Dear President Obama,
I am writing today with a somewhat unusual request. First and
foremost, I will be asking that you return America to its August
20th, 1959 borders so that Hawaii is no longer a state and you are no
longer a citizen.
Sincerely,
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Maxine sans cartoons... Thanks Carol & Clay Vice!
MAXINE AGAIN (Without her cartoons)
BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED, FOR THEY LET IN THE LIGHT!
TWENTY-NINE LINES TO MAKE YOU SMILE
1.My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn't.
2.I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every damn minute of it.
3. Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them.
4. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
5. Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.
6. You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me
7. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
8. Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.
9. I'm not a complete idiot -- Some parts are just missing.
10. Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
11. NyQuil, the stuffy, sneezy, why-the-heck- is-the-room- spinning medicine.
12. God must love stupid people; He made so many.
13. The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
14. Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
15. Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
16. Being 'over the hill' is much better than being under it!
17.Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew up.
18. Procrastinate Now!
19. I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts; Do You Want Fries With That?
20. A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
21. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
22. Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!
23.They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken.
24. He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless DEAD.
25. A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the memory.
26. Ham and eggs... A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.(how true)
27. The trouble with life is there's no background music.
28. The original point and click interface was a Smith & Wesson.
29. I smile because I don't know what the hell is going on.
Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends!Life is too short and friendsare too few!
BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED, FOR THEY LET IN THE LIGHT!
TWENTY-NINE LINES TO MAKE YOU SMILE
1.My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn't.
2.I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every damn minute of it.
3. Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them.
4. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
5. Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.
6. You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me
7. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
8. Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.
9. I'm not a complete idiot -- Some parts are just missing.
10. Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
11. NyQuil, the stuffy, sneezy, why-the-heck- is-the-room- spinning medicine.
12. God must love stupid people; He made so many.
13. The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
14. Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
15. Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
16. Being 'over the hill' is much better than being under it!
17.Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew up.
18. Procrastinate Now!
19. I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts; Do You Want Fries With That?
20. A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
21. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
22. Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!
23.They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken.
24. He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless DEAD.
25. A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the memory.
26. Ham and eggs... A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.(how true)
27. The trouble with life is there's no background music.
28. The original point and click interface was a Smith & Wesson.
29. I smile because I don't know what the hell is going on.
Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends!Life is too short and friendsare too few!
Proper fruit digesting- Dr. Oz Thanks Carol & Clay Vice!
Often these things are BS and I can't vouch for this one but perhaps it's worth considering? DC
DR. OZ on eating fruit !
Wow. This is truly enlightening. I thought it was going to be funny. But there are some very interesting healthy facts included here.
Read on.
EATING FRUIT
This is informative!
We all think eating fruit means just buying fruit, cutting it up and popping it into our mouths. It's not that easy. It's important to know how and when to eat fruit.
What's the correct way to eat fruit?
IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUIT AFTER A MEAL! FRUIT SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.
Eating fruit like that plays a major role in detoxifying your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.
FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD.
Let's say you eat two slices of bread, then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it's prevented from doing so.
In the meantime, the whole meal rots and ferments, and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach, and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil.
Eat your fruit on an empty stomach, or before your meal! You've heard people complain: Every time I eat watermelon I burp, when I eat durian my stomach bloats, when I eat a banana I feel like running to the toilet, etc. This will not happen if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach. Fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas. Hence, you bloat!
There's no such thing as some fruits, like orange and lemon are acidic, because all fruit becomes alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did research on this matter. If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruit, you have the Secret of Beauty, Longevity, Health, Energy, Happiness and normal weight.
When you need to drink fruit juice drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT the concentrated juice from the cans. Don't drink juice that has been heated. Don't eat cooked fruit; you don't get the nutrients at all. You get only the taste. Cooking destroys all of the vitamins.
Eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice. If you should drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it. You can go on a 3-day fruit-fast to cleanse your body. Eat fruit and drink fruit juice for just 3 days, and you will be surprised when your friends say how radiant you look!
KIWI: Tiny but mighty, and a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E and fiber. Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange!
AN APPLE a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants and flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C, thereby helping to lower the risk of colon cancer, heart attack and stroke.
STRAWBERRY: Protective Fruit.. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits and protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals.
EATING 2 - 4 ORANGES a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent and dissolve kidney stones, and reduce the risk of colon cancer.
WATERMELON: Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. Also a key source of lycopene, the cancer-fighting oxidant. Also found in watermelon: Vitamin C and Potassium.
GUAVA & PAPAYA: Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene, good for your eyes.
Drinking Cold water after a meal = Cancer!
Can you believe this? For those who like to drink cold water, this applies to you. It's nice to have a cold drink after a meal, however, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you've just consumed, which slows digestion. Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.
A serious note about heart attacks.
HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE
Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw. You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. Sixty percent of people who have a heart attack while they're asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Be careful, and be aware. The more we know, the better our chance to survive..
A cardiologist said if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.
It can even be your life!
DR. OZ on eating fruit !
Wow. This is truly enlightening. I thought it was going to be funny. But there are some very interesting healthy facts included here.
Read on.
EATING FRUIT
This is informative!
We all think eating fruit means just buying fruit, cutting it up and popping it into our mouths. It's not that easy. It's important to know how and when to eat fruit.
What's the correct way to eat fruit?
IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUIT AFTER A MEAL! FRUIT SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.
Eating fruit like that plays a major role in detoxifying your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.
FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD.
Let's say you eat two slices of bread, then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it's prevented from doing so.
In the meantime, the whole meal rots and ferments, and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach, and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil.
Eat your fruit on an empty stomach, or before your meal! You've heard people complain: Every time I eat watermelon I burp, when I eat durian my stomach bloats, when I eat a banana I feel like running to the toilet, etc. This will not happen if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach. Fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas. Hence, you bloat!
There's no such thing as some fruits, like orange and lemon are acidic, because all fruit becomes alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did research on this matter. If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruit, you have the Secret of Beauty, Longevity, Health, Energy, Happiness and normal weight.
When you need to drink fruit juice drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT the concentrated juice from the cans. Don't drink juice that has been heated. Don't eat cooked fruit; you don't get the nutrients at all. You get only the taste. Cooking destroys all of the vitamins.
Eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice. If you should drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it. You can go on a 3-day fruit-fast to cleanse your body. Eat fruit and drink fruit juice for just 3 days, and you will be surprised when your friends say how radiant you look!
KIWI: Tiny but mighty, and a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E and fiber. Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange!
AN APPLE a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants and flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C, thereby helping to lower the risk of colon cancer, heart attack and stroke.
STRAWBERRY: Protective Fruit.. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits and protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals.
EATING 2 - 4 ORANGES a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent and dissolve kidney stones, and reduce the risk of colon cancer.
WATERMELON: Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. Also a key source of lycopene, the cancer-fighting oxidant. Also found in watermelon: Vitamin C and Potassium.
GUAVA & PAPAYA: Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene, good for your eyes.
Drinking Cold water after a meal = Cancer!
Can you believe this? For those who like to drink cold water, this applies to you. It's nice to have a cold drink after a meal, however, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you've just consumed, which slows digestion. Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.
A serious note about heart attacks.
HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE
Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw. You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. Sixty percent of people who have a heart attack while they're asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Be careful, and be aware. The more we know, the better our chance to survive..
A cardiologist said if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.
It can even be your life!
For America, not illegals! Thanks Clay Vice!
America- Spit on her, burn her flag, set up mosques at Ground Zero. She worries about offending you. Quite a few of us don't feel like that anymore.
We say enough is enough! Have some humility when you get here or get out!
SamKat
Robert E. Lee watched as his friends died in the Civil War, my grandfather watched as his friends died in WW II, and my father watched as my friends died in Vietnam .
None of them died for the Mexican Flag.
Everyone died for the U.S. flag.
In Texas , a student raised a Mexican flag on a school flag pole; another student took it down. Guess who was expelled...the kid who took it down.
Kids in high school in California were sent home on Cinco de Mayo because they wore T-shirts with the American flag printed on them.
Enough is enough.
The below e-mail message needs to be viewed by every American; and every American needs to stand up for America .
We've bent over to appease the America-haters long enough.
I'm taking a stand.
I'm standing up because the hundreds of thousands who died fighting in wars for this country, and for the U.S. flag can't stand up.
And shame on anyone who tries to make this a racist message.
Let me make this perfectly clear!
THIS IS MY COUNTRY!
And, because I make This statement
DOES NOT
Mean I'm against immigration!!!
YOU ARE WELCOME HERE, IN MY COUNTRY!
Welcome! To come through legally:
1. Get a sponsor!
2. Get a place to lay your head!
3.Get a job!
4.Live ByOURRules!
5.Pay YOURTaxes!
And
6.Learn theLANGUAGElike immigrants have in the past!!!
AND
7.Please don't demand that we hand over our lifetime savings of Social Security Funds to you.
If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone,
Then YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
When will AMERICANS STOP giving awayTHEIR RIGHTS???
We've gone so far the other way...
bent over backwards not to offend anyone.
But it seems no one cares about the
AMERICAN CITIZEN
that's being offended!
WAKE UP America !!!
If You agree.... Pass this on.
If You don't agree.. Delete It!!!
We say enough is enough! Have some humility when you get here or get out!
SamKat
Robert E. Lee watched as his friends died in the Civil War, my grandfather watched as his friends died in WW II, and my father watched as my friends died in Vietnam .
None of them died for the Mexican Flag.
Everyone died for the U.S. flag.
In Texas , a student raised a Mexican flag on a school flag pole; another student took it down. Guess who was expelled...the kid who took it down.
Kids in high school in California were sent home on Cinco de Mayo because they wore T-shirts with the American flag printed on them.
Enough is enough.
The below e-mail message needs to be viewed by every American; and every American needs to stand up for America .
We've bent over to appease the America-haters long enough.
I'm taking a stand.
I'm standing up because the hundreds of thousands who died fighting in wars for this country, and for the U.S. flag can't stand up.
And shame on anyone who tries to make this a racist message.
Let me make this perfectly clear!
THIS IS MY COUNTRY!
And, because I make This statement
DOES NOT
Mean I'm against immigration!!!
YOU ARE WELCOME HERE, IN MY COUNTRY!
Welcome! To come through legally:
1. Get a sponsor!
2. Get a place to lay your head!
3.Get a job!
4.Live ByOURRules!
5.Pay YOURTaxes!
And
6.Learn theLANGUAGElike immigrants have in the past!!!
AND
7.Please don't demand that we hand over our lifetime savings of Social Security Funds to you.
If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone,
Then YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
When will AMERICANS STOP giving awayTHEIR RIGHTS???
We've gone so far the other way...
bent over backwards not to offend anyone.
But it seems no one cares about the
AMERICAN CITIZEN
that's being offended!
WAKE UP America !!!
If You agree.... Pass this on.
If You don't agree.. Delete It!!!
Talking Pennsylvaninan... Thanks Marge Rusnak!
Kegleys originally migrated from Germany to PA and then George Kegley homesteaded in Wythville, VA. From there they came on into KY, WVa, Ohio, etc. I understand most of this "Langwitch' Marge, but then PA Dutch is another language all to itself.
Sam
TALKING "PENNSYLVANIAN"
The Strange Langwitch
baby coach- Noun. Chiefly Eastern Pennsylvania and Chesapeake Bay
A baby carriage
Lunch meat- noun- Called cold cuts elsewhere.
For those who think we Pennsylvanians 'talk funny' or use 'big words~ here's why ....
Once a Pennsylvanian, ALWAYS a Pennsylvanian!
About Pennsylvanians: You've never referred to Philadelphia as anything but "Philly" and New Jersey has always been 'Jersey'...We don't go to the beach -- we go "down the shore."
You refer to Pennsylvania as 'PA' (pronounced Pee-Ay).
How many other states do that??
'You guys' (or even 'youze guys', in some places) is a perfectly acceptable reference to a group of men and women.
You know how to respond to the question "Djeetyet?' (Did you eat yet?)
You know that the Iggles play football and so do the Stillers.
You learned to pronounce Bryn Mawr, Wilkes-Barre , Schuylkill , the Poconos,Tamaqua, Kutztown, Tunkahannock, Bala Cynwyd, Kishacoquillas, Duquesne and Monongahela, also Conshohocken.
And we know Lancaster is pronounced Lank-ister,not Lan-kaster.
You know what Mummers are, and are disappointed if you can't catch at least highlights of the parade.
At least five people on your block have electric 'candles' in all or most of their windows all year long.
You know what a 'State Store' is, and your out-of-state friends find it incredulous that you can't purchase liquor at the mini-mart.
Words like 'hoagie,' 'crick,' 'chipped ham,' 'dippy eggs', 'sticky buns,' 'shoo-fly pie,' 'lemon sponge pie', 'pierogies' and 'pocketbook' actually mean something to you. (By the way, that last one's PA slang for a purse!) I'll add the food "scapple."
You not only have heard of Birch Beer, but you know it comes in several colors.
You know the difference between a cheese steak and a pizza steak sandwich, and you know that you also can't get a really good one anywhere outside of the Philly area. (Except maybe in Atlantic City on the Boardwalk).
You know that Blue Ball, Intercourse, Paradise, Climax, Bird-in-Hand, Beaver, Moon, Virginville, Mars, Bethlehem, Hershey, Indiana,Sinking Spring, Jersey Shore, State College, Washington Crossing, Jim Thorpe, Eighty-Four, King of Prussia, Wind Gap, and Slippery Rock are all PA towns ... and the first three were consecutive stops on the old Reading RR! (PS - That's pronounced
Redd-ing.)
You can identify drivers from New York , New Jersey , Maryland or other neighboring states by their unique and irritating driving habits.
A traffic jam in Lancaster County is 10 cars waiting to pass a horse-drawn carriage on the highway. (And remember .... that's Lank-ister!)
You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
Driving is always better in winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
As a kid, you built snow forts and leaf piles that were taller than you were.
You know beer doesn't grow in a garden, but you know where to find a beer garden.
You actually understand all this and send it out to other Pennsylvaniansor former Pennsylvanians. It's scary, isn't it!
YEAH! THAT'S GOOD OL' PA AND WE LOVE IT!
And send it to people that never lived in P-A and confuse them, because nice matters.
Youn's all play nice now once. I hafta make me some dippy eggs.
Sam
TALKING "PENNSYLVANIAN"
The Strange Langwitch
baby coach- Noun. Chiefly Eastern Pennsylvania and Chesapeake Bay
A baby carriage
Lunch meat- noun- Called cold cuts elsewhere.
For those who think we Pennsylvanians 'talk funny' or use 'big words~ here's why ....
Once a Pennsylvanian, ALWAYS a Pennsylvanian!
About Pennsylvanians: You've never referred to Philadelphia as anything but "Philly" and New Jersey has always been 'Jersey'...We don't go to the beach -- we go "down the shore."
You refer to Pennsylvania as 'PA' (pronounced Pee-Ay).
How many other states do that??
'You guys' (or even 'youze guys', in some places) is a perfectly acceptable reference to a group of men and women.
You know how to respond to the question "Djeetyet?' (Did you eat yet?)
You know that the Iggles play football and so do the Stillers.
You learned to pronounce Bryn Mawr, Wilkes-Barre , Schuylkill , the Poconos,Tamaqua, Kutztown, Tunkahannock, Bala Cynwyd, Kishacoquillas, Duquesne and Monongahela, also Conshohocken.
And we know Lancaster is pronounced Lank-ister,not Lan-kaster.
You know what Mummers are, and are disappointed if you can't catch at least highlights of the parade.
At least five people on your block have electric 'candles' in all or most of their windows all year long.
You know what a 'State Store' is, and your out-of-state friends find it incredulous that you can't purchase liquor at the mini-mart.
Words like 'hoagie,' 'crick,' 'chipped ham,' 'dippy eggs', 'sticky buns,' 'shoo-fly pie,' 'lemon sponge pie', 'pierogies' and 'pocketbook' actually mean something to you. (By the way, that last one's PA slang for a purse!) I'll add the food "scapple."
You not only have heard of Birch Beer, but you know it comes in several colors.
You know the difference between a cheese steak and a pizza steak sandwich, and you know that you also can't get a really good one anywhere outside of the Philly area. (Except maybe in Atlantic City on the Boardwalk).
You know that Blue Ball, Intercourse, Paradise, Climax, Bird-in-Hand, Beaver, Moon, Virginville, Mars, Bethlehem, Hershey, Indiana,Sinking Spring, Jersey Shore, State College, Washington Crossing, Jim Thorpe, Eighty-Four, King of Prussia, Wind Gap, and Slippery Rock are all PA towns ... and the first three were consecutive stops on the old Reading RR! (PS - That's pronounced
Redd-ing.)
You can identify drivers from New York , New Jersey , Maryland or other neighboring states by their unique and irritating driving habits.
A traffic jam in Lancaster County is 10 cars waiting to pass a horse-drawn carriage on the highway. (And remember .... that's Lank-ister!)
You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
Driving is always better in winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
As a kid, you built snow forts and leaf piles that were taller than you were.
You know beer doesn't grow in a garden, but you know where to find a beer garden.
You actually understand all this and send it out to other Pennsylvaniansor former Pennsylvanians. It's scary, isn't it!
YEAH! THAT'S GOOD OL' PA AND WE LOVE IT!
And send it to people that never lived in P-A and confuse them, because nice matters.
Youn's all play nice now once. I hafta make me some dippy eggs.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Christian person week... thanks Carol & Clay Vice!
Always show the heart of Christ and give the world a smile each day!
JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT IT IS CHRISTIAN PERSON WEEK AND YOU SHOULD SEND THIS TO ALL BEAUTIFUL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE.
When I say that 'I am a Christian', I am not shouting that 'I am clean living.
I'm whispering 'I was lost, but now I'm found and forgiven.'
When I say 'I am a Christian' I don't speak of this with pride.
I'm confessing that I stumble and need Christ to be my guide.
When I say 'I am a Christian' I'm not trying to be strong.
I'm professing that I'm weak and need His strength to carry on.
When I say 'I am a Christian' I'm not bragging of success.
I'm admitting I have failed and need God to clean my mess.
When I say 'I am a Christian' I'm not claiming to be perfect.
My flaws are far too visible, but God believes I am worth it.
When I say 'I am a Christian' I still feel the sting of pain.
I have my share of heartaches, so I call upon His name.
When I say 'I am a Christian' I'm not holier than thou,
I'm just a simple sinner who received God's good grace, somehow!
Today is Beautiful Christian Person's Day.
Pretty is as pretty does, but beautiful is just plain beautiful..
I'm supposed to send this to Beautiful People,
and you are one of them!!!
If you share this with another person, you will boost another person's
self esteem, and they will know you care about them!
Be Blessed, Be a Blessing.
--
--
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)
IN GOD WE TRUST
JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT IT IS CHRISTIAN PERSON WEEK AND YOU SHOULD SEND THIS TO ALL BEAUTIFUL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE.
When I say that 'I am a Christian', I am not shouting that 'I am clean living.
I'm whispering 'I was lost, but now I'm found and forgiven.'
When I say 'I am a Christian' I don't speak of this with pride.
I'm confessing that I stumble and need Christ to be my guide.
When I say 'I am a Christian' I'm not trying to be strong.
I'm professing that I'm weak and need His strength to carry on.
When I say 'I am a Christian' I'm not bragging of success.
I'm admitting I have failed and need God to clean my mess.
When I say 'I am a Christian' I'm not claiming to be perfect.
My flaws are far too visible, but God believes I am worth it.
When I say 'I am a Christian' I still feel the sting of pain.
I have my share of heartaches, so I call upon His name.
When I say 'I am a Christian' I'm not holier than thou,
I'm just a simple sinner who received God's good grace, somehow!
Today is Beautiful Christian Person's Day.
Pretty is as pretty does, but beautiful is just plain beautiful..
I'm supposed to send this to Beautiful People,
and you are one of them!!!
If you share this with another person, you will boost another person's
self esteem, and they will know you care about them!
Be Blessed, Be a Blessing.
--
--
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)
IN GOD WE TRUST
Sobering news from friend Marge Rusnak of D.C.
And Canada is in or being sucked into the US hip Pocket
There is nothing political about this email.
It simply points out very probable changes that are in our future.
CHANGES ARE COMING ----
Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them.
But, ready or not, here they come
1. The Post Office.
Get ready to imagine a world without the post office.
They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term.
Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive.
Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.
2. The Check.
Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018.
It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks.
Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check.
This plays right into the death of the post office.
If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.
3. The Newspaper.
The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper.
They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition.
That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man.
As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it.
The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an
alliance.
They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.
4. The Book.
You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages.
I said the same thing about downloading music fromiTunes.
I wanted my hard copy CD.
But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music.
The same thing will happen with books.
You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy.
And the price is less than half that of a real book.
And think of the convenience!
Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story,
can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.
5. The Land Line Telephone.
Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore.
Most people keep it simply because they've always had it.
But you are paying double charges for that extra service.
All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes
6. Music.
This is one of the saddest parts of the change story.
The music industry is dying a slow death.
Not just because of illegal downloading.
It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the
people who would like to hear it.
Greed and corruption is the problem.
The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing.
Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalog items," meaning traditional
music that the public is familiar with. Older established artists.
This is also true on the live concert circuit.
To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book,
"Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper,
and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies."
7. Television.
Revenues to the networks are down dramatically.
Not just because of the economy.
People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers.
And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV.
Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator.
Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds.
I say good riddance to most of it.
It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery.
Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.
8. The "Things" That You Own.
Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the
future.
They may simply reside in "the cloud."
Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents.
Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be.
But all of that is changing.
Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services."
That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system.
So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet.
If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud.
If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud.
And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider.
In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your
whatever from any laptop or handheld device.
That's the good news.
But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear
at any moment in a big "Poof?"
Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical?
It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case
and pull out the insert.
9. Privacy.
If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy..
That's gone.
It's been gone for a long time anyway.
There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone.
But you can be sure that 24/7,
"They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View.
If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits.
And "They" will try to get you to buy something else.
Again and again.
All we will have that can't be changed are Memories.
19 Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will Blow Your Mind
The United States is rapidly becoming the very first "post-industrial" nation on the globe.
All great economic empires eventually become fat and lazy and squander the great wealth that their forefathers have left them,
but the pace at which America is accomplishing this is absolutely amazing.
It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution.
It was America that showed the world how to mass produce everything from automobiles to televisions to airplanes.
It was the great American manufacturing base that crushed Germany and Japan in World War II.
But now we are witnessing the deindustrialization of America .
Tens of thousands of factories have left the United States in the past decade alone.
Millions upon millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost in the same time period.
The United States has become a nation that consumes everything in sight and yet produces increasingly little.
Do you know what our biggest export is today?
Waste paper.
Yes, trash is the number one thing that we ship out to the rest of the world as we voraciously blow our money on
whatever the rest of the world wants to sell to us.
The United States has become bloated and spoiled and our economy is now just a shadow of what it once was.
Once upon a time America could literally out produce the rest of the world combined.
Today that is no longer true, but Americans sure do consume more than anyone else in the world.
If the deindustrialization of America continues at this current pace, what possible kind of a future are we going to be leaving to our children?
Any great nation throughout history has been great at making things.
So if the United States continues to allow its manufacturing base to erode at a staggering pace how in the world can the U.S. continue to consider itself to be a great nation?
We have created the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world in an effort to maintain a very high standard of living, but the current state of affairs is not anywhere close to sustainable.
Every single month America goes into more debt and every single month America gets poorer.
So what happens when the debt bubble pops?
The deindustrialization of the United States should be a top concern for every man, woman and child in the country.
But sadly, most Americans do not have any idea what is going on around them.
For people like that, take this article and print it out and hand it to them.
Perhaps what they will read below will shock them badly enough to awaken them from their slumber.
The following are 19 facts about the deindustrialization of America that will blow your mind....
#1 The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001.
About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500 people when they were still in operation.
#2 Dell Inc., one of America 's largest manufacturers of computers, has announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in China with an investment of over $100 billion over the next decade.
#3 Dell has announced that it will be closing its last large U.S. manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem , North Carolina in November.
Approximately 900 jobs will be lost.
#4 In 2008, 1.2 billion cell phones were sold worldwide.
So how many of them were manufactured inside the United States ? Zero.
#5 According to a new study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute,
if the U.S. trade deficit with China continues to increase at its current
rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half a million jobs this year alone.
#6 As of the end of July, the U.S. trade deficit with China had risen 18
percent compared to the same time period a year ago.
#7 The United States has lost a total of about 5.5 million manufacturing
jobs since October 2000.
#8 According to Tax Notes, between 1999 and 2008 employment at the
foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies increased an astounding 30 percent to
10.1 million. During that exact same time period, U.S. employment at
American multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1 million.
#9 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S. economic output.
In 2008, it represented 11.5 percent.
#10 Ford Motor Company recently announced the closure of a factory that
produces the Ford Ranger in St. Paul , Minnesota . Approximately 750 good
paying middle class jobs are going to be lost because making Ford Rangers
in Minnesota does not fit in with Ford's new "global" manufacturing strategy.
#11 As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in
manufacturing. The last time less than 12 million Americans were employed
in manufacturing was in 1941.
#12 In the United States today, consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP.
Of this 70 percent, over half is spent on services.
#13 The United States has lost a whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing
jobs since the year 2000.
#14 In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita
broadband Internet use. Today it ranks 15th.
#15 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually
lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.
#16 Printed circuit boards are used in tens of thousands of different products.
Asia now produces 84 percent of them worldwide.
#17 The United States spends approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for
every $1 that the Chinese spend on goods from the United States .
#18 One prominent economist is projecting that the Chinese economy will
be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.
#19 The U.S. Census Bureau says that 43.6 million Americans are now
living in poverty and according to them that is the highest number of poor
Americans in the 51 years that records have been kept.
So how many tens of thousands more factories do we need to lose before we
do something about it?
How many millions more Americans are going to become unemployed before we
all admit that we have a very, very serious problem on our hands?
How many more trillions of dollars are going to leave the country before
we realize that we are losing wealth at a pace that is killing our economy?
How many once great manufacturing cities are going to become rotting war
zones like Detroit before we understand that we are committing national
economic suicide?
The deindustrialization of America is a national crisis.. It needs to be
treated like one.
If you disagree with this article, I have a direct challenge for you.
If anyone can explain how a deindustrialized America has any kind of viable
economic future, please do so below in the comments section.
America is in deep, deep trouble folks.
It is time to wake up.
There is nothing political about this email.
It simply points out very probable changes that are in our future.
CHANGES ARE COMING ----
Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them.
But, ready or not, here they come
1. The Post Office.
Get ready to imagine a world without the post office.
They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term.
Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive.
Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.
2. The Check.
Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018.
It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks.
Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check.
This plays right into the death of the post office.
If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.
3. The Newspaper.
The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper.
They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition.
That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man.
As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it.
The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an
alliance.
They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.
4. The Book.
You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages.
I said the same thing about downloading music fromiTunes.
I wanted my hard copy CD.
But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music.
The same thing will happen with books.
You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy.
And the price is less than half that of a real book.
And think of the convenience!
Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story,
can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.
5. The Land Line Telephone.
Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore.
Most people keep it simply because they've always had it.
But you are paying double charges for that extra service.
All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes
6. Music.
This is one of the saddest parts of the change story.
The music industry is dying a slow death.
Not just because of illegal downloading.
It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the
people who would like to hear it.
Greed and corruption is the problem.
The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing.
Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalog items," meaning traditional
music that the public is familiar with. Older established artists.
This is also true on the live concert circuit.
To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book,
"Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper,
and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies."
7. Television.
Revenues to the networks are down dramatically.
Not just because of the economy.
People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers.
And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV.
Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator.
Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds.
I say good riddance to most of it.
It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery.
Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.
8. The "Things" That You Own.
Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the
future.
They may simply reside in "the cloud."
Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents.
Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be.
But all of that is changing.
Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services."
That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system.
So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet.
If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud.
If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud.
And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider.
In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your
whatever from any laptop or handheld device.
That's the good news.
But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear
at any moment in a big "Poof?"
Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical?
It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case
and pull out the insert.
9. Privacy.
If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy..
That's gone.
It's been gone for a long time anyway.
There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone.
But you can be sure that 24/7,
"They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View.
If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits.
And "They" will try to get you to buy something else.
Again and again.
All we will have that can't be changed are Memories.
19 Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will Blow Your Mind
The United States is rapidly becoming the very first "post-industrial" nation on the globe.
All great economic empires eventually become fat and lazy and squander the great wealth that their forefathers have left them,
but the pace at which America is accomplishing this is absolutely amazing.
It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution.
It was America that showed the world how to mass produce everything from automobiles to televisions to airplanes.
It was the great American manufacturing base that crushed Germany and Japan in World War II.
But now we are witnessing the deindustrialization of America .
Tens of thousands of factories have left the United States in the past decade alone.
Millions upon millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost in the same time period.
The United States has become a nation that consumes everything in sight and yet produces increasingly little.
Do you know what our biggest export is today?
Waste paper.
Yes, trash is the number one thing that we ship out to the rest of the world as we voraciously blow our money on
whatever the rest of the world wants to sell to us.
The United States has become bloated and spoiled and our economy is now just a shadow of what it once was.
Once upon a time America could literally out produce the rest of the world combined.
Today that is no longer true, but Americans sure do consume more than anyone else in the world.
If the deindustrialization of America continues at this current pace, what possible kind of a future are we going to be leaving to our children?
Any great nation throughout history has been great at making things.
So if the United States continues to allow its manufacturing base to erode at a staggering pace how in the world can the U.S. continue to consider itself to be a great nation?
We have created the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world in an effort to maintain a very high standard of living, but the current state of affairs is not anywhere close to sustainable.
Every single month America goes into more debt and every single month America gets poorer.
So what happens when the debt bubble pops?
The deindustrialization of the United States should be a top concern for every man, woman and child in the country.
But sadly, most Americans do not have any idea what is going on around them.
For people like that, take this article and print it out and hand it to them.
Perhaps what they will read below will shock them badly enough to awaken them from their slumber.
The following are 19 facts about the deindustrialization of America that will blow your mind....
#1 The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001.
About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500 people when they were still in operation.
#2 Dell Inc., one of America 's largest manufacturers of computers, has announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in China with an investment of over $100 billion over the next decade.
#3 Dell has announced that it will be closing its last large U.S. manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem , North Carolina in November.
Approximately 900 jobs will be lost.
#4 In 2008, 1.2 billion cell phones were sold worldwide.
So how many of them were manufactured inside the United States ? Zero.
#5 According to a new study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute,
if the U.S. trade deficit with China continues to increase at its current
rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half a million jobs this year alone.
#6 As of the end of July, the U.S. trade deficit with China had risen 18
percent compared to the same time period a year ago.
#7 The United States has lost a total of about 5.5 million manufacturing
jobs since October 2000.
#8 According to Tax Notes, between 1999 and 2008 employment at the
foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies increased an astounding 30 percent to
10.1 million. During that exact same time period, U.S. employment at
American multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1 million.
#9 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S. economic output.
In 2008, it represented 11.5 percent.
#10 Ford Motor Company recently announced the closure of a factory that
produces the Ford Ranger in St. Paul , Minnesota . Approximately 750 good
paying middle class jobs are going to be lost because making Ford Rangers
in Minnesota does not fit in with Ford's new "global" manufacturing strategy.
#11 As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in
manufacturing. The last time less than 12 million Americans were employed
in manufacturing was in 1941.
#12 In the United States today, consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP.
Of this 70 percent, over half is spent on services.
#13 The United States has lost a whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing
jobs since the year 2000.
#14 In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita
broadband Internet use. Today it ranks 15th.
#15 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually
lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.
#16 Printed circuit boards are used in tens of thousands of different products.
Asia now produces 84 percent of them worldwide.
#17 The United States spends approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for
every $1 that the Chinese spend on goods from the United States .
#18 One prominent economist is projecting that the Chinese economy will
be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.
#19 The U.S. Census Bureau says that 43.6 million Americans are now
living in poverty and according to them that is the highest number of poor
Americans in the 51 years that records have been kept.
So how many tens of thousands more factories do we need to lose before we
do something about it?
How many millions more Americans are going to become unemployed before we
all admit that we have a very, very serious problem on our hands?
How many more trillions of dollars are going to leave the country before
we realize that we are losing wealth at a pace that is killing our economy?
How many once great manufacturing cities are going to become rotting war
zones like Detroit before we understand that we are committing national
economic suicide?
The deindustrialization of America is a national crisis.. It needs to be
treated like one.
If you disagree with this article, I have a direct challenge for you.
If anyone can explain how a deindustrialized America has any kind of viable
economic future, please do so below in the comments section.
America is in deep, deep trouble folks.
It is time to wake up.
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