Changes are coming... Thanks Sarah Dupuy Rapp

Scary, Sarah!

No kidding these are real changes for America and the world. And our current POUSA is no comfort in times like these.

Sam
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From: Sarah Rapp
To: Tom DuPuy
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 07:59
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From: Michael Weldon [mailto:dighambara@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 9:33 AM
To: U-Tapao; Thailand & Laos Group
Subject: Changes are coming



Folks:

The US and Europe are slowly killing themselves...

From Diethard of White Lotus Publishing...

He too will go out of business.

- Michael Weldon -
- Udon Thani, Thailand -


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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:20:43 +0700
To: dighambara@hotmail.com
From: ande@loxinfo.co.th
Subject: Fwd: FW:




Many European countries are facing similar trends . . .

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CHANGES ARE COMING ----


Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to
them. But, ready or not, here they come

1. The Post Office. Get ready to imagine a world without the post office.
They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to
sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the
minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive.
Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.

2. The Check. Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with
checks by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to
process checks. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the
eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the death of the post
office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by
mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.


3. The Newspaper. The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper.
They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may
go the way of the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper
online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and
e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an
alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone
companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.


4. The Book. You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold
in your hand and turn the literal pages. I said the same thing about
downloading music fromiTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD. But I quickly
changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price
without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will
happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview
chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real book.
And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your fingers on the
screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't
wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget
instead of a book.



5. The Land Line Telephone. Unless you have a large family and make a lot of
local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because
they've always had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra
service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the
same cell provider for no charge against your minutes



6. Music. This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music
industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading.
It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the
people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The
record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing. Over
40% of the music purchased today is "catalog items," meaning traditional
music that the public is familiar with. Older established artists. This is
also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and
disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for
Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the
Music Dies."


7. Television. Revenues to the networks are down dramatically. Not just
because of the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed from
their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots of other things
that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV. Prime time shows
have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable
rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30
seconds. I say good riddance to most of it. It's time for the cable
companies to be put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they want
to watch online and through Netflix.


8. The "Things" That You Own. Many of the very possessions that we used to
own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future.
They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive
and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is
on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that
is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest
"cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet
will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS
will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open
something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to
the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider.


In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your
whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will
you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at
any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives be
disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull
out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and
pull out the insert.
9. Privacy. If there ever was a concept that we can look back on
nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long
time anyway. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and
even built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7,
"They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS
coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is
put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those
habits. And "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and
again.





19 Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will Blow Your Mind

The United States is rapidly becoming the very first "post-industrial"
nation on the globe. All great economic empires eventually become fat and
lazy and squander the great wealth that their forefathers have left them,
but the pace at which America is accomplishing this is absolutely amazing.
It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution. It
was America that showed the world how to mass produce everything from
automobiles to televisions to airplanes.
It was the great American manufacturing base that crushed Germany and Japan
in World War II.

But now we are witnessing the deindustrialization of America. Tens of
thousands of factories have left the United States in the past decade
alone. Millions upon millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost in the
same time period. The United States has become a nation that consumes
everything in sight and yet produces increasingly little. Do you know what
our biggest export is today? Waste paper. Yes, trash is the number one
thing that we ship out to the rest of the world as we voraciously blow our
money on whatever the rest of the world wants to sell to us. The United
States has become bloated and spoiled and our economy is now just a shadow
of what it once was. Once upon a time America could literally out produce
the rest of the world combined. Today that is no longer true, but Americans
sure do consume more than anyone else in the world. If the
deindustrialization of America continues at this current pace, what possible
kind of a future are we going to be leaving to our children?

Any great nation throughout history has been great at making things.
So if the United States continues to allow its manufacturing base to erode
at a staggering pace how in the world can the U.S. continue to consider
itself to be a great nation? We have created the biggest debt bubble in the
history of the world in an effort to maintain a very high standard of
living, but the current state of affairs is not anywhere close to
sustainable. Every single month America goes into more debt and every
single month America gets poorer.

So what happens when the debt bubble pops?

The deindustrialization of the United States should be a top concern for
every man, woman and child in the country. But sadly, most Americans do not
have any idea what is going on around them.

For people like that, take this article and print it out and hand it to
them. Perhaps what they will read below will shock them badly enough to
awaken them from their slumber.

The following are 19 facts about the deindustrialization of America that
will blow your mind....

#1 The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001.
About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500 people when they were
still in operation.

#2 Dell Inc., one of America ’s largest manufacturers of computers, has
announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in China with an
investment of over $100 billion over the next decade.

#3 Dell has announced that it will be closing its last large U.S.
manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in November.
Approximately 900 jobs will be lost.

#4 In 2008, 1.2 billion cell phones were sold worldwide. So how many of
them were manufactured inside the United States? Zero.

#5 According to a new study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, if
the U.S. trade deficit with China continues to increase at its current rate,
the U.S. economy will lose over half a million jobs this year alone.

#6 As of the end of July, the U.S. trade deficit with China had risen
18 percent compared to the same time period a year ago.

#7 The United States has lost a total of about 5.5 million manufacturing
jobs since October 2000.

#8 According to Tax Notes, between 1999 and 2008 employment at the foreign
affiliates of U.S. parent companies increased an astounding 30 percent to
10.1 million. During that exact same time period, U.S.
employment at American multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1
million.

#9 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S. economic output.
In 2008, it represented 11.5 percent.

#10 Ford Motor Company recently announced the closure of a factory that
produces the Ford Ranger in St. Paul, Minnesota. Approximately
750 good paying middle class jobs are going to be lost because making Ford
Rangers in Minnesota does not fit in with Ford's new "global"
manufacturing strategy.

#11 As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in
manufacturing. The last time less than 12 million Americans were employed
in manufacturing was in 1941.

#12 In the United States today, consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP.
Of this 70 percent, over half is spent on services.

#13 The United States has lost a whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing
jobs since the year 2000.

#14 In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita
broadband Internet use. Today it ranks 15th.

#15 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower
in 2010 than it was in 1975.

#16 Printed circuit boards are used in tens of thousands of different
products. Asia now produces 84 percent of them worldwide.

#17 The United States spends approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every
$1 that the Chinese spend on goods from the United States.

#18 One prominent economist is projecting that the Chinese economy will be
three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.

#19 The U.S. Census Bureau says that 43.6 million Americans are now living
in poverty and according to them that is the highest number of poor
Americans in the 51 years that records have been kept.

So how many tens of thousands more factories do we need to lose before we do
something about it?

How many millions more Americans are going to become unemployed before we
all admit that we have a very, very serious problem on our hands?

How many more trillions of dollars are going to leave the country before we
realize that we are losing wealth at a pace that is killing our economy?

How many once great manufacturing cities are going to become rotting war
zones like Detroit before we understand that we are committing national
economic suicide?

The deindustrialization of America is a national crisis. It needs to be
treated like one.

America is in deep, deep trouble folks. It is time to wake up

"No Shave November" Thanks Tobey Kegley

My granddaughter, Tobey, Mentioned this to her unshaven grandpa- me. I googled it and found:


No Shave November
Do not shave in the month of November! Instead grow more bestial, brutish, and manly.
NoShaveNovember2008.wmv










The Rules
1.You do not shave in November.
2.You DO NOT shave in November.
3.If you shave you are out.
4.No trimming, no waxing.
5.No shaving can go on as long as you want it to.
Benefits
1.Be part of the "in" crowd by doing what all the cool kids are doing.
2.Real women like real men.
3.Save money on shaving cream, razors and other accoutrement.
4.Save time getting ready in the morning.
Need More Convincing?
We don't understand why you're not already convinced, but take a look at this very compelling argument for growing a beard.

Beard Facts
•On average, whiskers grow 5.5 inches per year.
•Hans Langseth of Norway grew the longest beard ever recorded at 17' 6".
•The only guy without a beard in ZZ Top has the last name of "Beard."
•The average man will spend 140 days of his life shaving.
Beard Quotes
"There are two kinds of people in this world that go around beardless - boys and women - and I am neither one."

Fun in November
Take a picture of yourself everyday. At the end of month, compile the collection and produce a wicked awesome time lapse of your beard growth.

Fun in December
Shave portions of your whiskers every few days into different facial hair styles. For example the chin strap, copstache, mutton chops, chin strip, soul patch, fu manchu or the toothbrush.




Best matches for no shave november rules
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Best of luck... Thanks Tom& Carolyn!

Best of Luck to you!






Irish Luck - Remember to send it back!

I want this back. It DOES work.


His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools

and ran to the bog.

There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.




The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.




'I want to repay you,' said the nobleman. 'You saved my son's life.'




'No, I can't accept payment for what I did,' the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.




'Is that your son?' the nobleman asked.




'Yes,' the farmer replied proudly.




'I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.' And that he did.

Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary 's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.




Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.

What saved his life this time? Penicillin.


The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill .. His son's name?


Sir Winston Churchill.


Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

Pro or con politicos...

--- On Sun, 11/14/10, bohlme wrote:


From: bohlme Subject: > From the Podium To: Date: Sunday, November 14, 2010, 1:13 PM


From the Podium:

J. D. Pendry, Retired Sergeant Major, USMC



FROM THE PODIUM







This retired USMC Sgt. Major has his Stuff together.



Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw

the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the

spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people

hostage. You're the "runner-in-chief."



Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists

were

at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you

ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the USS Cole and the First

Trade

Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers. Each time

you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001.



John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about

American Soldiers in Vietnam. Your military service, like your life, is

more

fiction than fact. You've accused our military of terrorizing women and

children in Iraq. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time,

and the same words you used to describe Vietnam. You're a fake! You want

to

run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did to the

Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam, is another war that you were for, before

you were against it.



John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win

militarily in Iraq. You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded

murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa,

John?

And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn't

suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero

resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt, and washed up old fool. You're

not

a Marine, sir. You wouldn't amount to a good pimple on a real Marine's

ass.

You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John.



Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis,

tenders

of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot, who murdered

two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to

the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate.

History was not a good teacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick

run.



Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein,

Russ

Feingold, Pat Leahy, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist

morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every time you stand in front of television

cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our

President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that

we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that

tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we'll run

away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer. It is

inevitable that we, the infidels, will have to defeat the Islamic

jihadists. Better to do it now on their turf, than later on ours after

they

have gained both strength and momentum.



American news media, the New York Times particularly: Each time you

publish

stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering

methods, you become one united with the sub-human pieces of camel dung

that

torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can't strike up

the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my

country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think

about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.



You are America's 'AXIS OF IDIOTS.' Your Collective Stupidity will destroy

us. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more

important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent

civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in

the

way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing.

There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering

terrorists. Don't ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend

this war as they extended Vietnam. If you want our Soldiers home as you

claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of

supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies.



Yes, I'm questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I'm

also

questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be

breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in

uniform. You need to run away from this war, this country. Leave the war

to

the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people

who are willing to defend it.



Our country has two enemies: Those who want to destroy us from the outside

and those who attempt it from within.



Semper Fi,

J. D. Pendry - Sergeant Major, USMC, Retired







This is a savvy man. He has nailed it down pretty good. Too bad it won't

do

any good. There won't be 1 in 10 that receive it who will forward it.

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French Quotes... Thanks Judio Cole!

Hi....these are great, funny quotes on France! (and are not designed to offend anyone!)

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Legendary quotes on France


' France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes.'

Mark Twain

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'I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.'

General George S. Patton

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'Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.'

Norman Schwartzkopf

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'We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it.'

Marge Simpson

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'The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.'

Regis Philbin

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'The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag.'

David Letterman

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'What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?'

Dennis Miller

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'It is important to remember that the French have always been there when they needed us.'

Alan Kent

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'Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day --the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.''

Rep. Roy Blunt, MO

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'The French will only agree to go to war when we've proved we've found truffles in Iraq '

Dennis Miller

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Q. What did the mayor of Paris say to the German Army as they entered the city in WWII?

A. Table for 100,000 m'sieur?

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'Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried.'

Rep. R. Blount, MO

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'Do you know it only took Germany three days to conquer France in WWII? And that's because it was raining.'

John Xereas, Manager, DC Improv

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French Ban Fireworks at Euro Disney

(AP), Paris , March 5, 2003

The French Government announced today that it is imposing a ban on the use of fireworks at Euro Disney. The decision comes the day after a nightly fireworks display at the park, located just 30 miles outside of Paris , caused the soldiers at a nearby French Army garrison to surrender to a group of Czech tourists.

Memories- Yesterday's birthday greetings- Thanks all!

Family and friends,

I received an unbelievable number of birthday greetings from family and friends yesterday when I became 78 years old. Mostly from Facebook. November 13, 1932 was the beginning of my life in Portsmouth Ohio and I am the grateful son of Forest and Mary kegley. I came into the "cultural Center of Our Universe", unrich in worldly goods as so many depression family babies were. But Forest and Mary nourished each of us ten.

Portsmouth was an outstanding place to receive my early nurturing and early friends. Many are still with me and many fine ones have passed on. That, we each learn, is part of this life on earth.

My young girl friend , and granddaughter, Tobey, slightly mentioned to me once that I consider everything to be "profound', and hinted that I am perhaps too serious in that respect. Maybe I am, without the intent to be that way. I am so happy to be her, and each of our grandkids, grandfather.

Anyway, to reflect on the birthday greetings for an old fellow, now, let me tell all that it helps to be remembered on your special days in life.

I thank all who sent me greetings and, even if you didn't, if you even had one good thought of me or my beautiful wife, Jeanie, I want to thank each of you from the bottom of my 78 year old heart.

SamKat aka Sam Kegley

Good Christian recycle Thanks Sarah Taylor

Subject: Now this is a good one....


this is a good one....



AN ATHEIST IN THE WOODS

An atheist was walking through the woods.

'What majestic trees!'
'What powerful rivers!'
'What beautiful animals!'
He said to himself.


As he was walking alongside the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him.


He turned to look. He saw a 7-foot grizzly bear charge towards him.

He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder & saw that the bear was closing in on him.

He looked over his shoulder again, & the bear was even closer.

He tripped & fell on the ground.

He rolled over to pick himself up but saw that the bear was right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw & raising his right paw to strike him.


At that instant moment, the Atheist cried out:
'Oh my God!'

Time stopped.
The bear froze.
The forest was silent.

As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky.

'You deny my existence for all these years, teach others I don't exist and even credit creation to cosmic accident.'
'Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament?'
'Am I to count you as a believer?'

The atheist looked directly into the light, and said: 'It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask you to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps you could make the BEAR a Christian?'

'Very well', said the voice.

The light went out. The sounds of the forest resumed. And the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together, bowed his head & spoke:

'Lord bless this food, which I am about to receive from Thy bounty through Christ our Lord, Amen.'