Senior Cartoons . . . Tyx Sarah R!

Do go right to end of this e-mail!

Who says senior citizens don't wear stylish clothes?                 During a visit to my doctor, I asked him, "How do you determine whether or not an older person should be put in an old age home?"    "Well," he said, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the person to empty the bathtub."     "Oh, I understand," I said. "A normal person would use the bucket because it is bigger than the spoon or the teacup."    "No," he said. "A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a bed near the window?"    ARE YOU GOING TO PASS THIS ON … OR DO YOU WANT THE BED NEXT TO MINE?   Congratulations!  Oh ... Find the 44th USA President.    Well, congratulations, you're not color blind either!    SENIOR CITIZENS ARE THE NATION'S LEADING CARRIERS OF AIDS!      HEARING AIDS    BAND AIDS    ROLL AIDS   WALKING AIDS    MEDICAL AIDS     GOVERNMENT AIDS    MOST OF ALL,    MONETARY AIDS TO THEIR KIDS!   Not forgetting HIV (Hair is Vanishing)  Give me the grace to see a joke,  To get some humor out of life,  And pass it on to other folk.   I'm only sending this to my 'old' friends.      I love to see you smile

Psychotherapy for Seniors . . . Thx Marge R!

Psychotherapy for Retirees 
 
How to Maintain a Healthy Level
  Of     Insanity in RETIREMENT...

 1.
At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on, point a hair dryer at passing cars and watch them slow down!

 2.
On all your check stubs, write, "For Sexual Favors"
 
 3.
 Skip down the street rather than walk, and see how many looks you get.
   4.
 With a serious face, order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat.
  5.
 Sing along at The Opera.

  6.
 When the money comes out of the ATM, scream 'I Won! I Won!'

 7.
 When leaving the Zoo, start running towards the car park, yelling, 'Run For Your Lives! They're Loose!'
   8.
 Tell your children over dinner, 'Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go....'
  9.
 Pick up a box of condoms at the pharmacy, go to the counter and ask where the fitting room is.

 And The Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity: My Favorite...

  10.
 Go to a large Department store's fitting room, drop your drawers to your ankles and yell out, "There's no paper in here!"
  Now send this email to someone to make them SMILE... 
it's called 'therapy'!
 

Master of Card Tricks . . . Thx Gary I !

WOW!

Subject: FW: Master of the Sleight of Hand

Incredible !!   This has to be one of the best in the world!!!  An illusionist who continues to baffle...

 

This might possibly be the most amazing card trick you have EVER seen!  It was developed by the magician after the terrorist attacks in Paris, France.  Supposedly, he did this in front of Penn and Teller on TV and they just shook their heads in disbelief. This is truly a must watch

                 https://www.youtube-nocookie.c om/embed/xh9GaDgRWX4?rel=0

Four Great Accomplishments . . . Thx Dr. Ralph H!

             Four Great Accomplishments

Overpopulation by Illegal Immigration- California Plus . . . Thx Keith B and Sarah R!

Serious but true

 

Can you believe this guy was a Democrat Governor of Colorado.  He was never very impressive until now. His comments are right on the mark. Wherever you stand, please take the time to read this; it ought to scare the beejeebers out of you!

 

We know Dick Lamm as Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of America 's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by the name of Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, 'Mexifornia,' explaining how immigration - both legal and illegal was destroying the entire state of California . He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream. Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, 'If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that 'An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.'

 

'Here is how they do it,' Lamm said:

 

'First, to destroy America, turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bi-cultural country...  History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: 'The histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.' Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, Corsicans and Muslims.'

 

Lamm went on:

 

'Second, to destroy America , invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. Make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal; that there are no cultural differences. Make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.

 

'Third, we could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: 'The apparent success of our own multi-ethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentricy and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.' Lamm said, 'I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities.'

 

 'Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, un-assimilated, under-educated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school.'

 

'My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology...'I would get all minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority.'

 

'My sixth plan for America 's downfall would include dual citizenship, and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precept. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. 'E. Pluribus Unum' -- From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus' instead of the 'Unum,' we will 'Balkanize' America as surely as Kosovo.''

 

Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits. Make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt discussion and debate. Having made America a bilingual/bi-cultural country, having established multi-culturalism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them.'

 

In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said, 'Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson Davis's book 'Mexifornia.' His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel America deserves to be destroyed, don't read that book.'

 

There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference. Every American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today. Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Even barbaric cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate 'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations create a Third World in America Take note of California and other states. To date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell's book '1984.' In that story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building: 'War is peace,' 'Freedom is slavery,' and 'Ignorance is strength.'

 

Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don't get this immigration monster stopped within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its path, especially The American Dream.

 

If you care for and love our country as I do, take the time to pass this on just as I did for you.

 

NOTHING is going to happen if you don't!

 

 

Meeting the Gorgeous New Teacher . . . Thx Marge R!

 Video Of The Day: Meeting The Gorgeous New Teacher

Funny, Cool, and Interesting Videos No Images? Click here VIDEO OF THE DAY Meeting The Gorgeous New Teacher See the reactions of these kids when they meet their gorgeous new teacher in this funny Candid Camera episode form 1965.

Thx Bleacher Report and good friend, Judi C!

John Calipari's New Sales Pitch: Become a One-and-a-Half-and-Done Player

By Reid Forgrave, Contributor 

Jan 11, 2017

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Another season of college basketball in Lexington, Kentucky, another innovation by head coach John Calipari that could change the game.

On Saturday, Hamidou Diallo, an absurdly athletic 18-year-old shooting guard from New York City who's ranked 10th in his class, committed to play basketball at the University of Kentucky. In and of itself, that fact—one of the top prospects of the 2017 high school class joining Calipari's already loaded recruiting class—is not of particular note. Calipari has had the top-ranked or second-ranked recruiting class for each of his eight seasons at Kentucky. Next year will be more of the same.

But here's what's game-changing about Diallo's commitment: Instead of finishing out his postgraduate season at Putnam Science Academy, a private boarding school in Connecticut, Diallo is enrolling at Kentucky during semester break and joining the roster immediately, per ESPN.com's Jeff Borzello.

Calipari, who has harnessed the power of one-and-dones to change college basketball over the past decade, is now ushering in an age featuring a different breed of player: the one-and-a-half-and-done.

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You may agree with this strategy, thinking better coaching and a heightened focus on basketball can only be a positive for young men like Diallo, who will almost certainly be in the NBA in the near future. Or you could be disgusted by it, believing Calipari cheapened the experience of college basketball by his full embrace of one-and-dones; now he's cheapening the experience of high school basketball by plucking kids from those rosters. It won't be the first time that Calipari has engendered extreme views on both sides of an issue. He is, after all, one of the most polarizing figures in sports.

With his larger-than-life personality, his willingness to speak uncomfortable and sometimes unpopular truths about his sport, and his desire to look at the status quo as an obstacle instead of as a rule, Calipari makes college hoops more relevant than it would ever be without him. And that's the case with his newest innovation of one-and-a-half-and-dones.

During Calipari's remarkable stint at Kentucky, he hasn't simply recruited better players than anyone else and gotten them to sync so quickly that he's made four Final Fours in eight seasons. He looks at where the elite level of college basketball is heading and pushes the envelope to become the first coach to take it there.

He was famously the first college coach to fully embrace the NBA's one-and-done rule, and he did so with complete honesty. Come to Kentucky, he tells recruits, and I'll do everything I can to make sure you're walking across that stage at the NBA draft in a year.

He organized his own Kentucky-only NBA combine. When he recruited a team that was too talented, he instituted a hockey-style substitution system, subbing in entirely new lineups in order to dole out minutes to all of his talented players. (That team went 38-1, with its only loss coming in the 2015 Final Four.) He's even been lobbying his university to have special financial management classes for these teenagers who are a few months away from becoming millionaires.

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Calipari with former players-turned-first-round picks Karl-Anthony Towns, Trey Lyles, Willie Cauley-Stein and Devin Booker.

And now this, with Diallo jumping from his postgraduate year at a prep school to Kentucky's roster midseason. There are several options from here—Diallo could play immediately and be a sophomore next year, play immediately and then put his name in the 2017 draft or sit out and still jump to the NBA. But the most likely route, according to Chris Barca and Adam Zagoria of Zagsblog, is that he'll redshirt the rest of this year and go up against surefire 2017 lottery picks Malik Monk and De'Aaron Fox in Kentucky practices for the next few months. Come next season, he would be in excellent position to become a lottery pick in the 2018 draft.

"This'll be a test case to see if this can work," Butler head coach Chris Holtmann told Bleacher Report on Monday. "Any time you add an elite talent, your team has the potential to get better—as long as it's not disruptive to what's already been started. That's where the coach has to navigate that well, and there's few people in the country that do that better than John does. It will certainly elevate practice, which will certainly help your team. And going against the level of talent at Kentucky and being coached by that staff, it'll certainly help this kid immensely."

Here's why Calipari's midseason addition of Diallo could end up being a sea change: Ever since the NBA's 2005 collective bargaining agreement forced players to spend a year out of high school before becoming eligible for the NBA draft, the only truly viable route to the NBA has been to spend one year at a college.

That created this imperfect, controversial one-and-done system that Calipari has so adeptly exploited. But for players like Diallo—a 6'6" wing with long arms and elite athletic ability—different options are becoming more readily available.

Some elite players have chosen to play professionally abroad for that one post-high school year before going into the draft, as Terrance Ferguson opted to do this season. The D-League is becoming more viable with every passing year, especially with the NBA's new collective bargaining agreement allowing each team to have two players with two-way contracts between the NBA and the D-League. That essentially opens up 60 more roster spots.

Going to college may soon be the least attractive of several options for the next Ben Simmons, Andrew Wiggins or Karl-Anthony Towns. After all, elite players take the one-and-done route for the top-notch coaching and exposure they get from a blueblood college program and a lack of other options. 

Calipari taking Diallo at midseason offers another way. While he could have finished his postgraduate year in high school, Diallo can instead get a few months of elite competition and coaching in Kentucky practices. He can focus on developing his fundamentals without the pressure of performing in games.

"He's far from a finished product," Evan Daniels, Scout.com's director of basketball recruiting, said of Diallo when speaking with Bleacher Report. "But when you're that size, have that type of length and are as fluid and athletic as he is, you've got a chance to be special."

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Diallo is looking to take an unusual path to college and NBA stardom.

He can test the waters for the 2017 draft and be even more ready for the 2018 draft. And he can then come back to Kentucky next season as someone who already knows the ropes, a hit-the-ground-running redshirt freshman who may be the most experienced elite young player in the country.

Let's say he does all of this and then shines early in the 2017-18 college basketball season. He'd immediately vault himself into the lottery discussion. In theory, this decision could mean a difference of millions of dollars.

Diallo isn't the first player to choose this route. Jarnell Stokes graduated high school a semester early and joined the Tennessee Volunteers in the middle of the 2011-12 season. Potential 2017 No. 1 pick Dennis Smith joined North Carolina State at semester break last season (to rehab a torn ACL). Austin Wiley joined Auburn in December this season and has already played in seven games.

But there's a legitimacy lent to any newfangled, outside-the-box idea when Calipari puts his imprimatur on it. If Cal says this is a route to the NBA that can work, goes the thinking, then this is a route that can work. It takes away the stigma from this being a path less traveled.

Tired, old pundits and fans will throw around the same tired, old accusations about Calipari being the death of college basketball.

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Calipari coaching up this year's 5-star guard, De'Aaron Fox.

But what Calipari does for his players—from his early embrace of one-and-dones a decade ago to his visionary idea of one-and-a-half-and-dones today—is actually the best thing for them.

Calipari's NBA factory isn't a cynical ploy to dominate college basketball with rent-a-players. It's a philosophy that looks at the current "amateur" system—a money-printing system that takes advantage of young men who are paid in scholarships—and makes sure that system works as best as it can to maximize their basketball futures. (It's worked out pretty damn well for Calipari, too.)

When it comes to media coverage of the game today, one college coach recently told Bleacher Report, "We spend all our time concentrating on those 25 or 30 kids who are that elite level"—and not enough time on the other 6,970 kids in Division I college basketball.

It's a fair criticism. But you can't put that way of thinking back in the bottle. NBA draft speculation will be a huge part of college basketball for as long as future NBA players are part of college basketball.

In the future, would we rather have elite players like Hamidou Diallo not consider college as an option to achieve their NBA dreams? Or would we rather have forward-thinkers like Calipari devise ways to allow these players to play college ball for their benefit as well as the school they choose to play for?

"Of course college basketball would love for them to be a part of what we're doing," Holtmann said. "One-and-a-half is better than a year, right?" 

All scouting information via Scout.com unless otherwise noted. 

Reid Forgrave covers college basketball for Bleacher Report. You can follow him on Twitter at @ReidForgrave.

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