Category: Life

Dear Cats & Dogs

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Dear Dogs and Cats:

The dishes with the paw prints are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Placing a paw print in the middle of my plate and food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.

The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Racing me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn’t help because I fall faster than you can run.

I cannot buy anything bigger than a king sized bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue sleeping on the couch to ensure your comfort, however. Dogs and cats can actually curl up in a ball when they sleep. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other, stretched out to the fullest extent possible. I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out on the other end to maximize space is nothing but sarcasm.

For the last time, there is no secret exit from the bathroom! If, by some miracle, I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine, meow, try to turn the knob or get your paw under the edge in an attempt to open the door. I must exit through the same door I entered. Also, I have been using the bathroom for years – and canine/feline attendance is not required.

The proper order for kissing is: Kiss me first, then go smell the other dog or cat’s butt. I cannot stress this enough.

Finally, in fairness, dear pets, I have posted the following message on the front door:

TO ALL NON-PET OWNERS WHO VISIT AND LIKE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT OUR PETS:

(1) They live here.You don’t.
(2) If you don’t want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture. That’s why they call it ‘fur’-niture.
(3) I like my pets a lot better than I like most people.
(4) To you, they are animals. To me, they are adopted sons/daughters who are short, hairy, walk on all fours and don’t speak clearly.

Remember, dogs and cats are better than kids because they;

(1) eat less,
(2) don’t ask for money all the time,
(3) are easier to train,
(4) normally come when called,
(5) never ask to drive the car,
(6) don’t hang out with drug-using people,
(7) don’t smoke or drink,
(8) don’t want to wear your clothes,
(9) don’t have to buy the latest fashions,
(10) don’t need a gazillion dollars for college and
(11) if they get pregnant, you can sell their children.

The GRADE

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Click this link to vote and give Obama a GRADE for his performance:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29493093/

 

Be sure to forward this to everyone you know – and lets see if MSNBC

will report on their own poll!

Chili

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A duded-up city rider walks into a seedy tavern in Sturgis, SD. He sits at the bar and notices a grizzly old biker with his arms folded, staring blankly at a full bowl of chili. After fifteen minutes of just sitting there staring at it, the newbie rider bravely asks the old biker, ‘If you ain’t gonna eat that, mind if I do?’ The old veteran of a thousand rides slowly turns his head toward the young pup and says, ‘Nah, you go ahead.’ Eagerly, the guy wearing the shiny new leather fashions reaches over and slides the bowl into his place and starts spooning it in with delight. He gets nearly down to the bottom of the bowl and notices a dead mouse in the chilli. The sight was very shocking and he immediately barfed up the chili back into the bowl. The old biker quietly says, ‘Yep, that’s as far as I got, too.’

Never ARGUE with a WOMAN

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Never Argue with a Woman…

One morning the husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap…
Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out.
She motors out a short distance, anchors, and reads her book..
Along comes a Game Warden in his boat.
He pulls up alongside the woman and says,
‘Good morning, Ma’am. What are you doing?’
‘Reading a book,’ she replies, (thinking, Isn’t that obvious?)
‘You’re in a Restricted Fishing Area,’ he informs her.
‘I’ m sorry, officer, but I’m not fishing. I’m reading.’
‘Yes, but you have all the equipment.
For all I know you could start at any moment’.
‘I’ll have to take you in and write you up.’
‘If you do that, I’ll have to charge you with sexual assault,’ says the woman.
‘But I haven’t even touched you,’ says the game warden.
‘That’s true, but you have all the equipment.
For all I know you could start at any moment.’
‘Have a nice day ma’am,’ and he left.
MORAL: Never argue with a woman who reads.
It’s likely she can also think.
Send this to  women who are thinkers.

APPARENTLY THE BRITISH GET IT

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The Daily Mail (UK) wrote this editorial about Obama on 1/6/2009.

(confirmation, Google “London Daily Mail Obama’s Victory”)

Obama’s Victory–A British view

A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the US mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for the cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth. Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.

A victory for Hollywood , the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros, Moore, and Sarandon. Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meager political fashion.

Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative. Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition. A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers’ unions to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity. A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation. A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs.

Congratulations America !

Oops Awards

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Here are the glorious top 10 winners:

1.When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.

And now, the honorable mentions:

2.The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting machine and, after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef’s claim was approved.

3.A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

4.After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Sarare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn’t discovered for 3 days.

5.An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6.A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer… $15. [If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?]

7.Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he’d just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief in the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

8.As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, ‘Yes, officer, that’s her. that’s the lady I stole the purse from.’

9.The Ann Arbour News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti , Michigan , at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded cash.. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn’t open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren’t available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away. [*A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER]

10.When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home’s sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he’d ever had.

In the interest of bettering mankind, please share these with your friends and family… unless of course one of these individuals by chance is a distant relative or long-lost friend. In that case, be glad they are distant and hope they remain lost.

*** Remember… They walk among us!!! **

Two Friends

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TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT.
DURING SOME POINT OF THE JOURNEY, THEY HAD AN
ARGUMENT; AND ONE FRIEND SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE
IN THE FACE.

THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPEDWAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT
SAYING ANYTHING, WROTE IN THE SAND:
TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.

THEY KEPT ON WALKING, UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS,
WHERE THEY DECIDED TO TAKE A BATH
THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN SLAPPED GOT STUCK IN THE
MIRE ! AND STARTED DROWNING, BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM.

AFTER ! HE RECOVERED FROM THE NEAR DROWNING,
HE WROTE ON A STONE:
‘TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE ‘.

THE FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED AND SAVED HIS BEST FRIEND
ASKED HIM, ‘AFTER I HURT YOU, YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW,
YOU WRITE ON A STONE, WHY?’

THE FRIEND REPLIED ‘WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US
WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN IN SAND, WHERE WINDS OF
FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY.
BUT, WHEN SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING GOOD FOR US,
WE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE WHERE NO WIND
CAN EVER ERASE IT.’

LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO
CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.

THEY SAY IT TAKES A MINUTE TO FIND A SPECIAL PERSON,
AN HOUR TO APPRECIATE THEM,
A DAY TO LOVE THEM,
AND AN ENTIRE LIFE TO FORGET THEM.

What does a 320 pound woman….

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The question is, What does a 320 pound woman look like?

Now, before you scroll down to look at her pictures, get a mental image of what you think a woman who weighs 320 looks like….

 

 

  


Not exactly what you were expecting, is it??!!

The tallest and best proportioned woman in the world lives in Holland .

She is 7’4′ and weighs 320

Whata relief! Now we ALL know we aren’t overweight; we’re just too short!

Have A Great Day!

Christian the Lion

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a lion at the zoo

Image via Wikipedia

Quick Video!

The Lion – Christian

 

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PRICELESS

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Things happen, ….  Enjoy the day while you have the chance.
Priceless…  The pictures speak for themselves!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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God’s Wings

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att1497751A little something to put things in perspective…

After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park, forest rangers
began their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno’s damage.

One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes, perched
sta tuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree. Somewhat
sickened by the eerie sight, he knocked over the bird with a stick.
When he gently struck it, three tiny chicks scurried from under
their dead mother’s wings. The loving mother, keenly aware of
impending disaster, had carried her offspring to the base of the
tree and had gathered them under her wings, instinctively knowing
that the toxic smoke would rise.

She could have flown to safety but had refused to abandon her
babies. Then the blaze had arrived and the heat had scorched her
small body, the mother had remained steadfast because she had
been willing to die, so those under the cover of her wings would live.

‘He will cover you with His feathers,
And under His wings you will find refuge.’
(Psalm 91:4)

Being loved this much should make a difference i n your life.
Remember the One who loves you, and then be different because of it.

Please pass this on to people you want to be blessed.

Time waits for no one. Treasure every moment you have. You will
treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special.

To realize the value of a friend… lose one.

 

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Help keep the peace in Gaza

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Hi,

I’ve just heard about this emergency campaign urging for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Already 370 people have been killed in this escalating conflict. Now is the time to issue a demand to world leaders that the spiralling violence that has characterized the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must come to an end. In 2009 let’s push for real peace to be achieved between Israel and Palestine. To learn more and to take action, read the email below:

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http://www.avaaz.org/en/gaza_time_for_peace/98.php?CLICK_TF_TRACK

Grandmas….

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Grandmas Don’t Know  Everything

He’d been playing outside with the other kids for a while.
When he came into the house and asked her, ‘Grandma, what’s that thing
called when two people sleep in the same room and one is on top of the
other?’

She was a little taken aback, but she decided to just tell him the truth.
‘It’s called sexual  intercourse, darling’.

Little Tony just said, ‘Oh, OK,’ and went back outside to play with
the other  kids.

A few minutes later he came back in and said angrily, ‘Grandma, it
isn’t called sexual  intercourse. It’s called Bunk Beds.  And Jimmy’s mom
wants to talk to you!’

25 REASONS I OWE MY MOTHER

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1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE .
‘If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.’

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
‘You better pray that will come out of the carpet.’

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL .
‘If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!’

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
‘ Because I said so, that’s why.’

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC .
‘If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.’

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
‘Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.’

7. My mother taught me IRONY
‘Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about.’

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
‘Shut your mouth and eat your supper.’

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM .
‘Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!’

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
‘You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.’

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
‘This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.’

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
‘If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times. Don’t exaggerate!’

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE .
‘I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.’

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
‘Stop acting like your father!’

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
‘There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don’t have wonderful parents like you do.’

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
‘Just wait until we get home.’

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING .
‘You are going to get it when you get home!’

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
‘If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way.’

19. My mother taught me ESP.
‘Put your sweater on; don’t you think I know when you are cold?’

20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
‘When that lawn mower cuts off your foot, don’t come running to me.’

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT .
‘If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up.’

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
‘You’re just like your father.’

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
‘Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?’

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
‘When you get to be my age, you’ll understand.’

25. And my favorite: My mother taught me about JUSTICE
‘One day you’ll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you.’

Pick a Cake!

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This is remarkable & just in time for the holiday baking season!  
Even if you have no particular interest, please pass on to the bakers in your life.   
Just click on the name of the cake and bam the recipe appears! 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cream Cheese Icing

 

 

 

 

 

Suzanna Gratia-Hupp: What the Second Amendment is REALLY For

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This is straight from the heart! 

Please Take a moment to view this video!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4069761537893819675&p+r=goog-sl

What the Second Amendment is REALLY For

Dear Mr. Obama

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What is below — was received in an E-Mail & wanted to Share!

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Oh my Goodness! To be open and honest about the truth!!

I encourage you to watch it to the end of the commercial (less than 2 minutes)

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“This commercial was done by a local kid. You have to watch the whole thing. When he finishes talking and walks away, you get a sense of how this could be the commercial of the campaign season.
Hi,  My son Joe just did a commercial for John McCain.  

Please pass this on.

Thanks
Bob ****

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8

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How many zeros in a billion?

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How many zeros in  a billion? 
 
This  is too true to be funny. 

The  next time you hear a politician use the
word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think  about
whether you  want the ‘politicians’ spending

Washington, DC
HELLO! 
Are  all your calculators broken??

Building Permit  Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax  (Fed)
Federal  Unemployment Tax (FU TA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax 
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax 
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on  top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax 
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property  Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security  Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational  Vehicle Tax
School Tax 
State Income Tax 
State  Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone  Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and  Local Surcharge Tax Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge  Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax  
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage  Charge  Tax 
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration T ax
Vehicle  Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax 
Workers Compensation Tax
(And  to think, we left British Rule to avoid so many taxes) 

STILL  THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

 
What  the heck happened????? 

Not one of these taxes  existed 100 years ago…
and our nation was the most prosperous in  the world.We had absolutely no national debt…
We had the  largest middle class in the world…
and Mom stayed home to raise  the kids.
What happened?
Can you spell ‘politicians!’

And I still have to press ‘1’ for English. 
I hope this goes around the  USA at  least 100 times 
YOUR tax money.

THE LETTER

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THE LETTER

Ruth went to her mail box and there was only one letter. She picked it up
and looked at it before opening, but then she looked at the envelope again.
There was no stamp, no postmark, only her name and address.

She read the letter:

Dear Ruth,

I’m going to be in your neighborhood Saturday afternoon and I’d like to stop
by for a visit.

Love Always,
Jesus

Her hands were shaking as she placed the letter on the table. “Why would
the Lord want to visit me? I’m nobody special. I don’t have anything to
offer.” With that thought, Ruth remembered her empty kitchen cabinets.

“Oh my goodness, I really don’t have anything to offer. I’ll have to run
down to the store and buy something for dinner.” She reached for her purse
and counted out its contents. Five dollars and forty cents.

“Well, I can get some bread and cold cuts, at least.” She threw on her coat
and hurried out the doo r. A loaf of french bread, a half-pound of sliced
turkey, and a carton of milk…leaving Ruth with grand total of twelve cents
to last her until Monday. Nonetheless, she felt good as she headed home, her
meager offerings tucked under her arm.

“Hey lady, can you help us, lady?” Ruth had been so absorbed in her dinner
plans, she hadn’t even noticed two figures huddled in the alleyway. A man
and a woman, both of them dressed in little more than rags.

“Look lady, I ain’t got a job, ya know, and my wife and I have been living
out here on the street, and, well, now it’s getting cold and we’re getting
kinda hungry and, well, if you could help us, lady, we’d really appreciate
it.”

Ruth looked at them both. They were dirty, they smelled bad and, frankly,
she was certain that they could get some kind of work if they really wanted
to.

“Sir, I’d like to help you, but I’m a poor woman myself. All I have is a few
cold cuts and some bread, and I’m having an important guest for dinner
tonight and I was planning on serving that to Him.”

“Yeah, well, okay lady, I understand. Thanks anyway.” The man put his arm
around the woman’s shoulders, turned and headed back into the alley. As she
watched them leave, Ruth felt a familiar twinge in her heart.

“Sir, wait!” The couple stopped and turned as she ran down the alley after
them. “Look, why don’t you take this food. I’ll figure out something else to
serve my guest.” She handed the man her grocery bag.

“Thank you lady. Thank you very much!”

“Yes, thank you!” It was the man’s wife, and Ruth could see now that she was
shivering.

“You know, I’ve got another coat at home. Here, why don’t you take this
one.” Ruth unbuttoned her jacket and slipped it over the woman’s
shoulders.

Then smiling, she turned and walked back to the street…without her coat
and with nothing to serve her guest. “Thank you lady! Thank you very much!”

Ruth was chilled by the time she reached her front door, and worried too.
The Lord was coming to visit and she didn’t have anything to offer Him. She
fumbled through her purse for the door key. But as she did, she noticed
another envelope in her mailbox.

“That’s odd. The mailman doesn’t usually come twice in one day.” She took
the envelope out of the box and opened it.

Dear Ruth,

It was so good to see you again. Thank you for the lovely meal. And thank
you, too, for the beautiful coat.

Love Always,
Jesus

The air was still cold, but even without her coat, Ruth no longer noticed.

— Author Unknown

Who Is???

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Here is ANOTHER Message I received!  Just up to sharing so you too can see!

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Sent: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 3:58 am
Subject: Fw: Who is Barack Obama?

 

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Who is Barack Obama? ONE YOU MUST FORWARD TO ALL
 
 Very interesting and something that should be considered in your choice.
 If you do not ever forward anything else, please forward this to
 all your contacts…this is very scarey to think of what lies ahead
 of us here in our own United States …better heed this and pray about
 it and share it.
 
 We checked this out on ‘ snopes.com’. It is factual. Check for yourself.
 Who is Barack Obama?
 Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was
 born in Honolulu , Hawaii , to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black MUSLIM
 from Nyangoma-Kogel , Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white ATHIEST from Wichita ,
 Kansas
 Obama’s parents met at the University of Hawaii . When Obama was
 two years old, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya
 His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a RADICAL Muslim from Indonesia
 When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocate to Indonesia . Obama
 attended a MUSLIM school in Jakarta . He also spent two years in a
 Catholic school.
 Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. He is
 quick to point out that, ‘He was once a Muslim, but that he also
 attended Catholic school.’
 Obama’s political handlers are attempting to make it appear that he is not a radical.
 Obama’s introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this
 influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned
 to Kenya soon after the divorce, and never again had any direct influence
 over his son’s education.
 Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, introduced
 his stepson to Islam. Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta
 
 Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists
 who are now waging Jihad against the western world Since it is
 politically
 expedient to be a CHRISTIAN when seeking major public office in the United
 States, Barack Hussein Obama has joined the United Church of Christ in an
 attempt to downplay his Muslim background.
 
 ALSO,keep in mind that when he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the
 Holy Bible, but instead the Koran. Barack Hussein Obama will NOT recite   
 the
 Pledge of Allegience nor will he show any reverence for our flag. While
 others place their hands over their hearts, Obama turns his back to the
 flag
 and slouches.
 
 Let us all remain alert concerning Obama’s expected presidential
 candidacy.
 The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the US from the inside
 out, what better way to start than at the highest level. through the
 Presiden t of the United States . One of their own!!!
 
 Please forward t o eveyone you know. Would you want this man leading our
 country ……. NOT ME!!!!!!!

From Dust to Dust

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This I received a short time ago from a member of a group.

I ejoyed it — hope you will too!

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From Dust to Dust

After church, Robbie tells his parents he has to go and talk to the minister right away. They agree and the

pastor greets the family.

“Pastor,” Robbie says, “I heard you say today that our bodies came from the dust.” “That’s right, Johnny, I

did.””And I heard you say that when we die, our bodies go back to dust.” “Yes, I’m glad you were listening.

Why do you ask?” “Well you better come over to our house right away and look under my bed ’cause

there’s someone either comin’ or goin’!”

REPUBLICANS vs DEMOCRATS

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A CUTE READ RECEIVED IN AN E-MAL! 

A good story you can tell even your youngest child and they will know the
difference between a liberal Democrat and a conservative Republican.

I remember the time that Catherine, one of my daughter Shannon’s friends when she was little, told me that she wanted to be President one day. Both of her parents are liberal Democrats and were standing there with us and I asked Catherine, ‘If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?’

Catherine replied, ‘I would give houses to all the homeless people.’

‘Wow, what a worthy goal you have there, Catherine.’ I told her, ‘You don’t have to wait until you are President to do that, you can come over to my house and clean up all the dog poop in the back yard and I will pay you $5.  Then we can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $5 to use for a new house.’

Catherine, who was about 4, thought that over for a second, while her mom looked at me, and Catherine replied, ‘Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and clean up the dog poop and you can pay him the $5.’

Welcome to the Republican Party, Catherine.

Good Afternoon Everyone!

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Today – October 10, 2008

Well – 7 – seven weeks ago today is when Daddy had his open heart surgery!
The valve replacement and two by-passes.
How time flies!  At imes is seems so much longer – because he is doing so
well.  He is walking around – now driving  the car – and a couple of times
his truck!!

He is not one to keep down.  Mother has done a wonderful job in keeping
an eye on him.  Making sure that something he want to do is within his limit!
Mother is getting more rest now, and Daddy’s sleep at night is becoming better.

The one thing that henders him — eating!  he eats several times a day, and still
has to eat soft food because of his teeth!  They just do not work.  Two reasons
– one they were not made right in the first place — second he as lost a bit of
weight down to 140 from 149 – and not wearing they for a few weeks because
his mouth was sore.  But all-in-all — doing ok.

The Problem that I have is that Mother tells me of his despression (which I can tell-
whenhe is not himself) and have told Mother to tell him that epression goes along
with his recovery – and she says that shes never heard of that – so she will not tell
him.  I’ve told her that I have it on good authority that that is one of the (side) effects
that comes from the surgery – yet she refuses to tel him – because no one has told
her!  Yet I asked he – if I would lie to her about that – she said probably not –
but still!???l

I cannot mention it to Daddy because he does not want me to know that he’s been
depressed!  This is my frustration when I can tell he does not feel well – both
physically and emotionally …. There have been a couple of days when his face
almost did not look like him. 

Still so many emotions are tucked inside of me.  The fright that the surgery had to take
place in the first place.  The dealings during the hospital stay – being told by
Mother that they did not want me – nor need me for anything!  Making trips back
and forth to the store – taking them to the doctors .. yet I’m not needed or wanted –
but I will do want they want me to do.  I don’t think I’ve really let out a good cry
that everything is OK!

More News —-

On August 11th after three weeks & 3 days after heart surgery a very dear friend of
mine died.  I had spoken with him on Saturday and I got the call from TN on Wednesday
that on Monday he had died!  What a shock.   He was 57 – only one year older than me
who I have know for close to 35years! His surgery was on the 18th of August (in Tennessee)
where he lived … he went home on the 27th .. we spoke evey couple of days because I &
he knew each other…He needed the sleep and rest … so he would call when he woke
and wanted to talk.  I really miss him…how I would love to talk to him now about my
feelings  — he would always make me feel better.  He always called me His “little Sister”
and he was just like my big brother (as I’ve lost both of my brothers) ..We could & did
talk about everything.  I miss him.

—-then —-

Two adorable white kitens were left by their mother – yes I had been feeding them because
I knew they were/are strays – but I never guessed that she would to have apparently left
them here.  But Charlie (my cat) did start to take care of them – would play and look after them
if he saw them going toward the street – he went to get them!…so to keep things friendsly
so that I could get to them to get them a good home, so called one ‘little bit’ another ‘keyk’
–one I know now is a boy (so from ‘little bit’ to ‘little man’) the other still no idea!
Oh and both are white with black tone tales smugged ears … and the one ‘kayk’ has a black mark
over the left eye .. so all was going well —UNTIL the 21st of September – my cat Charlie
was in a horrible fight on top of my roof.
I do not know if i was anoher cat – or something else (coon) … becasue I could not see —
only hear the cries of my cat!  Horrible.  Trying to spray water from the hose on the roof
and not sure that any of it helped. When he finally came down – would not let me look at him
to see what was wrong, so the next morning was evident – his head and right ear. So for the
next two + weeks doctored his ear with peroxide .. and let him rest.  A few days later tried being
outside and he wanted back in!  With a few more days of tlc yesterday he was again playing
in the evening with the kittens then came back in for the night….so progress is slow but
working.  He will be OK!

So While….
all these things were going on back and forth not being able to keep much of anything straight
I’ve been working on My WebSite – New Beginnings -…which will now allow me to not
be on a ‘host’ that does not work properly – Bravenet that has a bad wrap with me – and all
the problem with Geocities  — so onward to Comcast !  with their PWP’g all the files ar safe
and generated via Frontpage.
So I hope it works!

Last
— this week Monday and Tuesday.. new roof on this house.  All that banging…glad it’s
done.  They did a wonderful job.

Now I’m out of here!

Hope that all is well with each of you.

Deborah

Need A Push?

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Need A Push?

A man and his wife are awakened at 3 o’clock in the morning by a loud pounding on the door. The man gets up and goes to the door where a drunken stranger, standing in the pouring rain, is asking for a push.

“Not a chance,” says the husband, “it is three o’clock in the morning!” He slams the door and returns to bed.

“Who was that?” asked his wife.

“Just some drunk guy asking for a push,” he answers.

“Did you help him?” she asks.

“No, I did not, it is three in the morning and it is pouring outside!”

“Well, you have a short memory,” says his wife. “Can’t you remember about three months ago when we broke down and those two guys helped us? I think you should help him, and you should be ashamed of yourself!”

The man does as he’s told, gets dressed, and goes out into the pouring rain. He calls out into the dark,
“Hello, are you still there?”

“Yes,” comes back the answer.

“Do you still need a push?” calls out the husband.

“Yes, please!” comes the reply from the dark.

“Where are you?” asks the husband.

Replies the drunk – “Over here on the swing!”

LOL!

Prayers Needed Please-Thanks!

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Good Morning Everyone!
(as it is 8:00am +/- here!)

As the ‘Tropical Storm Fay’ will be approaching – I’ll get this
out before the threat of losing power.

During this storm period …

Tomorrow – Wednesday – August 20th-is when Mom & I will go with Daddy to the hospital for Pre-Op.

We are to be there at 10am and when they called yesterday – Daddy said they told him we would be there for about 2 hours – taking all the necessary test – and would also be showing a video of what will be happening.

Then—on Thursday-August 21st-is when the Open Heart Surgery will take place with our arrival at the hospital to be at 5:30am — with the surgery scheduled for 7:30am.  The brochure stated that the surgery would take 4-6 hours – but I do not know how many procedures that was talking about.  With Daddy having the replacement and three by-passes – I would think that the time would perhaps be longer.  (When the hospital ‘nurse person’ who called about the Pre-Op stuff told Daddy it would be 2-3 hours…I don’t think that nurse knows!) 

While it will be a very long and trying time for us … we are strong and will get through this.  Just please keep us in your prayers — especially Daddy.

We could lose whatever with the storm – but Daddy will be safe in the hospital and that is what is most important.

So get those prayers ready and continue to keep Daddy in your prayers and thoughts.  We always need prayers – sharing love.

I will let you know just as soon as I can.

Love to you all!

Deborah

Prayers for My Dad – Mom & Me

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Daddy had the Cardiologists Doctor appt Wednesday July 23 and of course Mom & I went.
The Dr. is Ben Olliff who has been Mom & Dad’s doc for years.  (was a general doc then cardo). Anyway…GLAD that Mom & I went because Dad I don’t think understood everything he was telling
him.
From everything I heard the blockages are 40 – 70 – 60 & 90 … Now, that may be different
from what he Cath Doc said … but still VERY serious.  Daddy did not understand that they will
need to do a replacement on the MAIN one the Aorta .. and at least two by-passes. But with the
blockages mentioned … there might be more.  It will be a very difficult time for Mother and ME….what will we do?

So Dr Olliff – took us to his scheduling Nurse .. she mae the call to the Surgeons office – a Dr. Wingard )I think that is correct?) and made appt for the 19th of August … Now…just imagine what
my face looked like to Dr Olliff’s Nurse!>? … Like you’ve Got – to – be – kidding?!… then she said that
Dr Wingard nurse said the Doc was On Vacation .. and would be back on Monday (Tomorrow) the 29 of July .. and she would put the information in front of him (because Dr. Olliff’s Nurse faxed the reports over) and would see what Dr Wingard thought thought on Monday!

So tomorrow – Monday – July 28th is the day when Mom & I hope that the Doc will call and get
things rolling.   The sooner the better.  Daddy you know hates to sit and do nothing so just these few
days doing nothing is wearing on him.  Even though he is not talking about it .. you can certainly see
it in is face and eyes.

Daddy is also having a very hard time walking.  His legs especially his right does not want to hold
up at all … and I think that could be a problem.

A Nurse neighbor – asked if they had given him the stress test – I told her no – (that he probably would not make it through that) … and she also wanted to know if he had had a doppler … which he has had about 4 months ago.  (that reminds me … while we were with Dr Olliff’s scheduling nurse on the phone with the surgeons nurse .. THEY wanted to know why this was not done at the time
when he was in the hospital for the cath ???  Mom & I ha no answer … and Daddy none either –
so we don’t know if they even mentioned it to daddy at the time)

I also hear Dr Olliff mention in the exam room when he was telling us all this .. (to daddy he was talking) that he had put it off for 6 months) … Mother did not hear it .. and Dad made no comment – which he probably did not hear!

So with all of this said – I hope you can understand how serious it really is .. I’m so scared…but
cannot let him know because I do not want him getting upset .. that would do him NO good!
So positive thoughts … Lots of prayers …

Deborah  

 

 

 

Mom & Dad
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Balloons & My Heart

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‘Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.’
A sharp tongue can cut my own throat.


If I want my dreams to come true, I mustn’t oversleep.


Of all the things I wear, my expression is the most important.


The best vitamin for making friends…. B1.


The happiness of my life depends on the quality of my thoughts.


The heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge.


One thing I can give and still keep…is my word.


I lie the loudest when I lie to myself.
If I lack the courage to start, I have already finished.
One thing I can’t recycle is wasted time.


Ideas won’t work unless I do.


My mind is like a parachute…it functions only when open.

The 10 commandments are not a multiple choice.


The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime!
It is never too late to become what I might have been.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets.
So love the people who treat you right. Forget about the one’s who don’t.
Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back. Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we’ve let t! hem fly away.
Sometimes we are so caught up in who’s right and who’s wrong
that we forget what’s right and wrong.
Sometimes we just don’t realize what real friendship means
until it is too late. I don’t want to let that happen so I’m gonna tie you to my heart so I never lose you.

Bling Bling

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Now, just take a look at this little jewel,,,,,,,,,,,,
 

 
 
You know, there’s bling…and then there’s 
BLING


                                            THE  CAR COST $4.8 MIL.
AND IF YOU WANT TO TOUCH IT,YOU HAVETO PAY $1000.
IT BELONGS TO PRINCE ALWALEED FROM SAUDI ARABIA.
 
 
Diamond Covered Mercedes of Prince AlWaleed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Remember this when gasoline cost $5.00 a gallon.
 
You paid for this one.

Photos of the Week 07-26-08

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Chinese Police Officers
Chinese Police Officers

 A Chinese paramilitary police officer yawns after taking part in a ceremony where the officers pledged to ensure safety during the Olympic Games, in front of the National Stadium, also known as the Bird’s Nest at the Olympic Green in Beijing, Wednesday, July 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

 

 

Russian Opera
Russian Opera

Overall view during a dress rehearsal of the opera “Tosca” by Giacomo Puccini, Friday evening, July 18, 2008, at the Floating-Stage in Bregenz, Austria. The opera will start July 23, 2008, as a part of the Bregenzer Festival. (AP Photo/Winfried Rothermel

 

Fish Pedicure
Fish Pedicure

Tracy Roberts, 33, of Rockville, Md. has her toes nibbled on by a type of carp called garra rufa, or doctor fish, during a fish pedicure treatment at Yvonne Hair and Nails salon in Alexandria, Va. on Thursday July 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

 

Soldier and Dog
Soldier and Dog

A U.S. Soldier and his Military Dog Lucky play while taking a break during a cordon and search in Mosul, Iraq on June 8, 2008. You Witness News/U.S. Army photo by PFC Sarah De Boise/Released. Reuters.

 

Narcotics Police in Colombia
Narcotics Police in Colombia

A member of a counter narcotics police unit walks along an illegal airstrip in Uribia, northeastern Colombia, near the border with Venezuela, Thursday, July 24, 2008. Colombian police destroyed four clandestine airstrips used by drug traffickers. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

 

Solar Car
Solar Car

FH Bochum Solar Car Team from Germany, drives their solar car SolarWorld 1 across the Canadian prairies in the North American Solar Car Challenge near Medicine Hat, July 22, 2008.

REUTERS/Todd Korol

 

Hurricane Dolly in Texas
Hurricane Dolly in Texas

A man pedals his bicycle down a flooded street in Brownsville, Texas as Hurricane Dolly hits the area on Wednesday, July 23, 2008. Dolly barreled into South Texas on Wednesday, lashing the coast with winds up to 100 mph and dumping heavy rain that threatened to flood low-lying areas but spared levees along the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

 

 

Ballroom at Buckingham Palace
Ballroom at Buckingham Palace

Finishing touches are completed, as the Ballroom at Buckingham Palace is set up for a State Banquet in London, Friday, July 25, 2008. For the first time ever, summer visitors to Buckingham Palace will be able to view how the room is set up for an official State Banquet, when The Queen entertains around 170 guests on the first evening of a State Visit. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

 

 

Marine Boot Camp
Marine Boot Camp

South Korean elementary school students shout the word “mother” as they lay in the water during an exercise at a marine boot camp for students on Daebu Island, in Ansan,South Korea, Thursday, July 24, 2008. Some 70 students took part in the three-day camp as a way to mentally and physically strengthen themselves. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

 

Olympic Tickets
Olympic Tickets

People are seen ahead of spending a night waiting in line for a chance to buy tickets for the 2008 Beijing Olympics games, in Beijing, China, Thursday, July 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

 

PHOTOS of the Week for 07-19-08

Harry Truman

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When President Truman retired from office in 1952, his income was
substantially a United States Army pension, reported to have been
$13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting he was paying for stamps and
personally licking them, granted him an ‘allowance,’ and later, a
retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.
When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined,
stating, ‘You don’t want me. You want the office of the president,
and that doesn’t belong to me. It belongs to the American people,
and it’s not for sale.’ Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress
was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday,
he refused to accept it, writing, ‘I don’t consider that I have
done anything which should be the reason for any award,
Congressional or otherwise.’

We now see others who have found a new level of success in cashing
in on the presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in
Congress also become wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their
offices. Political offices are now for sale.

Good old Harry made the following observation, ‘My choice early in
life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a
politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.
I, for one, believe the piano player job to be much more honorable
than current politicians.’

THIS IS A FIRE RAINBOW

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THIS IS A FIRE RAINBOW – THE RAREST OF ALL NATURALLY OCCURRING ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA. THE PICTURE WAS CAPTURED ON THE IDAHO/WASHINGTON BORDER. THE EVENT LASTED ABOUT 1 HOUR.

CLOUDS HAVE TO BE CIRRUS, AT LEAST 20K FEET IN THE AIR, WITH JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF ICE CRYSTALS AND THE SUN HAS TO HIT THE CLOUDS AT PRECISELY 58 DEGREES.

God’s handiwork. Beautiful sight! Pass along for others to see!!

God’s Pharmacy!

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A friend sent this to me. It’s been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish… all before making a human. He made and provided what we’d need before we were born. These are best & more powerful when eaten raw.  We’re such slow learners…

 

God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body!

God’s Pharmacy! Amazing!
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye.. and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.
Grapes h ang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums.  Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.
Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the he alth and function of the womb and cervix of the female – they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this?  It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of n utrition in each one of these foods (mo dern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
 Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.
 Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries 
  Oranges, Grapefr uits, and oth er Citrus fruits look just l ike the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
Onions look like the body’s cells. Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

 

Photos of the Week 07-19-08

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Cpl. Delacruz Carries a Puppy

Cpl. Matthew Delacruz carries a hurt puppy to a Navy Corpsmen to give him food and water in the Northern Al Anbar Province, Iraq, on May 12, 2008. You Witness News/U.S. Marine Cpl. Tyler Hill, Reuters.

 

Spanish Matador

Spanish matador Rafael Ribio Lujan ‘Rafaelillo is tossed by a Miura’s bull during a bullfight in Pamplona, northern Spain, at the San Fermin festivities on Sunday, July 13, 2008. The fiestas ‘Los San Fermines’ held since 1591, attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights. The San Fermin festival gained worldwide fame in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises.’ (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

 

New World Record

Russia’s Yelena Isinbaeva jumps to set the new World record at the pole vault competition at the Track and Field Golden Gala meeting in Rome’s Olympic stadium, Friday, July 11, 2008. Isinbaeva cleared the record height (5.03 meters; 16 feet, 6 inches) with ease on her second attempt Friday at the Golden Gala meet, nearly three years after her previous record of 16-5 1/4 (5.01 meters) at the 2005 world championships in Helsinki, Finland. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

 

Feeding a Baby Monkey

Sita Mata, a Sadhvi or Hindu holy woman, feeds a baby monkey named Geetanjali, in Jammu, India, Friday, July 18, 2008. Sita found Geetanjali at a temple in Andhra Pradesh state and has since been caring for it. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

 Feeding a baby Monkey

 

Glowing Man

A performer in a light-bulb studded suit gestures to his teammates outside Beijing’s National Stadium, known as the Bird’s Nest, Tuesday July 15, 2008. Secretive rehearsals are underway in the stadium for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games, which open on August 8. (AP Photo)

 

Rare White Lion Cubs

A rare white lion cub yawns as three lion cubs are presented to the media at the Safaripark in Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, western Germany, Monday, July 14, 2008. A total of seven white lion cubs have been born at the park by two mothers the same day on June 30, 2008. While three cubs are raised by their mother ‘Kibo’, the four other cubs were refused by their mother ‘Mawensi’. One of them died overnight Monday, the remaining three will be raised by the park’s animal keepers. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

the WooDmAn

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This fellow has a booth at the Arts Festival at the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach every year.

Can you believe what this man has done with wood? Amazing Talent!

Wonder what he does in his spare time ????

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Tony Snow’s Testimony – This just about says it all.

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Commentator and broadcaster Tony Snow announced that he had colon cancer in 2005. Following surgery and chemo-therapy, Snow joined the Bush Administration in April 2006 as press secretary. Unfortunately, on March 23, 2007 Snow, 51, a husband and father of three, announced the cancer had recurred, with tumors found in his abdomen,- leading to surgery in April, followed by more chemotherapy. Snow went back to work in the White House Briefing Room on May 30, but has resigned since, “for economic reasons,” and to pursue “other interests.”
 
“Blessings arrive in unexpected packages, – in my case, cancer. Those of us with potentially fatal diseases – and there are millions in America today – find ourselves in the odd position of coping with our mortality while trying to fathom God‘s will. Although it would be the height of presumption to declare with confidence “What It All Means,” Scripture provides powerful hints and consolations.
 
The first is that we shouldn’t spend too much time trying to answer the “why” questions: Why me? Why must people suffer? Why can’t someone else get sick? We can’t answer such things, and the questions themselves often are designed more to express our anguish than to solicit an answer.
 
I don’t know why I have cancer, and I don’t much care. It is what it is, a plain and indisputable fact. Yet even while staring into a mirror darkly, great and stunning truths begin to take shape. Our maladies define a central feature of our existence: We are fallen. We are imperfect. Our bodies give out.
 
But despite this, – or because of it, – God offers the possibility of salvation and grace. We don’t know how the narrative of our lives will end, but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator face-to-face.
 
Second, we need to get past the anxiety. The mere thought of dying can send adrenaline flooding through your system. A dizzy, unfocused panic seizes you. Your heart thumps; your head swims. You think of nothingness and swoon. You fear partings; you worry about the impact on family and friends. You fidget and get nowhere.
 
To regain footing, remember that we were born not into death, but into life,- and that the journey continues after we have finished our days on this earth. We accept this on faith, but that faith is nourished by a conviction that stirs even within many non believing hearts – an intuition that the gift of life, once given, cannot be taken away. Those who have been stricken enjoy the special privilege of being able to fight with their might, main, and faith to live fully, richly, exuberantly – no matter how their days may be numbered.
 
Third, we can open our eyes and hearts. God relishes surprise. We want lives of simple, predictable ease,- smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see, – but God likes to go off-road. He provokes us with twists and turns. He places us in predicaments that seem to defy our endurance; and comprehension – and yet don’t. By His love and grace, we persevere. The challenges that make our hearts leap and stomachs churn invariably strengthen our faith and grant measures of wisdom and joy we would not experience otherwise.
 
‘You Have Been Called’. Picture yourself in a hospital bed. The fog of anesthesia has begun to wear away. A doctor stands at your feet, a loved one holds your hand at the side. “It’s cancer,” the healer announces.
 
The natural reaction is to turn to God and ask him to serve as a cosmic Santa. “Dear God, make it all go away. Make everything simpler.” But another voice whispers: “You have been called.” Your quandary has drawn you closer to God, closer to those you love, closer to the issues that matter,- and has dragged into insignificance the banal concerns that occupy our “normal time.”
 
There’s another kind of response, although usually short-lived an inexplicable shudder of excitement, as if a clarifying moment of calamity has swept away everything trivial and tiny, and placed before us the challenge of important questions.
 
The moment you enter the Valley of the Shadow of Death, things change. You discover that Christianity is not something doughy, passive, pious, and soft. Faith may be the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. But it also draws you into a world shorn of fearful caution. The life of belief teems with thrills, boldness, danger, shocks, reversals, triumphs, and epiphanies. Think of Paul, traipsing through the known world and contemplating trips to what must have seemed the antipodes (Spain), shaking the dust from his sandals, worrying not about the morrow, but only about the moment.
 
There’s nothing wilder than a life of humble virtue, – for it is through selflessness and service that God wrings from our bodies and spirits the most we ever could give, the most we ever could offer, and the most we ever could do.
 
Finally, we can let love change everything. When Jesus was faced with the prospect of crucifixion, he grieved not for himself, but for us. He cried for Jerusalem before entering the holy city. From the Cross, he took on the cumulative burden of human sin and weakness, and begged for forgiveness on our behalf.
 
We get repeated chances to learn that life is not about us, that we acquire purpose and satisfaction by sharing in God’s love for others. Sickness gets us part way there. It reminds us of our limitations and dependence. But it also gives us a chance to serve the healthy. A minister friend of mine observes that people suffering grave afflictions often acquire the faith of two people, while loved ones accept the burden of two peoples’ worries and fears.
 
‘Learning How to Live’. Most of us have watched friends as they drifted toward God’s arms, not with resignation, but with peace and hope. In so doing, they have taught us not how to die, but how to live. They have emulated Christ by transmitting the power and authority of love.
 
I sat by my best friend’s bedside a few years ago as a wasting cancer took him away. He kept at his table a worn Bible and a 1928 edition of the Book of Common Prayer. A shattering grief disabled his family, many of his old friends, and at least one priest. Here was an humble and very good guy, someone who apologized when he winced with pain because he thought it made his guest uncomfortable. He retained his equanimity and good humor literally until his last conscious moment. “I’m going to try to beat [this cancer],” he told me several months before he died. “But if I don’t, I’ll see you on the other side.”
 
His gift was to remind everyone around him that even though God doesn’t promise us tomorrow, he does promise us eternity, – filled with life and love we cannot comprehend, – and that one can in the throes of sickness point the rest of us toward timeless truths that will help us weather future storms.
 
Through such trials, God bids us to choose: Do we believe, or do we not?  Will we be bold enough to love, daring enough to serve, humble enough to submit, and strong enough to acknowledge our limitations? Can we surrender our concern in things that don’t matter so that we might devote our remaining days to things that do?
 
When our faith flags, he throws reminders in our way. Think of the prayer warriors in our midst. They change things, and those of us who have been on the receiving end of their petitions and intercessions know it. It is hard to describe, but there are times when suddenly the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, and you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: Others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up, – to speak of us!
 
This is love of a very special order. But so is the ability to sit back and appreciate the wonder of every created thing. The mere thought of death somehow makes every blessing vivid, every happiness more luminous and intense. We may not know how our contest with sickness will end, but we have felt the ineluctable touch of God.
 
What is man that Thou art mindful of him? We don’t know much, but we know this: No matter where we are, no matter what we do, no matter how bleak or frightening our prospects, each and everyone of us who believe, each and every day, lies in the same safe and impregnable place, in the hollow of God’s hand.”
 
Tony Snow

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George Carlin’s Views on Aging

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Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
 
“How old are you?””I’m four and a half! “You’re never thirty-six and a half. You’re four and a half, going on five! That’s the key.
 
You get into your teens, now they can’t hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.
 
“How old are you?” “I’m gonna be 16!” You could be 13, but hey, you’re gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life . . You   become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony .YOU BECOME 21 YESSSS!!!
 
But then you   turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There’s no fun now, you’re Just a sour-dumpling. What’s wrong? What’s changed?
 
You BECOME  21, you TURN 30, then you’re PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it’s all slipping away. Before you know it, you  REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.
 
But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn’t think you would!
 
So you  BECOME 21,
                     TURN 30,
                     PUSH 40,
                  REACH 50,
                  and MAKE it to 60.
 
You’ve built up so much speed that you HIT 70!
After that it’s a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!
 
You get into your 80’s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime.
And it doesn’t end there. Into the 90’s, you start going backwards; “I Was JUST 92.”
 
Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. “I’m 100 and a half!” May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!
 
HOW TO STAY YOUNG
 
  1. Throw out nonessential numbers.This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay “them.”
 
  2. Keep only cheerful friends.The grouches pull you down.
 
  3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. “An idle mind is the devil’s workshop” And the devil’s name is  Alzheimer’s.
 
  4. Enjoy the simple things.
 
  5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
 
  6.The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
 
  7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
 
  8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
 
  9. Don’t take guilt trips.Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
 
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
 
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
 
And if you don’t send this to at least 8 people- who cares?
But do share this with someone.

We all need to live life to its fullest each day!!
 

george-carlin-1
 
RIP 1937-2008

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Canoeing Gold Medalist

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Updated July 15, 2008

kolonics-dies.jpgBUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) Gyorgy Kolonics, a canoeing gold medalist at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics, died Tuesday after collapsing in his canoe while training for the Beijing Games. He was 36.

He lost consciousness and paramedics were unable to resuscitate him, the Hungarian Olympic Committee said. The committee cited heart failure as the probable cause of death.

“Kolonics was a true legend of Hungarian sports, an athlete at the peak of his career who was in a class by himself,” committee president Pal Schmitt said in a statement.

Kolonics won 15 world championships between 1993-07, most teamed with Csaba Horvath. In May, Kolonics and Gyorgy Kozmann won a silver medal in the 500-meter doubles at the European Championships in Milan, Italy.

Kolonics won gold in the 500-meter canoe doubles at the Atlanta Games and the 500-meter singles at the Sydney Games. He also won bronze in Atlanta in the 1,000-meter doubles with Horvath and in the same event at the 2004 Athens Games with Kozmann.

Kolonics was training with Kozmann for next month’s games, which would have been his fifth Olympics.

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BATHROOM PAINTED FLOOR !!!

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BATHROOM PAINTED FLOOR !!!

IMAGINE YOU ARE AT A PARTY ….Tenth floor of a high-rise building….

AND THEN YOU HAVE TO VISIT THE BATHROOM….

You open the door…. NOW, REMEMBER,

THE FLOOR IS JUST A PAINTED FLOOR!

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Would this mess up your mind??? Would you be able to walk in
to this bathroom??? I know I couldn’t!

Julie Andrews Turns 69

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To commemorate her birthday, actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall for the benefit of the AARP.
One of the musical numbers she perform ed was ‘My Favorite Things‘ from the legendary movie ‘Sound Of Music‘. Here are the lyrics she used:
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(Sing It!)-If you sing it, its especially hysterical!!!

Maalox and nose drops and needles for knitting,
Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,
Bundles of magazines tied up in string,
These are a few of my favorite things.

Cadillacs and cataracts ,and hearing aids and glasses,
Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses,
Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings,
These are a few of my favorite things.

When the pipes leak, When the bones creak,
When the knees go bad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don’t feel so bad.

Hot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions,
No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions,
Bathrobes and heating pad s and hot meals they bring,
These are a few of my favorite things.

Back pain, confused brains and no need for sinnin’,
Thin bones and fractures and hair that is thinnin’,
And we won’t mention our short shrunken frames,
When we remember our favorite things.

When the joints ac he, When the hips break,
When the eyes grow dim,
Then I remember the great life I’ve had,
And then I don’t feel so bad.
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(Ms. Andrews received a standing ovation from the crowd that lasted over four minutes and repeated encores. Please share Ms. Andrews’ clever wit and humor with others who would appreciate it.)

YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT*77

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This was sent to me from a relative and thought you just might

need to know!

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YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT*77
 
I knew about the red light on cars, but not the *77. It was about 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon, and Lauren was driving to visit a friend. An UNMARKED police car pulled up behind her and put his lights on. Lauren’s parents have always told her never to pull over for an unmarked car on the side of the road, but rather to wait until they get to a gas station, etc.
Lauren had actually listened to her parents advice, and promptly called *77 on her cell phone to tell the police dispatcher that she would not pull over right away. She proceeded to tell the dispatcher that there was an unmarked police car with a flashing red light on his rooftop behind her. The dispatcher checked to see if there were police cars where she was and there weren’t, and he told her to keep driving, remain calm and that he had back up already on the way.
Ten minutes later 4 cop cars surrounded her and the unmarked car behind her. One policeman went to her side and the others surrounded the car behind. They pulled the guy from the car and tackled him to the ground. The man was a convicted rapist and wanted for other crimes.
I never knew about the *77 Cell Phone Feature, but especially for a woman alone in a car, you should not pull over for an unmarked car. Apparently police have to respect your right to keep going to a safe &quiet place. You obviously need to make some signals that you acknowledge them (i.e. put on your hazard lights) or call *77 like Lauren did.
Too bad the cell phone companies don’t generally give you this little bit of wonderful information.

*Speaking to a service representative at
** Bell** Mobility confirmed that *77 was a direct link to state trooper info. So, now it’s your turn to let your fr iends know about *77.
Send this to every woman (and person) you know; it may save a life.This applies to ALL 50 states.