Don’t Cry For Me, America
In the early 20th century, Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world. While Great Britain’s maritime power and its far-flung empire had propelled it to a dominant position among the world’s industrialized nations, only the United States challenged Argentina for the position of the world’s second-most powerful economy.
It was blessed with abundant agriculture, vast swaths of rich farmland laced with navigable rivers and an accessible port system. Its level of industrialization was higher than many European countries: railroads, automobiles and telephones were commonplace.
In 1916, a new president was elected. Hipólito Irigoyen had formed a party called The Radicals under the banner of “fundamental change” with an appeal to the middle class.
Among Irigoyen’s changes: mandatory pension insurance, mandatory health insurance, and support for low-income housing construction to stimulate the economy. Put simply, the state assumed economic control of a vast swath of the country’s operations and began assessing new payroll taxes to fund its efforts.
With an increasing flow of funds into these entitlement programs, the government’s payouts soon became overly generous. Before long its outlays surpassed the value of the taxpayers’ contributions. Put simply, it quickly became under-funded, much like the United States’ Social Security and Medicare programs.
The death knell for the Argentine economy, however, came with the election of Juan Perón. Perón had a fascist and corporatist upbringing; he and his charismatic wife aimed their populist rhetoric at the nation’s rich.
This targeted group “swiftly expanded to cover most of the propertied middle classes, who became an enemy to be defeated and humiliated.”
Under Perón, the size of government bureaucracies exploded through massive programs of social spending and by encouraging the growth of labor unions.
High taxes and economic mismanagement took their inevitable toll even after Perón had been driven from office. But his populist rhetoric and “contempt for economic realities” lived on. Argentina’s federal government continued to spend far beyond its means.
Hyperinflation exploded in 1989, the final stage of a process characterized by “industrial protectionism, redistribution of income based on increased wages, and growing state intervention in the economy…”
The Argentinian government’s practice of printing money to pay off its public debts had crushed the economy. Inflation hit 3000%, reminiscent of the Weimar Republic. Food riots were rampant; stores were looted; the country descended into chaos.
And by 1994, Argentina’s public pensions — the equivalent of Social Security — had imploded. The payroll tax had increased from 5% to 26%, but it wasn’t enough. In addition, Argentina had implemented a value-added tax (VAT), new income taxes, a personal tax on wealth, and additional revenues based upon the sale of public enterprises. These crushed the private sector, further damaging the economy.
A government-controlled “privatization” effort to rescue seniors’ pensions was attempted. But, by 2001, those funds had also been raided by the government, the monies replaced by Argentina’s defaulted government bonds.
By 2002, “…government fiscal irresponsibility… induced a national economic crisis as severe as America’s Great Depression.”
In 1902 Argentina was one of the world’s richest countries. Little more than a hundred years later, it is poverty-stricken, struggling to meet its debt obligations amidst a drought.
We’ve seen this movie before. The Democrats’ populist plans can’t possibly work, because government bankrupts everything it touches. History teaches us that ObamaCare and unfunded entitlement programs will be utter, complete disasters. Today’s Democrats are guilty of more than stupidity; they are enslaving future generations to poverty and misery. And they will be long gone when it all implodes. They will be as cold and dead as Juan Perón when the piper must ultimately be paid..
References: A tear for Argentina’s pension funds; Inflation in Argentina; The United States of Argentina.
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Thanks Sarah Dupuy Rapp! Christmas and the plain white envelope
Creative idea to ponder...
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This is really awesome and should teach us all the true meaning of Christmas, Jesus Christ and showing love to others in need.
SIMPLE WHITE ENVELOPE
It's just a small white envelope stuck among the branches of our Christmas tree. No name, no identification, no inscription. It has peeked through the branches of our tree for the past 10 years or so.
It all began because my husband Mike hated Christmas --oh, not the true meaning of Christmas, but the commercial aspects of it -- the overspending, the frantic running around at the last minute to get a tie for Uncle Harry and the dusting powder for Grandma -- the gifts given in desperation because you couldn't think of anything else.
Knowing he felt this way, I decided one year to bypass the usual shirts, sweaters, ties, and so forth. I reached for something special just for Mike. The inspiration came in an unusual way. Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was wrestling at the junior level at the school he attended.
Shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match against a team sponsored by an inner-city church.
These youngsters, dressed in sneakers so ragged that shoestrings seemed to be the only thing holding them together, presented a sharp contrast to our boys in their spiffy blue and gold uniforms and sparkling new wrestling shoes. As the match began, I was alarmed to see that the other team was wrestling without headgear, a kind of light helmet designed to protect a wrestler's ears.. It was a luxury the ragtag team obviously could not afford.
Well, we ended up walloping them. We took every weight class. And as each of their boys got up from the mat, he swaggered around in his tatters with false bravado, a kind of street pride that couldn't acknowledge defeat.
Mike, seated beside me, shook his head sadly, 'I wish just one of them could have won,' he said. 'They have a lot of potential, but losing like this could take the heart right out of them.' Mike loved kids -- all kids -- and he knew them, having coached little league football, baseball, and lacrosse.
That's when the idea for his present came. That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and bought an assortment of wrestling headgear and shoes and sent them anonymously to the inner-city church. On Christmas Eve, I placed the envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Mike what I had done and that this was his gift from me. His smile was the brightest thing about Christmas that year and in succeeding years. For each Christmas, I followed the tradition --one year sending a group of mentally handicapped youngsters to a hockey game, another year a check to a pair of elderly brothers whose home had burned to the ground the week before Christmas, and on and on. The envelope became the highlight of our Christmas. It was always the last thing opened on Christmas morning, and our children, ignoring their new toys, would stand with wide-eyed anticipation as their dad lifted the envelope from the tree to reveal its contents.
As the children grew, the toys gave way to more practical presents, but the envelope never lost its allure. The story doesn't end there. You see, we lost Mike last year due to cancer. When Christmas rolled around, I was still so wrapped in grief that I barely got the tree up. But Christmas Eve found me placing an envelope on the tree, and in the morning it was joined by three more. Each of our children, unbeknownst to the others, had placed an envelope on the tree for their dad. The tradition has grown and someday will expand even further with our grandchildren standing around the tree with wide-eyed anticipation watching as their fathers take down the envelope. Mike's spirit, like the Christmas spirit, will always be with us.
May we all remember Christ, who is the reason for the season, and the true Christmas spirit this year and always.
God Bless! -- pass this along to those friends and loved ones who you know are the givers who understand the true meaning of Thanksgiving and Christmas.
----- Original Message -----
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This is really awesome and should teach us all the true meaning of Christmas, Jesus Christ and showing love to others in need.
SIMPLE WHITE ENVELOPE
It's just a small white envelope stuck among the branches of our Christmas tree. No name, no identification, no inscription. It has peeked through the branches of our tree for the past 10 years or so.
It all began because my husband Mike hated Christmas --oh, not the true meaning of Christmas, but the commercial aspects of it -- the overspending, the frantic running around at the last minute to get a tie for Uncle Harry and the dusting powder for Grandma -- the gifts given in desperation because you couldn't think of anything else.
Knowing he felt this way, I decided one year to bypass the usual shirts, sweaters, ties, and so forth. I reached for something special just for Mike. The inspiration came in an unusual way. Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was wrestling at the junior level at the school he attended.
Shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match against a team sponsored by an inner-city church.
These youngsters, dressed in sneakers so ragged that shoestrings seemed to be the only thing holding them together, presented a sharp contrast to our boys in their spiffy blue and gold uniforms and sparkling new wrestling shoes. As the match began, I was alarmed to see that the other team was wrestling without headgear, a kind of light helmet designed to protect a wrestler's ears.. It was a luxury the ragtag team obviously could not afford.
Well, we ended up walloping them. We took every weight class. And as each of their boys got up from the mat, he swaggered around in his tatters with false bravado, a kind of street pride that couldn't acknowledge defeat.
Mike, seated beside me, shook his head sadly, 'I wish just one of them could have won,' he said. 'They have a lot of potential, but losing like this could take the heart right out of them.' Mike loved kids -- all kids -- and he knew them, having coached little league football, baseball, and lacrosse.
That's when the idea for his present came. That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and bought an assortment of wrestling headgear and shoes and sent them anonymously to the inner-city church. On Christmas Eve, I placed the envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Mike what I had done and that this was his gift from me. His smile was the brightest thing about Christmas that year and in succeeding years. For each Christmas, I followed the tradition --one year sending a group of mentally handicapped youngsters to a hockey game, another year a check to a pair of elderly brothers whose home had burned to the ground the week before Christmas, and on and on. The envelope became the highlight of our Christmas. It was always the last thing opened on Christmas morning, and our children, ignoring their new toys, would stand with wide-eyed anticipation as their dad lifted the envelope from the tree to reveal its contents.
As the children grew, the toys gave way to more practical presents, but the envelope never lost its allure. The story doesn't end there. You see, we lost Mike last year due to cancer. When Christmas rolled around, I was still so wrapped in grief that I barely got the tree up. But Christmas Eve found me placing an envelope on the tree, and in the morning it was joined by three more. Each of our children, unbeknownst to the others, had placed an envelope on the tree for their dad. The tradition has grown and someday will expand even further with our grandchildren standing around the tree with wide-eyed anticipation watching as their fathers take down the envelope. Mike's spirit, like the Christmas spirit, will always be with us.
May we all remember Christ, who is the reason for the season, and the true Christmas spirit this year and always.
God Bless! -- pass this along to those friends and loved ones who you know are the givers who understand the true meaning of Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Article on John Wall just prior to UK-UNC game
By Jason King, Yahoo! Sports
Dec 4, 11:19 am EST
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Kentucky’s John Wall has plenty of reasons to smile.
(Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
LEXINGTON, Ky. – He’ll be a multimillionaire in seven months, but right now, the projected No. 1 pick in next summer’s NBA draft is walking toward the exit of the Joe Craft Center, hoping to find a ride to English class.
“Too cold outside to walk,” says Kentucky freshman John Wall, tugging his stocking cap over his ears. “Way too cold.”
And often too time-consuming.
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A few months ago, Wall was almost late to a tutoring session because he was continually asked to stop and pose for pictures with fawning classmates. When the problem persisted, Wall began walking with his headphones on – and his head down.
“That way,” Wall told friends, “if someone is trying to stop me, I can’t see them and I can’t hear them, so they can’t say I was acting rude.”
Other than his ability on the court, that’s what stands out the most about Wall. He cares about what others think of him – probably because he realizes there are so many perceptions about him that aren’t true.
A 6-foot-4 point guard, Wall will almost surely turn pro after just one season at Kentucky. Most NBA analysts say he would’ve been the top overall selection in last year’s draft had he been eligible to submit his name straight out of high school.
Still, Wall hardly fits the stereotype of an arrogant, one-and-done player who views college as an annoying pit stop en route to the NBA. If anything, he’s just the opposite.
“It’s nice to be known as a good player,” Wall says. “But I want to be known as a good person, too.”
It may be awhile before Wall gets that reputation nationally. In Lexington, though, it’s already established.
When he’s not at practice or in the weight room, Wall spends a large chunk of his free time roaming the halls of university’s athletic offices, hobnobbing with administrators 20 and 30 years his elder – or plopping down in a chair to read a basketball magazine.
Hardly the habits of a prima donna.
During the summer, he achieved a 4.0 grade-point average – mainly, he says, because he made it a point to sit in the front row of each class.
“Some of the best advice I ever got,” Wall says. “If you sit in the back, you can laugh and get away with anything. But if you’re in the front, you have to pay attention.”
When he’s out in public, Wall says he never lets his pants sag below his waist, and he has no plans to regrow the braids his AAU coach made him shave when he was 14. Wall doesn’t have any tattoos.
“I’m not trying to put down the people that have them,” Wall says. “But for me right now, it’s all about image. You can’t walk around looking like a thug. There are kids out there looking up to me. I’ve got to set a good example.”
The more Wall talks, the more it becomes obvious that he has a firm grasp of his situation.
Wall and coach John Calipari are in synch.
(Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Sure, he can still be the immature freshman who likes to poke fun at Kentucky coach John Calipari for his awkward running motion on a treadmill, or the goofy kid who readily admits to climbing into his mother’s bed six years ago after being spooked by “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
But other times – most times – Wall is mature beyond his 19 years, a focused athlete who doesn’t date in order to avoid distractions, a gentleman who spews yes-sirs and no-sirs like an army cadet, a grown man who knows what’s at stake.
“I came here for two reasons: to get better and to win,” Wall says. “I know one thing leads to the other. Whether I stay here one year or two years or three, I’ve got a lot of work to do, a lot of people to make proud.”
Including one man Wall was robbed of the chance to truly know – a man who’s watching over his every move.
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As much as he’s enjoyed the opportunities and fame presented to him through basketball, the most meaningful moment of John Wall’s life thus far occurred on a beach nearly 10 years ago in Lumberton, N.C.
“It was the last time,” Wall says, “that I saw my dad.”
With school set to start on Monday, Wall’s parents had made a last-minute decision to take their children on a weekend getaway. Along with ending the summer on a fun note, Wall’s mother, Frances Pulley, knew the trip would provide a good opportunity for John to spend some time with his father, John Wall Sr., who had been diagnosed with liver cancer and been given six months to live.
It turned out to be six weeks.
On the final day of the vacation, Wall’s father fell ill and had to be hospitalized. He died the next morning.
“Everyone tells me I look like him and that I act like him,” says Wall, who was only 9 at the time. “People say he was a good guy, a fun guy to be around.”
Wall pauses.
“That weekend is the best memory of my life,” he says. “Just playing on the beach with him, going out to eat and having good conversations … I’m just so glad we took that trip so I have that to remember him by. I was so young, you know … I just don’t have much else.”
The death of Wall’s father caused a strain on the family that was felt for years to come.
Whether she was folding sheets in the housekeeping department of a local hotel or serving as an in-home caregiver for an elderly man, Frances Pulley worked nearly around the clock to provide for John and his two sisters.
Sometimes she’d pick John up from school, spend a few hours with him at home and then leave him with his sisters while she reported to an overnight job.
“Then she’d come home in the morning, make us breakfast, send us to school and go right back to work,” Wall says. “I wouldn’t want any other mom in this world.”
Even today, Frances downplays her efforts.
“Back in those days,” she says, “I just did what I had to do.”
Wall is flanked on signing day by Dr. Frank Summerfield, left, and his sister, Tonya Pulley, right.
(Gerry Broome/AP Photo)
As hard as she was working away from home, Frances also had her hands full with John. With no male role model in his life, John often had problems dealing with authority in the years immediately following his father’s death. He got into fights at school and developed a nasty habit of talking back to his teachers.
Wall was even cut from the basketball team as a sophomore at Broughton High School in Raleigh – and his attitude was one of the main reasons.
“I just wasn’t a happy kid,” says Wall, who transferred to Word of God Christian Academy that same year. “I was mad all the time. I played AAU and I didn’t trust my coaches and what they were telling me. I didn’t feel like anyone could tell me things as good as my dad did.
“My mom … finally she just talked to me and said, ‘You’ve got to get over it. You’ve got to start trusting people again or you’re never going to get anywhere.’”
About that time, John met two men who would change his life.
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To some, brothers Brian and Dwon Clifton epitomize the seedy side of the game, where men befriend a potential prospect at a young age, take on the role of “adviser” during the recruiting process and then try to steer the player to a certain school – often for their own monetary benefit.
“I came [to UK] for two reasons: To get better and to win. I know one thing leads to the other. Whether I stay here one year or two years or three, I’ve got a lot of work to do, a lot of people to make proud.”
— John Wall
According to Wall, that wasn’t the case with the Cliftons.
Instead, he says, the brothers were the key reason for his attitude adjustment – and the improvement he made as a player – that led him where he is today.
Wall says he met the Cliftons when he was 12 and began playing for their AAU program, D-One Sports, about two years later.
“Brian wouldn’t even let me play until I shaved my braids,” Wall says. “He’s the one that taught me everything about image and how to carry myself and how to act off the court. They helped me get my head on straight. They used basketball to give me some guidance in life.”
Before he met the Cliftons, Wall was a good but undisciplined player who lit up the competition in local parks and gyms around Raleigh. But once Wall joined D-One Sports, he went from a local legend to a national name.
Things really took off for Wall in the summer of 2007, when he scored 27 points in a game against Brandon Jennings’ AAU team in Philadelphia. Recruiting letters began to flood his mailbox and his name began appearing on hundreds of Internet sites. All of it was a bit overwhelming for Wall – especially after Rivals.com ranked him as the No. 1 overall player in the Class of 2009.
“I used to get on those sites and read about all the other players in the rankings,” Wall says. “Then I’d go to the AAU camps and I was all quiet and shy because I was nervous. Everyone there knew everyone else – but no one knew me.
“Then it all changed. I started walking into those camps and introducing myself to everyone there. All of a sudden, I was just this confident person.”
Wall’s mother noticed the difference.
“It was good to see him so happy,” Frances Pulley says. “It had been a tough three or four years for him.”
Still, as much fun as Wall was having, his final two years of school at Word of God were also filled with stress. Along with trying to live up to his gaudy reputation as the country’s top player, Wall was having a difficult time trying to select a college.
He visited Kansas and sat in on the ring ceremony for the 2007-08 championship squad. Then there was pressure to go to school down the road at Duke or N.C. State. Miami brought Wall in for an official visit, and the wild card was Baylor, which had added Dwon Clifton to its staff – presumably to help entice Wall to sign with the Bears.
“That was a tough time for John,” Pulley says. “I could tell it wore on him by looking at his face.”
Wall says he kept thinking back to what Dwon – who played at Clemson and UNC-Greensboro – had told him a year or two earlier about the recruiting process.
“Don’t go to a school just because your friends are there or because it sounds like a dream school,” Wall remembers Dwon saying. “Go to a program that fits your style of play.”
With that in mind, Wall continued to watch games involving Memphis. He loved the freedom guards such as Derrick Rose and Tyreke Evans had in John Calipari’s Dribble Drive offense, and he couldn’t help but think of himself in that role.
Calipari recalled his first meeting with Wall.
“In the end, John always wanted to play for me. … The thing about John; the kid is a pleaser. He doesn’t want to make anyone mad. … He didn’t want to have to tell anybody no”
— Kentucky coach John Calipari on Wall
“Kids always say to me, ‘Can you do for me what you did for so-and-so?’” Calipari says. “I always tell them, ‘You have that potential – but are you willing to work that hard?’
“They don’t realize how hard guys like Derrick and Tyreke worked and how much time they spent in the gym. I just told [Wall] about what it was going to take for him to be special.”
After watching Rose and Evans go with the first and fourth overall selections, respectively, in the 2008 and 2009 NBA drafts, Wall was sold.
“The other schools were nice,” Wall says. “But through it all, I just kept thinking back to Coach Cal.”
By the spring of Wall’s senior year, Calipari had left Memphis for Kentucky. For Wall, the chance to play for his favorite coach at one of the most tradition-rich programs in America seemed like a no-brainer. He signed with Kentucky – even though Brian Clifton was reportedly against it.
Asked about his relationship with Brian Clifton, Calipari says: “It’s OK. I’m fine with Brian. At the end of the day, the kid is here, he’s playing for me, and that’s all that matters.”
Calipari says Wall’s decision to become a Wildcat should squelch any notion that Brian Clifton – who did not return a call for this story – was calling the shots in Wall’s recruitment.
Calipari says negative stories and rumors are often floated about players when they don’t choose certain schools.
“We’re sitting here working with him everyday and saying, ‘What a great kid – one of the best kids we’ve ever been around,” Calipari says. “But sometimes the story still gets written another way. Why is that? I don’t know. Sometimes kids pick a school and they get cleansed. In John’s case, maybe he didn’t go where people wanted him to go.”
Calipari smiles.
“In the end, John always wanted to play for me,” he says. “That was the overriding factor for what he did. The thing about John … the kid is a pleaser. He doesn’t want to make anyone mad. That’s why it took him so long to make his decision. He didn’t want to have to tell anybody no.”
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With about two minutes left in Monday’s 94-57 shellacking of UNC-Asheville, John Wall looked toward the scorers’ table and saw seldom-used reserve Mark Krebs waiting to check in.
“Without me even telling him to,” Calipari says, “John immediately fouled to stop the clock so we could make the substitution. That shows you right there the kind of leader we got, the kind of kid we got.”
People who come in contact with Wall each day are learning that, too – even though his collegiate career didn’t get off to a smooth start.
Shortly before signing with the Wildcats last spring, Wall was cited for breaking and entering after he and two friends entered an abandoned home in Raleigh. Nothing was taken from the home and there was no sign of forced entry. Wall eventually worked out an agreement for dismissal of the citation through the district attorney’s office, but the headlines still dinged Wall’s image.
Wall has wowed with his game.
(Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Then, last month, Wall was suspended for Kentucky’s season opener against Morehead State because of a situation involving Brian Clifton, who was a certified sports agent for a period during Wall’s recruitment as a junior in high school. Wall became eligible after he repaid almost $800 to Clifton – who is no longer an agent – for expenses incurred during unofficial college visits during that time frame.
With those issues now behind him, Wall’s rock-star status with Kentucky basketball fans continues to grow. He’s averaging 18.5 points and 7.8 assists for the fifth-ranked Wildcats, who are 7-0.
Wall hit a game-winning buzzer-beater in a 72-70 victory over Miami (Ohio) in his college debut. Last week, he made a 12-foot fadeaway jumper with 30 seconds left and then two free throws with 2.4 seconds remaining to force overtime in a victory over Stanford in Cancun.
Calipari says Wall’s reputation as one of the country’s top players makes his recent performances even more impressive.
“Every [opposing player] is trying to make their name at his expense,” says Calipari, noting that Wall is slightly ahead of where Rose and Evans were at this point in their freshman seasons.
Still, as well as Wall is playing, he knows he has to get better – fast – if the Wildcats have serious aspirations of competing for a national championship. They’ll get their first major test of the season on Saturday, when Kentucky plays host to No. 10 North Carolina at Rupp Arena. His mother is planning to make the seven-hour drive from Raleigh for the game.
“I’m so happy he’s there in a good place, a safe place,” she says. “It’s a place where I don’t have to worry about him.”
Aside from a phone call made from last year’s Final Four, North Carolina coach Roy Williams didn’t recruit Wall – reportedly because of a strained relationship with the Cliftons – even though Wall grew up in Raleigh. Still, Williams couldn’t be any more impressed with the guard his team will try to contain Saturday.
“He’s the best point-guard prospect I’ve seen since Jason Kidd,” Williams says. “I love the way he plays.”
Excited as he is about playing against a school from his home state, Wall says he is more eager to see how Kentucky fares against a high-quality opponent such as the defending national champions. Calipari says it’s possible that his team, which has yet to face a ranked opponent, could get “punched in the mouth.”
But he also realizes his squad is talented enough to beat anyone when things are clicking – especially with Wall in the lineup. Calipari says Wall is still too “loosey-goosey” at times, and that he needs to cut down on his turnovers. When it comes to attitude, though, Wall is playing with the poise of a senior.
Not that he’ll ever know what that feels like.
“I don’t know how long I’ll be here,” Wall says. “I’m not even thinking about that right now. I just know that, however long I’m here, I’m going to have fun. I’m going to enjoy the moment. I may be growing up – but I don’t want to grow up too fast.”
Jason King is a college football and basketball writer for Yahoo! Sports. Send Jason a question or comment for potential use in a future column or webcast.
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Kentucky’s John Wall has plenty of reasons to smile.
(Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
LEXINGTON, Ky. – He’ll be a multimillionaire in seven months, but right now, the projected No. 1 pick in next summer’s NBA draft is walking toward the exit of the Joe Craft Center, hoping to find a ride to English class.
“Too cold outside to walk,” says Kentucky freshman John Wall, tugging his stocking cap over his ears. “Way too cold.”
And often too time-consuming.
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A few months ago, Wall was almost late to a tutoring session because he was continually asked to stop and pose for pictures with fawning classmates. When the problem persisted, Wall began walking with his headphones on – and his head down.
“That way,” Wall told friends, “if someone is trying to stop me, I can’t see them and I can’t hear them, so they can’t say I was acting rude.”
Other than his ability on the court, that’s what stands out the most about Wall. He cares about what others think of him – probably because he realizes there are so many perceptions about him that aren’t true.
A 6-foot-4 point guard, Wall will almost surely turn pro after just one season at Kentucky. Most NBA analysts say he would’ve been the top overall selection in last year’s draft had he been eligible to submit his name straight out of high school.
Still, Wall hardly fits the stereotype of an arrogant, one-and-done player who views college as an annoying pit stop en route to the NBA. If anything, he’s just the opposite.
“It’s nice to be known as a good player,” Wall says. “But I want to be known as a good person, too.”
It may be awhile before Wall gets that reputation nationally. In Lexington, though, it’s already established.
When he’s not at practice or in the weight room, Wall spends a large chunk of his free time roaming the halls of university’s athletic offices, hobnobbing with administrators 20 and 30 years his elder – or plopping down in a chair to read a basketball magazine.
Hardly the habits of a prima donna.
During the summer, he achieved a 4.0 grade-point average – mainly, he says, because he made it a point to sit in the front row of each class.
“Some of the best advice I ever got,” Wall says. “If you sit in the back, you can laugh and get away with anything. But if you’re in the front, you have to pay attention.”
When he’s out in public, Wall says he never lets his pants sag below his waist, and he has no plans to regrow the braids his AAU coach made him shave when he was 14. Wall doesn’t have any tattoos.
“I’m not trying to put down the people that have them,” Wall says. “But for me right now, it’s all about image. You can’t walk around looking like a thug. There are kids out there looking up to me. I’ve got to set a good example.”
The more Wall talks, the more it becomes obvious that he has a firm grasp of his situation.
Wall and coach John Calipari are in synch.
(Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Sure, he can still be the immature freshman who likes to poke fun at Kentucky coach John Calipari for his awkward running motion on a treadmill, or the goofy kid who readily admits to climbing into his mother’s bed six years ago after being spooked by “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
But other times – most times – Wall is mature beyond his 19 years, a focused athlete who doesn’t date in order to avoid distractions, a gentleman who spews yes-sirs and no-sirs like an army cadet, a grown man who knows what’s at stake.
“I came here for two reasons: to get better and to win,” Wall says. “I know one thing leads to the other. Whether I stay here one year or two years or three, I’ve got a lot of work to do, a lot of people to make proud.”
Including one man Wall was robbed of the chance to truly know – a man who’s watching over his every move.
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As much as he’s enjoyed the opportunities and fame presented to him through basketball, the most meaningful moment of John Wall’s life thus far occurred on a beach nearly 10 years ago in Lumberton, N.C.
“It was the last time,” Wall says, “that I saw my dad.”
With school set to start on Monday, Wall’s parents had made a last-minute decision to take their children on a weekend getaway. Along with ending the summer on a fun note, Wall’s mother, Frances Pulley, knew the trip would provide a good opportunity for John to spend some time with his father, John Wall Sr., who had been diagnosed with liver cancer and been given six months to live.
It turned out to be six weeks.
On the final day of the vacation, Wall’s father fell ill and had to be hospitalized. He died the next morning.
“Everyone tells me I look like him and that I act like him,” says Wall, who was only 9 at the time. “People say he was a good guy, a fun guy to be around.”
Wall pauses.
“That weekend is the best memory of my life,” he says. “Just playing on the beach with him, going out to eat and having good conversations … I’m just so glad we took that trip so I have that to remember him by. I was so young, you know … I just don’t have much else.”
The death of Wall’s father caused a strain on the family that was felt for years to come.
Whether she was folding sheets in the housekeeping department of a local hotel or serving as an in-home caregiver for an elderly man, Frances Pulley worked nearly around the clock to provide for John and his two sisters.
Sometimes she’d pick John up from school, spend a few hours with him at home and then leave him with his sisters while she reported to an overnight job.
“Then she’d come home in the morning, make us breakfast, send us to school and go right back to work,” Wall says. “I wouldn’t want any other mom in this world.”
Even today, Frances downplays her efforts.
“Back in those days,” she says, “I just did what I had to do.”
Wall is flanked on signing day by Dr. Frank Summerfield, left, and his sister, Tonya Pulley, right.
(Gerry Broome/AP Photo)
As hard as she was working away from home, Frances also had her hands full with John. With no male role model in his life, John often had problems dealing with authority in the years immediately following his father’s death. He got into fights at school and developed a nasty habit of talking back to his teachers.
Wall was even cut from the basketball team as a sophomore at Broughton High School in Raleigh – and his attitude was one of the main reasons.
“I just wasn’t a happy kid,” says Wall, who transferred to Word of God Christian Academy that same year. “I was mad all the time. I played AAU and I didn’t trust my coaches and what they were telling me. I didn’t feel like anyone could tell me things as good as my dad did.
“My mom … finally she just talked to me and said, ‘You’ve got to get over it. You’ve got to start trusting people again or you’re never going to get anywhere.’”
About that time, John met two men who would change his life.
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To some, brothers Brian and Dwon Clifton epitomize the seedy side of the game, where men befriend a potential prospect at a young age, take on the role of “adviser” during the recruiting process and then try to steer the player to a certain school – often for their own monetary benefit.
“I came [to UK] for two reasons: To get better and to win. I know one thing leads to the other. Whether I stay here one year or two years or three, I’ve got a lot of work to do, a lot of people to make proud.”
— John Wall
According to Wall, that wasn’t the case with the Cliftons.
Instead, he says, the brothers were the key reason for his attitude adjustment – and the improvement he made as a player – that led him where he is today.
Wall says he met the Cliftons when he was 12 and began playing for their AAU program, D-One Sports, about two years later.
“Brian wouldn’t even let me play until I shaved my braids,” Wall says. “He’s the one that taught me everything about image and how to carry myself and how to act off the court. They helped me get my head on straight. They used basketball to give me some guidance in life.”
Before he met the Cliftons, Wall was a good but undisciplined player who lit up the competition in local parks and gyms around Raleigh. But once Wall joined D-One Sports, he went from a local legend to a national name.
Things really took off for Wall in the summer of 2007, when he scored 27 points in a game against Brandon Jennings’ AAU team in Philadelphia. Recruiting letters began to flood his mailbox and his name began appearing on hundreds of Internet sites. All of it was a bit overwhelming for Wall – especially after Rivals.com ranked him as the No. 1 overall player in the Class of 2009.
“I used to get on those sites and read about all the other players in the rankings,” Wall says. “Then I’d go to the AAU camps and I was all quiet and shy because I was nervous. Everyone there knew everyone else – but no one knew me.
“Then it all changed. I started walking into those camps and introducing myself to everyone there. All of a sudden, I was just this confident person.”
Wall’s mother noticed the difference.
“It was good to see him so happy,” Frances Pulley says. “It had been a tough three or four years for him.”
Still, as much fun as Wall was having, his final two years of school at Word of God were also filled with stress. Along with trying to live up to his gaudy reputation as the country’s top player, Wall was having a difficult time trying to select a college.
He visited Kansas and sat in on the ring ceremony for the 2007-08 championship squad. Then there was pressure to go to school down the road at Duke or N.C. State. Miami brought Wall in for an official visit, and the wild card was Baylor, which had added Dwon Clifton to its staff – presumably to help entice Wall to sign with the Bears.
“That was a tough time for John,” Pulley says. “I could tell it wore on him by looking at his face.”
Wall says he kept thinking back to what Dwon – who played at Clemson and UNC-Greensboro – had told him a year or two earlier about the recruiting process.
“Don’t go to a school just because your friends are there or because it sounds like a dream school,” Wall remembers Dwon saying. “Go to a program that fits your style of play.”
With that in mind, Wall continued to watch games involving Memphis. He loved the freedom guards such as Derrick Rose and Tyreke Evans had in John Calipari’s Dribble Drive offense, and he couldn’t help but think of himself in that role.
Calipari recalled his first meeting with Wall.
“In the end, John always wanted to play for me. … The thing about John; the kid is a pleaser. He doesn’t want to make anyone mad. … He didn’t want to have to tell anybody no”
— Kentucky coach John Calipari on Wall
“Kids always say to me, ‘Can you do for me what you did for so-and-so?’” Calipari says. “I always tell them, ‘You have that potential – but are you willing to work that hard?’
“They don’t realize how hard guys like Derrick and Tyreke worked and how much time they spent in the gym. I just told [Wall] about what it was going to take for him to be special.”
After watching Rose and Evans go with the first and fourth overall selections, respectively, in the 2008 and 2009 NBA drafts, Wall was sold.
“The other schools were nice,” Wall says. “But through it all, I just kept thinking back to Coach Cal.”
By the spring of Wall’s senior year, Calipari had left Memphis for Kentucky. For Wall, the chance to play for his favorite coach at one of the most tradition-rich programs in America seemed like a no-brainer. He signed with Kentucky – even though Brian Clifton was reportedly against it.
Asked about his relationship with Brian Clifton, Calipari says: “It’s OK. I’m fine with Brian. At the end of the day, the kid is here, he’s playing for me, and that’s all that matters.”
Calipari says Wall’s decision to become a Wildcat should squelch any notion that Brian Clifton – who did not return a call for this story – was calling the shots in Wall’s recruitment.
Calipari says negative stories and rumors are often floated about players when they don’t choose certain schools.
“We’re sitting here working with him everyday and saying, ‘What a great kid – one of the best kids we’ve ever been around,” Calipari says. “But sometimes the story still gets written another way. Why is that? I don’t know. Sometimes kids pick a school and they get cleansed. In John’s case, maybe he didn’t go where people wanted him to go.”
Calipari smiles.
“In the end, John always wanted to play for me,” he says. “That was the overriding factor for what he did. The thing about John … the kid is a pleaser. He doesn’t want to make anyone mad. That’s why it took him so long to make his decision. He didn’t want to have to tell anybody no.”
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With about two minutes left in Monday’s 94-57 shellacking of UNC-Asheville, John Wall looked toward the scorers’ table and saw seldom-used reserve Mark Krebs waiting to check in.
“Without me even telling him to,” Calipari says, “John immediately fouled to stop the clock so we could make the substitution. That shows you right there the kind of leader we got, the kind of kid we got.”
People who come in contact with Wall each day are learning that, too – even though his collegiate career didn’t get off to a smooth start.
Shortly before signing with the Wildcats last spring, Wall was cited for breaking and entering after he and two friends entered an abandoned home in Raleigh. Nothing was taken from the home and there was no sign of forced entry. Wall eventually worked out an agreement for dismissal of the citation through the district attorney’s office, but the headlines still dinged Wall’s image.
Wall has wowed with his game.
(Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Then, last month, Wall was suspended for Kentucky’s season opener against Morehead State because of a situation involving Brian Clifton, who was a certified sports agent for a period during Wall’s recruitment as a junior in high school. Wall became eligible after he repaid almost $800 to Clifton – who is no longer an agent – for expenses incurred during unofficial college visits during that time frame.
With those issues now behind him, Wall’s rock-star status with Kentucky basketball fans continues to grow. He’s averaging 18.5 points and 7.8 assists for the fifth-ranked Wildcats, who are 7-0.
Wall hit a game-winning buzzer-beater in a 72-70 victory over Miami (Ohio) in his college debut. Last week, he made a 12-foot fadeaway jumper with 30 seconds left and then two free throws with 2.4 seconds remaining to force overtime in a victory over Stanford in Cancun.
Calipari says Wall’s reputation as one of the country’s top players makes his recent performances even more impressive.
“Every [opposing player] is trying to make their name at his expense,” says Calipari, noting that Wall is slightly ahead of where Rose and Evans were at this point in their freshman seasons.
Still, as well as Wall is playing, he knows he has to get better – fast – if the Wildcats have serious aspirations of competing for a national championship. They’ll get their first major test of the season on Saturday, when Kentucky plays host to No. 10 North Carolina at Rupp Arena. His mother is planning to make the seven-hour drive from Raleigh for the game.
“I’m so happy he’s there in a good place, a safe place,” she says. “It’s a place where I don’t have to worry about him.”
Aside from a phone call made from last year’s Final Four, North Carolina coach Roy Williams didn’t recruit Wall – reportedly because of a strained relationship with the Cliftons – even though Wall grew up in Raleigh. Still, Williams couldn’t be any more impressed with the guard his team will try to contain Saturday.
“He’s the best point-guard prospect I’ve seen since Jason Kidd,” Williams says. “I love the way he plays.”
Excited as he is about playing against a school from his home state, Wall says he is more eager to see how Kentucky fares against a high-quality opponent such as the defending national champions. Calipari says it’s possible that his team, which has yet to face a ranked opponent, could get “punched in the mouth.”
But he also realizes his squad is talented enough to beat anyone when things are clicking – especially with Wall in the lineup. Calipari says Wall is still too “loosey-goosey” at times, and that he needs to cut down on his turnovers. When it comes to attitude, though, Wall is playing with the poise of a senior.
Not that he’ll ever know what that feels like.
“I don’t know how long I’ll be here,” Wall says. “I’m not even thinking about that right now. I just know that, however long I’m here, I’m going to have fun. I’m going to enjoy the moment. I may be growing up – but I don’t want to grow up too fast.”
Jason King is a college football and basketball writer for Yahoo! Sports. Send Jason a question or comment for potential use in a future column or webcast.
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Friday, December 4, 2009
Thanks Clay. Gun History
Gun History
After reading the following historical facts, read the part
about Switzerland twice.
A LITTLE GUN HISTORY
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control.. From 1929 to 1953,
about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded
up and exterminated.
--------------------------------------------------
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1..5 million
Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
------------------------------
Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total
of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were
rounded up and exterminated.
------------------------------
China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million
political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated
------------------------------
Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000
Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
------------------------------
Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000
Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated
------------------------------
Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million
educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
----------------------------
Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century
because of gun control: 56 million.
------------------------------
You won't see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians
disseminating this information.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes,
gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens
Take note my fellow Americans, before it's too late!
--------------------------------------------------------------------
The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them
of this history lesson.
-----------------------------------------
With guns, we are 'citizens.'
Without them, we are 'subjects'.
-----------------------------------------------------
During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew
most Americans were ARMED!
-----------------------------------------------
If you value your freedom, please spread this anti-gun control message
to all of your friends.
------------------------------------------------------------------
The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in
defense. The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more
important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is
supplemental.
SWITZERLAND ISSUES EVERY HOUSEHOLD A GUN!
SWITZERLAND 'S GOVERNMENT TRAINS EVERY ADULT THEY ISSUE A RIFLE.
SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY
CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3341829
IT'S A NO BRAINER!
DON'T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS
IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ALL LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm a firm believer of the 2nd Amendment!
If you are too,
please forward.
Just think how powerful our government is getting!
They think these other countries just didn't do it right.
Learn from history.
After reading the following historical facts, read the part
about Switzerland twice.
A LITTLE GUN HISTORY
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control.. From 1929 to 1953,
about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded
up and exterminated.
--------------------------------------------------
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1..5 million
Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
------------------------------
Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total
of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were
rounded up and exterminated.
------------------------------
China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million
political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated
------------------------------
Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000
Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
------------------------------
Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000
Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated
------------------------------
Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million
educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
----------------------------
Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century
because of gun control: 56 million.
------------------------------
You won't see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians
disseminating this information.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes,
gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens
Take note my fellow Americans, before it's too late!
--------------------------------------------------------------------
The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them
of this history lesson.
-----------------------------------------
With guns, we are 'citizens.'
Without them, we are 'subjects'.
-----------------------------------------------------
During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew
most Americans were ARMED!
-----------------------------------------------
If you value your freedom, please spread this anti-gun control message
to all of your friends.
------------------------------------------------------------------
The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in
defense. The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more
important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is
supplemental.
SWITZERLAND ISSUES EVERY HOUSEHOLD A GUN!
SWITZERLAND 'S GOVERNMENT TRAINS EVERY ADULT THEY ISSUE A RIFLE.
SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY
CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3341829
IT'S A NO BRAINER!
DON'T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS
IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ALL LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm a firm believer of the 2nd Amendment!
If you are too,
please forward.
Just think how powerful our government is getting!
They think these other countries just didn't do it right.
Learn from history.
Thanks Clay Vice! Best child's self defense with gun e-mal
Begin forwarded message:
Subject: Butte, Montana
And Justice for all.
BUTTE, MONTANA
Shotgun preteen vs. Illegal alien Home Invaders:
Butte, Montana November 5, 2007
Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home.
It seems the two crooks never learned two things: they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine.
Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.
Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old's knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals.
When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.
It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David 0Burien, was not so lucky.. He died from stab wounds to the chest.
Ever wonder why good stuff never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news.......an 11 year old girl, properly trained, defended her home , and herself......against two murderous, illegal immigrants......and she wins,
She is still alive.
Now that is Gun Control !
Thought for the day:
Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented immigrant' is like calling a drug dealer an 'unlicensed pharmacist'
I like this kind of e-mail. American citizens defending themselves and their homes.
HAVE A GREAT DAY
Subject: Butte, Montana
And Justice for all.
BUTTE, MONTANA
Shotgun preteen vs. Illegal alien Home Invaders:
Butte, Montana November 5, 2007
Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home.
It seems the two crooks never learned two things: they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine.
Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.
Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old's knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals.
When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.
It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David 0Burien, was not so lucky.. He died from stab wounds to the chest.
Ever wonder why good stuff never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news.......an 11 year old girl, properly trained, defended her home , and herself......against two murderous, illegal immigrants......and she wins,
She is still alive.
Now that is Gun Control !
Thought for the day:
Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented immigrant' is like calling a drug dealer an 'unlicensed pharmacist'
I like this kind of e-mail. American citizens defending themselves and their homes.
HAVE A GREAT DAY
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Jackie Anagrams from T.J.
I am a fierce Scrabble player and....these are just GREAT! Jackie
----- Original Message -----
From: T. J. Du Puy
To: T. J. Du Puy
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:58 AM
Subject: Anagrams..look at the last one
Tj
T. J. Du Puy
tj@depodio.com
National Cell
615-202-4747
See My New Web Page http://www.fufudust.org
For COST ONLY, Laboratory made Products.
Many have seen results
www.christianliving101.org
www.depodio.com
www.depodio.com/noah.htm
www.phs1955.com
www.fufudust.org
You may have seen this one before. It's worth a re-send.
This has got to be one of the cleverest
E-mails I've received in awhile.
Someone out there
must be "deadly" at Scrabble.
(Wait till you see the last one)!
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
AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:
MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER
Bet your friends haven't seen this one!!!
DON'T FORGET TO SHARE THIS
----- Original Message -----
From: T. J. Du Puy
To: T. J. Du Puy
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:58 AM
Subject: Anagrams..look at the last one
Tj
T. J. Du Puy
tj@depodio.com
National Cell
615-202-4747
See My New Web Page http://www.fufudust.org
For COST ONLY, Laboratory made Products.
Many have seen results
www.christianliving101.org
www.depodio.com
www.depodio.com/noah.htm
www.phs1955.com
www.fufudust.org
You may have seen this one before. It's worth a re-send.
This has got to be one of the cleverest
E-mails I've received in awhile.
Someone out there
must be "deadly" at Scrabble.
(Wait till you see the last one)!
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
AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:
MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER
Bet your friends haven't seen this one!!!
DON'T FORGET TO SHARE THIS
Thanks once more, Jacklie Brown!
You are so right, Jackie. I cannot claim to be a great historian. I thought it was all rote memory of dates mostly, but how wrong I was.
The recent o Afghanistan speech made me think back a little to items I have witnessed in my lifetime. One, while in technical sales I visited Rockwell and met a man who was doing exciting things in aircraft development. I was so happy to hear of a little of it and I was so glad that our "reporters" didn't have access to his works or any of the truly secret stuff. O said Tuesday that we wouldn't be developing weapons and that he looked forward to a non-nuclear world.
Well, whoopee! He and Hillary can just talk the islamic terrorists into behaving themselves.
I'm so glad that Jewish fellow Einstein came to our shores and worked with our scientists on the nuclear bomb and that Werner von Braun left Hitler's dictatorship to lead the USA in rocketry. we need new ideas and leaders who will properly direct them. I would not trust o to lead anything and I hope the big voter turnaround we all wish for will truly happen soon.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Jackie Brown
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: How long do we have?
Yes, and I've got about a hundred of his e-mails still to read as I haven't had time to be on computer for weeks...T.J. or Tom as I call him from high school days, is a wonderful human being.
And I had seen before but felt the subject matter important enough to be sent out again and re-read and passed along to others who might not have read. I'm afraid very few Americans know much about history, our own and the rest of the world's, and the students of the last generation or more have had their "history" turned into a politically-correct pack of lies. Sigh. My own nieces and nephews have not been spared these gross lies - however, we adults have always explained the truth at home. But so many have parents who (1) don't know the truth themselves or (2) can not be bothered to monitor and correct what their innocent little kids have shoved down their throats at school....poison and perversion of history and all else. Jackie
----- Original Message -----
From: Sam Kegley
To: Jackie Brown
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: How long do we have?
Sarah DuPuy's brother, T. J., always has interesting messages, Jackie. It may be a recycle, but it certainly is recyclable as a classic comment on the socialist society the democrats have been working on for so long. It appears that o is their champion, but not America's.
Sam,
----- Original Message -----
From: Jackie Brown
To: karen
Cc: George Mitchell ; Brenda Mitchell ; Derek.Mitchell@usma.edu ; ASHLEY MITCHELL ; doug debbie harness ; pastorharness@yahoo.com ; Jim Harness ; Gerry A. Lenhart ; Colette Torr ; Maureen Schoch ; Nancy Sommers ; Bill Meade ; Ken Lane ; bc jett ; John Stetzinger ; Sandy Joseph ; rlmohl@yahoo.com ; duane ; Sam Kegley
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 3:55 PM
Subject: Fw: How long do we have?
----- Original Message -----
From: T. J. Du Puy
To: T. J. Du Puy
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 2:09 PM
Subject: How long do we have?
Tj
T. J. Du Puy
tj@depodio.com
National Cell
615-202-4747
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This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. The sad thing about it, you can see it coming.
I
have always heard about this democracy countdown.. It
is interesting to see it in print. God help us, not
that we deserve
it.
How
Long Do We Have?
About
the time our original thirteen states adopted their
new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a
Scottish history professor at the
University
of Edinburgh
, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian
Republic
some 2,000 years
earlier:
'A
democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply
cannot exist as a permanent form of
government.'
'A
democracy will continue to exist up until the time
that voters discover they can vote themselves
generous gifts from the public
treasury.'
' From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal
policy, which is always followed by a
dictatorship.'
'The
average age of the world's greatest civilizations
from the beginning of history, has been about 200
years'
'During
those 200 years, those nations always progressed
through the following
sequence:
1.
from bondage to spiritual
faith;
2.
from spiritual faith to great
courage;
3.
from courage to
liberty;
4.
from liberty to
abundance;
5.
from abundance to
complacency;
6.
from complacency to
apathy;
7.
from apathy to
dependence;
8.
from dependence back into
bondage'
Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University
School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota
points out some interesting facts concerning the 2008 Presidential election:
Number of States won by:
Democrats: 19
Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Democrats: 580,000
Republicans: 2,427,000
Population
of counties won by:
Democrats: 127 million
Republicans: 143 million
Murder
rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Democrats: 13.2
Republicans: 2.1
Professor
Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory
Republican won was mostly the land owned by the
taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat
territory mostly encompassed those citizens living
in government-owned tenements and living off various
forms of government welfare...' Olson believes the
United States
is somewhere between the 'complacency and
apathy' phase of Professor Tyler's definition of
democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's
population already having reached the 'governmental
dependency'
phase.
If
Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty
million criminal invaders called illegal's and they
vote, then we can say goodbye to the
USA
in fewer than five
years.
If
you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete
this message. If you are not, then pass this along
to help everyone realize just how much is at stake,
knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our
freedom.
WE
LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE
FREE,
ONLY BECAUSE OF THE
BRAVE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The recent o Afghanistan speech made me think back a little to items I have witnessed in my lifetime. One, while in technical sales I visited Rockwell and met a man who was doing exciting things in aircraft development. I was so happy to hear of a little of it and I was so glad that our "reporters" didn't have access to his works or any of the truly secret stuff. O said Tuesday that we wouldn't be developing weapons and that he looked forward to a non-nuclear world.
Well, whoopee! He and Hillary can just talk the islamic terrorists into behaving themselves.
I'm so glad that Jewish fellow Einstein came to our shores and worked with our scientists on the nuclear bomb and that Werner von Braun left Hitler's dictatorship to lead the USA in rocketry. we need new ideas and leaders who will properly direct them. I would not trust o to lead anything and I hope the big voter turnaround we all wish for will truly happen soon.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Jackie Brown
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: How long do we have?
Yes, and I've got about a hundred of his e-mails still to read as I haven't had time to be on computer for weeks...T.J. or Tom as I call him from high school days, is a wonderful human being.
And I had seen before but felt the subject matter important enough to be sent out again and re-read and passed along to others who might not have read. I'm afraid very few Americans know much about history, our own and the rest of the world's, and the students of the last generation or more have had their "history" turned into a politically-correct pack of lies. Sigh. My own nieces and nephews have not been spared these gross lies - however, we adults have always explained the truth at home. But so many have parents who (1) don't know the truth themselves or (2) can not be bothered to monitor and correct what their innocent little kids have shoved down their throats at school....poison and perversion of history and all else. Jackie
----- Original Message -----
From: Sam Kegley
To: Jackie Brown
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: How long do we have?
Sarah DuPuy's brother, T. J., always has interesting messages, Jackie. It may be a recycle, but it certainly is recyclable as a classic comment on the socialist society the democrats have been working on for so long. It appears that o is their champion, but not America's.
Sam,
----- Original Message -----
From: Jackie Brown
To: karen
Cc: George Mitchell ; Brenda Mitchell ; Derek.Mitchell@usma.edu ; ASHLEY MITCHELL ; doug debbie harness ; pastorharness@yahoo.com ; Jim Harness ; Gerry A. Lenhart ; Colette Torr ; Maureen Schoch ; Nancy Sommers ; Bill Meade ; Ken Lane ; bc jett ; John Stetzinger ; Sandy Joseph ; rlmohl@yahoo.com ; duane ; Sam Kegley
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 3:55 PM
Subject: Fw: How long do we have?
----- Original Message -----
From: T. J. Du Puy
To: T. J. Du Puy
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 2:09 PM
Subject: How long do we have?
Tj
T. J. Du Puy
tj@depodio.com
National Cell
615-202-4747
See My New Web Page http://www.fufudust.org
For COST ONLY, Laboratory made Products.
Many have seen results
New Product = Cold Milled Chia Seeds
Richest know source of Omega 3 + Omega 6
www.christianliving101.org
www.depodio.com
www.depodio.com/noah.htm
www.phs1955.com
www.fufudust.org
This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. The sad thing about it, you can see it coming.
I
have always heard about this democracy countdown.. It
is interesting to see it in print. God help us, not
that we deserve
it.
How
Long Do We Have?
About
the time our original thirteen states adopted their
new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a
Scottish history professor at the
University
of Edinburgh
, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian
Republic
some 2,000 years
earlier:
'A
democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply
cannot exist as a permanent form of
government.'
'A
democracy will continue to exist up until the time
that voters discover they can vote themselves
generous gifts from the public
treasury.'
' From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal
policy, which is always followed by a
dictatorship.'
'The
average age of the world's greatest civilizations
from the beginning of history, has been about 200
years'
'During
those 200 years, those nations always progressed
through the following
sequence:
1.
from bondage to spiritual
faith;
2.
from spiritual faith to great
courage;
3.
from courage to
liberty;
4.
from liberty to
abundance;
5.
from abundance to
complacency;
6.
from complacency to
apathy;
7.
from apathy to
dependence;
8.
from dependence back into
bondage'
Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University
School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota
points out some interesting facts concerning the 2008 Presidential election:
Number of States won by:
Democrats: 19
Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Democrats: 580,000
Republicans: 2,427,000
Population
of counties won by:
Democrats: 127 million
Republicans: 143 million
Murder
rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Democrats: 13.2
Republicans: 2.1
Professor
Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory
Republican won was mostly the land owned by the
taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat
territory mostly encompassed those citizens living
in government-owned tenements and living off various
forms of government welfare...' Olson believes the
United States
is somewhere between the 'complacency and
apathy' phase of Professor Tyler's definition of
democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's
population already having reached the 'governmental
dependency'
phase.
If
Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty
million criminal invaders called illegal's and they
vote, then we can say goodbye to the
USA
in fewer than five
years.
If
you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete
this message. If you are not, then pass this along
to help everyone realize just how much is at stake,
knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our
freedom.
WE
LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE
FREE,
ONLY BECAUSE OF THE
BRAVE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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