Sunday, November 27, 2011
One of the best! Thanks Doug Brooke!
One of Maxine's very best!!
Minorities
We need to show more sympathy for these people.
* They travel miles in the heat.
* They risk their lives crossing a border.
* They don't get paid enough wages.
* They do jobs that others won't do or are afraid to do.
* They live in crowded conditions among a people who speak a different language.
* They rarely see their families, and they face adversity all day ~ every day..
I'm not talking about illegal Mexicans ~
I'm talking about our troops!
Doesn't it seem strange that so many are willing to lavish all kinds of social benefits on illegals, but don't support our troops?
Wouldn't it be great if we took the $360,000,000,000 (that's billion) we spend on illegals every year, and spend it on our troops!!!
Please pass this on; this is worth the short time it takes.
A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to‘The United States of America ’ for any amount, up to and including their life.
And it's true ... thanks Ramey Hoskins!
This is but one more reason why America’s public schools,
once the envy of the world, are now the joke of the world.
once the envy of the world, are now the joke of the world.
The Lord's Prayer ... thanks Nita Elliott!
What a special way to begin this Sunday after Thanksgiving, Nita! Thanks good friend! I often get lost in my reverie in my prayers to the Almighty. Jesus taught us how to pray:
Subject: Fw: Our Lord's Prayer
OUR LORD 'S PRAYER
The moment you receive it, say:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil..
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory now and forever. Amen..
GOD WANTED ME TO TELL YOU ,
It shall be well with you this coming year..
No matter how much your enemies try this year, they will not succeed.
You have been destined to make it and you shall surely achieve all your goals this year...
For the remainder of 2011, all your agonies will be diverted and victory and prosperity will be incoming in abundance. Today, God has confirmed the end of your sufferings, sorrows and pain because HE that sits on the throne has remembered you. He has taken away the hardships and given you JOY. He will never let you down.
I knocked at heaven's door this morning, God asked me.. My child! What can I do for you? And I said,
'Father, please protect and bless the person reading this message..'
It has never been broken. Within 48 hours send as many as you can - God does know if you don't have 20 people to send it to. It's the effort and intent that counts. to family and friends.
This is a powerful Prayer. Couldn't hurt. Can only help..Please do not break it...
Subject: Fw: Our Lord's Prayer
OUR LORD 'S PRAYER
The moment you receive it, say:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil..
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory now and forever. Amen..
GOD WANTED ME TO TELL YOU ,
It shall be well with you this coming year..
No matter how much your enemies try this year, they will not succeed.
You have been destined to make it and you shall surely achieve all your goals this year...
For the remainder of 2011, all your agonies will be diverted and victory and prosperity will be incoming in abundance. Today, God has confirmed the end of your sufferings, sorrows and pain because HE that sits on the throne has remembered you. He has taken away the hardships and given you JOY. He will never let you down.
I knocked at heaven's door this morning, God asked me.. My child! What can I do for you? And I said,
'Father, please protect and bless the person reading this message..'
It has never been broken. Within 48 hours send as many as you can - God does know if you don't have 20 people to send it to. It's the effort and intent that counts. to family and friends.
This is a powerful Prayer. Couldn't hurt. Can only help..Please do not break it...
Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Basketball Title Run
This recently appeard in Investor's Business Daily:
Management
Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Basketball Title Run
By CLAY LATIMER, FOR INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 11/09/2011 01:35 PM ET
Rupp took over the University of Kentucky team in 1930 and stayed 42 years with the Wildcats, whose new season starts Friday night. AP View Enlarged Image
Adolph Rupp was a high school basketball coach in 1930 when he sat down to interview for the University of Kentucky job.
Asked why he should get it over 70 other candidates, the 29-year-old Kansas native didn't miss a beat: "Because I'm the best damned coach in the nation."'
That claim turned out right.
In 42 years at Kentucky, Rupp won 879 games, four national championships and 27 Southeastern Conference titles. His Wildcats also set an NCAA record by winning 129 straight home games.
A master of motivation and strategy, he helped revolutionize the game with a fast-break attack that was decades ahead of his contemporaries, made the sport a near-religious mania in Kentucky, and helped transform college basketball into a national game.
There were troubles, too, especially in 1952, when his Wildcats were put on probation for a year. Rupp also was criticized for taking too long to integrate the team.
But before John Wooden, Dean Smith, Bobby Knight and Mike Krzyzewski, there was Adolph Rupp, the Baron of the Bluegrass.
In Front
Rupp's Keys
Fourth (behind Bob Knight, Mike Krzyzewski and Dean Smith) in total victories by a men's NCAA Division I college coach, winning 876 games.
Ranks second among all coaches in all-time winning percentage (.822), trailing only Clair Bee.
C.M. Newton, a former Kentucky player and athletic director, as well as Alabama and Vanderbilt coach, told IBD: "When I think of the founders of modern basketball, I think of Adolph Rupp. He saw basketball on a whole different level. He was a pioneer in just about everything related to basketball. Alabama football is what I think of when I think of Kentucky basketball. And when I think about Bear Bryant, I think about Adolph Rupp."
Born of 19th-century immigrants in southeast Kansas, Rupp (1901-77) grew up on a farm and attended a one-room schoolhouse. He played at the University of Kansas for legendary coach Phog Allen, who had an office down the hall from basketball's inventor, James Naismith.
Rupp spent much of his time studying the techniques of those two mentors. Later he would create offensive styles and defensive sets that had never been used.
After graduating in 1923, Rupp coached high school basketball in Burr Oak, Kan., for a year before moving on to Freeport, Ill., where he won 80% of his games.
After Kentucky hired him, Rupp was an instant success.
The Wildcats had never scored more than 44 points in the 27 seasons before he arrived. They scored 67 in his debut.
The next morning, a newspaper account noted that a new brand of basketball had come to Blue Grass country. Rupp compiled a 20-5 record in his first two years, then won the SEC title in the league's first season, 1932-33.
"He was tough to play against. He beat the heck out of teams. He took no prisoners,'' said Hugh Coy, a member of the undefeated 1953-54 Kentucky team.
Within years of Rupp's landing, basketball took its place next to coal, horses and bourbon as cultural icons in Kentucky. On winter nights, citizens from Rabbit Hash to Bowling Green huddled around radios to listen to Wildcat games.
"You could see lights in homes all across the state as you flew over Kentucky,'' said Vernon Hatton, an All-American on the Wildcats' 1958 national championship team.
Peace And Triumph
After World War II, Rupp emerged as the nation's premier college coach. He won his first two national titles in 1948 and 1949 with the Alex Groza-led Fabulous Five, captured a third championship in 1951 and the fourth in 1958.
"It was like watching a symphony. He's the reason Kentucky basketball is what it is,'' Coy said.
After losing to Ohio State on Jan. 2, 1943, Rupp started a home-court winning streak that didn't end until a 59-58 loss to Georgia Tech 12 years later.
Afterward, Rupp told his depressed team: "From this time until history is no longer written, you will be remembered as the team that broke that string. Even if you go on to win the NCAA championship, you must carry this scar with you the rest of your lives."
The prospect of defeat haunted Rupp. He once expressed his intensity with two takes:
So nervous was he before games, he felt like he had lye in his stomach. When an opponent scored against the Cats, his heart bled.
"He's the most competitive man who ever coached,'' Hatton said. "One night Alabama scored 100 points against us. He told us if he'd been a player in that game, he would've tried to eat the ball before a team scored 100 against him.''
Rupp sometimes ordered the Wildcats back on the court after the crowd left in order to correct mistakes made in the game.
Serious Sweat
Practices were sacred to Rupp, who drilled his players without letup. The sessions started at 3:30 p.m. and ended at 5, and every drill followed a rigid schedule.
There was no talk, no laughter, no clowning, and Rupp got after any player who performed poorly.
Players repeated the same 10 offensive plays until they became an automatic part of their games.
His assistants charted every pass, every shot, every move. After one practice, Rupp reported that his team had handled the ball 3,308 times and made five mistakes.
Red Auerbach, the great Boston Celtics coach, once said he would rather watch Kentucky practice than see most teams play.
Said Coy: "He practiced for perfection."
Rupp did enjoy the fame. Photos of him with President Truman, Bob Hope and other celebrities lined his office walls. He walked onto the court after the last bar of the national anthem for dramatic effect.
"If anyone had a camera, he'd follow them around to make sure they took a picture of him," Hatton said.
When a point-shaving scandal hit college basketball in 1950, Rupp declared, "Gamblers couldn't get at our players with a 10-foot pole.'' But some of his players were implicated, and Kentucky was punished in the 1952-53 season, forced to sit out tournament play.
In the 1966 national title game, an all-black lineup from Texas Western beat the all-white Wildcats, a monumental game that left Rupp with an image as the face of segregated basketball.
His fans point out that he coached black players in high school, coached against college teams with black players, and recruited a black athlete the same year Bryant recruited his first at Alabama.
"Coach Rupp may have been a lot of different things — demanding, overbearing — but one thing I know he was not was a racist,'' Newton said. "He would have integrated the program at Kentucky had the rest of the conference been willing to go along. Mississippi State won a league championship and couldn't play against a team with black players. "Coach Rupp would've adjusted. One of the things about coach Rupp and coach Bryant was their ability to adjust to the modern athlete, the different standards, the different styles of play.''
In 1967, Rupp became college basketball's all-time winningest coach when Kentucky beat Notre Dame 81-73. His 772nd victory moved him past his former coach, Allen.
The Twilight
After retiring in 1972, Rupp became president of the Memphis Tams of the American Basketball Association and vice chairman of the board for the Kentucky Colonels, another ABA team.
He died at age 76 in Lexington on a December night in 1977 when Kentucky defeated his alma mater at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan. That game was promoted as Adolph Rupp Night.
"It took us five or so years for me to know how much we loved the guy,'' Hatton
Management
Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Basketball Title Run
By CLAY LATIMER, FOR INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 11/09/2011 01:35 PM ET
Rupp took over the University of Kentucky team in 1930 and stayed 42 years with the Wildcats, whose new season starts Friday night. AP View Enlarged Image
Adolph Rupp was a high school basketball coach in 1930 when he sat down to interview for the University of Kentucky job.
Asked why he should get it over 70 other candidates, the 29-year-old Kansas native didn't miss a beat: "Because I'm the best damned coach in the nation."'
That claim turned out right.
In 42 years at Kentucky, Rupp won 879 games, four national championships and 27 Southeastern Conference titles. His Wildcats also set an NCAA record by winning 129 straight home games.
A master of motivation and strategy, he helped revolutionize the game with a fast-break attack that was decades ahead of his contemporaries, made the sport a near-religious mania in Kentucky, and helped transform college basketball into a national game.
There were troubles, too, especially in 1952, when his Wildcats were put on probation for a year. Rupp also was criticized for taking too long to integrate the team.
But before John Wooden, Dean Smith, Bobby Knight and Mike Krzyzewski, there was Adolph Rupp, the Baron of the Bluegrass.
In Front
Rupp's Keys
Fourth (behind Bob Knight, Mike Krzyzewski and Dean Smith) in total victories by a men's NCAA Division I college coach, winning 876 games.
Ranks second among all coaches in all-time winning percentage (.822), trailing only Clair Bee.
C.M. Newton, a former Kentucky player and athletic director, as well as Alabama and Vanderbilt coach, told IBD: "When I think of the founders of modern basketball, I think of Adolph Rupp. He saw basketball on a whole different level. He was a pioneer in just about everything related to basketball. Alabama football is what I think of when I think of Kentucky basketball. And when I think about Bear Bryant, I think about Adolph Rupp."
Born of 19th-century immigrants in southeast Kansas, Rupp (1901-77) grew up on a farm and attended a one-room schoolhouse. He played at the University of Kansas for legendary coach Phog Allen, who had an office down the hall from basketball's inventor, James Naismith.
Rupp spent much of his time studying the techniques of those two mentors. Later he would create offensive styles and defensive sets that had never been used.
After graduating in 1923, Rupp coached high school basketball in Burr Oak, Kan., for a year before moving on to Freeport, Ill., where he won 80% of his games.
After Kentucky hired him, Rupp was an instant success.
The Wildcats had never scored more than 44 points in the 27 seasons before he arrived. They scored 67 in his debut.
The next morning, a newspaper account noted that a new brand of basketball had come to Blue Grass country. Rupp compiled a 20-5 record in his first two years, then won the SEC title in the league's first season, 1932-33.
"He was tough to play against. He beat the heck out of teams. He took no prisoners,'' said Hugh Coy, a member of the undefeated 1953-54 Kentucky team.
Within years of Rupp's landing, basketball took its place next to coal, horses and bourbon as cultural icons in Kentucky. On winter nights, citizens from Rabbit Hash to Bowling Green huddled around radios to listen to Wildcat games.
"You could see lights in homes all across the state as you flew over Kentucky,'' said Vernon Hatton, an All-American on the Wildcats' 1958 national championship team.
Peace And Triumph
After World War II, Rupp emerged as the nation's premier college coach. He won his first two national titles in 1948 and 1949 with the Alex Groza-led Fabulous Five, captured a third championship in 1951 and the fourth in 1958.
"It was like watching a symphony. He's the reason Kentucky basketball is what it is,'' Coy said.
After losing to Ohio State on Jan. 2, 1943, Rupp started a home-court winning streak that didn't end until a 59-58 loss to Georgia Tech 12 years later.
Afterward, Rupp told his depressed team: "From this time until history is no longer written, you will be remembered as the team that broke that string. Even if you go on to win the NCAA championship, you must carry this scar with you the rest of your lives."
The prospect of defeat haunted Rupp. He once expressed his intensity with two takes:
So nervous was he before games, he felt like he had lye in his stomach. When an opponent scored against the Cats, his heart bled.
"He's the most competitive man who ever coached,'' Hatton said. "One night Alabama scored 100 points against us. He told us if he'd been a player in that game, he would've tried to eat the ball before a team scored 100 against him.''
Rupp sometimes ordered the Wildcats back on the court after the crowd left in order to correct mistakes made in the game.
Serious Sweat
Practices were sacred to Rupp, who drilled his players without letup. The sessions started at 3:30 p.m. and ended at 5, and every drill followed a rigid schedule.
There was no talk, no laughter, no clowning, and Rupp got after any player who performed poorly.
Players repeated the same 10 offensive plays until they became an automatic part of their games.
His assistants charted every pass, every shot, every move. After one practice, Rupp reported that his team had handled the ball 3,308 times and made five mistakes.
Red Auerbach, the great Boston Celtics coach, once said he would rather watch Kentucky practice than see most teams play.
Said Coy: "He practiced for perfection."
Rupp did enjoy the fame. Photos of him with President Truman, Bob Hope and other celebrities lined his office walls. He walked onto the court after the last bar of the national anthem for dramatic effect.
"If anyone had a camera, he'd follow them around to make sure they took a picture of him," Hatton said.
When a point-shaving scandal hit college basketball in 1950, Rupp declared, "Gamblers couldn't get at our players with a 10-foot pole.'' But some of his players were implicated, and Kentucky was punished in the 1952-53 season, forced to sit out tournament play.
In the 1966 national title game, an all-black lineup from Texas Western beat the all-white Wildcats, a monumental game that left Rupp with an image as the face of segregated basketball.
His fans point out that he coached black players in high school, coached against college teams with black players, and recruited a black athlete the same year Bryant recruited his first at Alabama.
"Coach Rupp may have been a lot of different things — demanding, overbearing — but one thing I know he was not was a racist,'' Newton said. "He would have integrated the program at Kentucky had the rest of the conference been willing to go along. Mississippi State won a league championship and couldn't play against a team with black players. "Coach Rupp would've adjusted. One of the things about coach Rupp and coach Bryant was their ability to adjust to the modern athlete, the different standards, the different styles of play.''
In 1967, Rupp became college basketball's all-time winningest coach when Kentucky beat Notre Dame 81-73. His 772nd victory moved him past his former coach, Allen.
The Twilight
After retiring in 1972, Rupp became president of the Memphis Tams of the American Basketball Association and vice chairman of the board for the Kentucky Colonels, another ABA team.
He died at age 76 in Lexington on a December night in 1977 when Kentucky defeated his alma mater at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan. That game was promoted as Adolph Rupp Night.
"It took us five or so years for me to know how much we loved the guy,'' Hatton
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Countries we support that hate us ... thanks Luis!
How gullible must we be, Luis?
SamKat
_______________________________________________________
Countries that we support and that HATE us!
U N B E L I E V A B L E ! ! And our country is BROKE!
How they vote in the United Nations:
Below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States
which are recorded in both the US State Department and United Nations records:
Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the time
Qatar votes against the United States 67% of the time
Morocco votes against the United States 70% of the time
United Arab Emirates votes against the United States 70% of the time.
Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Saudi Arabia votes against the United States 73% of the time.
Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Algeria votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Oman votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Libya votes against the United States 76% of the time.
Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the time.
Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of the time.
India votes against the United States 81% of the time.
Syria votes against the United States 84% of the time.
Mauritania votes against the United States 87% of the time.
U S Foreign Aid to those that hate us:
Egypt, for example, after voting 79% of the time against the United States,
still receives $2,000,000,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
Jordan votes 71% against the United States
And receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
Pakistan votes 75% against the United States
Receives $6,721,000,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
India votes 81% against the United States
Receives $143,699,000 annually.
WHY?
WHO IN THE WORLD
STARTED THIS AND WHY?
THEY ACTUALLY BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS THEM.
Perhaps it is time to get out of the UN and give the tax savings back to the American workers who are having to skimp and sacrifice to pay the taxes.
Pass this along to every taxpaying citizen you know, party lines irrelevant!
GO GREEN- RECYCLE CONGRESS IN 2012 ! ! !
__________________________________________________________
I get a total of 900 billion, just under a trillion for these five countries. The USA must just be wrong 70-80 % of the time in the United Nations. ;) Do you think the supposed Supercommittee even thought of these wasted dollars, Luis?
How smug the liberals are and how dumb we are as conservatives!
I am not green, but I do want to recycle libs out of congress and the White House!
SamKat
The Stranger ... Thanks Patricia Whitehead!
The Stranger
A few years after I was born, my Dad met a stranger who was new to our area. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer and soon invited him to live with our family. The stranger was quickly accepted and was around from then on.
As I grew up, I never questioned his place in my family. In my young mind, he had a special niche. My parents were complementary instructors: Mom taught me good from evil, and Dad taught me to obey. But the stranger... He was our storyteller. He would keep us spellbound for hours on end with adventures, mysteries and comedies.
If I wanted to know anything about politics, history or science, he always knew the answers about the past, understood the present and even seemed able to predict the future! He took my family to the first major league ball game. He made me laugh, and he made me cry. The stranger never stopped talking, but Dad didn't seem to mind.
Sometimes, Mom would get up quietly while the rest of us were shushing each other to listen to what he had to say, and she would go to the kitchen for peace and quiet.
(I wonder now if she ever prayed for the stranger to leave.)
Dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions, but the stranger never felt obligated to honor them. Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our home - not from us, our friends or any visitors. After our long time visitor stayed longer he became more daring however, and even got away with four-letter words that burned my ears and made my dad squirm and my mother blush. My Dad didn't permit the liberal use of alcohol but the stranger encouraged us to try it on a regular basis. He made cigarettes look cool, cigars manly, and pipes distinguished. He talked freely (much too freely!) about sex. His comments were sometimes blatant, sometimes suggestive, and generally embarrassing..
I now know that my early concepts about relationships were influenced strongly by the stranger. Time after time, he opposed the values of my parents, yet he was seldom rebuked... And NEVER asked to leave.
More than fifty years have passed since the stranger moved in with our family. He has blended right in and is not nearly as fascinating as he was at first. Still, if you could walk into my parents' den today, you would still find him sitting over in his corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures.
His name?....
We just call him 'TV.'
Note: This should be required reading for every household!)
He has a wife now....we call her 'Computer.'
Their first child is "Cell Phone".
Second child "I Pod "
OH MY----HOW TRUE THIS IS!!!
STEVE
A few years after I was born, my Dad met a stranger who was new to our area. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer and soon invited him to live with our family. The stranger was quickly accepted and was around from then on.
As I grew up, I never questioned his place in my family. In my young mind, he had a special niche. My parents were complementary instructors: Mom taught me good from evil, and Dad taught me to obey. But the stranger... He was our storyteller. He would keep us spellbound for hours on end with adventures, mysteries and comedies.
If I wanted to know anything about politics, history or science, he always knew the answers about the past, understood the present and even seemed able to predict the future! He took my family to the first major league ball game. He made me laugh, and he made me cry. The stranger never stopped talking, but Dad didn't seem to mind.
Sometimes, Mom would get up quietly while the rest of us were shushing each other to listen to what he had to say, and she would go to the kitchen for peace and quiet.
(I wonder now if she ever prayed for the stranger to leave.)
Dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions, but the stranger never felt obligated to honor them. Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our home - not from us, our friends or any visitors. After our long time visitor stayed longer he became more daring however, and even got away with four-letter words that burned my ears and made my dad squirm and my mother blush. My Dad didn't permit the liberal use of alcohol but the stranger encouraged us to try it on a regular basis. He made cigarettes look cool, cigars manly, and pipes distinguished. He talked freely (much too freely!) about sex. His comments were sometimes blatant, sometimes suggestive, and generally embarrassing..
I now know that my early concepts about relationships were influenced strongly by the stranger. Time after time, he opposed the values of my parents, yet he was seldom rebuked... And NEVER asked to leave.
More than fifty years have passed since the stranger moved in with our family. He has blended right in and is not nearly as fascinating as he was at first. Still, if you could walk into my parents' den today, you would still find him sitting over in his corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures.
His name?....
We just call him 'TV.'
Note: This should be required reading for every household!)
He has a wife now....we call her 'Computer.'
Their first child is "Cell Phone".
Second child "I Pod "
OH MY----HOW TRUE THIS IS!!!
STEVE
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