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#21 Yesterday, 01:22 PM
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For the most part, he was catching the ball and holding on to it. I don't know why he has had so much trouble, given how large an object it is. If I was the strength coach, I would make him pass the medicine ball around every day for an hour, to strengthen his hands and wrists.
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#22 Yesterday, 01:50 PM
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Josh showed a quick release that I hadn't seen before. He was getting some great passes down low, and his catch-and-shoot was what got him some of his points.
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#23 Yesterday, 02:18 PM
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...I just cringe when I read really uninformed posts.
The RLHS (Rob Lock Hands Syndrome) comment was about as boneheaded as we're likely to see here...so I suppose we need a RBPBA, category, which would of course stand for 'really boneheaded post by amateurs.
Rob Lock was NOT a gifted athlete...he wasn't quick as is usually required of a Division 1 Athlete, as anyone who watched him play could attest to. What he WAS, was a guy who gave all he could, AND averaged fewer turnovers per game for his career than, Kenny 'Sky' Walker.
Am I saying he was in the same universe? NO!...however, if we're going to crucify a guy who gave us four years of hard work, let's tell it like it is.
He averaged 1.367 Turnovers per game, while Kenny, (I LOVE HIM) Walker averaged 1.386 TPG. Did he have the same attention? No, did he attempt the same level of play, NO...we all know this, so why 'kick the guy in the balls', so to speak?
He ALSO, averaged hitting 53.8% of his field goals along the way and was on a team that went 32-4, giving us really solid post help.
Rob epitomized a player who worked VERY hard yet didn't have natural gifts--however his numbers were not, as suggested, anything to earn him this kind of demeaning moniker.
Hey, the 80/20 rule applies everywhere...the gifted make it happen, but couldn't, without the dedicated role players.
To put this in context, Winston Bennett averaged, 1.79 TO's per game...
Walter McCarty, 1.776 and recently, DeMarcus Cousins averaged > 2 per game.
So the next time one's tiny brains urges us to demean/ridicule a player who worked VERY hard, think first before posting.
"Here's to all the slower, shorter, less gifted among us who have labored long hours to contribute!"
Larry
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#24 Yesterday, 02:20 PM
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IMO, practicing against Kanter is paying off for him and Vargas. Both have improved. Harrelson more than Vargas. It would be nice if Kanter can continue to at least practice through the holidays since they won't be under the 20 hour rule during that time.
Harrelson will struggle against more athlectic inside players but against one's more his talent I think he will do quite well. Which is great for UK. Not many teams have the inside talent that UNC and few others do.
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#25 Yesterday, 03:38 PM
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...I just cringe when I read really uninformed posts.
The RLHS (Rob Lock Hands Syndrome) comment was about as boneheaded as we're likely to see here...so I suppose we need a RBPBA, category, which would of course stand for 'really boneheaded post by amateurs.
Rob Lock was NOT a gifted athlete...he wasn't quick as is usually required of a Division 1 Athlete, as anyone who watched him play could attest to. What he WAS, was a guy who gave all he could, AND averaged fewer turnovers per game for his career than, Kenny 'Sky' Walker.
Am I saying he was in the same universe? NO!...however, if we're going to crucify a guy who gave us four years of hard work, let's tell it like it is.
He averaged 1.367 Turnovers per game, while Kenny, (I LOVE HIM) Walker averaged 1.386 TPG. Did he have the same attention? No, did he attempt the same level of play, NO...we all know this, so why 'kick the guy in the balls', so to speak?
He ALSO, averaged hitting 53.8% of his field goals along the way and was on a team that went 32-4, giving us really solid post help.
Rob epitomized a player who worked VERY hard yet didn't have natural gifts--however his numbers were not, as suggested, anything to earn him this kind of demeaning moniker.
Hey, the 80/20 rule applies everywhere...the gifted make it happen, but couldn't, without the dedicated role players.
To put this in context, Winston Bennett averaged, 1.79 TO's per game...
Walter McCarty, 1.776 and recently, DeMarcus Cousins averaged > 2 per game.
So the next time one's tiny brains urges us to demean/ridicule a player who worked VERY hard, think first before posting.
"Here's to all the slower, shorter, less gifted among us who have labored long hours to contribute!"
Larry
I agree with everything, not to mention that he improved his free throw percentage from about 60% to 80% in one year's time. I don't remember any other player showing that much improvement in one year.
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#26 Yesterday, 03:46 PM
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In my opinion, that's on Coach Cal. Cal should encourage him to take that shot if he's open in my opinion. Josh has proven that he can hit that shot when open. I watched Danny Ferry do it time and time again back in the day along with many others of Josh's stature.....
I did notice that during the Washington game Cal seemed to move Josh out. I assume that because of thier height he wanted to open the lane up.
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#27 Yesterday, 03:49 PM
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I say Josh working with Kanter is the difference maker
whatever it is..keep it up Josh
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#28 Yesterday, 05:16 PM
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I say Josh working with Kanter is the difference maker
whatever it is..keep it up Josh
I agree but at the same time, Josh has worked with Cousins, Patterson, Pilgrim, Orton, and a few others that have turned out to be pretty good basketball players
More than anything, i am starting to get the sense that Josh now believes in himself instead of trying to fit in.
On another note, Miller to me looks as if the pressure of being the hometown favorite is taking it's toll. Perhaps the pressure is to much for Darius to relax and just play basketball. If he can ever get over that hump, Miller is going to be fine..........
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#29 Yesterday, 05:25 PM
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I say Josh working with Kanter is the difference maker
whatever it is..keep it up Josh
Exactly. Also working with Cousins and others. But I think the big difference maker is Josh has been around for awhile. He is a senior and has alot of experience now. With Kanter out, gave him some time to build his confidence and others confidence in him.
I hope he keeps it up. It's your time to shine, Josh!!
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#30 Yesterday, 06:30 PM
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Good points. He didn't get himself in foul trouble. That's major and shows he's learning. I've been watching him closely the last three games and it is slow feet that's causing him difficulty. At first, I thought it was RLHS*.
*(Rob Locke Hands Syndrone).
But you have got to admit, Locke was very respectable his senior year. As was Roger Harden. They finally came around.
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#31 Yesterday, 11:02 PM
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But you have got to admit, Locke was very respectable his senior year. As was Roger Harden. They finally came around.
Harden and Walker, what a duo. They would both run the floor, Harden would lay it up, and Walker would score. Took them to the Elite 8, IIRC.
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#32 Yesterday, 11:25 PM
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Harden and Walker, what a duo. They would both run the floor, Harden would lay it up, and Walker would score. Took them to the Elite 8, IIRC.
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Yep, where they lost to LSU....a team they had already beaten THREE TIMES that year! That should have been another Final Four banner hanging from the rafters at Rupp....
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#33 Today, 02:46 AM
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It was a good matchcup for Josh. He's struggled against long, quick bigs (see UNC) but against IU he was the quickest big on the floor. There aren't many dominant centers in college basketball, so Josh, as surprising as it may sound, is one of the best traditional post players in the game. Hope he keeps gaining confidence and growing his game. It's great to see him having success after persevering for so long.
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#34 Today, 03:16 AM
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For the most part, he was catching the ball and holding on to it. I don't know why he has had so much trouble, given how large an object it is. If I was the strength coach, I would make him pass the medicine ball around every day for an hour, to strengthen his hands and wrists.
I agree, he held on to the ball tonight. He also dunked on a lob pass. I didn't know he could jump that high! I jumped out of my seat when he did that. Way to go Jorts!
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#35 Today, 04:09 AM
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...I just cringe when I read really uninformed posts.
The RLHS (Rob Lock Hands Syndrome) comment was about as boneheaded as we're likely to see here...so I suppose we need a RBPBA, category, which would of course stand for 'really boneheaded post by amateurs.
Rob Lock was NOT a gifted athlete...he wasn't quick as is usually required of a Division 1 Athlete, as anyone who watched him play could attest to. What he WAS, was a guy who gave all he could, AND averaged fewer turnovers per game for his career than, Kenny 'Sky' Walker.
Am I saying he was in the same universe? NO!...however, if we're going to crucify a guy who gave us four years of hard work, let's tell it like it is.
He averaged 1.367 Turnovers per game, while Kenny, (I LOVE HIM) Walker averaged 1.386 TPG. Did he have the same attention? No, did he attempt the same level of play, NO...we all know this, so why 'kick the guy in the balls', so to speak?
He ALSO, averaged hitting 53.8% of his field goals along the way and was on a team that went 32-4, giving us really solid post help.
Rob epitomized a player who worked VERY hard yet didn't have natural gifts--however his numbers were not, as suggested, anything to earn him this kind of demeaning moniker.
Hey, the 80/20 rule applies everywhere...the gifted make it happen, but couldn't, without the dedicated role players.
To put this in context, Winston Bennett averaged, 1.79 TO's per game...
Walter McCarty, 1.776 and recently, DeMarcus Cousins averaged > 2 per game.
So the next time one's tiny brains urges us to demean/ridicule a player who worked VERY hard, think first before posting.
"Here's to all the slower, shorter, less gifted among us who have labored long hours to contribute!"
Larry
You have your opinion and I have mine. I wasn't belittling Rob Lock but was making a comment about his hands of stone.
Having been up close and watching Lock every game at Rupp and some away games for the time he played at UK, Lock was noted for having bad hands or hands of stone. It was discussed in the media as well. It turned out that
Lock admitted to being lazy while at UK (his words) and he really didn't get into the game until he went to Europe where he became a top notch player. He was far more gifted than you give him credit for.
And you're a professional? At what? Belittling other's posts?
Here's some stats on Rob Lock. You'll not that several guards had more career rebounds.
Lock’s Career Stats At UK
http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Statistics/Players/Lock_Robert.html
Game by Game Stats while at UK
http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Statistics/Players/Lock_Robertgbg.html
UK career leaders for Blocked Shots
http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Statistics/careerblockedshots.html
Kentucky Career Leaders in Rebounds
http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Statistics/careerrebounds.html
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#36 Today, 12:59 PM
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Watchtower's post got me to thinking about stats (one of my favorite things when it's cold and snowy outside....).
On a per minute basis when comparing Josh's production so far this year to Daniel Orton's last year Josh comes out ahead.
Orton: .25 rebounds per minute. .26 points per minute
Josh: .38 rebounds per minute. .23 points per minute
Not that it really means anything, I just thought it was interesting. Plus, it was something to do while drinking my coffee and steeling my nerves for getting out in this nasty weather.
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#37 Today, 01:39 PM
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I give Jorts and Coach Cal credit for Jorts' obvious improvement. The China trip also helped. Coach Cal can form winning teams as well as he recruits and that is why these great high school recruits want to play for him. I am glad that Jorts is now realizing his best coach.
I appreciate all good comments of Rob Lock. His ex, Valerie Still Lock, is living in the shadows of Kansas Universtiy with their wonderful son, Aaron. It is my fondest hope that Aaron continues to develop into basketball greatness. Aaron will be 15 soon and has great size already and is still growing. Remember Rob was nearly seven feet tall and Valerie, a three time All American for UK and still the highest all time scorer, is six foot two. I don't want to see him at KU but hope he can come to UK. Mainly so that Jeanie and I can see our beautiful friend, Valerie at the UK games.
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Monday, December 13, 2010
Glad you're back home, Jack!- Jack H Plymale
Glad you're back home, Jack! Those are sad Christmas memories.
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Sam by Gods grace, I always have a Merry Christmas. No matter how dire or unfavorable the circumstances; he always finds a way to fill my heart on his Sons birthday. Jack P.
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Sam Kegley wrote:
I have to agree, Jack. conference games are more competitive.
The BCS makes football scheduling worse. In basketball it is hopes for a good seed in the tournament.
Your just a realist, old Torjan warrior.
I hope you enjoy a Merry Christmas anyway. Remember that God didn't set these schedules.
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Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 14:16
Subject: Who?
Sam, where in the world are Dillard,Winthrop and Copin. UK's basketball schedule looks like the Buckeye's football schedule. I left out Mississippi Valley state, because I thought it might be in the Mississippi river valley. Even, possibly, in the state of Mississippi. "The Little Sisters of the Poor must have had their schedule full when the athletic director found out about them. I just hate to see the kids at those little schools subjected to the kind of embarrassment they are certain to experience at the hands of "The Cats" because it,undoubtedly pays well... There are no more "Waterloo Wonders." The main complaint I have with Tress is That he will have two or three weak sisters who don't have the , proverbial, snowballs chance when they come into Buckeye stadium on those early saturdays..IPardon me, Sam, if I'm too offensive with my stupid idiosyncracies.Jack P
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Sam by Gods grace, I always have a Merry Christmas. No matter how dire or unfavorable the circumstances; he always finds a way to fill my heart on his Sons birthday. Jack P.
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Sam Kegley
I have to agree, Jack. conference games are more competitive.
The BCS makes football scheduling worse. In basketball it is hopes for a good seed in the tournament.
Your just a realist, old Torjan warrior.
I hope you enjoy a Merry Christmas anyway. Remember that God didn't set these schedules.
Sam
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Sam, where in the world are Dillard,Winthrop and Copin. UK's basketball schedule looks like the Buckeye's football schedule. I left out Mississippi Valley state, because I thought it might be in the Mississippi river valley. Even, possibly, in the state of Mississippi. "The Little Sisters of the Poor must have had their schedule full when the athletic director found out about them. I just hate to see the kids at those little schools subjected to the kind of embarrassment they are certain to experience at the hands of "The Cats" because it,undoubtedly pays well... There are no more "Waterloo Wonders." The main complaint I have with Tress is That he will have two or three weak sisters who don't have the , proverbial, snowballs chance when they come into Buckeye stadium on those early saturdays..IPardon me, Sam, if I'm too offensive with my stupid idiosyncracies.Jack P
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Dear Abby,
My husband has a long record of money problems. He runs up huge credit-card bills and
at the end of the month, if I try to pay them off, he shouts at me, saying I am stealing
his money.
He says pay the minimum and let our kids worry about the rest, but already we can
hardly keep up with the interest.
Also he has been so arrogant and abusive toward our neighbors that most of them
no longer speak to us. The few that do are an odd bunch, to whom he has been
giving a lot of expensive gifts, running up our bills even more.
Also, he has gotten religious. One week he hangs out with Catholics and the next with people who say the Pope is the Anti-Christ, and the next he's with Muslums.
Finally, the last straw. He's demanding that before anyone can be in the same room with him,
they must sign a loyalty oath. It's just so horribly creepy!
Can you help?
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Dear Lost:
Stop whining, Michelle.
You can divorce the asshole anytime you want.
The rest of us are stuck with him for two more years!
My husband has a long record of money problems. He runs up huge credit-card bills and
at the end of the month, if I try to pay them off, he shouts at me, saying I am stealing
his money.
He says pay the minimum and let our kids worry about the rest, but already we can
hardly keep up with the interest.
Also he has been so arrogant and abusive toward our neighbors that most of them
no longer speak to us. The few that do are an odd bunch, to whom he has been
giving a lot of expensive gifts, running up our bills even more.
Also, he has gotten religious. One week he hangs out with Catholics and the next with people who say the Pope is the Anti-Christ, and the next he's with Muslums.
Finally, the last straw. He's demanding that before anyone can be in the same room with him,
they must sign a loyalty oath. It's just so horribly creepy!
Can you help?
Signed, Lost in DC
Dear Lost:
Stop whining, Michelle.
You can divorce the asshole anytime you want.
The rest of us are stuck with him for two more years!
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Tractor-trailers loaded up with 16,000 wreaths began their journey to Arlington National Cemetery on snowy roads in Washington County on Sunday.
Law enforcement, the Patriot Guard Riders motorcycle group and others were accompanying the 16 tractor-trailers as they made their way south.
Between 8,000 and 10,000 volunteers are expected to place the wreaths on grave sites at Arlington on Saturday. Remembrance ceremonies will be held in conjunction at several hundred veterans cemeteries and memorials around the nation and overseas.
The effort is now organized by the nonprofit Wreaths Across America, established as a vehicle for the growing number of people who wanted to get involved, said Tobin Slaven, a part-time spokesman for the organization. But its roots are in a gesture made by Morrill Worcester, whose childhood trip to the cemetery made an impression that lasted through the decades.
Faced with overstock in December 1992, Worcester, president of the Worcester Wreath Co. in Harrington, sought and received permission to place 5,000 wreaths at graves in Arlington. It became an annual tradition that expanded to other locations after 2005, when a photograph of wreaths at snowy graves was widely disseminated through e-mail.
This year, there are 402 locations besides Arlington National Cemetery participating in the project. In all, 151,000 wreaths are being distributed.
The wreath company remains the largest donor of wreaths but the sponsors also include the United Service Organizations, Walmart, other corporate sponsors and individuals.
Worcester used to make the trip to Virginia with a handful of people, driving 14 hours to the outskirts of Washington, D.C., where they would stay overnight. The next morning, they would place the wreaths, have lunch and begin the drive back to Maine.
Now, the round trip takes a week and the convoy can include as many as hundreds of vehicles at times. Each day includes several stops for ceremonies as well as a number of emotional moments.
After leaving the wreath factory in Harrington, the convoy stopped on Route 1A for a brief ceremony at a military memorial in Holden. At a Bangor ceremony, an elderly veteran pressed a small cross with a prayer into the hand of Karen Worcester, who is married to Morrill and runs Wreaths Across America. An 83-year-old friend of his makes the crosses for military personnel being sent overseas, but the veteran wanted Worcester to have it, even though neither she nor her husband have served, she said.
''It's so humbling to have someone give you something like that,'' she said as the convoy drove through central Maine. ''Over and over again, they let us know what this means to them.''
Sunday's schedule also included stops in Hermon and Portland. Today the convoy is scheduled to stop in Wells and Kittery heading into Massachusetts.
The trip always comes at a busy time for the wreath company, but Morrill Worcester checks in four or five times a day and has faith in his sons and factory managers. On this, his 18th consecutive trip, he still looks forward to the journey.
He marvels at all the people who show their support, from the Civil Air Patrol's fundraising squadrons and other volunteers to the individuals who greet the convoy with flags as it passes through their communities.
''I'm very proud of it. It's come a long way,'' he said of the project. ''It never would do what it does if there weren't an awful lot of people who feel the way I do.''
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Wreaths once again bound for Arlington
ANN S
— By . KIM
Staff Writer
Tractor-trailers loaded up with 16,000 wreaths began their journey to Arlington National Cemetery on snowy roads in Washington County on Sunday.
Law enforcement, the Patriot Guard Riders motorcycle group and others were accompanying the 16 tractor-trailers as they made their way south.
Between 8,000 and 10,000 volunteers are expected to place the wreaths on grave sites at Arlington on Saturday. Remembrance ceremonies will be held in conjunction at several hundred veterans cemeteries and memorials around the nation and overseas.
The effort is now organized by the nonprofit Wreaths Across America, established as a vehicle for the growing number of people who wanted to get involved, said Tobin Slaven, a part-time spokesman for the organization. But its roots are in a gesture made by Morrill Worcester, whose childhood trip to the cemetery made an impression that lasted through the decades.
Faced with overstock in December 1992, Worcester, president of the Worcester Wreath Co. in Harrington, sought and received permission to place 5,000 wreaths at graves in Arlington. It became an annual tradition that expanded to other locations after 2005, when a photograph of wreaths at snowy graves was widely disseminated through e-mail.
This year, there are 402 locations besides Arlington National Cemetery participating in the project. In all, 151,000 wreaths are being distributed.
The wreath company remains the largest donor of wreaths but the sponsors also include the United Service Organizations, Walmart, other corporate sponsors and individuals.
Worcester used to make the trip to Virginia with a handful of people, driving 14 hours to the outskirts of Washington, D.C., where they would stay overnight. The next morning, they would place the wreaths, have lunch and begin the drive back to Maine.
Now, the round trip takes a week and the convoy can include as many as hundreds of vehicles at times. Each day includes several stops for ceremonies as well as a number of emotional moments.
After leaving the wreath factory in Harrington, the convoy stopped on Route 1A for a brief ceremony at a military memorial in Holden. At a Bangor ceremony, an elderly veteran pressed a small cross with a prayer into the hand of Karen Worcester, who is married to Morrill and runs Wreaths Across America. An 83-year-old friend of his makes the crosses for military personnel being sent overseas, but the veteran wanted Worcester to have it, even though neither she nor her husband have served, she said.
''It's so humbling to have someone give you something like that,'' she said as the convoy drove through central Maine. ''Over and over again, they let us know what this means to them.''
Sunday's schedule also included stops in Hermon and Portland. Today the convoy is scheduled to stop in Wells and Kittery heading into Massachusetts.
The trip always comes at a busy time for the wreath company, but Morrill Worcester checks in four or five times a day and has faith in his sons and factory managers. On this, his 18th consecutive trip, he still looks forward to the journey.
He marvels at all the people who show their support, from the Civil Air Patrol's fundraising squadrons and other volunteers to the individuals who greet the convoy with flags as it passes through their communities.
''I'm very proud of it. It's come a long way,'' he said of the project. ''It never would do what it does if there weren't an awful lot of people who feel the way I do.''
Staff Writer Ann S. Kim can be contacted at 791-6383 or at:
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Not sure if this is true or not, but better safe than sorry.
For what it's worth . . . .
Man they are getting slick!!!
New Credit Card Scam
This one is pretty slick since they provide YOU with all the information, except the one piece they want.
Note, the callers do not ask for your card number; they already have it... This information is worth reading. By understanding how the VISA & Master Card Telephone Credit Card Scam works, you'll be better prepared to protect yourself.
One of our employees was called on Wednesday from 'VISA', and I was called on Thursday from 'Master Card'.. The scam works like this: Caller: 'This is (name), and I'm calling from the Security and Fraud Department at VISA. My Badge number is 12460. Your card has been flagged for an unusual purchase pattern, and I'm calling to verify. This would be on your VISA card which was issued by (name of bank). Did you purchase an Anti-Telemarketing Device for $497.99 from a Marketing company based in ?'
When you say 'No', the caller continues with, 'Then we will be issuing a credit to your account. This is a company we have been watching and the charges range from $297 to $497, just under the $500 purchase pattern that flags most cards. Before your next statement, the credit will be sent to (gives you your address), is that correct?'
You say 'yes'. The caller continues - 'I will be starting a Fraud investigation. If you have any questions, you should call the 1- 800 number listed on the back of your card (1-800 -VISA) and ask for Security.'
You will need to refer to this Control Number. The caller then gives you a 6 digit number. 'Do you need me to read it again?'
Here's the IMPORTANT p art on how the scam works.. The caller then says, 'I need to verify you are in possession of your card'. He'll ask you to 'turn your card over and look for some numbers'. There are 7 numbers; the first 4 are part of your card number, the next 3 are the security Numbers that verify you are the possessor of the card. These are the numbers you sometimes use to make Internet purchases to prove you have the card. The caller will ask you to read the 3 numbers to him. After you tell the caller the 3 numbers, he'll say, 'That is correct, I just needed to verify that the card has not been lost or stolen, and that you still have your card. Do you have any other questions?' After you say No, the caller then thanks you and states, 'Don't hesitate to call back if you do, and hangs up.
You actually say very little, and they never ask for or tell you the Card number.. But after we were called on Wednesday, we called back within 20 minutes to ask a question.. Are we glad we did! The REAL VISA Security Department told us it was a scam and in the last 15 minutes a new purchase of $497.99 was charged to our card.
Long story - short - we made a real fraud report and closed the VISA account. VISA is reissuing us a new number. What the scammers want is the 3-digit PIN number on the back of the card Don't give it to them. Instead, tell them you'll call VISA or Master card directly for verification of their conversation. The real VISA told us that they will never ask for anything on the card as they already know the information since they issued the card! If you give the scammers your 3 Digit PIN Number, you think you're receiving a credit. However, by the time you get your statement you'll see charges for purchases you didn't make, and by then it's almost too late and/or more difficult to actually file a fraud report.
What makes this more remarkable is that on Thursday, I got a call from a 'Jason Richardson of Master Card' with a word-for-word repeat of the VISA scam. This time I didn't let him finish. I hung up! We filed a police report, as instructed by VISA. The police said they are taking several of these reports daily! They also urged us to tell everybody we know that this scam is happening.
Please pass this on to all your family, friends and neighbors. By informing each other, we protect each other.
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Subject: FW: Credit Card scam- Read this one -URGENT!
Not sure if this is true or not, but better safe than sorry.
For what it's worth . . . .
Man they are getting slick!!!
New Credit Card Scam
This one is pretty slick since they provide YOU with all the information, except the one piece they want.
Note, the callers do not ask for your card number; they already have it... This information is worth reading. By understanding how the VISA & Master Card Telephone Credit Card Scam works, you'll be better prepared to protect yourself.
One of our employees was called on Wednesday from 'VISA', and I was called on Thursday from 'Master Card'.. The scam works like this: Caller: 'This is (name), and I'm calling from the Security and Fraud Department at VISA. My Badge number is 12460. Your card has been flagged for an unusual purchase pattern, and I'm calling to verify. This would be on your VISA card which was issued by (name of bank). Did you purchase an Anti-Telemarketing Device for $497.99 from a Marketing company based in ?'
When you say 'No', the caller continues with, 'Then we will be issuing a credit to your account. This is a company we have been watching and the charges range from $297 to $497, just under the $500 purchase pattern that flags most cards. Before your next statement, the credit will be sent to (gives you your address), is that correct?'
You say 'yes'. The caller continues - 'I will be starting a Fraud investigation. If you have any questions, you should call the 1- 800 number listed on the back of your card (1-800 -VISA) and ask for Security.'
You will need to refer to this Control Number. The caller then gives you a 6 digit number. 'Do you need me to read it again?'
Here's the IMPORTANT p art on how the scam works.. The caller then says, 'I need to verify you are in possession of your card'. He'll ask you to 'turn your card over and look for some numbers'. There are 7 numbers; the first 4 are part of your card number, the next 3 are the security Numbers that verify you are the possessor of the card. These are the numbers you sometimes use to make Internet purchases to prove you have the card. The caller will ask you to read the 3 numbers to him. After you tell the caller the 3 numbers, he'll say, 'That is correct, I just needed to verify that the card has not been lost or stolen, and that you still have your card. Do you have any other questions?' After you say No, the caller then thanks you and states, 'Don't hesitate to call back if you do, and hangs up.
You actually say very little, and they never ask for or tell you the Card number.. But after we were called on Wednesday, we called back within 20 minutes to ask a question.. Are we glad we did! The REAL VISA Security Department told us it was a scam and in the last 15 minutes a new purchase of $497.99 was charged to our card.
Long story - short - we made a real fraud report and closed the VISA account. VISA is reissuing us a new number. What the scammers want is the 3-digit PIN number on the back of the card Don't give it to them. Instead, tell them you'll call VISA or Master card directly for verification of their conversation. The real VISA told us that they will never ask for anything on the card as they already know the information since they issued the card! If you give the scammers your 3 Digit PIN Number, you think you're receiving a credit. However, by the time you get your statement you'll see charges for purchases you didn't make, and by then it's almost too late and/or more difficult to actually file a fraud report.
What makes this more remarkable is that on Thursday, I got a call from a 'Jason Richardson of Master Card' with a word-for-word repeat of the VISA scam. This time I didn't let him finish. I hung up! We filed a police report, as instructed by VISA. The police said they are taking several of these reports daily! They also urged us to tell everybody we know that this scam is happening.
Please pass this on to all your family, friends and neighbors. By informing each other, we protect each other.
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Israel British House of Commons From Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld-
Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld is a valued friend, yet a Jewish lady who remains very liberal in thought in this day and age. God has blessed this world reknown friend and she cares so deeply for children all over this world.
For friend, Mimi, I say 'peace and love' and for the State of Israel, I hope for continued support by the United States of America!
This is long but tremendously supportive of Israel, even in Britain:
worth reading, dears= love, mim
Sent: Sun, Dec 12, 2010 1:37 am
Subject: Re: From the British House of Commons
amen!!!! love, mim
Sent: Wed, Dec 8, 2010 10:06 pm
Subject: From the British House of Commons
From the British House of Commons..............
Speech to the Friends of Israel Initiative.
Andrew Roberts, Member Parliament
I would like to speak to you today as an historian, because it seems to me that the State of Israel has packed more history into her 62 years on the planet than many other nations have in six hundred. There are many surprising things about this tiny, feisty, brave nation the size of Wales, but the most astonishing is that she has survived at all. The very day after the UN declared Israel a country in 1948, five Arab countries attacked, and she has been struggling for her right to life ever since. And that is what we are here for today, to reiterate Israel's right to self-defense, inherent in all legitimate countries.
From Morocco to Afghanistan, from the Caspian Sea to Aden, the 5.25 million square miles of territory belonging to members of the Arab League is home to over 330 million people, whereas Israel covers only eight thousand square miles, and is home to seven million citizens, one-fifth of whom are Arabs. The Jews of the Holy Land are thus surrounded by hostile states 650 times their size in territory and sixty times their population, yet their last, best hope of ending two millennia of international persecution, the State of Israel has somehow survived. When during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery; today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.
Jerusalem is the site of the Temple of Solomon and Herod. The stones of a palace erected by King David himself are even now being unearthed just outside the walls of Jerusalem. Everything that makes a nation state legitimate-- bloodshed, soil tilled, two millennia of continuous residence, international agreements ,argues for Israel's right to exist, yet that is still denied by the Arab League. For many of their governments, which are rich enough to have economically solved the Palestinian refugee problem decades ago, it is useful to have Israel as a scapegoat to divert attention from the tyranny, failure and corruption of their own regimes.
The tragic truth is that it suits Arab states very well to have the Palestinians endure permanent refugee status, and whenever Israel puts forward workable solutions they have been stymied by those whose interests put the destruction of Israel before the genuine wellbeing of the Palestinians. Both King Abdullah I of Jordan and Anwar Sadat of Egypt were assassinated when they attempted to come to some kind of accommodation with a country that most sane people now accept is not going away.
"We owe to the Jews," wrote Winston Churchill in 1920, "a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all wisdom and learning put together. The Jewish contribution to finance, science, the arts, academia, commerce and industry, literature, philanthropy and politics has been astonishing relative to their tiny numbers. Although they make up less than half of one percent of the world population, between 1901 and 1950 Jews won 14% of all the Nobel Prizes awarded for Literature and Science, and between 1951 and 2000 Jews won 32% of the Nobel Prizes for Medicine, 32% for Physics, 39% for Economics and 29% for Science. This, despite so many of their greatest intellects dying in the gas chambers."
Civilization owes Judaism a debt it can never repay, and support for the right of a Jewish homeland to exist is the bare minimum we can provide. Yet we tend to treat Israel like a leper on the international scene, merely for defending herself, and threatening her with academic boycotts if she builds a separation wall that has so far reduced suicide bombings by 95% over three years.
It is a disgrace that no senior member of the Royal Family has ever undertaken an official visit to Israel, as though the country is still in quarantine after more than six decades. Her Majesty the Queen has been on the throne for 57 years and in that time has undertaken 250 official visits to 129 countries, yet has not yet set foot in Israel. She has visited 14 Arab countries, so it cannot have been that she wasn't in the region. Although Prince Philip's mother, Princess Alice, is buried on the Mount of Olives because of her status as Righteous Among Gentiles, the Foreign Office ordained that his visit to his mother's grave in 1994 had to be in a private capacity only. Royal visits are one of the ways legitimacy is conferred on nations, and the Coalition Government should end the Foreign Office's de- facto boycott. After the Holocaust, the Jewish people recognized that they must have their own state, a homeland where they could forever be safe from a repetition of such horrors. Putting their trust in Western Civilization was never again going to be enough. Since then, Israel has had to fight no fewer than five major wars for her very existence.
She has been on the front line in the War against Terror and has been fighting the West's battles for it, decades before 9/11 or 7/7 ever happened. Radical Islam is never going to accept the concept of an Israeli State, so the struggle is likely to continue for another sixty years, but the Jews know that that is less dangerous than entrusting their security to anyone else.
Very often in Britain, especially when faced with the overwhelmingly anti-Israeli bias that is endemic in our liberal media and the BBC, we fail to ask ourselves what we would have done placed in their position? The population of the United Kingdom of 63 million is nine times that of Israel. In July 2006, to take one example at random, Hezbollah crossed the border of Lebanon into Israel and killed eight patrolmen and kidnapped two others, and that summer fired four thousand Katyusha rockets into Israel which killed a further forty-three civilians.
Now, if we multiply those numbers by nine to get the British equivalent, just imagine what we would do if a terrorist organization based as close as Calais were to fire thirty-six thousand rockets into Sussex and Kent, killing 87 British civilians, after killing seventy-two British servicemen in an ambush and capturing eighteen. There is absolutely no lengths to which our Government would not go to protect British subjects under those circumstances, and quite right too. Why should Israel be expected to behave any differently?
In the course of researching my latest book on the Second World War, I recently visited Auschwitz-Birkenau. Walking along a line of huts and the railway siding where their forebears had been worked and starved and beaten and frozen and gassed to death, were a group of Jewish schoolchildren, one of whom was carrying over his shoulder the Israeli flag, a blue star of David on white background. It was a profoundly moving sight, for it was the sovereign independence represented by that flag which guarantees that the obscenity of genocide which killed six million people in Auschwitz and camps like it -- will never again befall the Jewish people, to whom the rest of civilization owes so much.
I said at the start that I was speaking to you as an historian, and so I say: No people in History have needed the right to self-defense and legitimacy more than the Jews of Israel, and that is what we in the Friends of Israel Initiative demand here today.
For friend, Mimi, I say 'peace and love' and for the State of Israel, I hope for continued support by the United States of America!
This is long but tremendously supportive of Israel, even in Britain:
worth reading, dears= love, mim
Sent: Sun, Dec 12, 2010 1:37 am
Subject: Re: From the British House of Commons
amen!!!! love, mim
Sent: Wed, Dec 8, 2010 10:06 pm
Subject: From the British House of Commons
From the British House of Commons..............
Speech to the Friends of Israel Initiative.
Andrew Roberts, Member Parliament
I would like to speak to you today as an historian, because it seems to me that the State of Israel has packed more history into her 62 years on the planet than many other nations have in six hundred. There are many surprising things about this tiny, feisty, brave nation the size of Wales, but the most astonishing is that she has survived at all. The very day after the UN declared Israel a country in 1948, five Arab countries attacked, and she has been struggling for her right to life ever since. And that is what we are here for today, to reiterate Israel's right to self-defense, inherent in all legitimate countries.
From Morocco to Afghanistan, from the Caspian Sea to Aden, the 5.25 million square miles of territory belonging to members of the Arab League is home to over 330 million people, whereas Israel covers only eight thousand square miles, and is home to seven million citizens, one-fifth of whom are Arabs. The Jews of the Holy Land are thus surrounded by hostile states 650 times their size in territory and sixty times their population, yet their last, best hope of ending two millennia of international persecution, the State of Israel has somehow survived. When during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery; today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.
Jerusalem is the site of the Temple of Solomon and Herod. The stones of a palace erected by King David himself are even now being unearthed just outside the walls of Jerusalem. Everything that makes a nation state legitimate-- bloodshed, soil tilled, two millennia of continuous residence, international agreements ,argues for Israel's right to exist, yet that is still denied by the Arab League. For many of their governments, which are rich enough to have economically solved the Palestinian refugee problem decades ago, it is useful to have Israel as a scapegoat to divert attention from the tyranny, failure and corruption of their own regimes.
The tragic truth is that it suits Arab states very well to have the Palestinians endure permanent refugee status, and whenever Israel puts forward workable solutions they have been stymied by those whose interests put the destruction of Israel before the genuine wellbeing of the Palestinians. Both King Abdullah I of Jordan and Anwar Sadat of Egypt were assassinated when they attempted to come to some kind of accommodation with a country that most sane people now accept is not going away.
"We owe to the Jews," wrote Winston Churchill in 1920, "a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all wisdom and learning put together. The Jewish contribution to finance, science, the arts, academia, commerce and industry, literature, philanthropy and politics has been astonishing relative to their tiny numbers. Although they make up less than half of one percent of the world population, between 1901 and 1950 Jews won 14% of all the Nobel Prizes awarded for Literature and Science, and between 1951 and 2000 Jews won 32% of the Nobel Prizes for Medicine, 32% for Physics, 39% for Economics and 29% for Science. This, despite so many of their greatest intellects dying in the gas chambers."
Civilization owes Judaism a debt it can never repay, and support for the right of a Jewish homeland to exist is the bare minimum we can provide. Yet we tend to treat Israel like a leper on the international scene, merely for defending herself, and threatening her with academic boycotts if she builds a separation wall that has so far reduced suicide bombings by 95% over three years.
It is a disgrace that no senior member of the Royal Family has ever undertaken an official visit to Israel, as though the country is still in quarantine after more than six decades. Her Majesty the Queen has been on the throne for 57 years and in that time has undertaken 250 official visits to 129 countries, yet has not yet set foot in Israel. She has visited 14 Arab countries, so it cannot have been that she wasn't in the region. Although Prince Philip's mother, Princess Alice, is buried on the Mount of Olives because of her status as Righteous Among Gentiles, the Foreign Office ordained that his visit to his mother's grave in 1994 had to be in a private capacity only. Royal visits are one of the ways legitimacy is conferred on nations, and the Coalition Government should end the Foreign Office's de- facto boycott. After the Holocaust, the Jewish people recognized that they must have their own state, a homeland where they could forever be safe from a repetition of such horrors. Putting their trust in Western Civilization was never again going to be enough. Since then, Israel has had to fight no fewer than five major wars for her very existence.
She has been on the front line in the War against Terror and has been fighting the West's battles for it, decades before 9/11 or 7/7 ever happened. Radical Islam is never going to accept the concept of an Israeli State, so the struggle is likely to continue for another sixty years, but the Jews know that that is less dangerous than entrusting their security to anyone else.
Very often in Britain, especially when faced with the overwhelmingly anti-Israeli bias that is endemic in our liberal media and the BBC, we fail to ask ourselves what we would have done placed in their position? The population of the United Kingdom of 63 million is nine times that of Israel. In July 2006, to take one example at random, Hezbollah crossed the border of Lebanon into Israel and killed eight patrolmen and kidnapped two others, and that summer fired four thousand Katyusha rockets into Israel which killed a further forty-three civilians.
Now, if we multiply those numbers by nine to get the British equivalent, just imagine what we would do if a terrorist organization based as close as Calais were to fire thirty-six thousand rockets into Sussex and Kent, killing 87 British civilians, after killing seventy-two British servicemen in an ambush and capturing eighteen. There is absolutely no lengths to which our Government would not go to protect British subjects under those circumstances, and quite right too. Why should Israel be expected to behave any differently?
In the course of researching my latest book on the Second World War, I recently visited Auschwitz-Birkenau. Walking along a line of huts and the railway siding where their forebears had been worked and starved and beaten and frozen and gassed to death, were a group of Jewish schoolchildren, one of whom was carrying over his shoulder the Israeli flag, a blue star of David on white background. It was a profoundly moving sight, for it was the sovereign independence represented by that flag which guarantees that the obscenity of genocide which killed six million people in Auschwitz and camps like it -- will never again befall the Jewish people, to whom the rest of civilization owes so much.
I said at the start that I was speaking to you as an historian, and so I say: No people in History have needed the right to self-defense and legitimacy more than the Jews of Israel, and that is what we in the Friends of Israel Initiative demand here today.
Three cheers for Arizona and for Missouri!!!!!!!!
Thanks Doug Brooke!
MEXICO
IS ANGRY!
The shoe is on the other foot and the Mexicans from the State of Sonora , Mexico do not like it.
Can you believe the nerve of these people? It's almost funny.
The State of Sonora is angry at the
influx of Mexicans into Mexico . Nine state
legislators from the Mexican
State of Sonora
traveled to Tucson to complain about Arizona 's new employer crackdown on
illegal’s from Mexico .
It seems that many Mexican illegals are returning to their hometowns
and the officials in the Sonora
state government are ticked off.
A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora
was in Tucson on Tuesday to state that
Arizona 's
new Employer Sanctions Law will have a devastating effect on the
Mexican state. At a news conference, the legislators said that
Sonora , Arizona 's southern neighbor - made up of mostly small towns -
cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools that it will
face as Mexican workers return to their hometowns from the USA
without jobs or money.
The Arizona law, which took effect
Jan. 1, punishes Arizona employers
who knowingly hire individuals without valid legal documents to work
in the United
States. Penalties include
suspension of, or loss of, their business license.
The Mexican legislators are angry because their own citizens are
returning to their hometowns, placing a burden on THEIR state government.
'How can Arizona pass a law like
this?' asked Mexican Rep Leticia Amparano-Gamez, who represents Nogales . 'There
is not one person living in Sonora
who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona ,' she said, speaking in
Spanish. ' Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous
problems it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona
and who were sending money to their families return to their
home-towns in Sonora without jobs,' she said. 'We are one
family, socially and economically,' she said of the people of Sonora and Arizona .
Wrong! The United States
is a sovereign nation, not a subsidiary of Mexico ,
and its taxpayers are not responsible for the welfare of Mexico 's
citizens. It's time for the Mexican government, and its citizens, to
stop feeding parasitically off the United States and to
start taking care of its/their own needs.
Too bad that other states within the USA don't pass a law just like
that passed by Arizona . Maybe that's the answer, since our own
Congress will do nothing!
New Immigration Laws: Read to the bottom or you will miss the message
1. There will be no special bilingual programs in
the schools.
2. All ballots will be in this nation's language.
3. All government business will be conducted in our language.
4. Non-residents will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long
they are here.
5. Non-citizens will NEVER be able to hold political office.
6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no
food stamps, no health care, or other government assistance
programs. Any burden will be deported.
7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount at
least equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.
8. If foreigners come here and buy land... options will be restricted.
Certain parcels including waterfront property are reserved for
citizens naturally born into this country.
9. Foreigners may have no protests; no demonstrations, no waving of a
foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president
or his policies. These will lead to deportation.
10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be actively
hunted &, when caught, sent to jail until your deportation can be
arranged. All assets will be taken from you.
Too strict?
The above laws are current immigration laws of MEXICO !
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. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could
retire with the same pay after only one term, that they didn't pay
into Social Security, that they specifically exempted themselves from
many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear
of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must
live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the
Healthcare Reform; in all of its forms.
Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is
above the law. The self-serving must stop. This is a good way to do
that. It is an idea whose time has come.
Have each person contact a minimum of Twenty people on their Address
list, in turn ask each of those to do likewise.
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 and/or
Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the
Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the
citizens of the United
States "
You are one of my 20+. If you don't have twenty, pass it on to
whatever number you can
WAKE UP CALL.
MEXICO
IS ANGRY!
The shoe is on the other foot and the Mexicans from the State of Sonora , Mexico do not like it.
Can you believe the nerve of these people? It's almost funny.
The State of Sonora is angry at the
influx of Mexicans into Mexico . Nine state
legislators from the Mexican
State of Sonora
traveled to Tucson to complain about Arizona 's new employer crackdown on
illegal’s from Mexico .
It seems that many Mexican illegals are returning to their hometowns
and the officials in the Sonora
state government are ticked off.
A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora
was in Tucson on Tuesday to state that
Arizona 's
new Employer Sanctions Law will have a devastating effect on the
Mexican state. At a news conference, the legislators said that
Sonora , Arizona 's southern neighbor - made up of mostly small towns -
cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools that it will
face as Mexican workers return to their hometowns from the USA
without jobs or money.
The Arizona law, which took effect
Jan. 1, punishes Arizona employers
who knowingly hire individuals without valid legal documents to work
in the United
States. Penalties include
suspension of, or loss of, their business license.
The Mexican legislators are angry because their own citizens are
returning to their hometowns, placing a burden on THEIR state government.
'How can Arizona pass a law like
this?' asked Mexican Rep Leticia Amparano-Gamez, who represents Nogales . 'There
is not one person living in Sonora
who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona ,' she said, speaking in
Spanish. ' Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous
problems it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona
and who were sending money to their families return to their
home-towns in Sonora without jobs,' she said. 'We are one
family, socially and economically,' she said of the people of Sonora and Arizona .
Wrong! The United States
is a sovereign nation, not a subsidiary of Mexico ,
and its taxpayers are not responsible for the welfare of Mexico 's
citizens. It's time for the Mexican government, and its citizens, to
stop feeding parasitically off the United States and to
start taking care of its/their own needs.
Too bad that other states within the USA don't pass a law just like
that passed by Arizona . Maybe that's the answer, since our own
Congress will do nothing!
New Immigration Laws: Read to the bottom or you will miss the message
1. There will be no special bilingual programs in
the schools.
2. All ballots will be in this nation's language.
3. All government business will be conducted in our language.
4. Non-residents will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long
they are here.
5. Non-citizens will NEVER be able to hold political office.
6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no
food stamps, no health care, or other government assistance
programs. Any burden will be deported.
7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount at
least equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.
8. If foreigners come here and buy land... options will be restricted.
Certain parcels including waterfront property are reserved for
citizens naturally born into this country.
9. Foreigners may have no protests; no demonstrations, no waving of a
foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president
or his policies. These will lead to deportation.
10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be actively
hunted &, when caught, sent to jail until your deportation can be
arranged. All assets will be taken from you.
Too strict?
The above laws are current immigration laws of MEXICO !
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. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could
retire with the same pay after only one term, that they didn't pay
into Social Security, that they specifically exempted themselves from
many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear
of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must
live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the
Healthcare Reform; in all of its forms.
Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is
above the law. The self-serving must stop. This is a good way to do
that. It is an idea whose time has come.
Have each person contact a minimum of Twenty people on their Address
list, in turn ask each of those to do likewise.
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 and/or
Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the
Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the
citizens of the United
States "
You are one of my 20+. If you don't have twenty, pass it on to
whatever number you can
WAKE UP CALL.
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