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Subject: What if 20 Million Illegal Aliens Vacated America ?
What if 20 Million Illegal Aliens Vacated America ?
I, Tina Griego, journalist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News
wrote a column titled, "Mexican Visitor's Lament"- 10/25/07.
I interviewed Mexican journalist Evangelina Hernandez while
visiting Denver last week. Hernandez said, "illegal aliens pay
rent, buy groceries, buy clothes. What Happens to your country's
economy if 20 million people go away?" Hummm, I thought, what
would happen, so I did my due diligence, buried my nose as a
reporter into the FACTS I found below.
It's a good question it deserves an honest answer. Over 80% of
Americans demand secured borders and illegal migration stopped.
But what would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America ?
The answers I found may surprise you!
In California, if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico , it
would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school
systems, bankrupt hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave
highways cleaner, safer and less congested. Everyone could
understand one another as English became the dominant language
again.
In Colorado, 500,000 illegal migrants, plus their 300,000 kids
and grand-kids would move back 'home', mostly to Mexico.
That would save Coloradons an estimated $2 billion (other experts
say $7 billion) annually in taxes that pay for schooling, medical,
social-services and incarceration costs. It means 12,000 gang
members would vanish out of Denver alone. Colorado would save
more than $20 million in prison costs, and the terror that those
7,300 alien criminals set upon local citizens. Denver Officer Don
Young and hundreds of Colorado victims would not have suffered
death, accidents, rapes and other crimes by illegals. Denver Public
Schools would not suffer a 67% drop-out/flunk-out rate because
of thousands of illegal alien students speaking 41 different
languages. At least 200,000 vehicles would vanish from our
gridlocked cities in Colorado . Denver 's 4% unemployment rate
would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.
In Florida, 1.5 million illegals would return the Sunshine State
back to America the rule of law, and English.
In Chicago, Illinois , 2.1 million illegals would free up hospitals,
schools, prisons and highways for a safer, cleaner and more
crime-free experience.If 20 million illegal aliens returned 'home',
the U.S. Economy would return to the rule of law. Employers would
hire legal American citizens at a living wage. Everyone would pay
their fair share of taxes because they wouldn't be working off
the books. That would result in an additional $401 Billion in IRS
income taxes collected annually, and an equal amount for local,
state and city coffers.
No more push '1' for Spanish or '2' for English. No more confusion
in American schools that now must contend with over 100 languages
that degrade the educational system for American kids. Our over-
crowded schools would lose more than two million illegal alien kids
at a cost of billions in ESL and free breakfasts and lunches. We
would lose 500,000 illegal criminal alien inmates at a cost of more
than $1.6 billion annually. That includes 15,000 MS-13 gang
members who distribute $130 billion in drugs annually would vacate
our country.
In cities like L.A., 20,000 members of the ' 18th Street Gang'
would vanish from our nation. No more Mexican forgery gangs for
ID theft from Americans! No more foreign rapists and child
molesters! Losing more than 20 million people would clear up our
crowded highways and gridlock. Cleaner air and less drinking and
driving American deaths by illegal aliens!
America's economy is drained. Taxpayers are harmed. Employers
get rich. Over $80 billion annually wouldn't return to the aliens'
home countries by cash transfers. Illegal migrants earned half
that money untaxed, which further drains America 's economy
which currently suffers an $8.7 trillion debt. At least 400,000
anchor babies would not be born in our country, costing us $109
billion per year per cycle. At least 86 hospitals in California ,
Georgia and Florida would still be operating instead of being
bankrupt out of existence because illegals pay nothing via the
EMTOLA Act. Americans wouldn't suffer thousands of TB and
hepatitis cases rampant in our country-brought in by illegals
unscreened at our borders. Our cities would see 20 million less
people driving, polluting and grid locking our cities. It would also
put the 'progressives' on the horns of a dilemma; illegal aliens
and their families cause 11% of ourgreenhouse gases.
Over one million of Mexico 's poorest citizens now live inside and
along our border from Brownsville , Texas to San Diego , California
in what the New York Times called, 'colonias' or new neighborhoods.
Trouble is, those living areas resemble Bombay and Calcutta where
grinding poverty, filth, diseases, drugs, crimes, no sanitation and
worse. They live without sewage, clean water, streets, roads,
electricity, or any kind of sanitation.
The New York Times reported them to be America 's new' Third
World' inside our own country. Within 20 years, at their current
growth rate, they expect 20 million residents of those colonias.
(I've seen them personally in Texas and Arizona ; it's sickening
beyond anything you can imagine.)
By enforcing our laws, we could repatriate them back to Mexico .
We should invite 20 million aliens to go home, fix their own
countries and/or make a better life in Mexico . We already invite
a million people into our country legally more than all other countries
combined annually. We cannot and must not allow anarchy at our
borders, more anarchy within our borders and growing lawlessness
at every level in our nation. It's time to stand up for our country,
our culture, our civilization and our way of life.
Interesting Statistics!
Here are 14 reasons illegal aliens should vacate America , and I
hope they are forwarded over and over again until they are read
so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them:
1. $14 billion to $22 billion dollars are spent each year on welfare
to illegal aliens.(that's Billion with a 'B') http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 billion dollars are spent each year on food assistance
programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for
illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $7.5 billion dollars are spent each year on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 billion dollars are spent each year on primary and secondary
school education for children here illegally and they still cannot
speak a word of English!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
5. $27 billion dollars are spent each year for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars 'PER DAY' is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
That's $1.2 Billion a year.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 28% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $190 billion dollars are spent each year on illegal aliens for
welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. -
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 billion dollars per year in suppressed American wages are
caused by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's
two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem
in the US .
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year 2005, there were 8 to 10 MILLION illegal
aliens that crossed our southern border with as many as 19,500
illegal aliens from other terrorist countries. Over 10,000 of those
were middle-eastern terrorists. Millions of pounds of drugs,
cocaine, meth, heroine, crack, Guns, and marijuana crossed into
the U.S.from the southern border. http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, estimates that the total cost of
mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion, or an
average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five
year period and nbsp;
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/publications/?b=deportation
13. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $65 BILLION in remittances
back to their countries of origin, to their families and friends.
http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. The dark side of illegal immigration: Nearly one million sex
crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States !
http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html
Total cost a whopping $538.3 BILLION DOLLARS
A YEAR!
If this doesn't bother YOU, then just delete the message.
Otherwise, forward this to everyoneYOU know!
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Teasing, Kegleys, and Christianity
My parents were Forest E. and Mary E. Kegley. They raised ten of us kids at 1227 McConnell Ave. in Portsmouth, Ohio. If they were living today (our dream wishes) they would be around 105 years old. Forest E. was among the greatest teases God ever created. Mary also liked a 'fun' tease.
I like to call myself TIO (The Innocent One) but I must admit it is a 'fun' tease to arouse the 'fun' ire of my family and friends who refuse to call me that, as I do- in all modesty. I was just thinking that, as our Heavenly Father knows each of us in our bits of ornrieness at times just like our fellow family members do, He still accepts us as innocents, so much so that He sent Jesus, His Son, to die for our ornriness defined as sins.
It is not a tease that each of us has sinned and it is a profound statement of our Christianity that we Christians (who accept Christ) are forgiven.
Our parents were great in our eyes and we would loudly proclaim with them the song's words for our Lord:
How Great Thou Art!
Sam
I like to call myself TIO (The Innocent One) but I must admit it is a 'fun' tease to arouse the 'fun' ire of my family and friends who refuse to call me that, as I do- in all modesty. I was just thinking that, as our Heavenly Father knows each of us in our bits of ornrieness at times just like our fellow family members do, He still accepts us as innocents, so much so that He sent Jesus, His Son, to die for our ornriness defined as sins.
It is not a tease that each of us has sinned and it is a profound statement of our Christianity that we Christians (who accept Christ) are forgiven.
Our parents were great in our eyes and we would loudly proclaim with them the song's words for our Lord:
How Great Thou Art!
Sam
Calipari hasn't forgotten his roots...
HomeWildcat Den StoriesBlogPhoto GalleryWildcat Apparel Calipari: Intervention carved path to Kentucky
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Kentucky coach John Calipari wasn’t born to coach. At least that’s what he thought before taking a job at Kansas that ushered in his successful coaching career.
While he was at Kansas, Calipari met his wife Ellen. It was also the beginning of a coaching career that has included successful stints at UMass, Memphis and Kentucky. Calipari grew up in Pittsburgh, but his coaching career was launched in Kansas.
It was all part of a plan that Calipari didn’t draw up originally in the game of life.
“Fate Intervenes in our lives,” he said. “Things happen to us that we do not deserve. Being born here (in the United States) versus being born somewhere else, you have nothing to do with that. There are things that happen to us in a good way and in also, ‘why me?’
“There are people making dumb decisions at the top of the business and people at the bottom of the business losing their job. What happened?”
Calipari wanted to be the coach at Kentucky three years when Tubby Smith resigned, but wasn’t hired.
It wasn’t his time, yet.
Instead, Kentucky employed Billy Gillispie, who was fired after two seasons with the Wildcats.
Calipari admitted that it would have been difficult to follow in Smith’s footsteps and added that it was mean for him to remain in Memphis until “fate intervened.” In between the letdown and the offer, Calipari was at the right place at the right time.
“It was two unbelievable years for me and my family and the players at Memphis needed us (at the time.),” he said. “Two years later, (Kentucky) needed me a little bit.”
Calipari originally wanted to be a teacher. Yes, a teacher. His career has involved teaching, which is what coaching basketball involves, a dose of both teaching and motivating skills.
“(Early) in my life, I never saw myself as a lawyer or a doctor,” Calipari said. “I didn’t have any in my family. We were all laborers. A teacher, that’s what I grew up thinking I was going to be, because that’s who I looked up to and that’s who I respected.”
Since Calipari has arrived at Kentucky, the Wildcats have returned to the limelight and “back in the conversation” as one of the most feared programs in the country. Four players from Calipari’s first recruiting class with the Wildcats were chosen in the first round of the NBA Draft last summer and indication that Calipari has indeed put Kentucky back on the map nationally.
“Aren’t you proud that we have kids from around the country wanting to come here?” he asked. “This is a player’s first program. We’re going to recruit the best and the brightest.”
Calipari, one of the most successful coaches in the collegiate ranks, hasn’t forgotten is roots, either.
“I’m the grandson of a coal miner, that’s who I am,” he said.
Copyright © 2009 ---.
Friday, 08 October 2010 14:35
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Kentucky coach John Calipari wasn’t born to coach. At least that’s what he thought before taking a job at Kansas that ushered in his successful coaching career.
While he was at Kansas, Calipari met his wife Ellen. It was also the beginning of a coaching career that has included successful stints at UMass, Memphis and Kentucky. Calipari grew up in Pittsburgh, but his coaching career was launched in Kansas.
It was all part of a plan that Calipari didn’t draw up originally in the game of life.
“Fate Intervenes in our lives,” he said. “Things happen to us that we do not deserve. Being born here (in the United States) versus being born somewhere else, you have nothing to do with that. There are things that happen to us in a good way and in also, ‘why me?’
“There are people making dumb decisions at the top of the business and people at the bottom of the business losing their job. What happened?”
Calipari wanted to be the coach at Kentucky three years when Tubby Smith resigned, but wasn’t hired.
It wasn’t his time, yet.
Instead, Kentucky employed Billy Gillispie, who was fired after two seasons with the Wildcats.
Calipari admitted that it would have been difficult to follow in Smith’s footsteps and added that it was mean for him to remain in Memphis until “fate intervened.” In between the letdown and the offer, Calipari was at the right place at the right time.
“It was two unbelievable years for me and my family and the players at Memphis needed us (at the time.),” he said. “Two years later, (Kentucky) needed me a little bit.”
Calipari originally wanted to be a teacher. Yes, a teacher. His career has involved teaching, which is what coaching basketball involves, a dose of both teaching and motivating skills.
“(Early) in my life, I never saw myself as a lawyer or a doctor,” Calipari said. “I didn’t have any in my family. We were all laborers. A teacher, that’s what I grew up thinking I was going to be, because that’s who I looked up to and that’s who I respected.”
Since Calipari has arrived at Kentucky, the Wildcats have returned to the limelight and “back in the conversation” as one of the most feared programs in the country. Four players from Calipari’s first recruiting class with the Wildcats were chosen in the first round of the NBA Draft last summer and indication that Calipari has indeed put Kentucky back on the map nationally.
“Aren’t you proud that we have kids from around the country wanting to come here?” he asked. “This is a player’s first program. We’re going to recruit the best and the brightest.”
Calipari, one of the most successful coaches in the collegiate ranks, hasn’t forgotten is roots, either.
“I’m the grandson of a coal miner, that’s who I am,” he said.
Copyright © 2009 ---.
How to call the police when you are old... recycled by one who renews herself daily... Mimi
enjoy enjoy! xxx mimi from chicago
Subject: HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU'RE OLD
HOW TO CALL THE POLICE
WHEN YOU'RE OLD
AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE.
George Phillips , an elderly man, from Meridian,
Mississippi,was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he'd left
the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom
window. George opened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw
that there were people in the shed stealing things.
He phoned the police, who asked"Is someone in
your house?"
He said "No," but some people are breaking into
my garden shed and stealing from me.
Then the police dispatcher said "All patrols are
busy. You should lock your doors and an officer will be along when one
is available.."
George said, "Okay."
He hung up the phone and counted to 30. Then he
phoned the police again..
"Hello,I just called you a few seconds ago
because there were people stealing things from my shed.. Well, you don't
have to worry about them now because I just shot and killed them both,
the dogs are eating them right now." and he hung up.
Within five minutes, six Police Cars, a SWAT
Team,a Helicopter, two Fire Trucks, a Paramedic, and an Ambulance showed
up at the Phillips' residence, and caught the burglars red-handed.
One of the Policemen said to George , "I thought
you said that you'd shot them!"
George said, "I thought you said there was
nobody available!"
(True Story) I LOVE IT!
Don't mess with old people.
Subject: HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU'RE OLD
HOW TO CALL THE POLICE
WHEN YOU'RE OLD
AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE.
George Phillips , an elderly man, from Meridian,
Mississippi,was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he'd left
the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom
window. George opened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw
that there were people in the shed stealing things.
He phoned the police, who asked"Is someone in
your house?"
He said "No," but some people are breaking into
my garden shed and stealing from me.
Then the police dispatcher said "All patrols are
busy. You should lock your doors and an officer will be along when one
is available.."
George said, "Okay."
He hung up the phone and counted to 30. Then he
phoned the police again..
"Hello,I just called you a few seconds ago
because there were people stealing things from my shed.. Well, you don't
have to worry about them now because I just shot and killed them both,
the dogs are eating them right now." and he hung up.
Within five minutes, six Police Cars, a SWAT
Team,a Helicopter, two Fire Trucks, a Paramedic, and an Ambulance showed
up at the Phillips' residence, and caught the burglars red-handed.
One of the Policemen said to George , "I thought
you said that you'd shot them!"
George said, "I thought you said there was
nobody available!"
(True Story) I LOVE IT!
Don't mess with old people.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Happy Birthday to me- But wait, it isn't my Birthday. It is my wife's, Jeanette Weddington Kegley
A Nesei, second generation Japanese from Hawaii, was a sergeant friend who shared our barack in Tokyo. Pop, (then 28, whereas most of us GI's were only 20-22) was the old man of our place. He would return to the barracks inebriated late Saturday or early Sunday and come to my room and look at Jeanie's picture beside my bunk. He had a little broken English and would say: "How You get so lucky, boy? Get such a beautiful woman?" He would laugh and giggle and just enjoy raising me out of a good sleep to pester me.
Well, I did get lucky, now nearly 61 years ago. Paul Stamm and Don Ramsey were good friends, my brother, Bud's age. They graduated from PHS in 1948. We would often ride out on a summer evening 'looking for girls'. I missed an evening with them once and they came back saying: "Oh, Sam! You have to go with us to New Boston." Stamm said: "Sam, I saw the prettiest thing ever and she is a great dancer! She is so pretty though she is just something you would put up on a shelf and look at."
Well, I could appreciate good jitterbugging and could see when it was being done, but I never danced and, literally, had two left feet for the required skills. Next night we motored up to New Boston and the teenage crowded Grierson's Drive In, beyond the lake, the kids all called the 'Honky Tonk'. I saw the 19 year old and I was impressed, but not overly so at first. She was among the very best at jitterbugging, the fast dance of the day. She could swing her elbows and whatever in the very smoothest and classiest way. Smooth she was, but the same age of my two friends and, since I was only 17 at the time, just not a girl I was eligible to pursue. But somehow, I soon came to my senses and decided I would try to date Jeanette Weddington. She resisted when I wanted to take her to a PHS basketball game and I believe she just didn't want to be seem with this 'kid' in public.
I began working as an usher at the popular Ohio Theatre in new Boston along with the Clark twins, Carl and Clare. I saw Jeanette more often and on nights I wasn't working she allowed me to walk her home, about 3/4 of a mile west of the lake. Those were great walks and I found that, unlike my bashfulness with a lot of the Portsmouth girls, I could carry a conversation with this sweet thing. She seemed to enjoy our conversations, but kept a certain distance, telling me again and again, that I was just "infatuated". That five syllable word was probably the longest I have ever heard her or anyone say. Perhaps I was that at that time. Slowly though, I fell more and more madly in love with Jeanette.
She must have felt something for me too. In fact, two years later, we were married in January, 1952, 59 years ago as we approach January 2011. I think now- many mornings later -of Pop Noburo Yamamoto saying: 'How lucky you can be boy?! Get such a pretty woman?' You know what? Pop wasn't just blowing smoke. She was pretty then and is only prettier now each day.
Happy birthday, my bride Jeanie! I am beginning to think this can just not be 'infatuation'.
Sam
Well, I did get lucky, now nearly 61 years ago. Paul Stamm and Don Ramsey were good friends, my brother, Bud's age. They graduated from PHS in 1948. We would often ride out on a summer evening 'looking for girls'. I missed an evening with them once and they came back saying: "Oh, Sam! You have to go with us to New Boston." Stamm said: "Sam, I saw the prettiest thing ever and she is a great dancer! She is so pretty though she is just something you would put up on a shelf and look at."
Well, I could appreciate good jitterbugging and could see when it was being done, but I never danced and, literally, had two left feet for the required skills. Next night we motored up to New Boston and the teenage crowded Grierson's Drive In, beyond the lake, the kids all called the 'Honky Tonk'. I saw the 19 year old and I was impressed, but not overly so at first. She was among the very best at jitterbugging, the fast dance of the day. She could swing her elbows and whatever in the very smoothest and classiest way. Smooth she was, but the same age of my two friends and, since I was only 17 at the time, just not a girl I was eligible to pursue. But somehow, I soon came to my senses and decided I would try to date Jeanette Weddington. She resisted when I wanted to take her to a PHS basketball game and I believe she just didn't want to be seem with this 'kid' in public.
I began working as an usher at the popular Ohio Theatre in new Boston along with the Clark twins, Carl and Clare. I saw Jeanette more often and on nights I wasn't working she allowed me to walk her home, about 3/4 of a mile west of the lake. Those were great walks and I found that, unlike my bashfulness with a lot of the Portsmouth girls, I could carry a conversation with this sweet thing. She seemed to enjoy our conversations, but kept a certain distance, telling me again and again, that I was just "infatuated". That five syllable word was probably the longest I have ever heard her or anyone say. Perhaps I was that at that time. Slowly though, I fell more and more madly in love with Jeanette.
She must have felt something for me too. In fact, two years later, we were married in January, 1952, 59 years ago as we approach January 2011. I think now- many mornings later -of Pop Noburo Yamamoto saying: 'How lucky you can be boy?! Get such a pretty woman?' You know what? Pop wasn't just blowing smoke. She was pretty then and is only prettier now each day.
Happy birthday, my bride Jeanie! I am beginning to think this can just not be 'infatuation'.
Sam
Ben Stein's message- Recycled- Thanks sweet sister Sharon Lundy
Thanks sweet sister, Sharon
----- Original Message -----
From: sharonelund@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 07:13
Subject: Fwd: GREAT MESSAGE
Subject: (no subject)
Only hope we find GOD again before it is too late ! !
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees... I don't feel threatened.. I don't feel discriminated against.. That's what they are, Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about.. And we said okay..
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit.
If not, then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
----- Original Message -----
From: sharonelund@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 07:13
Subject: Fwd: GREAT MESSAGE
Subject: (no subject)
Only hope we find GOD again before it is too late ! !
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees... I don't feel threatened.. I don't feel discriminated against.. That's what they are, Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about.. And we said okay..
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit.
If not, then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
Carol Vice- Two weeks after both knee replacements in Portsmouth OH
----- Original Message -----
From: Clay Vice
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 05:52
Subject: CAROL
HEY GUYS, A LITTLE UP-DATE ON CAROL'S PROGRESS. IT HAS BEEN TWO WEEKS SINCE THE OPERATION. SHE IS WALKING WITH A WALKER AND STILL HAS A LOT OF PAIN. SHE IS RECEIVING THE PAIN MEDICINE-LORI TABS. THEY HELP THE PAIN AND KEEP HER OUT OF LA LA LAND. SHE IS VERY ALERT ON THIS MEDICINE. SHE IS NOW WALKING ACROSS THE HALL TO THE SHOWER WHICH IS ABOUT 30 STEPS BOTH WAYS. SHE IS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH LETTING HERSELF SIT DOWN ON THE BED IN A SLOW AND EASY MANNER. AT THIS POINT SHE IS VERY TIRED AND WANTS TO JUST FALL OR FLOP DOWN ON THE BED, BUT LOOKING AT THE WHOLE PICTURE, SHE IS PROGRESSING WELL. WE MET WITH THE REHAB TEAM AND DR. AND THEY ARE GOING TO CONTACT THE INSURANCE CO. TO GET HER ONE MORE WEEK OF REHAB AND I THINK SHE WILL BE WALKING VERY WELL AT THAT POINT . I THINK SHE WILL STILL NEED SOME PHYSICAL THERAPY AND WE WILL CROSS THAT BRIDGE AT THAT POINT AND TIME
Thanks Clay,
Some individuals in life have an "Indomitable Spirit" which means they just cannot be beaten. You and Carol each have that, and God has not blessed us all in such a way. Our prayers are helping and the young Vice lady and you will pull this one through. Thank you, God!
Sam
From: Clay Vice
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 05:52
Subject: CAROL
HEY GUYS, A LITTLE UP-DATE ON CAROL'S PROGRESS. IT HAS BEEN TWO WEEKS SINCE THE OPERATION. SHE IS WALKING WITH A WALKER AND STILL HAS A LOT OF PAIN. SHE IS RECEIVING THE PAIN MEDICINE-LORI TABS. THEY HELP THE PAIN AND KEEP HER OUT OF LA LA LAND. SHE IS VERY ALERT ON THIS MEDICINE. SHE IS NOW WALKING ACROSS THE HALL TO THE SHOWER WHICH IS ABOUT 30 STEPS BOTH WAYS. SHE IS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH LETTING HERSELF SIT DOWN ON THE BED IN A SLOW AND EASY MANNER. AT THIS POINT SHE IS VERY TIRED AND WANTS TO JUST FALL OR FLOP DOWN ON THE BED, BUT LOOKING AT THE WHOLE PICTURE, SHE IS PROGRESSING WELL. WE MET WITH THE REHAB TEAM AND DR. AND THEY ARE GOING TO CONTACT THE INSURANCE CO. TO GET HER ONE MORE WEEK OF REHAB AND I THINK SHE WILL BE WALKING VERY WELL AT THAT POINT . I THINK SHE WILL STILL NEED SOME PHYSICAL THERAPY AND WE WILL CROSS THAT BRIDGE AT THAT POINT AND TIME
Thanks Clay,
Some individuals in life have an "Indomitable Spirit" which means they just cannot be beaten. You and Carol each have that, and God has not blessed us all in such a way. Our prayers are helping and the young Vice lady and you will pull this one through. Thank you, God!
Sam
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