand Mosque of Marseille, to spiritually guide the 200,000 Muslims of the metropolitan region. You will surely know that, only this November, young men of North African origin twice bombarded the streets, some destroying cars and boats, letting out their feelings about Algeria’s loss and later its victory in the World Cup soccer games. They were totally uninterested in the French team.

But to get back to the oftenlabeled “self-righteous” Swiss, they can hardly be blamed, because they have acted to protect their culture and their principles. There is everything wrong with prejudice and hatred. But there is also something very wrong with not being permitted to defend what you have against those who would not join it but change it.

GEORGIE ANNE GEYER

2010 Elections- Mad at elitists!- Kick 'em out!

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The 2010 Election Day

Your U.S. House & Senate have voted themselves $4,700 and $5,300 raises.


1. They voted to not give you a S.S. cost of living raise in 2010 and 2011.


2. Your Medicare premiums will go up $285.60 for the 2-years and you will not get the 3% COLA or $660/yr. Your total 2-yr loss and cost is $1,600 or $3,200 for husband and wife. Plain enough??????


3. Every member of Congress will get an added$10,000 which is putting them very close to $ 200,000 per year. Sounds like an elite class to us.
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4. *Do you feel SCREWED?* They vote themselves a raise and better benefits. They only care about WE THE PEOPLE on election day, right? You never did anything about it in the past. *The time for action is near!!!!
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5. Do you really think that Nancy, Harry, Chris, Charlie, Barnie, et al, care about you?

*SEND THE MESSAGE-- You're FIRED.
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***** **THIS IS NOT ABOUT POLITICAL PARTIES! IN 2010 YOU WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO GET RID OF THE ENTIRE SITTING CONGRESS, Up to 1/3 OF THE SENATE, AND 100% OF THE HOUSE.**
**The election in 2010 will be a sea-change to the mindset of any member of Congress who may survive.
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*MAKE SURE YOU'RE STILL MAD IN **NOVEMBER 2010 **AND REMIND THE REPLACEMENTS NOT TO SCREW UP LIKE THE GUYS THEY ARE REPLACING.*

The 2010




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Jud Cole forward- By the numbers- Politicians don't want to understand

Thanks Judi,

Stark differences in percentages. I'll take the free system vs. government controlled health care. Our elitist 'representatives' are not representing the American people on this one.

I would like to see a bunch of American service people return and be voted into office. Qualifications- smolifications( not a word), they have protected us. Let them represent us. I doubt the libs could buy them off as they have our elitists.

Sam


----- Original Message -----
From: judith Cole

Health care percentages in USA, England, and Canada




Very interesting.

A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a

survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.



Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:

U.S. 65%

England 46%

Canada 42%



Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:

U.S. 93%

England 15%

Canada 43%



Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:

U.S. 90%

England 15%

Canada 43%



Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:

U.S. 77%

England 40%

Canada 43%



Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:

U.S. 71

England 14

Canada 18



Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health":

U.S. 12%

England 2%

Canada 6%



I don't know about you, but I don't want "Universal Healthcare" comparable to England or Canada .



Moreover, it was Sen. Harry Reid who said, "Elderly Americans must learn to accept the inconveniences of old age."

SHIP HIS ASS TO CANADA OR ENGLAND !






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