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The greatness of Socrates ... Thx Marge R!

The Greatness Of SocratesKeep  this in mind the next time you are about to repeat a rumor or  spread gossip.

In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC), Socrates  was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day an acquaintance ran up  to him excitedly and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about Diogenes? 

"Wait a moment," Socrates replied, "Before you tell me I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test."

"Triple filter?" asked the acquaintance.

"That's right," Socrates continued, "Before you talk to me about Diogenes let's take a moment to filter what you're going to say. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"

"No,"  the man said, "Actually I just heard about it."

"All right," said Socrates, "So you don't really know if it's true not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about Diogenes something good?"

"No, on the contrary..."

"So," Socrates continued, "You want to tell me something about Diogenes that may be bad, even though you're not certain it's  true?"

The  man shrugged, a little embarrassed. Socrates continued, "You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter, the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about Diogenes going to be useful to me?"

"No,  not really."

"Well," concluded Socrates, "If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me or anyone at all?"

The man was bewildered and ashamed and left. This is an example of why Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.

It also explains why Socrates never found out that Diogenes was banging his wife.

Letterman Why vote Democrat ... Thx Ron W!

LETTERMAN

 

 

 Subject: FW: LETTERMAN

 

 

 

 

"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history,

when everybody stands around reloading"

 

 

 

Letterman's Top 10 Reasons to Vote Democrat in 2014 

 10. I’ll vote Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whom and whatever I want.  I've decided to marry my German Shepherd.

9. I’ll vote Democrat because I believe oil company's profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.

8. I’ll vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

7. I’ll vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

6. I’ll vote Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves. I am also thankful that we have a 911 service that get police to your home in order to identify your body after a home invasion.

5. I’ll vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and comfy.

4. I’ll vote Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits, and we should take away the Social Security from those who paid into it.

3. I’ll vote Democrat because I believe that businesses should NOT be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrats see fit.

2. I’ll vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

 and the No. 1 reason I'll vote Democrat is:
1. I’ll vote Democrat because I think that it's better to pay billions for their oil to people who hate us, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher, fish or frog.

One of the better emails I have received ..

One of the better emails that I've seen lately . . .

 

 

 

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              One of the better emails that I've seen lately . . .

 

VS

 

Ever wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone?

 

What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?

 

What if we flipped through it several times a day?

 

What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?

 

What if we used it to receive messages from the text?

 

What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?

 

What if we gave it to Kids as gifts?

 

What if we used it when we traveled?

 

What if we used it in case of emergency?

 

This is something to make you go....hmm...where is my Bible?

 

Oh, and one more thing.

 

Unlike our cell phone, we don't have to worry about our Bible being disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill.

 

Makes you stop and think 'where are my priorities? And no dropped calls!

 

When Jesus died on the cross, he was thinking of you!

 

If you are one of the 7% who will stand up for Him, forward this.
93% of the people won't forward this.

Anagrams ... Thx Marge R!

This is one of the cleverest
E-mails I've received in a while.
Someone out there
Must be "deadly" at Scrabble.
 Wait till you see the last one! 

It's going to be  hard to top because 

It fits to a "T"  

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER 

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER 

DESPERATION: 

When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES: 
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM
 

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT 

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
I'M A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

AND FINALLY….

FOR THE GRAND FINALE:

*PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

When you rearrange the letters:

"An Arab Backed Imposter”

Bet your friends haven't seen this one!

Differences ... Thx Jack H and Sarah R!

The difference between Chicken Salad and Chicken Sh..

 

 

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If this does not speak to the character of the individual, then nothing does.

PS:  Only when things go wrong, does he have "no knowledge."

Chicken Salad

President George W. Bush's speech after the capture of Saddam Hussein:

"The success of yesterday's mission is a tribute to our men and women now serving in Iraq . The operation was based  on the superb work of intelligence analysts who found the dictator's footprints in a vast country. The operation was carried out with skill and precision by a brave fighting force.

Our servicemen and women and our coalition allies have faced many dangers in the hunt for members of the fallen regime, and in their effort to bring hope and freedom to the Iraqi people. Their work continues, and so do the risks. Today, on behalf of the nation,

I thank the members of our Armed Forces and I congratulate them!"

And Chicken Sh..!

Barrack Hussein Obama's speech after the killing of Osama bin Laden:

"And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the Director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network.

Then, last August, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden.  It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we

developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan.

And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and I authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice.

Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan."

Obama did not once acknowledge our brave men and women who fight for our country....

and that, my friends, is chicken sh??!!

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Married parents and poverty percentages ... Thx Bob G!

Some interesting stats...

How to Fight Income Inequality: Get Married

In families headed by married couples, the poverty level in 2012 was just 7.5%. Those with a single mother: 33.9%.

By Ari Fleischer Jan. 12, 2014 6:07 p.m. ET

"Marriage inequality" should be at the center of any discussion of why some Americans prosper and others don't

 According to Census Bureau information analyzed by the Beverly LaHaye Institute, among families headed by two married parents in 2012, just 7.5% lived in poverty. By contrast, when families are headed by a single mother the poverty level jumps to 33.9%.

And the number of children raised in female-headed families is growing throughout America.

A 2012 study by the Heritage Foundation found that 28.6% of children born to a white mother were out of wedlock. For Hispanics, the figure was 52.5% and for African-Americans 72.3%. In 1964, when the war on poverty began, almost everyone was born in a family with two married parents: only 7% were not.

Corbis

Attitudes toward marriage and having children have changed in America over the past 50 years, and low-income children and their mothers are the ones who are paying the price.

The statistics make clear what common sense tells us:

Children who grow up in a home with married parents have an easier time becoming educated, wealthy and successful than children reared by one parent. As the Heritage study states:

"The U.S. is steadily separating into a two-caste system with marriage and education as the dividing line. In the high-income third of the population, children are raised by married parents with a college education; in the bottom-income third, children are raised by single parents with a high-school diploma or less."

One of the differences between the haves and the have-nots is that the haves tend to marry and give birth, in that order. The have-nots tend to have babies and remain unmarried. Marriage makes a difference. Heritage reports that among white married couples, the poverty rate in 2009 was just 3.2%; for white nonmarried families, the rate was 22%. Among black married couples, the poverty rate was only 7%, but the rate for non-married black families was 35.6%.

Marriage inequality is a substantial reason why income inequality exists. For children, the problem begins the day they are born, and no government can redistribute enough money to fix it. If redistributing money could solve the problem, the $20.7 trillion in 2011 dollars the government has spent on welfare programs since 1964—when President Johnson declared the "war on poverty"—would have eliminated income inequality a long time ago.

The matter is influenced strongly by decisions and values. The majority of women who have children outside of marriage today are adult women in their 20s. (Teenagers under 18 represent less than 8% of out-of-wedlock births.)

Rather than focusing on initiatives that might address this issue, President Obama, as well as Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and New York City's new mayor, Bill de Blasio, believe that the income gap can be closed by increasing taxes on the better-off and transferring the money to the poor.

Good luck with that. The tax code is already extremely progressive, as a December study by the Congressional Budget Office makes clear, yet poverty remains a significant problem.

According to CBO, the top 40% of wage earners, those who make more than $51,100 a year, paid 86.4% of all federal taxes in 2010, the most recent data available. The bottom 40% of earners paid just 4.2% of all taxes. The top 40% paid virtually all of the income tax collected, while the bottom 40% paid a negative 9.1% of all income taxes. Paying "negative" taxes is possible because of the earned-income tax credit and other public-assistance measures that give the bottom 40% refunds for taxes they didn't pay.

Given how deep the problem of poverty is, taking even more money from one citizen and handing it to another will only diminish one while doing very little to help the other. A better and more compassionate policy to fight income inequality would be helping the poor realize that the most important decision they can make is to stay in school, get married and have children—in that order.