Earmarks- Sam

I would like to see a listing of the earmarks in this bailout proposal. I hate to imagine.

Shopping smart- Pat Richards Whitehead

I am sure that this is a true story, Pat. I didn't finish for my MBA at Ohio State, but this one fact has stuck in my mind- Half the cost for a manufacturer to get his product before the buyer is in marketing, which is advertising and distribution.

The competition may even be artificially created by the original manufacturer in some instances.

I don't blame the smart shopper.

Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Patricia Whitehead
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 5:51 AM
Subject: Fw: You have to read this









This may seem like a funny email but, but it's no joke!! I was so surprised by what I discovered I had to share it with you.
When I think of the job situation in this country I can't help but think this helps in some small way.

I don't know how many households there are in the US but if these were the only things we bought think of the impact .... This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60 W light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb aisle and right next to the GE brand I normally buy was an off brand labeled "Everyday Value." I picked up both types of bulbs and compared the stats - they were the same except for the price. The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that GE was made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - get ready for this - the USA. So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day that are made right here - from a company in Cleveland OH!
So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets....yep you guessed it Bounce was more money and made in Canada, the Everyday Value brand was less money and MADE IN THE USA! I did laundry
yesterday and the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for years and at almost half the price!

So my challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the USA - the job you save may be your own or your neighbors!

Share the Wealth

Yes, I am political conservative and may have to go underground very soon.

Sam



Subject: Spread The Wealth












Welfare just ain't what it used to be!








Sharon Jasper has been victimized. Poor thing...she has been rabidly wronged.
She has become a Section 8 care case -- the victim of ever changing public housing policies.
Sharon Jasper has spent 57 of her 58 years dedicated to one cause and one cause only, and
has nothing to show for her dedicated servitude.. She has lived in Section 8 housing all but 1
of her 58 years. It was a legacy passed down from her parents who moved into Section 8
housing in 1949 when she was six months old. She has passed the legacy down to her
children, but fears they may have to get jobs to pay for the utilities and deposits.
She laments about her one year hiatus from the comfort of her Section 8 nirvana, ' I tried it for a
year -- you know, working and all. It's not anything I would want to go through again, or wish on
anyone in my family, but I am damn proud of that year.'

Sharon was moved out of her St. Bernard housing project after hurricane Katrina and into a new,
yet albeit, substandard quarterage. As can be noted from the above photo of her new Section 8
home, it is repugnant and not suitable for someone of Sharon Jasper's seniority status in the
system. 'Don't be fooled by them hardwood floors,' says Sharon . 'They told me they were
putting in scraped wood floors cause it was more expensive and elegant, but I am not a fool --
that was just a way to make me take scratched up wood because I am black. The 60 inch HD
TV? It may look nice but it is not a plasma. It's not a plasma because I'm black. Now they want
me to pay a deposit and utilities on this dump.' 'Do you know why?'

She has held her tongue in silence through the years of abuse by the system, but it came to a
head at the New Orleans ' city council meeting where discussions were under way about the
tearing down of the St. Bernard projects. When a near riotous exchange between groups
opposing the tearing down of St. Bernard and groups wanting the dilapidated buildings torn
down and newer ones built, Sharon unleashed verbal hell with her once silenced tongue.
The object of her oratory prowess was an acquiescent poor white boy in attendance. The
context of her scathing rebuke was, 'Just because you pay for my house, my car, my big screen
and my food, I will not be treated like a slave!' and 'Back up and Shut up! Shut up, white boy!
Shut up, white boy!'

Recapping from the mental log of the city council minutes in her head, Sharon repines, 'Our
families have been displaced all over the United States. They are being forced to commit
crimes in cities they are unfamiliar with. It is a very uncomfortable situation for them.. Bring
them back, then let's talk about redevelopment.' Sharon directs the reporter's attention
across the street to Duncan Plaza where homeless people are living in tents and states
that, 'I might do better out there with one of these tents.' She further lamented her sentiments
about her situation, 'I might be poor, but I don't have to live poor.'
=============================================================================
Any wonder why this country is in the shape it is? Maybe we should all just chip in and get her
the plasma TV she so richly deserves!

Remember to pay your taxes - Sharon needs your help -
Spread the wealth
Theodore J. Adensam
The United States of America

Honey, I'm home EEEK! Pat richards Whitehead

Pat,

You find some good ones. I would put this on my blog, but I don't believe the pictures would be observable on it. I hope they are to those receiving this forward from me.

Yeah. WOW!!!!!!! may be a slight understatement. I was one of ten kids, but that was a different era. Visitors always told our mom that they couldn't beieve how well she kept things and us. We're not talking neatness not behavior here.

Sam


----- Original Message -----
From: Patricia Whitehead
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 2:58 AM
Subject: Fw: Honey, I'm home! YIPES!!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Subject: Fw: Honey, I'm home! YIPES!!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




and we thought we had a lot to do.

All I can say is ………………………….WOW!!!!!!!


FAMILY OF 17 KIDS

This man and his wife both sell real estate for a living.

Altho, I doubt she sells much as she also homeschools

all the kids!! What a job. Notice how neat their house is

kept. The folks on the Today Show said that when this

family left the green room (the place they go before

they are on the show) it was cleaner than it was when they

came. Shows it can be done with organization and I'm sure

they have lots of that with a family that big. They also built their

own home. Family of 17 KIDS +1 She just announced Friday

that she's expecting her 18th.





















.MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU HAVEN'T DONE YOUR SHARE, huh?

Grandparents- Pat Richards Whitehead

----- Original Message -----
From: Patricia Whitehead
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 2:34 AM
Subject: Fw: Grandparents - you're going to smile!













�
Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. ~Author Unknown

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change,
and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. ~Gene Perret

Grandmothers are just 'antique' little girls. ~Author Unknown

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
~ Wels h Proverb
�
A grandmother is a baby-sitter who watches the kids instead
of the television. ~Author Unknown

Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just
a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ~Pam Brown


Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because
Grandfathers have only so many horsy rides in them. ~Gene Perret

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
~Ogden Nash

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just
you all day and now the day was complete. ~ Marcy DeMaree
�
Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author unknown

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our
hearts forever. ~Author Un known

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren,
I'd have had them first. ~Lois Wyse

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after
two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. ~Gene Perret

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should
advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is
no fun for old people like it! ~Hannah Whithall Smith

It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the
world calls her grandmother. ~Author Unknown
�
Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing
old. ~Mary H. Waldr ip

You do not really understand something unless you can explain
it to your grandmother. ~Proverb

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again.
Anything �longer �than that, and you start to age quickly. ~Gene Perret
�
The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You
feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long
periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida . ~Dave Barry

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for
self-defense. ~Gene Perret

Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas
are�short on criticism and long on love. ~Author Unknown
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do.
Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of
little children. ~Alex Haley
�
Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of
practice. ~Author Unknown

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on
the inside. ~Author Unknown

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new
grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. ~Joy Hargrove

It's amazing how �grandparents �parents seem so young once you
become one. ~Author Unknown
�
If your baby is 'beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses,
sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the
time,' you're the grandma. ~Teresa Bloomingdale

Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have
around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their
grandchildren. ~Author Unknown
�
What is it about grandparents t hat is so lovely? I'd like to say
that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can
but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they
can mature at a fast rate. ~Bill Cosby

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge
that he's married to a grandmother. ~G. Norman Collie
�

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MOMS- Pat richards Whitehead e-mail

Pat,

See how you affected our old Mabert Roader Trojan friend. His mother made him to be one of the good ones in red and blue back in '08'. Well... maybe not quite that long ago.

Sam


----- Original Message -----
From: Jack H Plymale
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: MOMS


Sam,it's 4:50 AM in Costa Rica and you and Patricia have provoked a few tears of lovely recollection. Thank you both.

----- Original Message -----
From: Patricia Whitehead
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 2:40 AM
Subject: MOMS




MOTHERS

Real Mothers don't eat quiche;
They don't have time to make it.

Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils
Are probably in the sandbox.

Real Mothers often have sticky floors,
Filthy ovens and happy kids.

Real Mothers know that dried play dough
Doesn't come out of carpets.

Real Mothers don't want to know what
The vacuum just sucked up.

Real Mothers sometimes ask 'Why me?'
And get their answer when a little
Voice says, 'Because I love you best..'

Real Mothers know that a child's growth
is not measured by height or yearsor grade...
It is marked by the progression of Mommy to Mom to Mother...

The Images of Mother

4 YEARS OF AGE - My Mommy can do anything!

8 YEARS OF AGE - My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot!

12 YEARS OF AGE - My Mother doesn't really know quite everything.

14 YEARS OF AGE - Naturally, Mother doesn't know that, either.

16 YEARS OF AGE - Mother? She's hopelessly old-fashioned.

18 YEARS OF AGE - That old woman? She's way out of date!

25 YEARS OF AGE - Well, she might know a little bit about it!

35 YEARS OF AGE - Before we decide, let's get Mom's opinion.

45 YEAR S OF AGE - Wonder what Mom would have thought about it
65 YEARS OF AGE - Wish I could talk it over with Mom.





The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure
that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes,
Because that is the doorway to her heart,
The place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,
but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she

shows, and the beauty of a woman with passing years only grows!

No, He Can't- Phyllis Orth Sparks e-mail

Racism goes both ways in black and white. A fairly long but interesting read.

Sam


Subject: No He Can't!
Anne Wortham is Black, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University 's Hoover Institution. She is a member of the American Sociological Association and the American Philosophical Association. She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyer's television series, "A World of Ideas." The transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his book, A World of Ideas. Dr. Wortham is author of The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues. She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for
civil rights policy, and is currently writing a book on theories of social and cultural marginality. Recently, she has published articles20on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in education, the politics of victimization and the social and political impact of political correctness. Shortly after an interview in 2004 she was awarded tenure.


This article by her is another point of view......



No He Can't
by Anne Wortham


Fellow Americans,
Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am no t race conscious. I do not require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a black president to love the ideal of America .


I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival, – all that I know about the history of the United States of America, all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America . Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the sl ender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have
to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn't look like them. I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration, – political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.


I would have to believe that "fairness" is the equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that man who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.


Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!" Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead – and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.



So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a black man to the office of the president of theUnited States , the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over – and that Fonda w on. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a black person. So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America . Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton , Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to – Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson's
Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine, – what little there is left, – for the chance to feel good. There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.